In his past life, Mervyn Stone was script editor of the BBC television series Vixens from the Void, a sci-fi soap opera which gripped the nation in the 1980s.

It’s a funny thing: it seems everywhere Mervyn’s dormant career takes him, there are murders.

Here’s another funny thing: Mervyn, with his script editor’s eye for sorting out plot-holes in stories, seems to be the only one able to solve them. If only he’d taken that job on Bergerac...

The Mervyn Stone Mysteries mark the publishing debut of comedy writer Nev Fountain, and you can enjoy these fantastically funny thrillers as leatherbound collector's editions, hardback, paperback or eBook, and an audio adventure The Axeman Cometh.