Titan Books bags Andrew Cartmel’s Golden Age crime trilogy
Titan Books has acquired a new Golden Age crime trilogy – the Hunter and Carol series – by Andrew Cartmel, author of the Paperback Sleuth and Vinyl Detective series.
Desk editor Fenton Coulthurst acquired world English-language rights in a three-book deal from Stevie Finegan at Zeno Agency.
The first in the series, Black Silk Mask, is scheduled for publication in April 2027, with sequels to follow in 2028 and 2029. World English audiobook rights were bought by Kay Farrell at WF Howes.
Black Silk Mask is billed as a “fiendish, twisty” London-set adventure, narrated by whip-smart American private eye, Orla Carol, who, along with her urbane British sidekick Damien Todhunter, investigates a kidnapping case involving the snatching of a press baron’s socialite daughter in which all is not quite as it seems.
Cartmel said: “I’ve described the Hunter and Carol series as Agatha Christie meets James Ellroy, because they combine a love for the golden age of crime with a more intense and sardonic modern sensibility, and also because they blend American hardboiled fiction with the classic British detective story.”
Coulthurst added: “Andrew’s wit and irreverence have already won him lifelong fans in the crime genre, and his latest take on Golden Age murder mysteries is sure to win him many more.”
Finegan said: “I was thrilled to see a completely new crime series from Andrew, especially one with a feisty heroine and set in a stunning 1930s London. I’m delighted that Fenton and the whole team at Titan have got behind these stories and know they will do a fabulous job championing them all the way to publication."
