Jeremy Vine

Yeah, it's a really old version.

I mean, it could have been maybe printed in the 40s or 50s.

I'll tell you about the ABC murders because I didn't want to bring in murder on the Orient Express.

I didn't want to bring in death on the Nile or any of the really obvious ones.

I thought I'd bring in a really unusual one.

This book is about a sequence of murders where the first murder victim is something like Alan Ashton in Andover.

And the second one is Betty Burrows in Burton.

That's just an example of her genius.

And at this stage in life, when I turned 60, I had, I'm going to sound like I'm blowing my own trumpet a bit here, but just let me do this one thing, which is that I'd always wanted to write cozy crime or whodunits.

I went to a publisher and I said, I'd really like to write one.

And she said, well, give it a go.

And so I wrote two and the second one comes out in April.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

And the first was a bestseller when I was just turning 60.

So I had this incredible moment of the whole thing coming full circle.

I don't know if you can plan for that because it's so unreliable.

I mean, people can sell one great book and then they don't write any more great ones.

And also I think journalism feeds the imagination as well.

I was thinking the other day about a series I did for Radio 2 called The Songs My Son Loved.