Publisher's Synopsis
CODEWORD: CRIME Totally captivating crime mysteries (Cinema Detectives adventures)
Looking for a gripping series of comic book crime mysteries? Packed full of weirdness, this book will keep you turning the pages until the end. School-leaver Rosa Pleck has just joined Birmingham's "Prime Services" Detective Agency. One evening, she dreams about the other agency staff members and seems to experience their dreams for them.Who rides on the train along the coast?
Why are there apparently alien beings living in the city?
And what's wrong with Ken Prime's lunch? When Rosa becomes an established member of the team, things become no less strange.
Rosa travels to Sheffield University to do a favour for a friend, but then she finds something odd on the stairs. Is it a question of love - for Rosa as well as the client? And then, on Rosa's way home - what's happening in the world - and who are those horrible girls from her old days at school?
Which of the four shops on the corner hides the headquarters of the Gregory Gang? And how does Rosa escape with her sanity intact?
Discover the grim secret of Brighton's radioactive hospital and the sinister salesmen dealing with the site.
An old Apollo astronaut now lives in London. What is his connection with a woman who seems to be a superhero? A client has built a new luxury house against strong local opposition. Why is she now so afraid? And what's happening in the doomed council estate at the bottom of the hill? Later, big changes are occurring in the city. New buildings. Demolition. The whole world seems plunged into crisis. An old friend seems to be able to surf this wave of the future - but at what cost? If you liked Doctor Who, Life on Mars, Mauretania Comics, Ealing comedies, Harry O, Jim Rockford, Ironside, Batman 1966, or The New World, you'll love this thrilling Crime Compendium. WHAT THE NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING ABOUT CHRIS REYNOLDS: "To call Reynolds' comics black and white isn't quite to do them justice; they're more like black and white and black - and it's in that extra layer of darkness that his genius may be found." - Rachel Cooke - Guardian "It's all very strange and puzzling but bizarrely compelling. Reynolds' stark black and white frames stop you in your tracks. Time and again you find yourself thinking: just what is it exactly that I'm looking at?" - Bookmunch "The stories are easy to consume but are tantalizingly difficult to characterize." - The Paris Review "It is easy, if a little glib, to situate Reynolds' work in the canon of what we might call paranoiac modernism: there's a pinch of David Lynch in it, a spoonful of Edward Hopper, a dash of Ballard, Kafka, and Bruno Schulz. Characters' memories and identities splinter, or elide." - Keith Miller - TLS "Expect the black and white artwork to suck you into a parallel world that is stripped down to dichotomies and ideals, and the dialogue and direction to conjure a billion questions within you that will unfortunately never find answers in the long run." - Lashaan Balasingam - Bookidote THE CINEMA DETECTIVES
ROSA PLECK is a native daughter of Birmingham, UK. She joined "Prime Services", also known as the "Cinema Detectives" agency, straight out of school.
KEN PRIME used to be a typical West Midlands businessman, but since he quit sales and took up detecting, his life has taken a crazier turn. WHY "CINEMA DETECTIVES"?
Because of Ken Prime's best business idea. Why not make a series of films based on his most amazing cases? FOLLOW THE CINEMA DETECTIVES NOW.
