There’s always a ton of Canadian fiction airing on CBC Radio One’s terrific Between The Covers Podcast. Sadly too little of it is Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. The good news is they occasionally throw us another kind of bone in the form of a solid mystery story.
Do you know old cliche about the p.i. who get’s conked on the head at least once per investigation as a plot point? Ya, I knew you would. Well, in the newest book in the BTC feed that well worn chestnut finally faces reality: A blow to the head can cause more than a quick dip into a black velvet pillow -it can cause a brain injury!
When Benny Cooperman, an Ontario private detective, wakes up in the hospital, he has no idea how or why he got there. The real mystery then is who hit him and why? But solving the case aint going to be easy as the medical professionals inform him he’s got partial amnesia, memory loss and his ability to read (but not write). It seems he’s suffering from alexia sine agraphia. This novel was inspired by the same thing happening to Howard Engel (but from a stroke not a blow to the head). The paperbook of this novel includes an afterword by Oliver W. Sacks.
Memory Book: A Benny Cooperman Mystery
By Howard Engel; Read by Ron Halder and Donna White
3 CDs – 3.5 Hours [ABRIDGED]
Publisher: BTC Audiobooks
Published: October 6, 2006
ISBN: 0864924704
The first two episodes, read by a terrific pair of narrators, are already in the feed: Episode 1 |MP3| Episode 2 |MP3|. I suggest you subscribe now so as not to forget.
Podcast feed:
http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/betweenthecovers.xml
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Posted by Jesse Willis
P.S. Hey CBC! Don’t think we’ve forgotten about the J. Michael Straczynski radio drama series you’re still sitting on.