Created by screenwriter, Stephen James Thompson, the Elisud Jones thrillers are set in the London music business of the 1960s/70s featuring a flawed but charismatic, violent but philosophical protagonist - a Philip Marlowe in loon pants - in a new exciting form that brilliantly marries crime fiction with rock heritage biographies,
"It's 1973 just as I remember it. What a read!"
Dave Robinson, Founder of Stiff Records
Teen Avenue
London. 1973.
Glam Rock rules the charts.
The first in a series of Elisud Jones stories, former Welsh wrestler and Soho hard-man is hired to find a Soho gangster’s missing girlfriend, Angie Bright-Silver, thought to be in Mayfair, recording new material which she hopes will rebuild her faltering career. Elisud digs beneath the veneer of glam rock era Mayfair - dubbed ‘Teen Avenue’ by pop mogul Mickie Most - intersecting with the likes of David Cassidy, Lou Reed, Lynsey de Paul in a demi-monde existing in recording studios, shabby nightclubs, high-end prostitution rackets, Californian cults, and the sybaritic green room of Top Of The Pops.
Pharaoh's Island
London. 1978.
Punk Rock now rules the charts.
The second Elisud Jones novel finds the Mayfair Maigret fresh out of prison and trying to rebuild his career in a music industry much changed by the arrival of punk. With the help of his friend, Freddie Noble, he starts managing the career of wayward singer, Mimi Trudeau from a derelict house in Brighton. The suspicous death of Freddie prompts Elisud to return to Mayfair. In trying to find out what really happened he becomes embroiled in an international conspiracy that has deadly consequences.