Crabtree and Plumpton investigate
A spoken word project. All audio may be downloaded ~ Written by Jeremy Reynolds and Read by Tim Rowe …
An introduction to…
The Chiswick Key and, The Johnson and Butterfield Question.
Somewhen, during the great blazing heat wave, and the snarling, dread weirdness of last spring and early summer, London based voice actor Tim Rowe and I created this series of Criminal investigative yarns.
Featuring two utterly uncontrollable, hard drinking, narcotically twisted and highly unpredictable private detectives, one prized by The Government as a major national resource; the other resolutely committed to facing any danger with bare fists and hardened steel toe capped brogues.
These then are their adventures, penned by me, deep in the heart of ancient Sussex woodlands, and read and recorded by Tim Rowe from his radical ‘organic’ studios located in a Victorian working Orangery, in South East London.
We both hope you find something in these audio files that will dissolve the daily churn of life, and will breathe a whisper of delight into your mind’s eye.
Jeremy Reynolds ~ Tim Rowe
Reynolds & Rowe Productions. RAR!
Please find below… The complete series of ‘The Chiswick Key’ ~ A Crabtree and Plumpton investigation from the Diaries of Major William ‘Bill’ Plumpton. (Retired)
Coming soon to an internet near you… ‘The Johnson and Butterfield Question.’
Wherein, our dynamic, ‘make it a double…’ duo, are launched into a highly secret and totally deniable investigation, into a threat from beyond normal levels of perception and credulity.
Assisted by; ‘The Rector,’ and enjoying the sporting entertainment of a simple, yet violently alcoholic village fair, they use all their powers of creative pharmaceutically propelled analysis, to get a firm grip for the sake of our dear island nation, on the problem of: The Johnson and Butterfield Question.
…and, here it is:
The Johnson and Butterfield Question
Our hard drinking investigators were last seen consuming a mind twisting array of rare wines and liquors, and enjoying a table crushing feast of gourmet roasts and farm fresh veg, in a Bognor Regis musicians club.
Alerted by critical information gleaned by Major Plumpton from an incinerated Russian maniac and spy, Crabtree had instantly dosed himself with a local variant of hoasca, an Amazonian hallucinogen, and with blood pounding seizures and flapping arms, commandeered a taxi, and with his ‘XO’ Major Plumpton, now a trembling bag of hopping fits and twitches, headed East, to the semi-feral and partialy civilised county of East Sussex and the vast darkly drawing expanse of Ashdown Forrest.
And that is where we will, (for the time being,) leave our two valiant and undauntable, intrigue unravelling – crime busting sleuths.
The Major’s diaries are kept safe. Entrusted to a highly secure private vault, deep within the lowest cellars beneath a castle along one of Sussex’s most sacred ancient rivers.
Thank you for listening.
Your author and narrator.
Jeremy Reynolds – Tim Rowe.
Reynolds and Rowe Productions – RAR!
Crabtree and Plumpton will return…
j
A Christmas Special Episode:
The Egyptian Cat
A separate recollection from our Diarist, Major ‘Bill’ Plumpton. This extract is a more personal recollection, in which Crabtree is not mentioned, although his ever enigmatic and booze inclined presence, is not far from the grim and nightmarish story laid out here.
This short tale introduces us to a foul and avaricious solicitor, a supernatural-flesh severing North African animal, and a Christmas Eve of gut heaving, bloody ‘murder’, that will forever be etched into the minds of all who were the involved in this quite unique case of gore and Yuletide horror.