Dodgedave Cache In Murder Hunt

[Deego]

Anybody else read The Dead Place by Stephen Booth The book uses a geocache in the Peak District. There is a thread on the main forum here

 

Also Woodsmoke's TB Mr potato head is mentioned.

 

I will have to try to get a copy.

 

So hands up which one of you is Stephen Booth :D. He has a beard on his bio pic. maybe its dodgedave

Edited July 29, 2005 by Deego

[+The Hokesters]

I'm currently working my way through Stephen Booth's books but not got to Dead Place yet.

 

More info can be found on his Website.

Edited July 29, 2005 by The Hokesters

[markandlynn]

Am i mistaken but does that picture look a bit like wildlifewriter ?

[dodgydaved]

Unfortunately neither my self or my short, fat freind with beard and specs, writes under the nom de plume of Stepehn Booth , think of all those lovely roylaties

[dodgydaved]

He has a beard on his bio pic. maybe its dodgedaved

....no specs and he doesn't look to be short and fat

[+Alibags]

You swines! Now I have had to go and purchase the book to read for myself. I have not read any of the other books in the series, but like Ian Rankin (I read a Rebus book at random to start with) I am sure I can start at the beginning if I like his style.

 

The descriptions of the cacher, the cache etc seem pretty close to real people. I wonder if DodgeyDave has any redress? Didn't that runner chappy get a payoff from the directory enquires people for using a runner in their advertising campaigns who was obviously based on himself? hey, at the least he should get an autographed copy of the book! Hmmm.

[+Skippy and Pingu]

Am i mistaken but does that picture look a bit like wildlifewriter ?

Thats who popped into my mind when I saw the piccy

[dodgydaved]

Am i mistaken but does that picture look a bit like wildlifewriter ?

Thats who popped into my mind when I saw the piccy

Close,..... I thought so......

 

 

...and, yet , is it

[dodgydaved]

.......from the author......

 

"Hi, Dave!

 

Thanks a lot for your email. You don't happen to be tall, athletic, in your

thirties, and a fireman based in Sheffield, do you?

 

I wouldn't be entirely surprised if you were, because some very weird things

do happen...

 

To be perfectly honest, I had to search through 'The Dead Place' to see what

on earth you were talking about! The details of minor characters tend to

disappear from my memory when a few months have passed from finishing a book

and I'm deep into the next one.

 

Likewise, I'm not sure at this distance where the details were plucked from

during the writing process, but I guess I must have borrowed the name of

your Petrus cache, since it fits in with a Latin theme in the book, as well

as referring to the Gibbet Rock. However, I can assure you that 'Dangerous

Dave' Mead is certainly not intended to be you - especially since I don't

know you, and I don't know anything about you (you sound like a decent

bloke, though, just like the 'other Dave'.)

 

Anyway, if you're really chuffed by the reference in 'The Dead Place' and

think it'll bring you a bit of street cred or a few drinks in the pub,

please feel free to brag about it as much as you like. On the other hand, if

you're offended by any apparent similarity, I'll, er... send you a

complimentary copy of the next book as a goodwill gesture. Generous, or

what?

 

You're not the most unusual case of coincidence I've had during the course

of this series. There's a Derbyshire CID officer who believes that the

character of DS Diane Fry is based on her (poor soul!). The evidence is

purely circumstantial, but I'm not sure I've managed to convince her yet...

 

All the best,

 

Stephen Booth"

 

So I am just a minor character , ah well...........

[Lactodorum]

.......from the author......

 

"Hi, Dave!

 

...................You don't happen to be tall, athletic, in your

thirties, and a fireman based in Sheffield, do you?

.

LOL

[SlytherinAlex]

So I am just a minor character , ah well...........

But dangerousdaved fits you so much better

 

-

[+Seasider]

Fame at last!

 

Seasider

[+The Hokesters]

Awesome! Please let us in on the letter you wrote to him - I am a bit of a fan

[dodgydaved]

I posted the author about the interest in the forum. including a link to the posts...

 

.....and a composite of his publicity piccy and wlw's profile piccy!

 

....his reply:

 

"It's amazing, Dave. In fact, the resemblance is even more uncanny, since I'm

a bit older and greyer than my publicity photo would have you believe...

 

And I'm thrilled to be talked about in the geocaching world. That's real

fame, that is! If you think it's okay, I'll post a link to the Groundspeak

forum on my website, and perhaps in my newsletter later on. I'm sure most of

my readers will think I just made up geocaching.

 

All the best,

 

Stephen"

[+The Hokesters]

[+The Hokesters]

Signed copy required - methinks - for all GeoCachers - yay! - Well Derbyshire based only - obviously

Edited July 30, 2005 by The Hokesters

[+wildlifewriter]

I should assure the Forum that there is almost certainly no connection between Mr. Booth and myself. Admittedly, one can see a passing resemblance in the photographs, but this may be because I am coloured whereas he is black and white.

 

Let me take this opportunity of wishing Mr. Booth continued success for the future. I am familiar with his previous work, and I thought he was particularly good as Polly the waitress in Fawlty Towers.

 

-Wlw.

[+t.a.folk]

To be perfectly honest

 

 

I always feel a bit suspicious when those words are said to me.

[dodgydaved]

Signed copy required - methinks - for all GeoCachers - yay! - Well Derbyshire based only - obviously

sorted

[Deego]

Signed copy required - methinks - for all GeoCachers  - yay! - Well Derbyshire based only - obviously

sorted

Glad I pointed it out to you now

 

Let us know if its any good

[+Happy Humphrey]

there is almost certainly no connection between Mr. Booth and myself

I always feel a bit suspicious when those words are said to me

It's no wonder that WLW faked a geocaching injury when his publisher insisted on him finishing the tome! Now if there's one mention of Lucozade in the book, his cover is well and truly blown...

 

HH

Edited August 19, 2005 by Happy Humphrey

[+Itinerant Meggie]

I’ve only just come across this book, which was shown to me recently by g0wex. I got a bit of a shock when I read the chapter where they find the cache – the bit were they’re reading the logbook - a cacher called ‘Itinerant Maggie’! Also, the extract from the logbook is a verbatim copy of the last sentence of my actual log entry for ‘Petrus’. Can I sue him for plagiarism? I wouldn’t mind, but I appear to have changed gender as well ! I think the very least he can do is send me a signed copy – I’ll drop the legal case then .

[+Alibags]

I have to say I obtained this book out of curiosity and read it, but I would just like to state for the record that it's PANTS!! The caching bit is completely gratuitous, the characters are 2D, the plot is full of holes, the writing style is stultifying, if you haven't read the previous books, forget it! (unlike a decent writer such as Ian Rankin, where each book can stand alone on it's own merits), there are characters who are thrown in as hoc for no apparent reason, and in the the last 3 pages the writer evidently remembers that there is supposed to be some sort of sexual frisson between the two main characters, so throws some in, in the most awkward and clunky fashion it has ever been my displeasure to read.

 

Free to a good home (assuming Hokesters does not want it, Simon has first refusal) otherwise it's going in a cache... I will make the geocache bit with a post-it to save you the bother of reading it!

[+Simply Paul]

I'd give it a go if there are no other takers. I've been working on a book idea for a while (there's a hint of caching in there, between all the sex and violence) and it'd be interesting to see how good (or bad) something needs to (or can) be to get published these days.

 

SP

[Deego]

I am sure there is a place on my book shelf for a SP master piece

 

I did think about writing one (cache story) last year, and was going to have is as a down loadable ebook.

 

But It turned out that I am not the literary genius that I though I was.

[+The Cache Hoppers]

A signed copy? Excellent raffle prize for a caching event there DD.

[+The Blorenges]

I have to say I obtained this book out of curiosity and read it, but I would just like to state for the record that it's PANTS!! The caching bit is completely gratuitous, the characters are 2D, the plot is full of holes, the writing style is stultifying, if you haven't read the previous books, forget it! (unlike a decent writer such as Ian Rankin, where each book can stand alone on it's own merits), there are characters who are thrown in as hoc for no apparent reason, and in the the last 3 pages the writer evidently remembers that there is supposed to be some sort of sexual frisson between the two main characters, so throws some in, in the most awkward and clunky fashion it has ever been my displeasure to read.

 

Free to a good home (assuming Hokesters does not want it, Simon has first refusal) otherwise it's going in a cache... I will make the geocache bit with a post-it to save you the bother of reading it!

...So you didn't like it much?...

 

(and I'd just put it into my Ebay searches.... )

 

Mrs B

[+The Cache Hoppers]

...So you didn't like it much?... 

 

(and I'd just put it into my Ebay searches....  )

 

Me too Mrs B - I want a copy! Would be a boring old world if we all liked the same thing. Perhaps we could all review it as a thread on here after enough of us have read it. Might be nice for the author, who is putting a link to the caching forums on his webbie.

[+scooby scrappy and mp]

Just ordered a copy and should be getting it on Sunday, if it get's too scary then i can wrap it up for dad's xmas pressie, better not munch chocolate while reading it! Thanks for the info

Michelle

[+Alibags]

Might be nice for the author, who is putting a link to the caching forums on his webbie.

Oops, I mean "It's a magnificent work of modern fiction, which was absolutely gripping and I could not put it down!!"

 

 

I wonder if it would survive as a TB!!

[Deego]

I wonder if it would survive as a TB!!

If it as bad as you say, who would keep it

[+Alibags]

Simon has already said he WILL take it off my hands, and I already gave him first refusal, but he has suggested that I register it with Bookcrossing first, which seems like an excellent idea.

[+Paul G0TLG]

I quite enjoyed it - but then I'd read most of the previous books first so I knew some of the history of the characters. Alibags is right, it wouldn't work so well as a standalone. I must admit, I was scanning through for the caching references most of the way!

 

Caching is more or less mentioned in passing, but then it was never advertised as a caching book in the first place (except on here!)

[+scooby scrappy and mp]

Got a copy keeping it for Dad for xmas then i get my hands afterwards ! Michelle

[+The HERB5]

  Got a copy keeping it for Dad for xmas   then i get my hands afterwards !   Michelle

Hope Dad doesn't post here

[+scooby scrappy and mp]

Ssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Don't tell him