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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama starring Derek Martin, the precursor
to the popular TV series and novels. Jack Frost is disheveled,
disorganised and disrespectful. His superiors don't like him. He
has a habit of doing things his way - and getting results. But when
Denton CID is faced with a spate of major crimes, Frost finds
himself under pressure. A young woman becomes the sixth victim of a
multiple rapist, a teenage girl goes missing, there's a robbery at
the Purple Parrot nightclub, and an old man is injured in a
hit-and-run. With all this on his plate, Frost has little time and
less patience for paperwork - but if he doesn't submit the overtime
reports, there will be hell to pay. Has Frost bitten off more than
he can chew? A Touch of Frost gave rise to a hugely successful TV
series that ran between 1992 and 2010. This gritty drama, first
broadcast on Radio 4 in 1982, features Derek Martin as Jack Frost,
with a supporting cast including Haydn Wood, Stephen Thorne and
Alan Dudley. Classic Radio Crime: presenting vintage detectives for
your investigation! Duration: 1 hour 25 mins approx.
The sleepy English town of Denton has never known a crime wave like
this--a robbery at a notorious strip joint, a hit-and-run whose
chief suspect is the pampered son of a local MP, the kidnapping of
a wealthy businessman's daughter and a series of violent rapes.
Detective Jack Frost strives to solve his caseload with typical
aplomb.
'A funny, frantic, utterly refreshing brew' - Sunday Telegraph
Detective Inspector Jack Frost, officially on duty, is nevertheless
determined to sneak off to a colleague's leaving party. But first
the corpse of a well-known local junkie is found blocking the drain
of a Denton public lavatory - and then the daughter of a wealthy
businessman is reported missing. And now a wave of crime threatens
to submerge sleepy Denton. A robbery occurs at the town's notorious
strip joint, the pampered son of a local MP is suspected of a
hit-and-run offence and, to top it all, a multiple rapist is on the
loose. But the manic Frost manages to assure his superior that all
is under control. Now he has only to convince himself...
On a rainy night in Denton, Detective Inspector Jack Frost is
called to the site of a macabre discovery in the woods - that of a
human foot. Meanwhile a multiple rapist is on the loose, the local
supermarket reports poisoned stock and a man claims to have cut his
wife up into little pieces, yet can't recall where he hid them. But
it is when two young girls are reported missing in quick succession
that the Denton crime wave reaches terrifying heights. As the
exhausted Frost staggers from case to case, pressured from all
sides and haunted by memories of his wife, something nasty arrives
at the station in the form of Detective Chief Inspector Skinner.
The scheming, slippery Skinner clearly has his eye on the
Superintendent's office, but his first job is to manipulate the
transfer of the unorthodox D.I. Jack Frost to another division.
Will Frost find the missing girls before his new nemesis forces him
away from Denton once and for all?
'Possibly the most accurate picture of police work in crime fiction
today... An absolute cracker' - Mike Ripley Denton is having more
than its fair share of crime. A serial killer is murdering local
prostitutes; a man demolishing his garden shed uncovers a
long-buried skeleton; there is an armed robbery at a local minimart
and a ram raid at a jewellers. But Detective Inspector Jack Frost's
main concern is for the safety of a missing eight-year-old. And
soon after another girl is reported missing, her body is found . .
. raped and strangled. Then Frost's prime suspect hangs himself in
his cell, leaving a note blaming Frost for driving him to suicide.
Frost may be coarse, insubordinate and fearless. But he's also in
serious trouble.
A serial killer is terrorizing the senior citizens of Denton, and
the local police are succumbing to a flu epidemic. Tired and
demoralized, the force has to contend with a seemingly perfect
young couple suffering arson attacks and death threats, a
suspicious suicide, burglaries, pornographic videos, poison-pen
letters... In uncertain charge of the investigations is Detective
Inspector Jack Frost, crumpled, slapdash and foul-mouthed as ever.
He tries to cope despite inadequate back-up, but there is never
enough time; the unsolved crimes pile up and the vicious killings
go on. So Frost has to cut corners and take risks, knowing that his
Divisional Commander will throw him to the wolves if anything goes
wrong. And for Frost, things always go wrong...
'Fast-paced and wryly amusing... A delight from start to finish' -
Val McDermid Detective Inspector Jack Frost is having a hard time.
A young boy is found dead in a rubbish heap, suffocated and with
one finger cut off. Another boy is missing. A psychopath is
stabbing babies as they lie sleeping in their cots. A
fifteen-year-old has been abducted, then found naked by the
roadside. Frost is up to his neck in crime. And the problems keep
coming. The corpse of a petty criminal is discovered, with the tops
of three fingers chopped off. The small children of a carpet fitter
are murdered; his wife's body is found on the railway line. A
supermarket MD is sent a ransom demand for the missing boy,
accompanied by one of the child's fingers... Jack Frost, scruffy
and insubordinate, foul-mouthed and fearless, staggers from crisis
to crisis. But beneath his bumbling exterior lie extraordinary
powers of detection...
Ten days to Christmas and Tracey Uphill, aged eight, hasn't come
home from Sunday school. Her mother, a pretty young prostitute, is
desperate. Enter Detective Inspector Jack Frost, sloppy, scruffy
and insubordinate. To help him investigate the case of the missing
child, Frost has been assigned a new sidekick, the Chief
Constable's nephew. Fresh to provincial Denton in an oversmart
suit, Detective Constable Clive Barnard is an easy target for
Frost's withering satire. Assisted and annoyed by Barnard, Frost,
complete with a store of tasteless anecdotes to fit every occasion,
proceeds with the investigation in typically unorthodox style.
After he's consulted a local witch, Dead Man's Hollow yields up a
skeleton. Frost finds himself drawn into an unsolved crime from the
past and risks not only his career, but also his life...
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