The title, the terrorist and the punch-drunk pugilist…Fat Boy McMaster is a hopeless heavyweight boxer, who has somehow managed to become the champion of Ireland. His devious manager has set up a St Patrick's Day fight in New York against Mike Tyson, and he wants journalist Dan Starkey to write about it. Once in New York, however, McMaster's wife is kidnapped, the Champ is chased all over town by gunmen, and there's the Big Fight to consider too...

Dan Starkey takes on the mantle of William Hope Hodgson’s supernatural detective, Thomas Carnacki, in this collection of enhanced audiobook readings:The Gateway of the MonsterThe House Among the LaurelsThe Whistling RoomThe Horse of the InvisibleThe Searcher of the End HouseThe Thing InvisiblePublic Domain (P)2016 Big Finish Productions

Dan Starkey is a young journalist in Belfast, who shares with his wife, Patricia, a prodigious appetite for drinking and dancing. Then Dan meets a beautiful and apparently impoverished student. And then, terrifyingly, she is murdered. Is it because she was not exactly who she claimed to be? Is it the IRA? A Protestant extremist group? A jealous lover? Before long, Dan is a target himself…

Radio shock-jock Jack Caramac is used to controversy - but when his four-year-old son is kidnapped, he knows he may have gone too far. Jack has no choice but to turn to Dan Starkey for help. Dan has finally given up on journalism, and resolves to catch whoever kidnapped Jack's son. Instead, he finds himself in the middle of a violent feud between rival drug gangs, as the case spirals ever more out of his control...Dan Starkey, the ducking and diving hapless investigator, takes cent...

Dan Starkey arrives on Wrathlin Island to investigate the residents' belief that the Messiah is alive, female, and about to start school there: it's not a commission that turns up everyday. He finds a mess of religious intolerance and illicit drinking in a tiny community that is big on religious fervour but small on hospitality. Apart from the Messiah's mum of course, who's clung to her sanity. And her lager.

Dan Starkey returns! An exciting, endlessly inventive new novelHired to find the missing son of retired political activist Moira Doherty, Dan Starkey knows his new case is going to be challenging. Billy 'the Bear' Doherty, a criminal with a nasty drug habit, isn't an easy man to find - his mum is convinced he's been murdered. But when Moira herself is killed, Dan finds himself in the middle of a deadly game of cat and mouse.

A media billionaire’s daughter disappears following a massacre at a Belfast student party and nobody knows if she has been kidnapped or caught in the crossfire. A controversial new abortion clinic is firebombed, and a fire-and-brimstone church movement is blamed. Hired to both find the missing daughter, and prove the church’s guilt, Dan Starkey suddenly finds himself struggling to cope with two very different investigations...or could they possibly be connected?

A thrilling selection of weird and wonderful short stories from the pages of Doctor Who Annual.Jon Culshaw, John Leeson, Terry Molloy, Louise Jameson, Dan Starkey and Geoffrey Beevers read seven stories from the legendary Doctor Who Annual of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.In Justice of the Glacians the First Doctor gets into difficulties in a snowy wilderness. The Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria fall into the clutches of the Mastermind of Space, whilst the Third Doctor and S...

David Warner, Lisa Bowerman and Dan Starkey read these three full-length novels featuring the Twelfth Doctor and Clara, as played on TV by Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman.In Royal Blood, by Una McCormack, Duke Aurelian is preparing to gamble everything on one last battle to save the city-state of Varuz. When a holy man named the Doctor appears from beyond the mountains, Aurelian asks for his help.In Big Bang Generation, by Gary Russell, a ...

Steed and Dr Keel return to action in these four recreations of classic lost episodes:5.1 Nightmare by Dan Starkey, from a storyline by Terence Feely5.2 Girl on the Trapeze by Dennis Spooner, adapted by Rae Leaver5.3 Crescent Moon by Phil Mulryne, from a storyline by Geoffrey Bellman and John Whitney5.4 Diamond Cut Diamond by John Dorney, from a storyline by Max Marquis.Adapted by John Dorney, Rae Leaver, Phil Mulryne and Dan Stark...

Dan Starkey reads this brand new novel based on a storyline by Douglas Adams.The Doctor promised Romana the end of the universe, so she’s less than impressed when what she gets is a cricket match. But then the award ceremony is interrupted by eleven figures in white uniforms and peaked skull helmets, wielding bat-shaped weapons that fire lethal bolts of light into the screaming crowd. The Krikkitmen are back.Millions of years ago, the people of Krikkit learned they were not...

A selection of weird and wonderful stories from the pages of Doctor Who Annual, featuring the first six Doctors and their companions.Jon Culshaw, Frazer Hines, Dan Starkey, Louise Jameson and Nicola Bryant read a selection of exuberant and colourful tales from the legendary Doctor Who Annual, a Christmas stocking treat from the 1960s to the 1980s.In Terror on Tiro the First Doctor endures a punishing journey across an alien landscape in order to find his fr...