Books by Tony R. Cox

Tony R. Cox spent the early years of his career at the Derby Evening Telegraph, learning the basics, from collecting names at society funerals (and risking the news editor's wrath if just one name was wrong or missed out), to the stories of praise, hope, fear, and death, which are the lifeblood of a regional evening newspaper. The characters in First Dead Body are amalgams of the many people, including exceptional journalists and ex-journalists, who made up the workings of a large town in a beautiful county. The 1970s was an age of telephones, buses and notebooks; a decade before mobile phones, emails and the internet. How times have changed...