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The FLP’s Alternative Awards 2016-17: Best Amateur Detective

By Chris Dunlavy Everyone pulls a “dog ate my homework” style excuse now and then. After all, it’s not like your teacher is going to check the evidence, right? Wrong. Big Steve has penned two murder mystery novels, both featuring the football manager-turned-death-defying sleuth ‘Steve Barnes’. Highlight: “The gun was level with my belly. There […]

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Everyone pulls a “dog ate my homework” style excuse now and then. After all, it’s not like your teacher is going to check the evidence, right?

Wrong. Big Steve has penned two murder mystery novels, both featuring the manager-turned-death-defying sleuth ‘Steve Barnes’.

Highlight: “The gun was level with my belly. There was no doubt I was going to die. And not even in . Not even . In Halifax, of all places, with a club in the third division.”

Gripping stuff. So, when ‘s star striker called to say he couldn’t make training because his electric gates were stuck, fact aped fiction.

donned his deerstalker, drove to McCormack’s house, photographed the offending 4ft 6in barrier and reached a definitive conclusion. The Scot could have climbed over. “It’s not acceptable,” said Barnes (sorry, Bruce).

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