This is the final episode of Anton’s Bark. It begins with Otto’s reading of Chapter Fourteen of Otto in Flames. The fourteenth chapter of Anton’s novel produces the miraculous ending the writer had always been looking for, but had never been able to find. Now that the writer is lost to the mire of the Unseen, and his book as been lost to time, the …

In an echo of the time Anton followed Urania through his own town at the beginning of the real Otto’s telling Anton’s Bark, Chapter Thirteen has the fictitious Otto following Marie down a street, on a dark night in Vienna. She has the fated money. He now suspects what her secret is, which is to say what the writer has in store for him as Marie ente…

Ever since 1999 Otto has known that by one-minute after midnight, on 19 February, 2019, his estranged wife Marie, would be with him in his hotel room. And in Anton’s mysteriously unfolding novel that is exactly what happens. Today, the real Otto reads Chapter Twelve for us. Now that that special midnight has come and gone, there are no more prophec…

Otto’s reading of Chapter Eleven has him recounting how his fictitious self comes face to face with a ferocious dog. His premonition, that he would be attacked by such a dog, within twenty-four hours of arriving in Vienna, comes true. What the fictitious Otto didn’t know however, is that this attack would happen in the midst of an unexpected encoun…

Chapter Ten embroils Otto even further into the unforeseen, during his second day in Vienna. By early evening he is ready to meet Marie again, and take her out on a date. His plan is to rescue the relationship he’d had with her, some twenty years before. He is sure that it is Marie he is about to meet in the lobby of his hotel, because his prophecy…

Despite the entanglement of its erstwhile writer, now trapped deep in the cave, Otto in Flames has taken on a momentum of its own. Today, the real Otto reads Chapter Nine for us. This chapter follows the meeting he’d had with Marie at the Spitzenhof café. Since 1999, the fictional Otto has known through his prophecies more or less what would happen…

The mystery of Chapter Eight is that the writer is no longer in a condition to be able to write it. Yet despite his condition, Anton is still able to imagine it. Even as far as the real Otto is concerned, this next chapter, which he reads for us, puts him where he’d always wanted to be, sitting opposite Marie in the Spitzenhof café. To his dismay h…

Today, Otto reads Chapter Seven for us. This is the last chapter Anton had been writing before he disappeared altogether. In this chapter the fictional Otto remains amorphous, somewhere in his memory. But he soon emerges, not quite into the Spitzenhof café again, but into Father Promentano’s operatic version of it. Otto’s reflections, following his…

Otto’s reading of Chapter Six features his surprise meeting with Father Promentano at the Spitzenhof café. He’d been expecting to meet Marie there. He’d had a clear premonition of that meeting. As a result, the fictional Otto can only react angrily when this doesn’t happen. We discover that the fictional Otto finds himself in conversations with the…

This episode begins with the real Otto’s reading of Chapter Five. It is a pivotal chapter in Anton’s novel where, after waking up from a nightmare in his hotel room in Vienna, the fictional Otto arranges to meet his estranged wife, Marie, at the Spitzenhof café, only to be shocked and disappointed when he gets there. We learn that the fictional Ott…

Otto describes the words and phrases that occur to Anton, as he sits in his favourite café, trying to re-write Chapter Five of his novel. Things go well for a time. And although the real Otto would rather have nothing to do with Anton’s book, he is compelled to admit that it is because everything Anton imagines comes true, that he and everything el…

The real Otto admits that being a character in Anton’s novels has had him going around in circles. He’s unhappy about it, but there’s no obvious way for him to avoid what he is. He explains that Anton had decided to do some research at the university library. The aim was to locate references to the cave his future reader, a statue of Heraclitus, re…

Anton’s abilities as a writer have by now foundered. He is so confounded by what he is imagining, that it becomes necessary to redraft what he has written, in order to accommodate the visions being visited upon him by his muse. The places he goes to in his mind come to be spoken of as the Unseen. In this episode, the real Otto tells of another of A…

It is confirmed by the real Otto that as the muse Urania works her magic on him, Anton loses control of his novel. Her inspirations provoke Anton’s imagination in such a way as to make it impossible for him to write anything that makes sense; and because whatever he imagines comes true, the writer’s confusion spirals further out of control. He beli…

Otto in Flames is being read to us by the real Otto Loser. Chapter One is about the dream he is meant to have been born in. The action begins in the UK, during the early hours of 17 February, 2019. The fictional Otto is on his way to Vienna. He wants to be reunited with his estranged wife and children there. Because this is a story Anton is writing…

Welcome to the third series in the Otto Loser Mysteries podcast. This is the first Otto Loser Mystery to be told by Otto himself. From the outset Otto’s position is that he is able to speak independently, rather than as a character in a series of novels. The story he tells is called Anton’s Bark. It is about the obscure Austrian writer, Anton Matin…

This is a trailer for Anton’s Bark, the third and final audiobook in the Otto Loser Mysteries series. Anton’s Bark will be available to download from early January, 2022. The first two audiobooks, Something Borsuk Said and The Scarlet Godwins will continue to be available to download for free, wherever you get your podcasts. For further information…

This is the final episode of The Scarlet Godwins, and the second of Marley’s unsent letters. In it she is still waiting for Otto’s second coming. She had been expecting him to come back sooner. This twenty-first letter is Marley’s final revelation. She writes in it, that if Otto doesn’t visit her in prison again, he’ll never know what happened. But…

Marley recounts the story of Otto’s first prison visit, with Izzy by his side, posing as his assistant. But Marley is too perceptive not to have noticed that there was more to her solicitor and his ‘assistant’ than met the eye. Very proud of herself she hints officially that she slipped her solicitor a secret nineteenth letter. Otto, thinking about…

This is the first of Marley’s unsent letters, where the twisted truth begins to come out. It begins by telling Otto of his prison visits, as they had been foretold. On the first of these, Marley prophecies that she will be able to slip her unsent letter into his pocket. It is part of her prophecy that this unsent letter, full of revelations, will h…

Marley prepares for Otto’s first prison visit, something she found out about through a ‘little birdie’. The trouble with corresponding with your solicitor from a prison cell, she is ever at pains to point out, is that there are others snooping on your mail. In this important letter Marley recites the suggestive poem called Two Birds. Beyond that, s…

In this rant of a letter, Marley, furious at Otto for challenging her credibility, remonstrates with him freely, before she discloses more scientific facts about her body, explains why she lied to the jury in her trial, and appears to deny that Julius Haft was of any consequence. Otto is thinking about his journey to London, on the pretext of inves…

Otto releases Marley from her vow. At this she goes into over-drive. In her sixteenth letter she uses every foul word she can think of. She explains that because her letters are being vetted she can’t write what she really wants to write. Otto simply has to visit. She tells him that she lied during her trial, so the jury wouldn’t know about the rag…

Marley is feeling fobbed off. She accuses Otto of ignoring her, not writing back, and not coming to visit. When she’s satisfied she’s made her point, she takes up the story of meeting Charlottes’s family for the first time, and reveals an amorous secret while she’s at it. The person Otto is talking to in his thoughts has yet to make an appearance. …

Marley’s response to a second letter from Otto, asking for Louise’s full name, takes many turns. For a while, she’d been asking Otto to release her from her vow not to swear. She berates him for ignoring these requests. At the same time, she reveals that ever since she’d died and was brought back to life, she hadn’t been able to feel pain. Before t…

In this letter, Marley thanks the Lord that Otto has finally become her solicitor. She starts by letting him know who her former solicitors were, so he can obtain her papers. Lingering on the beach, with the sounds of a merry-go-round in the distance, Otto continues with his retrospective of the evidence ranged against Marley. He recalls how he’d s…

Marley prays for the strength to tell Otto all she knows. She laments the fact that she made a vow not to use foul language; she could have made use of a few choice words. In this letter she manages (more or less) without them, as she recounts, from her point of view, what happened on the last day of Charlotte’s life. Still walking along a beach, O…

Marley writes a confessional letter explaining that her relationship with Charlotte was descending into alcoholism. On determining that Charlotte was mentally unwell, she tells how she followed her sister to London, only to be able to barge in on a clandestine meeting with Louise Gross. Otto's thoughts have taken him to the same juncture in the sto…

Marley continues with her version of how it came about that the twins should introduce her to Charlotte's family dressed the same, in scarlet frocks. She develops the theme of Charlotte's stalker, the tall man with a broken arm. In an aside, she formally requests that Otto release her from her vow never to use rude words. It is plain for his part, …

In this pivotal episode, Marley's letter covers the period immediately after she first meets her sister, when she spots the tall person lurking in the street, she comes to regard as 'the beanstalk with the broken arm'. She doesn't mention how she and Charlotte would soon be springing a surprise. Otto finds himself wandering along a beach. He too, i…

In this episode Marley's letter reveals how she found and finally made contact with Charlotte Godwin. Meanwhile, Otto is walking along the seashore, thinking about the time in Charlotte's life when she decided to meet with her long lost sister.By migrationbooks

In her seventh letter, Marley discusses her relationship with the Almighty. She speaks angrily of the abuse she suffered as a child. She reveals her stormy relationship with a Greek financier, and recalls that innocent time when she was still eager to find her long lost sister. In the end, she swears to Otto that from now on, she will stop using fo…

Between the accounts of her many escapades and claims, Marley tries to explain why she needed to escape from hospital, despite the bonus of free food and board; and how she set about looking for her sister. Otto's walk takes him to reflections on Charlotte's condition, after she came back into Louise's life. There was a relationship with a man call…

Long before she met her 'cleverer sister', Marley was called Jenny. In this episode not only does Marley claim that Jenny died of a drugs overdose and was resurrected, but she tells the story of her stay in hospital, and how she came to find out she was Charlotte Godwin's sister. Of all the accounts of Charlotte, it is her poetry from 'the missing …

A packed episode in which Marley elaborates on a number of remarkable assertions, including the claim that drugs no longer have any psychoactive effects on her. She discusses a game of no-blinking, fondly recalls a burglary, and mentions her sister slightly more freely. Meanwhile, deep in thought, Otto pieces together Charlotte Godwin's university …

Marley's third letter is about loss, and how her worldview was shattered when she found out, aged sixteen, that the Albert Square she'd been looking for, never existed. Otto's contemplative walk takes him to everything he knows about the disconnect between Hugo Timlyn and Charlotte Godwin, when they were in their teens.…

In her second letter to Otto, Marley begins to discuss the shadier politics of being a prisoner, and reminisces nostalgically about her days as a child on the run. In the dialogue Otto is having with himself, walking through the city, he tries to imagine what Charlotte's life might have been like when she was a girl.…

Marley is in prison, serving a life-sentence for the murder of her sister, Charlotte. Each of the following weekly episodes sets out Marley's letters to her solicitor, Otto Loser. For Otto, the case is already over. In this first episode of The Scarlet Godwins, Otto decides to go on a long walk, not only to reflect on Marley's case, but to consider…

This is the final episode of this audiobook, followed by a postscript, written by Otto to his estranged wife. Thanks to all who have listened. There's more to come. The Otto Loser Mysteries continues with The Scarlet Godwins weekly from 8 January 2021. Visit www.migrationbooks.com for more details.By migrationbooks

In this penultimate episode, Otto goes to the police station to advise the only suspect to be arrested in the Jamie Heller case.By migrationbooks

No longer quite himself, Otto Loser returns to work. Following the arrest of a murder suspect, he is called out to the Police Station. As the episode continues, it is day three of Jamie Heller's disappearance, and now Anya has gone missing as well.By migrationbooks

In Episode Twenty-Three, the police swoop in to make an arrest. Meanwhile, awake, half-dead, he doesn't know where, Jamie's soul is mired in guilt.By migrationbooks

While Barry is becoming a topic for rumour and folklore, a dark presence on the moor, Theresa is having to cope with all her worst nightmares.By migrationbooks

A police investigation gets underway. Meanwhile, Otto Loser is discharged from hospital, and returns home in a strange mood.By migrationbooks

During the first long day of waiting, both Theresa Heller and Anya are forced to contemplate the most agonizing scenarios.By migrationbooks

It's the Mayday Fair and everything happens at once, before disaster suddenly strikes. The episode continues with Otto Loser's hospital torpor, worsened by a visit from his smarmy employer.By migrationbooks

A visit from the police among others awaits Otto Loser, as he recovers in hospital. Meanwhile, Theresa Heller throws herself headlong into the final preparations for the Mayday Fair.By migrationbooks

In which the mysterious man finds out where he is, who he is and what he is.By migrationbooks

A serious discussion about Willy Borsuk takes place, which is followed by a hospital visit.By migrationbooks

In which the mysterious man loses the boy as he comes under attack.By migrationbooks