Nev Fountain
While working at a series of odd jobs in London, Fountain wrote a few fringe plays, including one called My Grandmother Is a Time Lord, produced in 1995.The pair are also responsible for the historical comedy Elephants to Catch Eels and wrote "Txt Mssg Rcvd", a 2005 episode of the BBC Three anthology series Twisted Tales.In 2020, Radio Times announced that Fountain had adapted the audio story The Doomsday Contract for Big Finish, which had been originally pitched to the television series by comedy producer John Lloyd while Douglas Adams had been its script editor.His first three detective books, collectively titled 'The Mervyn Stone Mysteries', were published by Big Finish Productions in 2010 and recount the exploits of an ex-script editor of science fiction television series called Vixens from the Void.The serious thriller, published by Sphere as by "N.J. Fountain" is called Painkiller and recounts the story of Monica Wood, a woman suffering from chronic neuropathic pain who discovers her own suicide note in a drawer - but she cannot remember writing it.