“A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen.” Listen, Stranger, as The Tickler dons Agatha Christie's twin-set and pearls, sets out across the moor to discover what dark Illuminati tentacles caused a stocky, tousle-haired gentleman from the flatlands of Suffolk to be consigned by history to tell the tale of a mountainous region of upstate New York replete with mad-eyed Scotsmen whose toothlessness rattled down the generations like a golfball on the stairs. Tim Duerden - historian, lecturer, semi-professional Englishman, 1970's apprentice centre-half for Grimsby Town, dead-ringer for Charles Ingalls and author of 'A History of Delaware County, New York' along with the recently published 'Lewis Hine: Photographer and American Progressive' - graces the Tickler table with wry smile, moist sporran, and the smell of three-day old fish 'n chips on his fingers.