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Landing a minor part in the Empire Theatre Eastbourne's Christmas production of Cinderella, Charles Paris soon discovers that his main role is to gently introduce the show's baffled American star, Kenny Polizzi, to the bizarre customs of English pantomime. During their sessions in the local pub, Charles finds himself increasingly caught up in Polizzi's tangled affairs. But Charles is about to be far more involved than he might wish when he stumbles across a body beneath Eastbourne Pier. As the world's press descends, the pantomime rehearsals slip into chaos. It's up to Charles to put his renowned sleuthing skills to the test to find out who really killed his fellow cast member – and why.

Hardcover:

9780727897749 | Large print edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, April 30, 2015), cover price $36.95
9781780290645 | Sew edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, September 1, 2014), cover price $28.95

CD/Spoken Word:

9781445043203 | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, January 1, 2015), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Landing a minor part in the Empire Theatre Eastbourne's Christmas production of Cinderella, Charles Paris soon discovers that his main role is to gently introduce the show's baffled American star, Kenny Polizzi, to the bizarre customs of English pantomime.
9781445043210 | Mp3 una edition (Isis Audio, January 1, 2015), cover price $59.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781445043197 | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, January 1, 2015), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Landing a minor part in the Empire Theatre Eastbourne's Christmas production of Cinderella, Charles Paris soon discovers that his main role is to gently introduce the show's baffled American star, Kenny Polizzi, to the bizarre customs of English pantomime.

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After a long period of ‘resting’, life is looking up for Charles Paris, who has been cast as the Ghost of Hamlet’s Father and First Gravedigger in a new production of Hamlet. But rehearsals are fraught.  Ophelia is played by Katrina Selsey, who won the role through a television talent show.  Hamlet himself is also played by a reality TV contestant, Jared Root – and the two young stars have rather different views of celebrity and the theatre than the more experienced members of the cast. But when the company reach the first staging post of their tour, the Grand Theatre Marlborough, matters get more serious, with one member of the company seriously injured in what appears to be an accident, and another dead.  Once again, Charles Paris is forced to don the mantle of amateur detective to get to the bottom of the mystery.

Hardcover:

9780727896766 | Large print edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, March 31, 2014), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: After a long period of ‘resting’, life is looking up for Charles Paris, who has been cast as the Ghost of Hamlet’s Father and First Gravedigger in a new production of Hamlet.
9781780290447 | Severn House Pub Ltd, July 1, 2013, cover price $28.95

Paperback:

9781780295398 | Reprint edition (Severn House Pub Ltd, August 1, 2014), cover price $15.95

CD/Spoken Word:

9781624066658 | Unabridged edition (Dreamscape Media Llc, July 1, 2013), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: After a long period of 'resting,' life is looking up for Charles Paris, who has been cast in a new production of Hamlet.
9781624066696 | Mp3 una edition (Ingram Pub Services, July 1, 2013), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: After a long period of 'resting,' life is looking up for Charles Paris, who has been cast in a new production of Hamlet.

Product Description: Text for Author Bio: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing full-time for more than twenty years. Creator of the Charles Parks, Mrs. Pargeter and Feathering series of mysteries, his psychological thriller, A Shock to the System was filmed, starring Michael Caine...read more

Paperback:

9780595003495, titled "What Bloody Man Is That?" | Iuniverse Inc, January 1, 2000, cover price $12.95
9780440203445, titled "What Bloody Man Is That?" | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, July 1, 1989), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Charles Paris, the actor-sleuth, mixes both professions when he receives a part in a provincial production of 'Macbeth' and one member of the cast is murdered
9780816143986, titled "What Bloody Man Is That?" | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, January 1, 1988), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Charles Paris, the actor-sleuth, mixes both professions when he receives a part in a provincial production of 'Macbeth' and one member of the cast is murdered

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781402519444 | Abridged edition (Recorded Books, November 1, 2002), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: Text for Author Bio: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing full-time for more than twenty years.
9780816192618 | Chivers Audio Books, December 1, 1991, cover price $53.95

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Product Description: This volume contains papers on the extent of child labour in South Asia (and the spread across regions and sectos), its correlation with education, some of the worst forms of child labour, and best practices. The papers are a good mix of social anthropology, economics and political science approaches...read more

Hardcover:

9780684181936 | Scribner, September 1, 1984, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: During a period of unemployment, actor-sleuth Charles Paris hires himself out as an apartment painter only to discover the mutilated corpse of the young chef of a fashionable London restaurant

Paperback:

9780446359528 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, October 1, 1990), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: This volume contains papers on the extent of child labour in South Asia (and the spread across regions and sectos), its correlation with education, some of the worst forms of child labour, and best practices.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780788761034 | Recorded Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This volume contains papers on the extent of child labour in South Asia (and the spread across regions and sectos), its correlation with education, some of the worst forms of child labour, and best practices.

Product Description: Text for Author Bio: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing full-time for more than twenty years. Creator of the Charles Parks, Mrs. Pargeter and Feathering series of mysteries, his psychological thriller, A Shock to the System was filmed, starring Michael Caine...read more

Hardcover:

9780745172651 | Large print edition (Chivers, August 1, 1991), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Text for Author Bio: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing full-time for more than twenty years.
9780684178981 | Scribner, July 1, 1983, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: During a performance of a mystery play in which he plays the part of a dead body, Charles Paris, a middle-aged actor with a drinking problem, very nearly becomes a real murder victim

Paperback:

9780595003532 | Iuniverse Inc, January 1, 2000, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Text for Author Bio: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing full-time for more than twenty years.
9780446359542 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, October 1, 1990), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Text for Author Bio: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing full-time for more than twenty years.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780788744969 | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, March 1, 2001), cover price $47.00 | About this edition: Text for Author Bio: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing full-time for more than twenty years.
9780745140728 | Chivers Audio Books, December 1, 1992, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Text for Author Bio: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing full-time for more than twenty years.

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Product Description: Charles Paris has landed a role in a lavish West-End musical. The star, one of England's most popuar comedians, is adored by the public but despised in the business. He also seems to be behind some strange happenings backstage, including the rehearsal pianist being shot in the hand and an actor falling and breaking his leg...read more

Paperback:

9780595003518 | Iuniverse Inc, January 1, 2000, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Text for Author Bio: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing full-time for more than twenty years.
9780446359597 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, November 1, 1990), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Hired for a small part in a London musical, actor and amateur sleuth Charles Paris tries to determine the connections between the accidents and other suspicious occurrences that befall cast members and the musical director
9780816147748 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, July 1, 1989), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Hired for a small part in a London musical, actor and amateur sleuth Charles Paris investigates a series of suspicious accidents that have plagued the production

CD/Spoken Word:

9780786199013 | Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2000, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Charles Paris has landed a role in a lavish West-End musical.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786117505 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2000), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Charles Paris has landed a role in a lavish West-End musical.

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Product Description: Text for Author Bio: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing full-time for more than twenty years. Creator of the Charles Parks, Mrs. Pargeter and Feathering series of mysteries, his psychological thriller, A Shock to the System was filmed, starring Michael Caine...read more

Hardcover:

9780684155715 | Scribner, July 1, 1978, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Charles is out of work again, and to make matters worse his mother has come to stay and he's no way of escaping her.

Paperback:

9780595003594 | Iuniverse Inc, January 1, 2000, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Text for Author Bio: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing full-time for more than twenty years.
9780446359603 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, January 1, 1991), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Text for Author Bio: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing full-time for more than twenty years.
9780816150403 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 1, 1990), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Text for Author Bio: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing full-time for more than twenty years.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780745166179 | Chivers Audio Books, April 1, 1996, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Text for Author Bio: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing full-time for more than twenty years.
9780786104833, titled "Amateur Corpse" | Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 1994, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Text for Author Bio: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing full-time for more than twenty years.

Charles finds himself uncharacteristically employed in a film, having landed the part of Szabec, a middle management vampire in The Wreathing. His co-star is swimwear model turned actress Jodie Ricks and before long, Jodie is using Charles as a confidant. Poor Jodie is in terrible trouble - not only is she being blackmailed over some compromising photos, but she is also carrying the baby of the film's producer, Elliot Roth, who now wants nothing to do with her. Then things take an even nastier turn when it appears that someone is trying to kill Jodie. Always keen to help a damsel in distress, Charles sets about trying to solve the mystery... Starring Bill Nighy and Martine McCutcheon and dramatised by Jeremy Front.2 CDs. 1 hr 52 mins.

Paperback:

9780595003396 | Iuniverse Inc, January 1, 2000, cover price $13.95
9780816149179 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, May 1, 1990), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Charles finds himself uncharacteristically employed in a film, having landed the part of Szabec, a middle management vampire in The Wreathing.
9780440111238 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, February 1, 1986), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: A middle-aged actor with a taste for wine and women takes to detection to uncover the connection between the murder of a wealthy theatrical tycoon and the killing of a blackmailer with a supply of compromising photographs

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781556561559 | Dercum Pr Audio, August 1, 1990, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Charles finds himself uncharacteristically employed in a film, having landed the part of Szabec, a middle management vampire in The Wreathing.
9780816199891 | G K Hall Audio Books, January 1, 1990, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Charles finds himself uncharacteristically employed in a film, having landed the part of Szabec, a middle management vampire in The Wreathing.

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Product Description: Text for Author Bio: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing full-time for more than twenty years. Creator of the Charles Parks, Mrs. Pargeter and Feathering series of mysteries, his psychological thriller, A Shock to the System was filmed, starring Michael Caine...read more

Hardcover:

9780684185170 | Scribner, March 1, 1986, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: One of the stars of a new TV game show is murdered, and Charles Paris, an often out-of-work actor and part-time detective, is on hand to investigate

Paperback:

9780595003570 | Iuniverse Inc, January 1, 2000, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Text for Author Bio: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing full-time for more than twenty years.
9780440119142 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, May 1, 1987), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: One of the stars of a new TV game show is murdered, and Charles Paris, an often out-of-work actor and part-time detective, is on hand to investigate

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780745142104 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, December 1, 1993), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Text for Author Bio: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing full-time for more than twenty years.

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Product Description: Here is another of Simon Bretts fascinating blends of crime and backstage drama. This time he provides what might be described as the biography of a playfrom the cradle to the grave. Murder Unprompted takes you from the author, to an unscrupulous producer, to the theater itself, to director, to castincluding Mr...read more

Hardcover:

9780684176598 | Scribner, September 1, 1982, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: After a fellow actor is murdered on stage during an opening-night performance, struggling thespian and amateur sleuth Charles Paris sets out to reveal the murderer, antagonizing his numerous suspects along the way

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780788740817 | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, December 1, 1999), cover price $38.00 | About this edition: Here is another of Simon Bretts fascinating blends of crime and backstage drama.

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Charles Paris battles the bottle and juggles relationships with two women while investigating the suspicious death of his old friend

Hardcover:

9780786215645 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 1, 1998), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Charles Paris battles the bottle and juggles relationships with two women while investigating the suspicious death of his old friend
9780312192518 | Thomas Dunne Books, September 1, 1998, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Charles Paris battles the bottle and juggles relationships with two women while investigating the suspicious death of his old friend

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Charles Paris, an out-of-work actor, gets a job appearing as a forklift operator in a corporate video, but when the forklift is used to murder a young secretary, Charles must find the killer.

Hardcover:

9780684193977 | Scribner, April 1, 1992, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Charles Paris, an out-of-work actor, gets a job appearing as a forklift operator in a corporate video, but when the forklift is used to murder a young secretary, Charles must find the killer

Paperback:

9780373261307 | Reprint edition (Harlequin Books, October 1, 1993), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Hired to operate a forklift in a corporate video, struggling actor and English sleuth Charles Paris finds the job complicated when a girl on the set is crushed to death by the machine.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786103942 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Charles Paris, an out-of-work actor, gets a job appearing as a forklift operator in a corporate video, but when the forklift is used to murder a young secretary, Charles must find the killer.

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Struggling actor and amateur sleuth Charles Paris finally lands the much-coveted role of Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, but his expected acting break turns into a nightmare when the production is sabotaged by a series of suspicious events, including murder. 12,500 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780684824598 | Scribner, January 1, 1997, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Struggling actor and amateur sleuth Charles Paris finally lands the much-coveted role of Sir Toby Belch in 'Twelfth Night,' but his expected acting break turns into a nightmare when the production is sabotaged by a series of suspicious events, including murder

Playing the missing Martin Earnshaw on a true crime television program, actor-detective Charles Paris believes his career has hit a new low and begins to suspect that the production team is orchestrating its own subject material. Reprint. PW.

Hardcover:

9781568951171 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, September 1, 1994), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: While playing the part of missing property developer Martin Earnshaw on 'Public Enemies,' a true-crime television series, actor-sleuth Charles Paris begins to uncover the shocking truth about the missing man's disappearance

Paperback:

9780373261949 | Harlequin Books, March 1, 1996, cover price $5.50 | also contains Fa‡ades: Principles of Construction | About this edition: Playing the missing Martin Earnshaw on a true crime television program, actor-detective Charles Paris believes his career has hit a new low and begins to suspect that the production team is orchestrating its own subject material.
9780575057814 | Reprint edition (Victor Gollancz, November 1, 1995), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Failed thespian and boozy gumshoe Charles Paris's acting career plumbs new depths when he takes the part of a possible murder victim in a TV series.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780745143576 | Chivers Audio Books, December 1, 1994, cover price $39.95

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While playing the part of missing property developer Martin Earnshaw on Public Enemies, a true-crime television series, actor-sleuth Charles Paris begins to uncover the shocking truth about the missing man's disappearance. By the author of Corporate Bodies.

Hardcover:

9780684197005 | Scribner, May 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: While playing the part of missing property developer Martin Earnshaw on 'Public Enemies,' a true-crime television series, actor-sleuth Charles Paris begins to uncover the shocking truth about the missing man's disappearance

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Contains four chilling novels from this master of suspense--Cast, in Order of Disappearance; Star Trap; An Amateur Corpse; and So Much Blood.

Hardcover:

9780517093306 | Outlet, December 1, 1993, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Contains four chilling novels from this master of suspense--Cast, in Order of Disappearance; Star Trap; An Amateur Corpse; and So Much Blood.

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Product Description: Hired to operate a forklift in a corporate video, struggling actor and English sleuth Charles Paris finds the job complicated when a girl on the set is crushed to death by the machine. Reprint.

Paperback:

9780792714170 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, May 1, 1993), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Hired to operate a forklift in a corporate video, struggling actor and English sleuth Charles Paris finds the job complicated when a girl on the set is crushed to death by the machine.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780745141312 | Chivers Audio Books, May 1, 1993, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Hired to operate a forklift in a corporate video, struggling actor and English sleuth Charles Paris finds the job complicated when a girl on the set is crushed to death by the machine.
9780886463236 | Dh Audio, November 1, 1992, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Charles Paris, the often out-of-work actor who is one of the most beloved characters in all of crime fiction, takes on perhaps his most unlikely performing assignment ever in Brett's wickedly witty story.

When a murder occurs on the set of his new police television series, Charles Paris, actor and amateur detective, is determined to find the killer

Hardcover:

9780684190969 | Scribner, August 1, 1989, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When a murder occurs on the set of his new police television series, Charles Paris, actor and amateur detective, is determined to find the killer

Charles Paris, the actor-sleuth, mixes both professions when he receives a part in a provincial production of 'Macbeth' and one member of the cast is murdered

Hardcover:

9780684188249 | Scribner, August 1, 1987, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Charles Paris, the actor-sleuth, mixes both professions when he receives a part in a provincial production of 'Macbeth' and one member of the cast is murdered

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In his attempt to solve the mystery behind the apparent suicide of a BBC studio assistant, Charles Paris discovers that the victim was a mistress of a top-level producer and uncovers a complicated murder plot with numerous suspects

Hardcover:

9780684167299 | Scribner, October 1, 1980, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: In his attempt to solve the mystery behind the apparent suicide of a BBC studio assistant, Charles Paris discovers that the victim was a mistress of a top-level producer and uncovers a complicated murder plot with numerous suspects

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Product Description: Charles Paris has landed a role in a lavish West-End musical. The star, one of England's most popuar comedians, is adored by the public but despised in the business. He also seems to be behind some strange happenings backstage, including the rehearsal pianist being shot in the hand and an actor falling and breaking his leg...read more

Hardcover:

9780684151908 | Scribner, February 1, 1978, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Charles Paris has landed a role in a lavish West-End musical.

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