Charles Paris: A Comedian Dies (Audiobook)

from Eyejaybee

Simon Brett's Charles Paris novels are very entertaining: light-hearted, but always well-constructed with watertight plots, and the clues to the solution are always there, even if the reader does not always pick up on them as they go through the book. As this novel opens, Charles Paris, the down ...

from Eyejaybee

Charles Paris is a very engaging character. Now middle-aged - there are hints in this novel that he has just entered his fifties, although, paradoxically, in some of the later books the approaching milestone of fifty looms over him menacingly - he is more or less resigned to playing out the remai...

from Mrsbaty

A Comedian Dies is the 5th book in the Charles Paris series. I've read reviews of books in this series where the reviewers have commented that there is no one to like in the story. This is the first one I've read where that is almost true. Charles and Francis are taking a vacation together to see...

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I love the gentle humour of these books. Charles Paris is not a natural detective: he is the reader; stumbling from suspicion of one character on to the next as his favourite is either bumped off, or proves conclusively that he/she couldn't be the murderer. In this romp, our hero never solves th...

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I love the gentle humour of these books. Charles Paris is not a natural detective: he is the reader; stumbling from suspicion of one character on to the next as his favourite is either bumped off, or proves conclusively that he/she couldn't be the murderer. In this romp, our hero never solves th...