Murder Unprompted
The Charles Paris Series: Book #8
- By: Simon Brett
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
Description
“I want you all out—gone—dead—exterminated!” Alex Household had cried when, after a lifetime of struggle, he lost the starring role in a new play to an actor who couldn’t remember his lines. But did that mean that it was Alex who had shot the leading man dead during his climactic speech? Charles Paris, for one, could see many logical suspects, from the devious producer, to the gullible playwright, to the young starlet’s overprotective mother.
But before Charles Paris, our middle-aged actor-drinker-detective, could begin his investigation, he was in for a shock: the powers-that-be chose him as the new leading man. Finally, Charles would discover stardom—and what a dead man saw in the last moments of his life!
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The Charles Paris Series Series

A Comedian Dies
By: Simon Brett
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Charles Paris, middle-aged actor turned amateur sleuth, is vacationing at a small English seaside town. Irresistibly drawn to anything theatrical, Charles seeks entertainment at the local music hall and endures a series of not-so-wonderful vaudeville acts in the hope that the man given star billing will be worth watching. This performer, Bill... Read more »
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Murder Unprompted
By: Simon Brett
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
“I want you all out—gone—dead—exterminated!” Alex Household had cried when, after a lifetime of struggle, he lost the starring role in a new play to an actor who couldn’t remember his lines. But did that mean that it was Alex who had shot the leading man dead during his climactic speech? Charles Paris, for one, could see many logical suspects,... Read more »
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Sicken and So Die
By: Simon Brett
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 5 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Simon Brett's oldest and most beloved character, Charles Paris, is back. Paris, the often out-of-work actor, has a good part, for a change, playing Sir Toby Belch in a summer festival production of Twelfth Night. But when the director takes ill and then Paris' friend in the production is the apparent victim of intentional food poisoning meant... Read more »
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