The Dead Side of the Mike [Paperback]

Simon Brett (Author)

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Publication Date: January 1991

Text for Author Bio Box: 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. Married, with three children, he lives in an Agatha Christie-style village in West Sussex, England. Text for Book Description: Murder at the BBC? Its almost unimaginable. When Andrea Gower, the beautiful studio manager is murdered, the producers only concern is the dead air emanating from the transmitter. But Charles Paris, the now famous actor/detective has come to Broadcasting House to give a talk, and ends up as a mystery voice on a showbiz quiz show. Paris has to wallow through layers of BBC scandal, and uncovers a complicated fraudwith clues concealed in seemingly innocent announcements. These clues lead to a trap that is nearly the end of Mr. Paris.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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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 Paris, Mrs. Pargeter and Fethering series of mysteries, his psychological thriller, A Shock to the System was filmed, starring Michael Caine. Married with three children, he lives in an Agatha Christie-style village in West Sussex, England. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Simon Brett combines his considerable talents as novelist and actor to produce a light-hearted, dramatically read English murder mystery set in the studios, bars, and byways frequented by the staff and personalities of BBC radio. Much of the humor derives from the clash between the banal civil servant and the high-spirited artist, sometimes the same individual, which Brett masterfully mirrors in his vocal intonations. His sound portraits of the members of the"pedestrian features action committee" are hilarious. His accents and vocal impersonations, particularly those of the female characters, are lively, accurate, consistent, and unique to each character. J.D.N. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Warner Books Inc (Mm) (January 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446359572
• ISBN-13: 978-0446359573
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,310,804 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars love this author - the publisher did a terrible job on printing, April 17, 2010

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This review is from: The Dead Side of the Mike (Charles Paris Mysteries) (Paperback)

Simon Brett is a terrific author and I have loved every one of his mysteries, so when I found this one available as a reprint edition, I ordered it. I was sadly disappointed to find that it is an iUniverse-printed book, and the formatting/printing is awful -- sloppy, extremely tiny type(unnecessarily so, considering the fact that it's a trade paperback and thus has plenty of room) and looks like it was done on a copier (dim). I have never returned a book before in my life, but I could only read a chapter of this one before I decided the type formatting was unbearably difficult to read. I wish very much that someone else was making Brett's books available for purchase (buying audio versions until I can find decent print ones). To top it off, the publisher even ignored a glaring error on the front cover -- has the main character's name as 'charles Paris' -- obviously the editors were relying on spellcheck and didn't observe that Charles is the person's first name. Ugh!