Dead Side of the Mike [Audio Cassette]

Simon Brett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1992

Between acting jobs Charles Paris takes a job doing research for BBC radio. When a young studio manager is found dead, Charles learns she was involved with a shady American record producer, who also turns up dead. 5 cassettes.

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About the Author

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 the Paperback edition.

From AudioFile

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 an alternate Audio Cassette edition.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks (December 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078610340X
• ISBN-13: 978-0786103409
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.8 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,690,843 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!