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The Corpse on the Court
- By: Simon Brett
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- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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Jude's life has been turned upside-down thanks her new man, Piers Targett, who's keen to get her involved in his hobby – or obsession – of Real Tennis. But when one of Piers' friends dies on the court in suspicious circumstances, Jude finds herself caught up in the police investigation. Meanwhile, Jude's neighbour Carole is trying to identify the human remains known locally as the “Lady in the Lake”.
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What a treat...
- By G. Hughes-Wilson on 15-02-13
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The Corpse on the Court
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Series: Fethering Village Mysteries, Book 14
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 12-01-13
- Language: English
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So Much Blood
- By: Simon Brett
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- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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Charles Paris returns again, in a fringe show at the Edinburgh Festival, with another nubile girl to provoke him, his accommodating wife to console him and a gory murder to challenge him. Edinburgh and the Festival are both background and foreground with Charles flitting between a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a ‘mixed-media’ satire, a late-night revue and his own one-man show on Thomas Hood. Then a fading pop star is murdered, there’s a bomb scare in Holyrood Palace and someone makes a suicide leap from the top of the Rock….
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Edinburgh in the festival - all the world's a stage
- By Mary Carnegie on 28-08-16
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So Much Blood
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Series: Charles Paris, Book 2
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 17-10-11
- Language: English
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The Tomb in Turkey
- By: Simon Brett
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- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
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Carole Seddon has never enjoyed holidays much. Nevertheless, she has allowed herself to be persuaded by her friend Jude to accept a fortnight’s free accommodation at a luxurious Turkish villa owned by Jude’s property developer friend Barney Willingdon. But from the outset the holiday is marred by a series of menacing incidents.
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Enjoyable
- By fotini on 02-10-15
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The Tomb in Turkey
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Series: Fethering Village Mysteries, Book 16
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 24-08-15
- Language: English
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A Comedian Dies
- By: Simon Brett
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- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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A rising young stage comedian, who is about to receive his profession's award as ‘Most Promising Newcomer’, dies sensationally on stage at the start of his act; as he picks up the mike, he is electrocuted. Faulty wiring seems to be the cause; no one person is to blame; a verdict of death by misadventure is returned at the inquest.
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A little predictable but good fun
- By MR on 17-01-19
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A Comedian Dies
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Series: Charles Paris, Book 5
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 01-03-12
- Language: English
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Charles Paris: What Bloody Man is That?
- By: Simon Brett
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- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
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Charles Paris is on his way up again, career-wise. No longer ‘resting’ or playing a corpse in a cupboard, he finds himself doubling almost every role in a provincial production of the play dreaded by superstitious theatrefolk: Macbeth.
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Disappointing
- By Dragon on 05-10-16
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Charles Paris: What Bloody Man is That?
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Series: Charles Paris, Book 12
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 05-12-11
- Language: English
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The Strangling on the Stage
- By: Simon Brett
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- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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When Jude agrees to lend her vintage chaise longue for the local Amateur Dramatic Society’s production of George Bernard Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple, little does she realise she’ll end up in a starring role. It’s an ambitious play, culminating in a dramatic execution scene: a scene that’s played for real when one of the leading actors is found hanging from the specially constructed stage gallows during rehearsals. A tragic accident - or something more sinister?
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The Fethering ladies tread the boards
- By SnapWriter on 08-11-14
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The Strangling on the Stage
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Series: Fethering Village Mysteries, Book 15
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 17-03-14
- Language: English
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The Killing in the Café
- By: Simon Brett
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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When the owner of Polly's Cake Shop announces her retirement, the Fethering residents start to worry about the loss of this popular amenity. Alarmed by rumours that the café might become a Starbucks, a group clubs together to form an action committee. The plan is that Polly's should become a community venture managed and run by volunteers from the village. Roped in to help, Jude finds the committee meetings fraught with petty power struggles, clashing personalities and monstrous egos.
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yet another brilliant book
- By Mrs. Heather M. McPeake on 18-11-16
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The Killing in the Café
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Series: Fethering Village Mysteries, Book 17
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-11-16
- Language: English
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A Reconstructed Corpse
- By: Simon Brett
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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Charles Paris’ acting career plumbs new depths when he takes the part of a possible murder victim in ‘Public Enemies’, a true-crime television series. Finding himself in a bizarre world somewhere between police procedure and showbiz, Charles is inexorably drawn into the investigation... especially after the dismembered limbs start turning up. The viewers of ‘Public Enemies’ get caught up in the macabre jigsaw puzzle of death; it is ghastly, of course, but it does make good television.
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A very enjoyable listen
- By crochetdiva on 17-01-22
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A Reconstructed Corpse
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Series: Charles Paris, Book 15
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-09-11
- Language: English
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A Series of Murders
- By: Simon Brett
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- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
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Charles Paris is in clover. He has been contracted for three whole months to play brainless bobby Sergeant Clump, foil to the charismatic amateur sleuth, Stanislas Braid, in a TV series of that name. Recourse to the whiskey bottle is still needed, however, to get him through a day’s filming - one made all the more arduous by the pompous posturings of the show’s star, and the constant outraged interruptions of the ancient author whose detective novels are being adapted. Indeed, there is plenty of friction about.
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"A confusion of constables."
- By Norma Miles on 02-01-22
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A Series of Murders
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Series: Charles Paris, Book 13
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 01-02-12
- Language: English
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The Poisoning in the Pub
- By: Simon Brett
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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Fethering residents Jude and Carole get more than they bargained for when a meal in their local pub leaves everyone with food poisoning. When a series of disasters start to befall the business it looks like it could be the end of the road for the Crown and Anchor. The two amateur detectives wonder if it might just be more than a run of bad luck. When a young man is found in the kitchen with a knife through his heart, Carole and Jude swing into action. There's a killer on the loose, and our lady sleuths need to uncover who it is before it's last orders for the pub - and themselves.
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Excellent
- By Trevelyan on 05-05-20
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The Poisoning in the Pub
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Series: Fethering Village Mysteries, Book 10
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 27-03-19
- Language: English
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Murder in the Museum
- Fethering Village Mysteries, Book 4
- By: Simon Brett
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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The Elizabethan house of Bracketts is about to be turned into a museum. It had once been the home of the celebrated poet Esmund Chadleigh and is to become a shrine to his life and poetry - but the transition is far from smooth. Carole Seddon had been reluctant to join the Bracketts Board, and now she realises that she should have listened to her instinct. The simmering tension between the board members is about to boil over. A human skeleton is discovered in the kitchen garden, and before too long there is a second body, not yet cold.
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One of the best murder mysteries
- By Di on 01-03-20
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Murder in the Museum
- Fethering Village Mysteries, Book 4
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Series: Fethering Village Mysteries, Book 4
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 22-05-19
- Language: English
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Death on the Downs
- By: Simon Brett
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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It wasn't the rain that upset Carole Seddon during her walk on the West Sussex Downs. It wasn't the dilapidated barn in which she was forced to seek shelter. No, what upset her most was the human skeleton she discovered there.... So begins the second investigation for straitlaced Carole and her more laid-back neighbour Jude. This time their enquiries take them away from Fethering to the small download hamlet of Weldsham, where gossips quickly identify the corpse as Tamsin Lutteridge, a young woman who had disappeared from the village months before....
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An easy and enjoyable read.
- By Ms on 03-06-19
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Death on the Downs
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Series: Fethering Village Mysteries, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 01-03-19
- Language: English
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The Shooting in the Shop
- By: Simon Brett
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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Carole Seddon hates Christmas - it all seems rather a waste of time. So when her best friend, Jude, drags her along to go shopping at a local store called Gallimaufry, she can feel her inner Scrooge knocking. Then Gallimaufry is burnt down, and a body is discovered. It seems like a tragic accident, but it’s not natural causes when a gun is involved. With a host of suspicious characters - the infamous womanizer Ricky Le Bonnier; Piers Duncton, an unfunny comedy writer; and Anna Carter, the lonely dog walker - the lady detectives know they have their work cut out for them.
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another great listen
- By Mrs on 14-09-20
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The Shooting in the Shop
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Series: Fethering Village Mysteries, Book 11
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 05-03-19
- Language: English
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Mrs Pargeter's Principle
- By: Simon Brett
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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For Mrs Pargeter, it is a matter of principle that she should complete any of her late husband's unfinished business. Amongst his many bequests, perhaps the most valuable is his little black book, in which he listed all the people who ever worked for him, with details of their particular skill sets. This means that whenever Mrs P has a crime to solve, she can readily contact someone with the relevant expertise.
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Please make more available!
- By Bookshake on 28-09-16
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Mrs Pargeter's Principle
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Series: Mrs. Pargeter, Book 7
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 01-09-16
- Language: English
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Star Trap
- By: Simon Brett
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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Christopher Milton is one of TV’s brightest stars and the natural choice to play the lead in Lumpkin!, the musical version of She Stoops to Conquer. His is a ruthless, egomaniacal talent, guaranteed to turn his co-cast’s rehearsals into nail-biting hell. Charles Paris suspects him of harbouring at least one dark secret from years past. And then the ‘accidents’ begin. Soon it is plain that someone will stop at nothing in order to sabotage the show for their own ends.
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I beg yours!
- By Norma Miles on 11-11-18
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Star Trap
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Series: Charles Paris, Book 3
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 23-08-11
- Language: English
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The Floating Admiral
- By: Agatha Christie, Simon Brett - preface, Dorothy L. Sayers - introduction, and others
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
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Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat the body was found in, is clearly withholding information, and the victim's niece has disappeared. There is clearly more to this case than meets the eye - even the identity of the victim is called into doubt.
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Tightly crafted mystery
- By Sheryl Mason on 26-02-17
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The Floating Admiral
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 23-02-17
- Language: English
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Not Dead, Only Resting
- By: Simon Brett
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- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
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Charles Paris is, as ever, waiting for a phone call from his agent, and is driven to painting and decorating to make ends meet. A rare evening out at a high-profile restaurant among stars of stage and screen promises a break in the depressing routine. But when the restaurant’s handsome, temperamental chef is brutally murdered, Charles finds himself drawn into the ensuing investigation. At first it seems an open and shut case: the chef’s
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So dated, but amusing in parts.
- By Mary Carnegie on 28-08-16
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Not Dead, Only Resting
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Series: Charles Paris, Book 10
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 03-08-11
- Language: English
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No Commitments: Series 6-9
- The BBC Radio 4 Comedy Drama
- By: Simon Brett
- Narrated by: Lisa Coleman, Rosemary Leach, Angela Thorne, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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Sisters Anna, Victoria and Charlotte are back for four more series, in which relationships are forged, hearts are broken and family ties are strained - but not severed. Older sister Anna continues to live her life on her own terms, despite her sisters' insistence on being there for her. But when she suffers a couple of knocks to her confidence and needs a shoulder to cry on, they are too self-absorbed to be any use. Fortunately, niece Emily provides moral support and Anna reciprocates with some down-to-earth advice about Emily's love life.
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Misophonia sufferers, beware
- By Danuta Reah on 17-02-21
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No Commitments: Series 6-9
- The BBC Radio 4 Comedy Drama
- Narrated by: Lisa Coleman, Rosemary Leach, Angela Thorne, Celia Imrie, Felicity Montagu, full cast, Bill Nighy
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 14-01-21
- Language: English
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The Hanging in the Hotel
- By: Simon Brett
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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The Hopwicke Country House Hotel, owned by Jude's glamorous friend Suzy Longthorne, is to host an event for the all-male society the Pillars of Sussex. On the night, Jude helps Suzy serve dinner, and in the early hours of the morning they watch with relief as the guests drag themselves to their beds. The next morning, one young solicitor does not come down for breakfast. Jude heads for Nigel Ackford's room, presuming he is feeling the effects of the night before. It soon becomes apparent, however, that Nigel has been spared his hangover....
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Excellent
- By Di on 06-03-20
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The Hanging in the Hotel
- Narrated by: Simon Brett
- Series: Fethering Village Mysteries, Book 5
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 05-03-19
- Language: English
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Foul Play: The Complete Series 1-4
- The BBC Radio 4 Murder Mystery Panel Game
- By: Simon Brett
- Narrated by: full cast, Simon Brett
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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Chaired by Simon Brett (author of the hugely popular Charles Paris series), this intriguing, interactive panel show challenges professional crime novelists to put their experience and expertise to the test as they try to unravel various mind-bending mysteries. Each episode features a death and a denouement - with various red herrings and misdirections along the way. As the murder scenario is described and the clues laid out, our writer-detectives take turns cross-examining the suspects.
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Great fun
- By PPod on 15-02-21
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Foul Play: The Complete Series 1-4
- The BBC Radio 4 Murder Mystery Panel Game
- Narrated by: full cast, Simon Brett
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 14-01-21
- Language: English
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