Star Trap
Simon Brett is back with one of his best theater-inspired detective novels in Star Trap. Though the target for murder is an odious theater and television star, actor/detective Charles Paris finds that the main character is behind the strange happenings backstage, including the rehearsal pianist...
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Simon Brett is back with one of his best theater-inspired detective novels in Star Trap. Though the target for murder is an odious theater and television star, actor/detective Charles Paris finds that the main character is behind the strange happenings backstage, including the rehearsal pianist being shot in the hand, and an actor falling and breaking his leg. Why does the star want to sabotage his show? The answer is one much more human than it first appears.Author Bio: Simon Brett is a former radio and television comedy producer, who has been writing fulltime for more than 20 years. Creator of the Charles Paris, Mrs. Pargeter and Fethering series of mysteries, Brett's psychological thriller, "A Shock to the System" was made into a movie starring Michael Caine. Married with three children, he lives in an Agatha Christie-style village in West Sussex, England.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780595003518 (0595003516)
Publish date: June 1st 2000
Publisher: iUniverse
Pages no: 196
Edition language: English
Series: Charles Paris (#3)
Charles Paris, my favorite chronically out of work actor, is offered a job! In a big budget commercially viable play! With a nine-month run scheduled! Of course, there’s a catch. Gerald Venables, his friend and a backer of the play, thinks someone is trying to sabotage it and he wants Charles to...
Somewhere around the time I turned ten years old, my father decided to make a dream of his come true and he joined a local theater company. This was in a small town in a small state and so I always assumed it was for sociability and for a love of theater that prompted this in him. Surely he had no d...
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