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| Great read - his best book! | ||||
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| Once again Simon Brett weaves his magic. I never thought that anyone could have made Macbeth even more thrilling than usual. | ||||
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| Charles Paris is one of my favorite detectives--a mostly out-of-work actor in London, living in a bedsit and coping with a lazy agent and a wife he can't quite reconnect with. And somehow, he keeps encountering corpses--and tracking down the killers, in spite of a heavy temptation to stay in the pub. In this one, he's juggling several small parts in an out-of-town production of "Macbeth," so there's no surprise when things get morbid. I'm glad these Brett books are available again. | ||||
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| Mystery, humour, interesting characters. A warm bubble bath murder. | ||||
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| Another brilliant book from Simon Brett | ||||
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| Charles Paris is back, this time playing a selection of minor roles in a new production of [Macbet]h at the Pinero Theatre in Warminster which is being directed by his old friend, Gavin Scholes. Other members of the cast include: John B Murgatroyd, an itinerant actor whose career has been almost as devastatingly unsuccessful as Charles's; George Birkitt, a man who despite possessing little more than journeyman ability has encountered considerable commercial success through having played pedestrian roles in a selection of mindless situation comedies; Felicia Chatterton, an alluring yet intense actress whose career has been almost exclusively served in the RSC and who has to devote hours to think herself into her role; and Warnock Belvedere, an outrageous old ham who prides himself on being a theatrical "character" encompassing all the worst traits of old self-aggrandising stars without any compensatory talent. Almost from the start Belvedere shows himself to be obnoxious, overriding the feelings of anyone else in the company and blatantly undermining the director. Within days of the company first coming together there is no-one whom he has not driven to utter fury. Consequently, there is an immense feeling of relief which politeness and propriety do little to hide, when he is found dead in the cellar of the theatre's bar, having seemingly fallen over and knocked himself out while simultaneously dislodging the CO2 hoses. Drunk and unconscious he succumbs to asphyxiation. This is put down as a dreadful accident, and just another manifestation of the dreadful luck that historically bedevils companies staging "the Scottish Play". Predictably the body is discovered by Charles who, having overdone things in the bar earlier in the evening, had fallen asleep in his dressing room and found himself locked in the theatre. It is only gradually afterwards, as he struggles to reconstruct the events of the night, that Charles recognises vital clues that point to Belvedere's death as murder, and he also realises that the perpetrator must be another member of the theatre company. Brett is always capable of weaving an intricate yet plausible plot, which he lightly peppers with humour. Charles Paris is always a sympathetic character - flawed (a virtual alcoholic and recalcitrant philanderer) yet essentially well-meaning, even to the point of frequent self-disgust. The conflicting ambitions and lifestyles of the different members of the theatrical company are also well constructed, and Brett clearly knows the theatrical milieu very well, and he is sufficiently conversant with the text and subtexts of Macbeth to throw in some convincing exegesis of the play's more obscure stretches. Most entertaining on a number of levels! | ||||
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| I like it because it continues the adventures of Charles Paris, a favorite character of mine with all his faults and skills., | ||||
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| Love the Charles Paris stories, but this one is a bit too much bogged down in luvvidom. As an amdram person, I love the theatrical references, but there was little else to balance the story in this instance. | ||||
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