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Simon Brett
Ellen Curtis - professional declutterer, amateur sleuth and woman of a certain age - investigates the puzzling death of a TV personality who's past his prime
Professional declutterer Ellen Curtis…
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Neighbours Carole and Jude investigate murder most horrid in the theatre in the latest Fethering village mystery from the original king of British cozy crime, internationally best-selling, award-winning author Simon…
'A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans' P. D. James
'Murder most enjoyable' Colin Dexter
Blotto and Twinks are off on another adventure - and this time…
When widow Mrs Pargeter finds a human skull with a neat hole in the middle of its forehead under her patio, she starts investigating the curious find. It was definitely…
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"Ellen Curtis-professional declutterer, amateur sleuth and woman of a certain age-investigates the puzzling death of a TV personality who's past his prime."--Provided by publisher.
The latest hair-raising adventure featuring the aristocratic brother and sister sleuthing duo!
This book centralizes powerful leisure stories that may otherwise be understood as myths-sometimes recognized, often less so-that circulate in the field of leisure studies, and beyond.
In different ways, each…
Another in the series of thrillers involving Charles Paris, the actor who gets drawn into playing amateur detective. Other books by the author involving Charles Paris include Murder in the…
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Charles Paris, middle-aged actor turned amateur sleuth, is horrified when a vaudeville actor is electrocuted on stage by his microphone. It looks like an accident, but Charles is not so…
A novel featuring the actor-sleuth, Charles Paris. He investigates the sudden death of BBC studio manager Andrea Gower and follows a dangerous trail which takes in a chat-show fiddle, nubile…
Attending the funeral of the rich and respected Sir Normington Winthrop, because his is one of the names in the little black book bequeathed to her by her late husband…
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Charles Paris has landed a minor role in the Empire Theatre Eastbourne’s Christmas production of Cinderella. But rehearsals descend into chaos when a member of the cast is discovered shot…
Charles Paris has landed a part in a new West End play - but the production is halted when a body is discovered at the foot of the dressing room…
Mrs Pargeter is at a charity reception, where she meets a woman who claims to be her late husband’s sister. This encounter leads to digging into past secrets, the discovery…
Carole Seddon treasures her trusty Renault, and when it is vandalised, there’s only one person she will entrust with its repair: Bill Shefford. But then a note is shoved under…
When Carole Seddon dutifully attends a former colleague’s funeral, she couldn’t have predicted that the deceased’s daughter would use the occasion to publicly accuse her stepmother of murder. Deciding to…
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…
Frinsley Village Hall is the hub of community life, lovingly tended by the amiable Mr Quigley, whose little blue book ensures the aerobics class never clashes with the wedding bookings…
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In Act I of this play, Detective Inspector Bruton questions Celia Wallis about her husband’s murder. Celia is obviously in the clear, but the drunken journalist sleeping in her bed…
The Bellingford Amateur Dramaticks’ next production is to be A Midsummer Night’s Dream - but it is a production with a difference, as it is being sponsored by (and therefore…
Miggy is a Sloane Ranger , who has been dumped by her boyfriend Roddy because she is shallow and does not care for the environment in the way his new…
An untraditional pantomime. The aristocratic Boronski family live in Siberia in the years before the Russian Revolution. Just as spring is about to begin, their lives are disrupted by the…
Elderly Valerie Trevelyan has been murdered with an overdose of painkillers and there are suspicious bruises on her neck. Worse is the fact that the 2 key suspects in the…
When Alexandra Richards approaches professional declutterer Ellen Curtis to ask her to help sort out her mother’s chaotic flat, Ellen gets the impression Alexandra doesn’t like her mother very much…
Failed thespian and boozy gumshoe Charles Paris’s acting career plumbs new depths when he takes the part of a possible murder victim in a TV series. Finding himself in a…
When a talk by successful author Burton St Clair at Fethering Library ends in sudden, violent death, Jude finds herself the prime suspect in the ensuing murder investigation. She must…
Jude has landed a starring role in the local AmDram Society’s production of George Bernard Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple. It’s an ambitious play, culminating in a dramatic execution scene: a…
While giving a tour of the house’s long gallery Blotto finds that two of the family portraits are missing. Blotto is forced to summon his sister Twinks who deduces that…
It’s that glorious period between the two world wars, and the exiled king of Mitteleuropa is visiting the ancestral home of the Duke of Tawcester. When the ex-king’s daughter is…
Ellen Curtis runs her own business as a declutterer, helping people who are running out of space. When Ellen stumbles across the body of a woman in an over-cluttered flat…
The first ever book about the famed illustrator and wood engraver, by the wood engraver Simon Brett. This new biography showcases much of Clifford Webb’s surviving work, and will do…
What is The Fat-Loss Blueprint About? What it is not about is miracle diets,weight loss tricks or gimmick supplements. What I can promise is that the secrets I am…
After a long period of ‘resting’, life is looking up for Charles Paris, who has been cast as the Ghost of Hamlet’s Father and First Gravedigger in a new production…
