Murder Unprompted
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âI want you all outâgoneâdeadâexterminated!â Alex Household had cried when, after a lifetime of struggle, he lost the starring role in a new play to an actor who couldnât remember his lines. But did that mean that it was Alex who had shot the leading man dead during his climactic speech? Charles Paris, for one, could see many logical suspects, from the devious producer, to the gullible playwright, to the young starletâs overprotective mother.
But before Charles Paris, our middle-aged actor-drinker-detective, could begin his investigation, he was in for a shock: the powers-that-be chose him as the new leading man. Finally, Charles would discover stardomâand what a dead man saw in the last moments of his life!
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Simon Brett is an experienced author and producer who received an Order of the British Empire for services to literature. The author of the Fethering mysteries as well as the much-loved Charles Paris series, he was also the recipient of the Crime Writer's Association Diamond Dagger in 2014. He currently resides in an Agatha Christie-style village in the South Downs.
Geoffrey Howard (a.k.a. Ralph Cosham) (1936â2014) was a British journalist who changed careers to become a narrator and screen and stage actor. He performed in more than one hundred professional theatrical roles. His audiobook narrations were named âAudio Best of the Yearâ by Publishers Weekly, and he won seven AudioFile Earphones Awards, and in 2013 he won the coveted Audie Award for Best Mystery Narration for his reading of Louise Pennyâs The Beautiful Mystery.
