Sign In Join Now
User Accessibility
  • Increase Font

  • Invert Colours

Search for a Book Browse Books Menu
A Charles Paris Mystery Book 4: An Amateur Corpse Cover Play Sample

Sample may contain unsuitable content.

Open Audiobook

Audiobook streaming provided by:

OverDrive Logo

Share this book:

A Charles Paris Mystery Book 4: An Amateur Corpse

AuthorSimon Brett, Jeremy Front

NarratorBill Nighy, Full Cast

SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 4

Duration1h 52m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries, Plays and Dramatisations

PublisherBBC Audio

VersionUnabridged

  Save to Wish List
  Add to Favourites List

Charles is out of work again, and to make matters worse his mother has come to stay and he's no way of escaping her. So when he's offered some voiceover work by old friend, Hugo, he's delighted to get out of the house. But Hugo's marriage is in trouble: his much younger wife, Ellie, spends all her time at her Amateur Dramatic Group, and Hugo is drinking too much.
When Ellie is found drowned in their swimming pool, it seems Hugo is guilty of murder. It's up to Charles to prove his friend's innocence...
Bill Nighy, Suzanne Burden and Geraldine McEwan are among the star cast in this entertaining mystery, dramatised by Jeremy Front.
Written by Jeremy Front, based on the novel by Simon Brett.

0 (0 Reviews)
0
0
0
0
0

Related Titles

A Charles Paris Mystery Book 13: A Series of Murders Cover

A Charles Paris Mystery Book 13: A Series of Murders

Author: Simon Brett

A Charles Paris Mystery Book 13: A Series of Murders

Author Simon Brett

Narrator Simon Brett

SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 13

Duration 57m

Charles Paris, actor and amateur sleuth, is working in television as the brainless bobby sidekick to a suave detective. The accidental death of an unpromising actress causes little suspicion, except in Charles' mind. He decides to investigate.

View Book
Baldi, Series 4: Episode 1 Cover

Baldi, Series 4: Episode 1

Author: Simon Brett

Baldi, Series 4: Episode 1

Author Simon Brett

Narrator Various

SeriesFather Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 4, Book 1

Duration 43m

On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. In Cross Purposes, Father Baldi teams up with a surprisingly adept Father Troy to solve some crossword-related murders in Dublin's literary circles....

View Book
A Charles Paris Mystery Book 9: Murder In the Title Cover

A Charles Paris Mystery Book 9: Murder In the Title

Author: Simon Brett

A Charles Paris Mystery Book 9: Murder In the Title

Author Simon Brett

Narrator Bill Nighy

SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 9

Duration 1h 50m

Charles Paris is his own worst enemy, a louche lush who can resist anything except temptation - especially in the form of women and alcohol. He's been out of work so long now he feels he may never get a job and he's driving Frances, his semi-ex-wife, mad. So when he's offered a small role in a play, she nearly pushes him out of the door. But it see...

View Book
Turf Wars Cover

Turf Wars

Author: Jeremy Front

Turf Wars

Author Jeremy Front

Narrator Full Cast

Duration 27m

Beth just wants what's best for her 11 year old son; a solid secondary education at the kind of school that recognises his genius, as well as his aptitude for baroque music. A school like Folgate. But when the family is edged out of Folgate's catchment area, a battle begins. Beth takes on the might of the council with a mixture of community action,...

View Book
A Charles Paris Mystery Book 15: A Reconstructed Corpse Cover

A Charles Paris Mystery Book 15: A Reconstructed Corpse

Author: Simon Brett

A Charles Paris Mystery Book 15: A Reconstructed Corpse

Author Simon Brett

Narrator Bill Nighy

SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 15

Duration 1h 52m

Bill Nighy returns as Charles Paris: unsuccessful actor, bad husband and dipsomaniac. Desperately in need of work, having been kicked out of the marital home, Charles jumps at playing a missing property developer in a crime reconstruction programme. But the missing person case soon turns to murder when severed body parts begin to appear. Television...

View Book
A Charles Paris Mystery Book 17: Dead Room Farce Cover

A Charles Paris Mystery Book 17: Dead Room Farce

Author: Simon Brett, Jeremy Front

A Charles Paris Mystery Book 17: Dead Room Farce

Author Simon Brett, Jeremy Front

Narrator Bill Nighy, BBC Full-Cast

SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 17

Duration 1h 51m

Bill Nighy stars as actor and amateur sleuth Charles Paris in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Simon Brett's novelCharles' career is on the up. He's starring in a revival of a popular (though hackneyed) 70's farce – and while his fellow actors aren't exactly who you'd want to find yourself in bed with, he's happy to be in work.But...

View Book
Charles Paris Mysteries Book 8: Murder Unprompted Cover

Charles Paris Mysteries Book 8: Murder Unprompted

Author: Simon Brett

Charles Paris Mysteries Book 8: Murder Unprompted

Author Simon Brett

Narrator Geoffrey Howard

SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 8

Duration 5h 4m

"I want you all out-gone-dead-exterminated!" high strung Alex Household cried out, when, after a lifetime of struggle, he lost the starring role in a new play called The Hooded Owl-to an actor who couldn't 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, co...

View Book
A Charles Paris Mystery: A Doubtful Death Cover

A Charles Paris Mystery: A Doubtful Death

Author: Simon Brett, Jeremy Front

A Charles Paris Mystery: A Doubtful Death

Author Simon Brett, Jeremy Front

Narrator Bill Nighy, Full Cast

Duration 2h 10m

Bill Nighy returns as the loveably louche actor-cum-amateur detective Charles ParisCharles Paris is in Oxford, appearing in a re-imagining of Hamlet by a high-concept drama company. No fan of immersive theatre, he's unimpressed with the director's vision and less than thrilled to be rehearsing alongside puppeteers and mime artists.But he soon finds...

View Book
A Charles Paris Mystery Book 1: Cast In Order of Disappearance Cover

A Charles Paris Mystery Book 1: Cast In Order of Disappearance

Author: Simon Brett

A Charles Paris Mystery Book 1: Cast In Order of Disappearance

Author Simon Brett

Narrator Bill Nighy

SeriesCharles Paris Mysteries, Book 1

Duration 1h 52m

Bill Nighy stars as Charles Paris with Martine McCutcheon as Jodie Ricks in this BBC Radio 4 comedy detective drama. Charles finds himself uncharacteristically employed in a film, having landed the part of Szabec, a middle management vampire in The Wreathing. His co-star is swimwear model turned actress Jodie Ricks and before long, Jodie is using C...

View Book
Baldi, Series 2: Episode 1 Cover

Baldi, Series 2: Episode 1

Author: Simon Brett

Baldi, Series 2: Episode 1

Author Simon Brett

Narrator Various

SeriesFather Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 2, Book 1

Duration 42m

On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. Three In One sees Father Baldi and Mrs Reid taking a trip to the races, where the pair prove to have an unexpected link with a contract killing on t...

View Book