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Exit Stage Left [Kindle Edition]

Adam Croft
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)

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Product Description

Charlie Sparks had it all. A former primetime television personality, his outdated style has seen him relegated to the scrapheap.

When he collapses and dies during a stand-up routine at a local pub, mysterious bystander Kempston Hardwick is compelled to investigate his suspicious death.

As Hardwick begins to unravel the mystery, he quickly comes to realise that Charlie Sparks's death throws up more peculiar questions than answers.

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Exit Stage Left has recently been adapted as a radio play, starring Robert Daws (The Royal, Jeeves & Wooster, Outside Edge), Emily Atack (The Inbetweeners) and Ted Robbins (Phoenix Nights, Little Britain).

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Exit Stage Left is a novella, the first in the Kempston Hardwick Mysteries series

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"Adam Croft is one of the best new writers in Britain." - Stephen Leather

About the Author

Adam Croft is the three-times best-selling author of the Knight & Culverhouse crime thrillers and the Kempston Hardwick mysteries.

Product details

  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 171 KB
  • Print Length: 78 pages
  • Publisher: Circlehouse; 1 edition (12 Dec 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B006LN8FYS
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #45,477 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Sherlockian crime 9 Feb 2012
By Cheryl M-M TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
It is very Sherlockian and Watsonian. The know it all detective and his sidekick Flint, who Hardwick just literally picks up along the way. The main character has this natural air of superiority about him that helps him gain access to private information, buildings and elusive people. It seems rather odd that two grown men can just up and go gallavanting around the countryside to solve the mystery in this day and age, but personally I thought that was the charm of the story. Who doesn't want to play Sherlock? Ok, maybe you don't, but I sure can see myself doing it. I enjoyed the quick read, the writing, the occasional witty remark and will be looking out for more by this writer.
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Cracking Short Read 20 May 2012
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This is the first time I've read one of Adam Crofts books and I found it highly entertaining.

It was a very easy and enjoyable read, and the suspense grabbed your attention from the very beginning, willing you to read on.

I loved the two main characters, Kempston Hardwick and Ellis Flint, liked the relationship between them, very Sherlock and Watson. Hopefully get to read more of them

Would definitely recommend this book, and looking forward to downloading the audio version :)
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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Cleverly done 17 Dec 2011
By Midnight TOP 100 REVIEWER
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I have read and enjoyed Adam Croft's Knight & Culverhouse books - Too Close For Comfort (Knight & Culverhouse) and Guilty as Sin so was intrigued when I noticed Exit Stage Left with a different protagonist in the form of Kempston Hardwick.

We are initially introduced to Kempston in a pub, the Freemason's Arms, where he strikes up a conversation with Ellis Flint. Charlie Sparks, a has been celebrity who at the height of his fame performed at Royal Variety performances, is scheduled to do a live show at the pub that evening.

Kempston is an amateur detective and an alliance is quickly formed with Flint as a sidekick as they become involved in investigating the sudden death of Sparks at the start of his performance.

This novella can comfortably be read in a couple of hours and I read it in an afternoon.

Adam Croft has an excellent writing style, which is becoming more and more refined with each publication - not that it was deficient, it's more his skills are being enhanced with every story!

It is certainly an easy read and it wasn't until I'd almost reached the end - 93 per cent through the story to be exact! - that I had a light bulb moment and worked out exactly how the murder had been committed.

A very clever piece of writing!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Not a great Holmes update
Came to this author via a Facebook recommendation , so risked buying 3 of his novellas. Was impressed to find that his first book made the Best Seller list.... Read more
Published 12 days ago by merlin57
Good read
I have read one of Adam Croft's books before and was not disappointed again. A good story particularly as it was free. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Gwyn
Adverb heaven
If you like cliches and adverbs this is the book for you. Although short (78 pages in the print version) I wasn't prepared to waste any more time after reading the first third. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Vee3469
Contrived
Clumsy and contrived. Unconvincing characters who were given idiosyncratic traits which were meant to be endearing or engaging - they were not. Read more
Published 2 months ago by alj
Short but quite interesting
This was a very short book, but was well paced and didn't feel rushed. The main characters have the capacity to be interesting, but the length of the book meant we didn't get to... Read more
Published 2 months ago by J. Burt
A great read whilst shooting some b-ball
Almost dropped one star because he accidentally the entire plot.

Great news that it is to be adapted for radio, I have never seen a radio that I can read from though so... Read more
Published 3 months ago by S. Edwards
Weeeelllll .....
This one sounded intriguing but ...

It is an outright "copy" of Holmes and Watson, although the characters in this story are fairly two dimensional. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Jill in East Kent
Terrible
I purchased this novella wanting a good detective story after some rather heavy reading, and I was very disappointed with it. Read more
Published 3 months ago by M. Ash
What am I missing?
I'm clearly out on a limb here; the majority of reviews suggest this is a really good read. Mine was a freebie but I'd be well teed off if I'd paid. Frankly, it's awful. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Bookie
A British version of Poirot, perhaps?
Started well enough and the 2 main characters were certainly a touch quaint but not convinced how they managed to weedle their way so easily into the crime while the police... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Markarmada
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