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Being an addict of the Charles Paris books I'm rather biased but the story flows well, the characters are believeable and the denoument as always is a surprise. Simon Brett has written some good sit coms for the radio and is able to paint a vivid word picture of people and surorundings. Charles Paris is a loveable charater butone despairs of hime at times!
Format:Paperback
Hamlet's words define the principal focus of this richly entertaining 1997 Simon Brett crime novel. The Shakespeare play being prepared for performance is "The Twelfth Night". Brett's desultory but reader-friendly actor Charles Paris has secured the part of Sir Toby Belch. If Brett loses a reader or two here it will be because his fascination with the play, how to interpret it, and how to prepare it for performance edge out this genre's "requirement" for a murder in the opening chapter.
Brett's literate and lilting prose will always win him a place in my favourite living authors, whatever his subject.
Brett's literate and lilting prose will always win him a place in my favourite living authors, whatever his subject.
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Format:Hardcover
I'm surprised by the glowing reviews from the professional reviewers. I found this a very minor whodunnit indeed. No crime occurs till half-way through and even then Charles Paris doesn't quite solve it himself. Much of the book is taken up with an analysis of "Twelfth Night." Paris's failed marriage and stalled career are dwelt on at length but go nowhere. The writing is professional and witty, and the characters are well-drawn, but there's practically no mystery here at all.
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