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8 reviews
Simon Brett

Berkley, 2001

A body on the beach you'll be glad you stumbled over.
Simon Brett is one of the most skilled and satisfying practitioners in the detective fiction field. All I ask of such writers he provides: interesting amateur sleuths, shrewd characterisation, fluent but stylish prose, some gentle thrills at the end, and an opportunity to "escape" to somewhere I am happy to be for six or seven hours. In this novel, he introduces a pair of new sleuths: ...

The Faber Book of Parodies

1 review
Simon Brett

Faber & Faber, 1984

Hours of enjoyment
This is one of my favourite books and I often dip into it. I really enjoy reading parodies, even if I haven't read the writer being parodied. As Simon Brett says, often you recognise 'exactly the kind of thing' that the author means. Some great humorists are represented here: J.B.Morton, C.S.Calverley and J.K.Stephen among many others. More modern examples come from the regular ...

Wood Engraving

1 review
Simon Brett

Primrose Hill Press Ltd, 2000

Excellent How To wood engraving book; methinks best in print
This book is easily followed as a simple how-to-do-it manual. The beginner will find all processes clearly explained, together with their material requirements, up-to-date variations and all the author has found most helpful in thirty years as a practitioner. However, anyone interested in any aspect of this subject will find the book much more than just an instruction manual. It expands and ...

MRS PARGETER'S PLOT

2 reviews
SIMON BRETT

Macmillan co., 1996

Positively delightful
Widow Mrs. Melita Pargeter decides to have a country home built for her from the inheritance she received upon the death of her beloved, but definitely crooked spouse. She hires a crony of her late husband, Concrete Jacket, to build her house. Of course, being an associate of Mr. P, Concrete is a felonious individual, who respects just about no one. However, this is Mr. P's widow, so he treats ...

How to Be a Little Sod

1 review
Simon Brett

Orion mass market paperback, 1999

v v v funny, i only wish it was longer...
This is undoubtedly an extremely funny book. I'm not a parent and therefore have no idea how true to the way babies behave it is but I'm willing to bet that it's pretty accurate! Written through the eyes of a newborn baby it describes the daily battles it and it's parents face, while keeping score. With the little sod's tactics of sick, sh**, screams and emotional blackmail against it's ...

The Stabbing in the Stables

10 reviews
Simon Brett

Wheeler Publishing, 2006

never disappoints
"The Stabbing in the Stables," the latest of Simon Brett's forays into the lives of Jude and Carole in the fictional Sussex town of Fethering, is as fresh and clever as the first in the series. As others have mentioned, usually series begin to become tired (witness the once-great Agatha Raisin series) or parodies of themselves (e.g., the "Cat Who" mysteries). But Simon Brett seems immune to any ...

The Torso in the Town (Fethering Mysteries) (Fethering Mysteries)

7 reviews
Simon Brett

Berkley Hardcover, 2002

Great "cosy"
As an example of a small-scale British mystery, a "cosy," this and the others in this new series are first rate. I thoroughly enjoyed them all and recommend all of them.

The Detection Club Anthology

1 review

Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2005

strong anthology
What better way to show reverence to Britain's Detection Club than with a strong anthology for its seventy-fifth birthday though based on Simon Brett's Introduction the founding date is ironically a mystery as 1929, 1930 or 1932 are bandied about. One thing mystery fans will agree upon is that the club has always contained a who's who. The founders included Christie, Chesterton, and Sayers, ...

The Secret Clocks: Time Senses of Living Things

1 review
Seymour Simon

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Division, 1979

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Author: Simon, Seymour. Title: The secret clocks : time senses of living things / Seymour Simon ; illustrated by Jan Brett. Edition: 1st ed. Publisher: New York : Viking Press, 1979. Edition Date: 1979 Language: English Notes: Includes index. Summary: Explains the occurrence of biological clocks, which, for example, tell birds when and where to migrate, plants when to unfurl their ...

the Booker Book

2 reviews
Simon Brett

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1989

Marvelously funny, beautifully written.....Enjoy!
"God, it's hell being a writer....." With tongue firmly embedded in cheek, Simon Brett tells the tale of one writer's foolproof plan to win the Booker Prize. This delightful story takes the form of a biography on Geraldine Buyers; unknown author of one faintly acclaimed novel. In her quest for recognition, Geraldine sets forth to win the Booker Prize. Her logic is sound and her plan destined ...

The Dead Side of the Mike: A Charles Paris Mystery (Unabridged)

35 reviews
Simon Brett

audible.com

An Amazing Masterpiece of Jewish and American Literature
Three days of the life of a seventy-odd-year-old Polish Jew in New York. He is going to witness everyday life in New York, recollect his life in England where he was a university professor up to 1939, remember his moving back to Poland in 1939 to solve some family inheritance, his being caught by the Germans with his wife and a great number of other Jews (one year after the Crystal Night, which ...

The Hanging in the Hotel (Fethering Mysteries)

4 reviews

ISIS Audio Books, 2004

This series gets better and better!
This is the fifth book of the Fethering mysteries. The main character is a holistic healer, Jude, assisted by her next-door neighbor Carole Seddon (who used to work at the Home Office). Jude is helping out at the upscale Hopwicke Country House Hotel (as she has done before) for a meeting of a men's group called the "Pillars of Sussex" whose members are aptly described by the editorial review ...

A Shock to the System

3 reviews
Simon Brett

Black Dagger Crime, 2003

Middle Class Murder
This inverted thriller calls to mind previous British mysteries where the protagonist is a professional man first drawn to murder as a solution for mounting economic and relational problems, only to become more and more embroiled in the unforseen consequences. I am thinking of Middle Class Murder (US title Dead Reckoning) by Bruce Hamilton, the brilliant and satirical Payment Deferred by C.S. ...

Situation Tragedy

2 reviews
Simon Brett

Warner Books, 1990

Oh what rapier wit!
This is an excellent book, and the satire is really wicked! Simon Brett writes with intelligence, and when it comes to the denouement, his books never cease to surprise. The look that he gives us up close and personal of backstage in a television sitcom is truly enlightening. Brett knows whereof he speaks when he deals with the intricacies of television sitcom filming. In this book a series ...

DEAD GIVEAWAY

2 reviews
Simon Brett

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985

Vastly entertaining!
I discovered Charles Paris mysteries quite by accident, looking for a book on tape to occupy the time on a long drive. Brett's sparse writing style and expansive wit makes this book a wonderful read that I have come back to time and time again.

The Hanging in the Hotel (Fethering Mysteries)

6 reviews
Simon Brett

Berkley Hardcover, 2004

Escapist reading with ironic realism
This book by the masterful crime writer Simon Brett is not a bit "delightful." The two amateur sleuths are oddly matched quirky middle-aged women. Jude - last name unknown - has a Past. She's a bohemian with an untidy house and a mane of cleverly colored blonde hair. Her uptight neighbor Carole Sedden is a retired bureaucrat with a frigid emotional temperature. Carole's sense of propriety ...

The Halo Graphic Novel

61 reviews
Lee Hammock, Jay Faerber, ...

Marvel Comics, 2006

A Fantastic Gift for Any Halo Fan
I bought this item for my brother's 19th birthday. He loves all 3 HALO games and this was a perfect addition to his collection. I myself was surprised to find that it is a really high-quality book. The artwork is inventive and stunning, while the stories offer additional viewpoints in the HALO narrative. This is an excellent gift for any HALO or graphic arts fan.

MRS. PARGETER'S POUND OF FLESH

3 reviews
Simon Brett

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992

A frothy delight
This book is, in a word, delightful. Mrs. Pargeter, she of the comfortably ample physique, checks into a posh "fat farm" with her friend Kim, who wants to shed a few pounds before her husband is released from an obligatory, er, engagement. I was perfectly willing to suspend all logical objections to the rather thin plot, as Mrs. Pargeter and her late husband's cronies enchanted me. I'm not ...

A Series of Murders

2 reviews
Simon Brett

Time Warner Paperbacks, 1990

fine Brett effort
Simon Brett now returns to the extraordinary character who made him famous: Charles Paris, the usually out-of-work actor who on occasion imbibes a little too much and who detects even better than he acts. A Series of Murders finds Charles gainfully employed in what he hopes will be the long-running Stanislas Braid television series based on some rather dated 1930s novels. Charles is booked ...

Death Under The Dryer

4 reviews
Simon Brett

Ulverscroft Large Print, 2007

Great narration
In Fethering, England Carole Seddon decides she needs a bit cut off from her hair so she enters Connie's Clip Joint in spite of her trepidations about allowing a local to come near her ears with a scissor. However, she takes a chance because Carole just wants a bit of a snip not a change in her style. To her regret, she finds the corpse of clip joint employee Kyra strangled by a garrote in the ...

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