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Simon Brett's "Not Dead, Only Resting" has his actor amateur-sleuth, Charles Paris, without an acting job for the whole story and doing only his detecting work. When an actor is out of work, they say the actor is "resting." Charles has a part-time job as a house painter, and when he shows up for his first assignment, he and his work partner discover a murder victim, Yves Lafeu, who with his lover Tristram Gowers runs a restaurant named Tryst. Charles had previously met Yves and Tristram at the restaurant where the two had a row over a young man that Tristram believed Yves was having an affair with. Brett has assembled an interesting cast of characters (suspects) and hasn't neglected his comic impulses. Charles, with the backing of Tristram's cousin Kevin O'Rourke, puts his investigative talents to work to find Yve's murderer and solve the disappearance of Tristram. O'Rourke and his lover Bartlemas are theater groupies who show up for every West End opening. Charles and the pair go to the Yve and Kevin's French cottage in search of the missing man. The plot is ingenious, complex, and cleverly worked out. Of course there's a lot of acting lore involved in the plot so Paris fans will

Author

Simon Brett, Simon Brett

Publisher

Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780754074199

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Mystery, Fiction

Rating

3.66 / 5 (120 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14