Charles Paris

Charles Paris is a series of novels written by Simon Brett, featuring Charles Paris, an unhappily separated (but not divorced, more than 30 years on), moderately successful character actor with a slight drinking problem who gets entangled in various crimes, and finds himself unwillingly in the role of amateur detective. • Cast, In Order of Disappearance (1975) • So Much Blood (1976) • Star Trap (1977) • An Amateur Corpse (1978) • A Comedian Dies (1979) • The Dead Side of the Mic (1980) • Situation Tragedy (1981) • Murder Unprompted (1982) • Murder in the Title (1983) • Not Dead, Only Resting (1984) • Dead Giveaway (1985) • What Bloody Man Is That? (1987) • A Series of Murders (1989) • Corporate Bodies (1991) • A Reconstructed Corpse (1993) • Sicken and So Die (1995) • Dead Room Farce (1998) • A Decent Interval (2013) • The Cinderella Killer (2014) • A Deadly Habit (2018)