Simon Brett

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Simon Brett

The Torso in the Town

Death on the Downs

The Body on the Beach

by Simon Brett

About the Author (Photo by Jerry Bauer)

Bibliography

Audio Tape ISIS (2001)

The Torso in the Town
Amateur sleuths Jude and Carole take on their third case when a terrible discovery is made in the cellar of a grand old house.
Grant and Kim Roxby had hoped that their first dinner party at Pelling House would make a favourable impression on their new neighbours. And the next day it’s certainly the talk of Fedborough. Their guests -which included the couple’s old friend Jude - had been enjoying a pleasant meal before they were rudely interrupted by a gruesome discovery: a human torso hidden in the cellar.
Jude races home to Fethering and her friend Carole with the news. And soon the pair are back in Fedborough, questioning the locals. But why is a town so notoriously distrustful of outsiders so amenable to their enquiries?
Simon Brett was born in 1945 and educated at Dulwich and Wadham College, Oxford, where he got a first class degree in English.
Apart from a Christmas job as Father Christmas in a department store, he worked for ten years for BBC Radio as a Light Entertainment producer, and then for two years for London Weekend Television, also as a Light Entertainment producer. Since 1979 he has been a full-time writer. He is the author of many highly acclaimed crime novels, has edited several anthologies, written children's and humorous books as well as writing prolifically for radio and television.
Simon Brett is married, with three children, and lives in Sussex. His work has been translated into fourteen languages.
Unabridged: 7 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs 30 mins

Audio Tape - ISIS (2001)

Death on the Downs
A Feathering Mystery
The second novel in Simon Brett’s sparkling new series of crime whodunnits, starring the redoubtable Carole Seddon and her worldly-wise accomplice, Jude
It wasn’t the rain that upset Carole Seddon during her walk on the West Sussex Downs. No, it was her discovery of a human skeleton . . .
So begins the second investigation for Carole and her unconventional neighbour Jude. The focus for their enquiries this time is the small downland hamlet of Weldisham, where the locals rather too readily identify the corpse . . .
Simon Brett was born in 1945 and educated at Dulwich and Wadham College, Oxford, where he got a first class degree in English.
Apart from a Christmas job as Father Christmas in a department store, he worked for ten years for BBC Radio as a Light Entertainment producer, and then for two years for London Weekend Television, also as a Light Entertainment producer. Since 1979 he has been a full-time writer. He is the author of many highly acclaimed crime novels, has edited several anthologies, written children's and humorous books as well as writing prolifically for radio and television.
Simon Brett is married, with three children, and lives in Sussex. His work has been translated into fourteen languages.
Unabridged: 6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs 25 mins

Audio Tape ISIS (2000)

The Body on the Beach
A sparkling new series of crime whodunnits, starring the redoubtable Carole Seddon and her worldly wise accomplice, Jude.
Very little disturbs the ordered calm of Fethering, a self-contained retirement settlement on England's southern coast. So the last thing Carole expects to encounter in Fethering is a new neighbour with an obviously colourful past. ‘Jude’ is not really Fethering ... but neither is the body Carole finds on the beach.
A body that disappears by the time the police arrive.
Only Jude is ready to believe what her neighbour says she saw - and from that moment on the two women resolve to turn detectives.
Simon Brett was born in 1945 and educated at Dulwich and Wadham College, Oxford, where he got a first class degree in English.
Apart from a Christmas job as Father Christmas in a department store, he worked for ten years for BBC Radio as a Light Entertainment producer, and then for two years for London Weekend Television, also as a Light Entertainment producer. Since 1979 he has been a full-time writer. He is the author of many highly acclaimed crime novels, has edited several anthologies, written children's and humorous books as well as writing prolifically for radio and television.
Simon Brett is married, with three children, and lives in Sussex. His work has been translated into fourteen languages.
Unabridged: 6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs 25 mins

About The Author
Simon Brett worked as a light entertainment producer in radio and TV before taking up writing full time in 1979. As well as the Charles Paris and Mrs Pargeter detective series, he is also the author of the radio and television series After Henry, the radio series No Commitments and the best-selling How to be a Little Sod . His novel A Shock to the System was filmed starring Michael Caine. Married with three children, he lives in an Agatha Christie-style village on the South Downs. Two television companies are currently considering the novels for adaptation.

Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

The Torso in the Town (ISIS, 2001) (Carole Seddon)

Death on the Downs (ISIS, 2001) (Carole Seddon)

The Body on the Beach (ISIS, 2000) (Carole Seddon)