Mrs. Pargeter's Pound of Flesh (Macmillan crime case) - Hardcover
Mrs Pargeter is a mature widow at peace with herself and her buxom proportions. But when a friend suggests a few days at a health farm, she is happy to go along for the ride - though probably not for the slimming. She has not been there for long before she uncovers evidence of a suspicious death.
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Simon Brett worked as a producer in radio and television before taking up writing full time. As well as the much-loved Fethering series, the Mrs Pargeter novels and the Charles Paris detective series, he has written a number of radio and television scripts. Married with three children, he lives in an Agatha Christie-style village on the South Downs.
You can find out more about Simon at his website: www.simonbrett.com
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- PublisherMacmillan
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0333584678
- ISBN 13 9780333584675
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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Mrs Pargeter's Pound of Flesh. A Novel. Deutscher Titel: Nicht übersetzt.
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Book Description Condition: Wie neu. First Imprint. Erstausgabe. 207 Seiten. Jacket photo by Paul Grant. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good Condition. Sehr guter Zustand. Frisches Exemplar. Wie ungelesen. Aus der Bibliothek der Gräfin Ledebur. Mrs Pargeter is a mature widow at peace with herself and her buxom proportions. But when a friend suggests a few days at a health farm, she is happy to go along for the ride - though probably not for the slimming. She has not been there for long before she uncovers evidence of a suspicious death. - Simon Brett (born 28 October 1945 in Worcester Park, Surrey, England) is a prolific writer of whodunnits. The son of a Chartered Surveyor, Brett was educated at Dulwich College and Wadham College, Oxford, where he got a first class honours degree in English. He then joined the BBC as a trainee and worked for BBC Radio and London Weekend Television before devoting most of his time to writing from the late 1970s. He is married with three children and lives in Arundel, West Sussex, England. He is the current president of the Detection Club. Radio and television career. While with the BBC, Brett produced the first ever episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as well as many episodes of cult comedy series The Burkiss Way, comedy series I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and comedy panel game Just a Minute. In the mid-1990s, Brett wrote and hosted Foul Play, a radio panel game in which well-known writers of detective fiction were challenged to solve a dramatised mystery. Moving into television, Brett was responsible for producing End of Part One and the television revival of The Glums for LWT. More recently, he has become an accomplished sitcom writer, most notably with BBC Radio 4's After Henry and No Commitments and Smelling of Roses. After Henry was later produced on television for ITV. He has written a number of episodes of the BBC radio detective drama Baldi (2000) Mystery writing career: Brett has written three series of detective novels. Most of these novels are in the "Golden Age" tradition of detective fiction, entertaining the reader through humour, eccentric characters, and intricate plot twists. He has also written several mystery plays and some non-series novels, of which A Shock to the System (1984) is probably best known due to the filmed version starring Michael Caine as the business executive who takes revenge after being passed over for promotion. . Mrs Pargeter is a widow with a shadowy past who, with a little help from her dead husband's friends, is able to solve uncanny mysteries. wikipedia--wiki-Simon_Brett Aus: wikipedia- Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 370 Grünes Leinen mit goldgeprägten Rückentiteln und Schutzumschlag. Seller Inventory # 44287
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