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Death in the Dressing Room

Fethering Village Mysteries, Book 22

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Death in the Dressing Room

By: Simon Brett
Narrated by: Simon Brett
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Carole Seddon doesn’t care for the theatre. But her neighbour Jude counts the job of actress among her many and varied past careers. So when Jude attends the closing night of a new play based on a classic TV sitcom, Carole is interested – but only because she suspects the leading man, Drake Purslow, is one of her scandalous friend’s ex-lovers.

The night turns out to be more dramatic than either Carole or Jude could have ever predicted. After the performance, Jude makes her way to Drake’s dressing room, only to find him dead – in what, to Jude’s experienced sleuthing eye, seem very suspicious circumstances.

Did one of the play’s cast – made up almost entirely of the original sitcom’s actors – have a long-held grudge against the show’s star? Or are more recent hatreds to blame? Jude is determined to find out – and Carole is right there to investigate alongside her.

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I have listened to all the Fethering mysteries in order and enjoyed them as a bit of light fiction to keep me awake an a long car journey, or as bed-time listening and I love Simon Brett's reading of the books and his huge range of ideas for murders - but this seemed one too far. Lots of irrelevant digressions - did we really need so much detail about a shamanic ritual? The characters also seem to have become a bit stale. Poor Carole seems to have become static in her characterisation and a bit of a joke, I thought at one point she was developing as a character but then we were back to poor old predictable, stuffy Carole. I'm sure too, that given the time span of the stories, Gulliver should by now have gone to the great dog kennel in the sky and not be romping around on Fethering beach as though he was a youngster.

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A wonderful series and this episode is one of the best with a sendup of theatre people.

Enjoyable Fethering mystery

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I have the entire Brett Marty cannon on audio. Prior to Audible I had tapes and Cd's. Whilst it is by no means a bad book but none of the characters stood out and the story, well, I found a bit lame. Strikes me as a contractual obligation book to me.

Okay But Not His Best

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So nice to hear an author read their own work. Simon Brett is the ultimate crime writer. Always a treat

Brilliant characterisations.

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Was pleased to have a new Feathering story to read as I love hearing about Jude and Carol's crime solving but I did get fretful for Gulliver as Carol seemed to forget she had him. This story lacked the depth and warmth of the previous stories, there was something fundamentally lacking in this tale and I missed that it wasn't set in Feathering and hardly mentioned Ted and his pub. I got the feeling, that although just published as the latest Feathering story, the author wrote it some years ago and then dismissed it as not being up to scratch at the time. It’s an OK listen but by no stretch one of the best. At least it was read well, as always by the author himself, Simon Brett. Now hoping there's a new Mrs Pargeter in the offing.....

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