AN AMATEUR CORPSE a witty and addictive cozy murder mystery

About AN AMATEUR CORPSE a witty and addictive cozy murder mystery

A middle-aged actor – and sometimes sleuth – who desperately needs a drink A closing night celebration of an amdram production of Chekhov An old friend, who’s clearly ill at ease And waiting behind the scenes . . . AN AMATEUR CORPSE

Jobbing actor Charles Paris is first to arrive at the Breckton Backstagers’ cast party. After suffering through their production of Chekhov’s The Seagull, he badly needs a drink.

Charles wishes he hadn’t agreed to lead a critical discussion of the play in a few days’ time. But cast member, advertising executive – and old friend – Hugo Mecken has put a lot of lucrative voiceover work his way of late, and it would be churlish to back out now. He only hopes he doesn’t feel compelled to repeat his mistake with their upcoming run of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.

After rather too much cheap red wine, Charles returns home with Hugo in the small hours, and is disturbed to hear him confess he feels like he’s losing control and is on the verge of committing a terrible crime.

Charles doesn’t give the matter too much thought. Not until he stumbles over the very dead body of Hugo’s wife, hidden in the coal shed, his old friend prime suspect for the murder . . .

Fans of Agatha Christie, The Thursday Murder Club, Anthony Horowitz, Alexander McCall Smith, M.C. Beaton and Faith Martin will love this hilarious cozy traditional mystery series featuring one of the funniest antiheroes in crime fiction. Written over a fifty-year-period, it perfectly captures life and contemporary attitudes in 1970s London – and beyond!