MURDER IN THE TITLE a witty and addictive cozy murder mystery

About MURDER IN THE TITLE a witty and addictive cozy murder mystery

A professional actor – and amateur sleuth – hitting a low point in his acting career An unsuccessful mystery play A series of accidents backstage – one of them ending up deadly . . . This play has MURDER IN THE TITLE!

Middle-aged actor Charles Paris hits a new low point in his acting career with The Message is Murder – an unsuccessful provincial mystery play supported by pretentious theatre management, in which Charles is starring as a corpse.

The situation seems bleak, but when Charles very nearly becomes a real murder victim on stage, it gets even bleaker! The unusual accidents start to multiply, and Charles soon realises that someone is deliberately sabotaging the theatre company. Who is behind the malfunctions, with murderous intent – and can he find the culprit before they strike again?

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!