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Cast in Order of Disappearance
(1975)(The first book in the Charles Paris series)
A novel by Simon Brett
Who killed Marius Steen, the theatrical tycoon with a fortune to leave his young mistress Jacqui? And who killed Bill Sweet, the shady blackmailer with a supply of compromising photographs? Charles Paris, a middle-aged actor who keeps going on booze and women, takes to detection in Cast, In Order of Disappearance, by assuming a variety of roles, among them that of a Scotland Yard Detective-Sergeant, and the results are both comic and dramatic. As the mythical McWhirter of the Yard, he actually precipitates the crime; as one of the blackmailer's victims, he finds himself in bed with the blackmailer's wife; as a small-part player in a horror film (The Zombie Walks), he gets shot at by a murderer. And he arrives at the solution by way of the petrol crisis and an abortive attack of the German measles. It's a light-hearted frolic that is, at the same time, a beautifully ingenious puzzle, and it fizzes with fun and wit.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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Hardback Editions
August 1990 : UK Hardback
December 1975 : UK Hardback
August 1975 : UK Hardback
1975 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
January 2000 : USA Paperback
May 1990 : UK Paperback
May 1990 : USA Paperback
January 1986 : USA Mass Market Paperback
February 1981 : USA Mass Market Paperback
September 1982 : UK Paperback
April 1979 : USA Mass Market Paperback
Audio Editions
May 2011 : UK Audio CD
June 2011 : USA Audio edition

Title: Charles Paris: Cast in Order of Disappearance: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
Author(s): Simon Brett, Jeremy Front
Publisher: BBC Worldwide Ltd
Availability: Amazon
June 2011 : Australia Audio edition

Title: Charles Paris: Cast in Order of Disappearance: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
Author(s): Simon Brett, Jeremy Front
Publisher: BBC Worldwide Ltd
Availability: Amazon AU
June 2011 : Canada Audio edition

Title: Charles Paris: Cast in Order of Disappearance: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
Author(s): Simon Brett, Jeremy Front
Publisher: BBC Worldwide Ltd
Availability: Amazon CA
June 2011 : UK Audio edition

Title: Charles Paris: Cast in Order of Disappearance: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
Author(s): Simon Brett, Jeremy Front
Publisher: BBC Worldwide Ltd
Availability: Amazon UK
1997 : USA Audio Cassette

Title: Cast, in order of Disappearance (A Charles Paris mystery)
Author(s): Simon Brett
ISBN: 0-7887-0858-9 / 978-0-7887-0858-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: Recorded Books
Availability: Amazon
August 1990 : USA Audio Cassette

Title: Cast, in Order of Disappearance
Author(s): Simon Brett
ISBN: 1-55656-155-5 / 978-1-55656-155-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: Dercum Pr Audio
Availability: Amazon CA
May 1990 : UK Audio Cassette

Title: Complete & Unabridged (Cast, in Order of Disappearance)
Author(s): Simon Brett
ISBN: 0-7451-5803-X / 978-0-7451-5803-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: Chivers Audio Books
Availability: Amazon UK
January 1990 : USA Audio Cassette
Kindle Editions
November 2011 : USA, Australia, Canada, UK Kindle edition