Cast In Order Of Disappearance – Simon Brett

Above these was a cluster of meters, fuse-boxes and power-switches. Deep shelves on the opposite wall contained boxes of tinned food and crates of spirits. There was a spreading honeycomb of a wine-rack, full and expensive-looking. And on the floor Charles could see what had caused his fall. A pile of boxes lay scattered like a demolished chimney. He knelt down and re-piled them. They were heavy, as he knew from the numbing pain in his shin.

He looked at the writing on the boxes. ‘Salmon’, ‘Trout’, ‘Strawberries.’ ‘Do not refreeze.’ Marius Steen certainly knew how to live. When he had finished piling the boxes up, Charles looked once more round the room and his eyes lighted on the very thing he needed at that moment—a torch. It was a long, black, rubber-encased one, hanging from a hook by the back door.

He took it down, switched on, turned off the light and opened the door into the rest of the house. He was in the garage. It was large, but dominated by the huge form of a dark blue Rolls-Royce. Remembering a detail with sudden clarity, Charles knelt down and looked at the left-hand side of the front bumper. There was a little dent, which he’d lay any money corresponded to the dent in the back right-hand wing of Bill Sweet’s Ford Escort.

The door of the Rolls was not locked. Key in the ignition, nothing in the glove compartment and the petrol gauge read empty. Charles moved round the great car, looking for any other clues it might give. He felt his foot slip under him and sat down with a jarring shock, landing uncomfortably on a spanner and a piece of plastic tubing.

Fate seemed determined to translate his dramatic mission into slapstick. He found the door which led to the body of the house. Along a corridor and into the large hall. All the walls were hung with hunting prints which were anonymously expensive, bought on advice by a man without natural taste. Two enormous china Dalmatians stood guarding the front door. They seemed to reflect more of their owner’s personality.

X Second Act Beginners XI Enter the Funny Policeman XII The Ugly Sisters XIII Who Does the Slipper Fit? XIV Slapstick Scene XV Poor Old Baron! XVI Back at the Fireside XVII The Broker’s Men XVIII King Rat XIX Finale and Curtain-Call 1kitap1.com/en The Charles Paris Mystery Series CAST, IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE SO MUCH BLOOD STAR TRAP AN AMATEUR CORPSE A COMEDIAN DIES THE DEAD SIDE OF THE MIKE SITUATION TRAGEDY MURDER UNPROMPTED MURDER IN THE TITLE NOT DEAD, ONLY RESTING DEAD GIVEAWAY WHAT BLOODY MAN IS THAT?

A SERIES OF MURDERS CORPORATE BODIES A RECONSTRUCTED CORPSE SICKEN AND SO DIE DEAD ROOM FARCE 1kitap1.com/en CAST, IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE A Charles Paris Mystery Simon Brett 1kitap1.com/en This eBook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law.

Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly. This title first published in Great Britain in 1975 by Victor Gollancz eBook edition first published in 2011 by Severn Select an imprint of Severn House Publishers Limited Copyright © 1975 Simon Brett. All rights reserved. The moral right of the author has been asserted.

A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. ISBN-13: 978-1-4483-0000-6 (epub) Except where actual historical events and characters are being described for the storyline of this novel, all situations in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to living persons is purely coincidental. This eBook produced by Palimpsest Book Production Limited, Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland. 1kitap1.com/en To Lucy 1kitap1.com/en I Cinderella Alone ‘CHARLES, CHARLES LOVE, it’s your cue. Charles Paris jerked out of his doze. He looked down for the script on his knees, but The Times crossword with two completed clues stared blankly up at him.

He dropped the paper, opened his script, and looked hopefully at the little actress next to him for the page number. ‘Page 27, Line 4,’ the producer snapped with all the exasperation of a large mortgage in Pinner and another nineteen years till his BBC pension. ‘Sorry . . .’

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