Mystery Books
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Sleep and His BrotherMcNair House is a charitable institution, set up to care for ?cathypnic? children. With their incredibly low metabolism, cathypnic
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The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder Mysteries)The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer—a minister's son—hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is clo
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The First EagleFor acting Lieutenant Jim Chee, the murder of a Navajo Tribal Police officer seems like an open-and-shut case when he discovers
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The Hanging in the Hotel (Fethering Mysteries)A young solicitor is found hanged from his four-poster bed in a country house hotel following a dinner held there for an all-male
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The Cat Who Went BananasThe merry atmosphere in Pickax is dampened by the death of an out-of-town actor and the theft of a rare book. Qwill finds
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To Die For (Blair Mallory)Blair Mallory lives the good life. She’s pretty, confident, and the owner of a thriving up-scale fitness center. But in the shad
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Mystery Movies
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Devil's AdvocateOne part "The Firm" and one part "Rosemary's Baby," this supernatural suspenser features a rousing turn by Al Pacino as the charis
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Mel Gibson's ApocalyptoFrom Mel Gibson, director of THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST and the Academy Award®-winning BRAVEHEART (Best Director, Best Picture, 19
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Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)"'Fight Club' pulls you in, challenges your prejudices, rocks your world and leaves you laughing" (Rolling Stone). Brad Pitt ("12
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The Next Three DaysLife seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into
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Shutter IslandAcademy Award® winning director Martin Scorses once again teams up with Leonardo DiCaprio in this spine-chilling thriller that cr
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Mystery Authors
Simon Brett biography
Simon Brett
(1945 - )
Simon Brett was born in Surrey, England, and educated at Dulwich College before studying a BA in English at Wadham College, Oxford. Between 1967 and 1977, he was a producer with BBC Radio’s Light Entertainment and writing in his spare time. His first crime novel, Cast, In Order of Disappearance featuring borderline alcoholic, down-at-heel actor Charles Paris, was published in 1975.He worked for Thames
Television for two years before deciding to take up writing full time. He has written and edited both fiction and non-fiction, short stories, and children’s books. He also created the popular radio and TV series After Henry. Simon Brett has written a number of stand-alone crime novels, and two successful humorous series - the aforementioned Charles Paris, and one featuring Melita Pargeter, a crook’s widow. He now lives in Arundel with his wife and three children.
Brett has written three series of detective novels. Most of these novels are in the "Golden Age" tradition of detective fiction, entertaining the reader through humor, eccentric characters, and intricate plot twists. He has also written several mystery plays and some non-series novels, of which A Shock to the System (1984) is probably best known due to the filmed version starring Michael Caine as the business executive who takes revenge after being passed over for promotion.
Information source: wikipedia