A BBC Radio comedy detective drama by Simon Brett, starring Bill Nighy as actor-cum-amateur sleuth, Charles Paris. Charles has uncharacteristically landed a part in a film called The Wreathing, in which he's playing a middle managemen...

Charles Paris, middle-aged actor turned amateur sleuth, is vacationing at a small English seaside town. Irresistibly drawn to anything theatrical, Charles seeks entertainment at the local music hall and endures a series of not-so-wond...

This is a BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Simon Brett's comic crime novel, starring Bill Nighy as actor turned amateur sleuth Charles Paris. Charles Paris is his own worst enemy, a louche lush who can resist anything except temptation - esp...

Charles Paris is an unhappily separated, moderately successful actor with a slight drinking problem. As he becomes entangled in various crimes, he finds himself in the role of unwilling amateur detective. In The Dead Side of the Mic, ...

When Jude and Carole stumble across the body of ex-equestrian Walter Fleet, the police attribute the stabbing to the mysterious ''Horse Ripper.'' But considering Walter's track record out of the saddle, there are plenty of murder susp...

This BBC radio drama stars Bill Nighy and features a full cast. Charles Paris's acting career plummets to new depths when he takes the part of a murder victim in a true-crime TV series. But Charles is drawn into an investigation when ...

Two full-cast BBC Radio dramatisations starring David Threlfall as the crime-solving priest. On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected t...

Rehearsals in a new West End play are disrupted by sudden, violent death in the intriguing new Charles Paris mystery Having landed a small part in a new West End play, The Habit of Faith, Charles Paris is dismayed to discover that his...

Bill Nighy returns as Charles Paris in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization of a novel by Simon Brett, adapted by Jeremy Front. While appearing in a Christmas production of Cinderella, Charles finds a body beneath Eastbourne Pier,...

The wickedly entertaining new Fethering mystery featuring chalk-and-cheese detective duo Carole and JudePolly’s Cake Shop has been a feature of the shopping parade for many years, but when its owner announces her retirement, the Fet...

Ellen Curtis runs her own business helping people who are running out of space. As a declutterer, she is used to encountering all sorts of weird and wonderful objects in the course of her work. What she has never before encountered is...

At her husband’s funeral, Heather Mallet is publicly accused of murder. But did Heather really kill her husband, as many Fethering residents now believe?\r\n \n\nTo get to the heart of the matter, Carole’s neighbor Jude jo...

When the body of a prospective client is discovered in her burned-out home, declutterer Ellen Curtis is drawn into a baffling investigation where nothing is as it first appears. "My mother's going to kill herself . . . That is, i...

Fethering's favorite sleuths are at it again as Jude and Carole Seddon find themselves in the midst of some horseplay, after stumbling upon the body of ex-equestrian Walter Fleet at Long Bamber Stables. The police attribute the stabb...

By popular demand: a welcome return for Simon Brett's actor detective Charles Paris, last seen in 1997's Dead Room Farce. After a long period of 'resting', life is looking up for Charles Paris, who has been cast as the Ghost of Hamlet...

After a long period of 'resting', life is looking up for Charles Paris, who has been cast as the Ghost of Hamlet's Father and First Gravedigger in a new production of Hamlet. But rehearsals are fraught. Ophelia is played by Katrina Se...

Blotto and Twinks travel to America! Specifically, they travel to Chicago (and this would be during the Prohibition years) in the hopes of marrying Blotto off to an American heiress and thus saving Tawcester Towers from financial ruin...

Hurrah for the return of that intrepid duo: Blotto (handsome, honorable, not the sharpest knife in the drawer), and his sister Twinks (just a bit brainier than a girl should be)! As this is the 1920s, they are of course attending a we...

It's that glorious period between the two world wars, and the exiled king of Mitteleuropa is visiting the ancestral home of the Duke of Tawcester. When the ex-king's daughter is kidnapped, noblesse obliges the Duke's handsome, brave, ...

Once again, the plumbing at Tawcester Towers is causing consternation for the Dowager Duchess, so - unusually for her - she gives her blessing for Blotto to take part in the \'Great Road Race\' in his beloved Lagonda ... so long as he...

A quick trip to the capital goes horribly wrong when Blotto and Twinks get accidentally involved in London's criminal underworld...It starts innocently enough at the intimate review 'absolutely everyone is talking about', Light and Fr...

'A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans' P. D. James 'Murder most enjoyable' Colin Dexter Anyone for cricket - and a spot of burglary? An idle conversation on the merits of the glorious game with an old Etonian chum i...

Someone has stolen valuable paintings from Tawcester Towers, ancestral home of Blotto and his sister, Twinks. Twinks tracks the thieves to France and she and Blotto go zipping off to Paris—where they have rather a jolly time with th...

Another hair-raising adventure featuring the aristocratic brother and sister sleuthing duo!The end of the cricket season spells gloom for Blotto, until he is invited to bat against the Hollywood cricket team out in sunny LA, where rai...

'A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans' P. D. James 'Murder most enjoyable' Colin Dexter 'What? You mean the earl does it for money? That's way beyond the barbed wire!' This explosion of disgust fr...

Carole Seddon\'s trusty Renault is one of her most treasured possessions. So when it’s vandalised, there\'s only one person she will entrust with its repair: Bill Shefford, who’s been servicing the vehicles of the good...

When Carole Seddon\'s car is vandalised, it heralds the start of a disturbing series of events.

When Carole Seddon's car is vandalised, it heralds the start of a disturbing series of events in the witty and entertaining new Fethering mystery. Carole Seddon's trusty Renault is one of her most treasured possessions. So wh...

divBA new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans/B - Invited to a Private View of the work of controversial artist Denzil Willoughby, the good citizens of Fethering are not quite sure what to expect. And it turns out to be a lively ...

A cozy featuring the return of Mrs PargeterFor Mrs Pargeter, it is a matter of principle that she should complete any of her late husband's unfinished business. Amongst the many bequests he made to her, perhaps the most valuable is hi...