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Simon Brett's "Not Dead, Only Resting" has his actor amateur-sleuth, Charles Paris, without an acting job for the whole story and doing only his detecting work. When an actor is out of work, they say the actor is "resting." Charles has a part-time job as a house painter, and when he shows up for his first assignment, he and his work partner discover a murder victim, Yves Lafeu, who with his lover Tristram Gowers runs a restaurant named Tryst. Charles had previously met Yves and Tristram at the restaurant where the two had a row over a young man that Tristram believed Yves was having an affair with.
Brett has assembled an interesting cast of characters (suspects) and hasn't neglected his comic impulses. Charles, with the backing of Tristram's cousin Kevin O'Rourke, puts his investigative talents to work to find Yve's murderer and solve the disappearance of Tristram. O'Rourke and his lover Bartlemas are theater groupies who show up for every West End opening.
Charles and the pair go to the Yve and Kevin's French cottage in search of the missing man. The plot is ingenious, complex, and cleverly worked out. Of course there's a lot of acting lore involved in the plot so Paris fans will not be disappointed. Charles has to delve into gay society as part of his detecting. He even uncovers some blackmailing.
As he continues his investigation, Charles interviews a number of suspects and gathers clues, always stopping off to fortify himself with Bell's whiskey. To say that Charles likes to imbibe would be an understatement. Charles is getting known among theater people as a good detective, and it keeps him busy. A good thing because his acting career has had a lot of slow patches. Paris is a great character creation and this is a wonderfully entertaining crime series.
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Not dead, only resting: a Charles Paris crime novel
1984, Scribner
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Not dead, only resting: a crime novel
1984, Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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