Corporate Bodies, Simon Brett
Corporate Bodies, Simon Brett
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Corporate Bodies

Author: Simon Brett

Narrator: Simon Jones

Abridged: 2 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Audio Holdings

Published: 01/01/2009

Synopsis

Charles Paris, an out-of-work actor, takes a star gig as a forklift driver in a Delmoleen Company corporate video. Something about Delmoleen is deeply troubling to Charles. That “happy family” facade may be just that. Mockery, jealousy, lust, envy, they all seem to be pervasive. Still, the work is easy and the money is good; it's even fun learning to manipulate a forklift. But it's a responsibility too, as Charles soon discovers: a forklift can be made into a potent murder weapon.

About Simon Brett

Simon Brett was educated at Dulwich College and Wadham College, Oxford, where he earned a First Class Honours Degree in English. He has written over seventy books. Many are crime novels, including the Charles Paris, Mrs. Pargeter, and the Feathering series. Simon was also Chairman of the Crime Writers Association from 1986 to 1987 and of the Society of Authors from 1995 to 1997.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Verity on January 10, 2019

Charles is branching out into corporate videos. But when there's a death on the set in the warehouse, he's not convinced it was an accident - even though everyone else is. Soon he's digging around as tensions rise around the launch of a new product... This is lots of fun and it's nice to see Charles......more

Goodreads review by Sandi on October 08, 2016

Charles Paris, the usually out of work actor and amateur sleuth, is engaged by a television writer to work on some in house corporate videos as a forklift operator and all is going well until a body is found behind some pallets. This is always a reliably good series and this entry was no exception.......more

Goodreads review by Jenny on April 03, 2025

My least favorite Charlis Paris so far. He is part of a corporate video, working for Will Parton's new company, when a young receptionist dies from a pile of pallets falling on her. Is this murder or simply a forklift accident? He of course investigates. There's a lot of filler as he talks to busine......more

Goodreads review by Leslie on March 13, 2024

Not quite my cup of tea. I have read several of Simon Brett's books featuring his Mrs. Pargeter, and I enjoyed them. I wanted to like the main character, Charles Paris, an actor who wants to solve a murder that had been categorized as an accident. I didn't like Charles for his constant need for alco......more

Goodreads review by Norma on January 18, 2025

( Format : Audiobook ) "And later, Charles fell in the river." Oh joy - I found another Jeremy Front adaptation of a Simon Brett story for BBC Radio 4. Performed by the full cast led by Bill Nighy as Charles Paris, the often out of work actor, this time he's in work and having great trouble with mach......more

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