
Charles Paris: The Cinderella Killer
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
Author: Simon Brett, Jeremy Front
Narrator: Bill Nighy, Full Cast, Suzanne Burden
Abridged: 1 hr 52 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: BBC Digital Audio
Published: 02/02/2017
Categories: Fiction, Crime, Suspense & Thriller, Mystery & Detective, Cozy, Amateur Sleuth
Synopsis
A job in pantomime seems the perfect way to spend the Christmas season for Charles, but the cast of Cinderella are a motley crew from reality TV and Charles finds himself having to explain the traditions of panto to their baffled American star whose career is on a downward trajectory.
When the star is shot dead, and Charles finds the body, he finds himself under suspicion. As the slapstick makes way for a murder investigation, he decides to clear his name by doing some sleuthing of his own. With a host of suspects and the body count rising, the line 'they're behind you' soon begins to take on a very sinister meaning indeed...
Bill Nighy (Love Actually, Skylight, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) stars as Charles Paris, with Suzanne Burden as his wife Frances, in this funny and fast-paced dramatisation by Jeremy Front.
Written by Jeremy Front, based on the novel by Simon Brett.