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 Reviews for the 2024 Reading Club |
So I enjoyed the other book about Charles Paris to want to read another one in the series. This one, Cast in Order of Disappearance by Simon Brett is also entertaining and suspenseful. It features an unfortunate English actor named Charles Paris who drinks too much and has a failed marriage. Nevertheless, he is appealing partly because he is as serious about acting as he is about alcohol and also partly because he can be chivalrous at times. For example, the catalyst for this book is when he meets a girlfriend named Jacqui. Jacqui is in trouble because she is pregnant with the baby of an important producer and he seems about to cut off all contact with her. Against his better judgment, Paris agrees to attempt to contact the producer only to find that he has mysteriously died. From there, Paris finds himself in a web involving professional blackmailers, forged wills, and, of course, homicide. It may be my imagination, but I think this book had less to say about the actual life of an actor then the other one,A Decent Interval. There' a section at the end where Paris is shooting a B-horror movie and we get some fun scenes there, but nothing like the production of Hamlet in A Decent Interval. I also think that Brett makes less use of the running gag where Paris remembers a previous role he was in and there's a parenthetical quote from a critic who disliked the performance. Anyway, this is still an enjoyable read with fun plot twists. |
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