Word: brett
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maglie; 6. Jim Mason; 7. Tom Matchick, Ray Oyler, Dick Tracewski, Mickey Stanley; 8. John Antonelli; 9. Jose Santiago; 10. Corrected question reads: who were the only two Mets to allow earned runs. Answer: Jerry Koosman and Tom Seaver; 11. Bruce Kison; 12. Whitey Ford; 13. Ken Brett; 14. Moe Drabowsky; 15. Howard Ehmke; 16. Bill Wambsganss; 17. Nippy Jones; 18. Lou Brock; 19. Denis Menke; 20. Vic Wertz; 21. Ed Charles; 22. Herb Pennock; 23. Ed Stroud; 24. Benny Kauff; 25. Walter Maranville; 26. Bobby Thomson; 27. Orlando Cepeda; 28. Lou Novikoff; 29. Frank Howard; 30. Clint Courtney...
There have been lawyer-detectives and priest-detectives and even jockey-detectives, but perhaps the most intriguing blend of workaday occupation and avocational sleuthing is Charles Paris, an invention of English Writer Simon Brett. Charles is an actor-detective, perhaps the first and last of his breed. Performers are generally too self-absorbed to be much use in searching other people's motives...
...funny side of 50, Charles is the kind of thespian whose career has been confined to small parts in the big time and big parts in the small time. When he needs a disguise, Charles usually borrows a look or an accent from one of his flops, and Brett wickedly runs in a quote from one of his provincial reviews ("Had I not known it to be a good play, this production would not have convinced me of its merit"). Charles' personal life is no improvement on his professional one. There is a wife he has not lived with...
...reconciliatory week at the seaside with his estranged wife, is present at a variety show when a stand-up comedian literally turns into a live wire: a booby-trapped guitar electrocutes him when he grabs a microphone in the other hand. The hunt for the killer gives Brett a chance to do those set pieces that distinguish his books, notably one in which a domineering talk show host is reduced to helpless blithering by a deftly counterpunching old comic (who is an admirably wise and well-developed character) and another satirizing those ghastly award shows that blight English telly...
...Brett's insider's knowledge of high-intensity show business - he is a scriptwriter and former BBC radio producer - that makes his witty mysteries go. It looks as if Charles Paris is finally working in a long run. So it's not Oedipus...