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Simon Anthony Lee Brett OBE FRSL (born 28 October 1945 in Worcester Park, Surrey, England) is a British author of detective fiction, a playwright, and a producer-writer for television and radio.
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Simon Brett - Biography. I was born into the lower reaches of the middle class on the 28th October 1945. The venue was a nursing home in Worcester Park, Surrey. My parents, older brother and sister lived in Ewell, where I spent the next four years of my life.
- Publication Order of Anthologies
- Early Life and Schooling
- The Writing Career
- Works Done
- A Shock to The System
- Charles Paris Series: Cast in Order of Appearance
- Family Ties
- Other Pastimes
Simon Brett is a British renowned prolific writer of Mystery & Crime Thrillers, Children and Humor writings. He is an author of Crime novels and series, a playwright of theatre works and a writer of Television and radio productions. He is best known for his Mrs Pargeter novels, his much-loved Fethering series and the Charles Paris detective crime s...
Simon was born to a father who was a chartered Surveyor and a mother who was a teacher in Worcester Park, United Kingdom on October 28, 1945. Simon began his education journey at Beacon School in Banstead where his mother was a teacher. He later joined Homefield, a boys’ prep school in Sutton. He took an Eleven Plus exam rather than the popular Com...
As a trainee, he produced music programs, sketch shows, panel games, anthologies and light drama. He was also to manage the BBC machinery while at work. It was while on this job that he got the idea of doing crime fiction. He wrote about an actor detective and his manuscript was picked up thereby getting his Charles Paris novel, Cast in Order of Ap...
Simon is popular for his Mrs Pargeter novels, the Fethering series and the Charles Paris detective series. He has also authored novels such as A Shock in The System(1984), Dead Romantic (1985), The Three Detectives and The Missing Superstar (1986) among many others. His list of non-fiction material include: Baby Tips for Grandparents(2005), On Seco...
The main character in this mystery book is a Mr. Graham Marshall. His ambitious nature has brought him success n his profession. He gets shocked when passed over for promotion by a colleague but he is to get more shocked when he is implicated for murder.
It is a detective series that revolves around deaths and comedy. Marius Steen , a theatrical tycoon is killed. Bill Sweet, a shady blackmailer is also killed. All these crimes await Charles Paris, rather confused character who moves from women to booze to solve. He finds himself in one puzzle after the other with him even finding himself in bed wit...
Simon Brett is married to Lucy and the two have three children, He met Lucy at BBC while he was still working there. Lucy was a studio manager on many programs that Simon Brett was working on. Their children are Sophie (1974), Alastair (1977) and Jack (1981). They also have two grandchildren from Sophie and her husband Jeremy.
When Simon is not doing his writing jobs, he is most probably reading, going to watch theatre stage plays or doing the The Times crossword. He also loves playing Tennis on the court at Petworth House.
Simon Brett, OBE writes detective fiction and was a radio producer whose work includes producing the BBCs first episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, as well as episodes of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue and Just a Minute. For radio he wrote After Henry and No Commitments.
The multitalented and prolific Simon Brett received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2012 Malice Domestic Convention. An acknowledged master of the modern whodunit, he is also the current president of the prestigious Detection Club in the UK.
Simon Brett OBE is the writer responsible for the Charles Paris, Mrs Pargeter, Fethering and Blotto & Twinks series of crime novels. His first published title was Cast, In Order Of Disappearance in 1975 and his latest book, Seriously Funny, and other oxymorons, is his 100th.
Simon Brett is a prolific British writer of whodunnits. He is the son of a Chartered Surveyor and was educated at Dulwich College and Wadham College, Oxford, where he got a first class honours degree in English.
