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Jan 1, 1984 · 368 books487 followers. 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. He then joined the BBC as a trainee and worked for BBC Radio and London Weekend Television, where his work ...
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Graham Marshall, the protagonist, is a rising executive at a London based oil conglomerate, and has always played by the rules. But Graham is passed over for promotion, losing out to a younger colleague called Robert Benham. On his way home that night, he lashes out at an aged tramp who harasses him, killing him, and dumps the body in the Thames.
An ambitious executive is motivated by malice and murder in this darkly comic Edgar Award–nominated thriller by the author of the Charles Paris mysteries. Graham Marshall is a respectable husband and father and dedicated London businessman.
Added by 37 members. A Shock to the System. (1984) A novel by Simon Brett. Awards 1986 Edgar Award for Best Novel (nominee) Graham Marshall's ambition has made him a professional success, and he has the usual domestic problems to prove it. When he is passed over for promotion by an ambitious colleague he is shocked, but not half as shocked as ...
a shock to the system by Simon Brett ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 1, 1985 Taking a holiday from his appealing, erratic Charles Paris mystery-series (So Much Blood, Situation Tragedy, etc.), British writer Brett now offers a crisp, chilly tale of murder from the murderer's point of view: a faintly black-comic, mildly psychosexual variation within the genre pioneered by Francis Iles (Malice ...
An ambitious executive is motivated by malice and murder in this darkly comic Edgar Award "nominated thriller by the author of the Charles Paris mysteries. Graham Marshall is a respectable husband and father and dedicated London businessman.
Graham Marshall, a civil servant, has a pretty wife, two children, a good job with even better prospects and a good size house.. Suddenly his life is thrown into turmoil and he accidently commits his first murder when someone more ambitious than him enters his working life.
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