Dead Side of the Mic

Charles Paris is tackling this case when, between acting jobs (what else is new?), he is hired by BBC radio to research and write a programme on Swinburne for a new series called Who reads them now? Paris hasn't glanced at Swinburne since leaving Oxford nearly thirty years ago, but the pay is good and the surroundings congenial. Then a young studio manager is found dead, her wrists slashed. When Charles learns that she was involved with a shady American record producer who also turns up dead - another apparent suicide - he begins an investigation. On his first trip to the United States, he picks up information about the American connection (and finds out that all Americans are not character actors from soap operas and police thrillers). A complicated murder plot is eventually uncovered, but as usual, Charles exhausts a list of possible suspects before stumbling onto the solution.