Dead Giveaway: Simon Brett

The television give-away panel game is the very lowest form of showbiz life. For Charles Paris, his acting career is in the doldrums. If The Cap Fits is the final humiliation. But when murder intervenes - and on camera, too - the other Charles Paris comes to the fore; the amateur detective, incisive, perceptive, forceful...and lucky. All the things that Charles Paris, actor, is not. There are plenty of suspects and a whole selection of motives - the victim was detested by all right-thinking people. But for Charles, nothing is ever straightforward.