The Body on the Beach. Simon Brett

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      Simon Brett worked as a producer in radio and television before taking up writing full-time. He was awarded an OBE in the 2016 New Year’s Honours ‘for services to literature’ and also was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2014 he won the CWA’s prestigious Diamond Dagger for an outstanding body of work. simonbrett.com

       Also by Simon BrettThe Fethering Mysteries

      Death on the Downs

      Death on the Downs

      The Torso in The Town

      Murder in the Museum

      The Hanging in the Hotel

      The Witness at the Wedding

      The Stabbing in the Stables

      Death Under the Dryer

      Blood at the Bookies

      The Poisoning in the Pub

      The Shooting in the Shop

      Bones Under the Beach Hut

      Guns in the Gallery

      Corpse on the Court

      The Strangling on the Stage

      The Tomb in Turkey

      The Killing in the Cafe

      The Liar in The Library

      The Charles Paris Theatrical Series Dead Room Farce A Decent Interval The Cinderella Killer The Mrs Pargeter Mysteries Mrs Pargeter’s Point of Honour Mrs Pargeter’s Principle Mrs Pargeter’s Public Relations

      First published in Great Britain, the USA and Canada in 2019

      by Black Thorn, an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd,

      14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

      blackthornbooks.com

      This digital edition first published in 2019 by Black Thorn, an imprint of Canongate Books

      First published in 2000 by Macmillan Publishers Ltd,

      Pan Macmillan, 20 New Wharf Road, London N1 9RR

      Copyright © Simon Brett, 2000

      The moral right of the author has been asserted

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Except where actual historical events and characters are being described for the storyline of this novel, all situations in this publications are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is purely coincidental.

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

      eISBN 978 1 78689 765 7

       To Keith

       who knows this part of the world

       (and many others)