BEN ELTON's career as both performer and writer encompasses some of the most memorable and incisive comedy of the past twenty years. In addition to his hugely influential work as a stand-up comic, he is the writer of such TV hits as The Young Ones, Blackadder and The Thin Blue Line. Most recently he has written the BBC series Blessed on the subject of young parenthood. Elton has written three musicals, The Beautiful Game, We Will Rock You and Tonight's the Night and three West End plays. His internationally bestselling novels include The First Casualty (out in Black Swan paperback in April 2006) Popcorn, Inconceivable, Dead Famous and High Society. He wrote and directed the successful film Maybe Baby based on his novel Inconceivable starring Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson.
A bestseller in the U.K., Dead Famous, by Ben Elton (High Society), combines the traditional whodunit with contemporary reality TV to hilarious result. TV personality Elton may lack brand-name recognition here, but this murderous tale of 10 contestants stuck in a house with 30 cameras and 40 microphones has real appeal, particularly to the young and hip.
" One of the best whodunits I have ever read... a funny, gripping,
hugely entertaining thriller, but also a persuasive, dyspeptic
account of the way we live now, with our insane, inane cult of the
celebrity." -- "Sunday Telegraph"
" A book with pace and wit, real tension, a dark background theme
and a big on-screen climax." -- "Independent"
"One of the best whodunits I have ever read...a funny, gripping,
hugely entertaining thriller, but also a persuasive, dyspeptic
account of the way we live now, with our insane, inane cult of the
celebrity." -- "Sunday Telegraph"
"A book with pace and wit, real tension, a dark background theme
and a big on-screen climax." -- "Independent"
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