Exit Stage Left — Adam Croft

Charlie Sparks had it all. A former primetime television personality, his outdated style has seen him relegated to the scrapheap. When he collapses and dies during a stand-up routine at a local pub, mysterious bystander Kempston Hardwick is compelled to investigate his suspicious death. As Hardwick begins to unravel the mystery, he quickly comes to realise that Charlie Sparks's death throws up more peculiar questions than answers. ----- Exit Stage Left is a novella, the first in the Kempston Hardwick Mysteries series ----- "Adam Croft is one of the best new writers in Britain." - Stephen Leather