by Ben Elton · Bantam Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780593048054
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«Dead Famous» is the mystery and satire novel by Ben Elton, published by Bantam Press in paperback (339 pages, in English).
Ten strangers live locked in a house while the country watches them on television. The show «House Arrest» becomes the scene of a murder committed under thirty cameras and forty microphones. Ben Elton satirizes the obsession with celebrity and the dark side of television entertainment.
Published in 2001, the novel received the Martin Beck Award in 2003.
For mystery readers who appreciate social criticism and the reality show phenomenon.
Benjamin Charles Elton is a British comedian and writer. He has written and produced for television, radio, films, novels, theatre and musicals, and has performed as a stand-up comedian and on screen. One of the major figures in the alternative comedy movement of the 1980s, he used a style of left-wing political satire in his early stand-up comedy.
