Dead Famous

by Ben Elton

Book Overview

One house, ten contestants, thirty cameras, and forty microphones. Everybody knows the rules--total strangers are forced to live together while the rest of the country watches them do it. However, on day 27, one of the housemates is killed on live TV. Who is the murderer? How did they manage to kill under the constant gaze of the television cameras? Why did they do it? And who will be next?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0552999458
• ISBN13: 9780552999458
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Transworld Publishers
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

A must read for mystery lovers

Iside a surveilled house, a tv-house like the ones we see on big brother, a murder is comitted. Without is being clear who the killer is. How did the killer manage to be useen in a house with so many cameras? This is one of the questions for the old-fashioned police detective. The book is both thrilling, and funny. I absolutely loved it.

Characters sympathetic and unsympathetic

Elton is masterful at making the reader like characters who do not like each other--or wouldn't, if they knew what we know... Really funny book. If there's a moral to the story, it's that with reality shows, the only way to win is not to play the game.

Couldn' t put it down!

I read this at a trip to Portugal. My real intentions for the trip were to see Portugal; instead I sat in my hotel room reading this book. But, then again, the book only took like a couple of hours to read, just impossible to put down. When I bought this book I didn't expect such a classically-written piece of work! Brilliant. The plot just had to be written; it was an obvious plot to the modern audience. One little snag (!) you'll mostly likely guess who the killer is by the first pages, but it doesn't matter! It's still great!

another winner

Ben Elton is at his funniest and his sharpest when he is exploring human emotions and everyday situations. This book covers the real and the surreal as it is based on the Big Brother game show.A closed house with cameras in every room, a group of strangers, alcohol and boredom, Elton uses this gameshow set up to invent some ludicrous and believable characters both in and out of the house. Throw in a murder for good measure and you have British comedy writing at it's best.

Ben Elton does it again

I've just purchased this book, am not even halfway through it yet find it very hard to put down. You get so far then think you carry on with another chapter next time, but it's so compelling it makes you want to read it just a bit further. I've never read a Ben Elton book end to end but this one is marvelous.A master stroke from a briliant author. Long live Ben Elton!!