Dead Famous (novel) cult of celebrity brought on by simply being on television and says in the credits that "without [the Big Brother contestants] this novel would not have been written". Bantam Press's page on Dead Famous Dead Famous (novel) Dead Famous (2001) is a comedy/whodunit novel by Ben Elton in which ratings for a reality TV show, very similar to "Big Brother", rocket when a housemate is murdered. Unlike a typical whodunnit, Elton does not reveal the identity of the victim until around halfway into the book. The novel is about a murder that occurs on a reality television programme called "House
Dead Famous (novel) producer; Detective Coleridge, an amateur actor, provokes a confession by creating fake video evidence of the producer's rehearsal murders. The housemates: The television crew: The police: Elton makes references in this novel to both Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth. David, the actor, has the first four lines of Hamlet's soliloquy "To be, or not to be" tattoed around his ankle. This allows both Kelly and the police officers to identify him as a porn star who starred in a movie in which Kelly was an extra. This threatens his reputation, as he wishes to become a serious actor again. Inspector Coleridge