Dead Famous (novel) 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 Arrest", which is very similar to the program Big Brother, and the efforts of three police officers to identify the killer by watching all the video recordings of the ten housemates while the remaining
The Famous Five (novel series) Beginning in September 1985 a series of monthly Comic Magazine titles "Enid Blyton's Adventure Magazine" were published. Each issue published a full length illustrative comic book story adapted from Famous 5 Novels. The series came to end in the 1990s. The Five inspired the Comic Strip parody "Five Go Mad in Dorset" and its sequel "Five Go Mad on Mescalin", in which the characters express sympathies with Nazi Germany and opposition to the Welfare State, homosexuals, immigrants and Jews, in an extremely broad parody not so much of Blyton but of wider perceived 1950s prejudices. The parodies were deliberately set