Who is Charlie Rumbold?

For jobbing actor Simon Trevanion, landing a role in the film Charlie by the Sea seemed like a dream opportunity to further his rollercoaster career. It was to be the debut feature film for Britain's best loved TV comic, Charlie Rumbold, and looked set to be a sure fire box office success. But when Simon gets involved in incidents from the comedian's past, involving the mysterious death of a girl on the Isle of Man seventeen years before, a blackmail note, and then a near escape from death himself when he finds a stumbles across a body at a caravan park near Southend, Simon quickly realises that he has got himself into very hot water and has to ask himself the question: Who is Charlie Rumbold?