Played to Death

It’s curtains down for one actor when preparations for a new murder mystery play at the local theatre take a chillingly real twist . . . The Librarian Retirement was beckoning until local lawyer Adam Cunningham – aka the Hopewell Players’ pantomime dame – requested my professional opinion on the script of their next play that he's been given. The Lawyer The script is terrible! And it rips off a number of Golden Age mysteries. With Roly’s knowledge of crime fiction, I might be able to get the whole thing cancelled. The Producer I couldn’t believe it when I learned that my late father had written a play of all things! And now the players will perform his work – until one of them is found dead. . . The Inspector A body on the stage of the local playhouse doesn’t happen often round here. Was it a pre-rehearsal accident, suicide . . . or is the spotlight about to fall on a murderer?