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By: Alan Melville ; with an introduction by Martin Edwards
Series: British Library crime classics
Publisher: The British Library
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780712357890
Subjects: Murder; Fiction; Investigation; Police; Theater; Nineteen thirties
Description: The play - a slender plot revolves around the shooting of the leading man. But when the show opens at the Grosvenor Theatre to a packed house, Brandon Baker is killed by a real bullet. When another member of the company is found dead, initial appearances suggest a straightforward case of murder followed by suicide. But there is, of course, more to it than that. The audience includes Inspector Wilson of Scotland Yard and his son, an enthusiastic young reporter, making an amusing variant on the Holmes-Watson pairing of sleuth and sidekick!
Notes: Originally published: London : Skeffington & Son, 1934.