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Cast: 5 male, 5 female.
 
Set: Single interior. Lounge of a country manor house, 1930s.
 
The first of the ''Inspector Pratt' trilogy.
 
This hilarious spoof of the Agatha Christie genre is set in a country manor house in the 1930s, with an assembled cast of characters guaranteed to delight.
 
The play introduces the inept and bungling Inspector Pratt, who battles against the odds and his own incompetence to solve the murder of the house's owner. It soon becomes clear that the murderer isn't finished yet, but will the miscreant be unmasked before everyone else has met their doom, or will the audience die laughing first?
 
With over 600 productions, this comedy has proved to be a hit with audiences world-wide.
 
Professional productions of the play include a national tour by UK Productions Ltd. a six week run at Derby Dinner Playhouse, Louisville, USA. and a five week run at Murry's Dinner Playhouse, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.

Logo discs, containing publicity material for the three plays in the Inspector Pratt trilogy, are available from Josef Weinberger Ltd.

The other plays in the trilogy are:

Secondary Cause of Death

Death by Fatal Murder