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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 650 productions, this comedy has proved to be a hit with audiences world-wide.
 
UK professional performances of the play include major national tours by both UK Productions and Ian Dickens Productions and a two week run at Nottingham Theatre Royal. Professional performance in the USA have taken place at Derby Dinner Playhouse, Louisville, Kentucky, and Murry's Dinner Playhouse, Little Rock, Arkansas.

" ... hilarious and very clever"  Nottingham Evening Post.

 "... deliciously wicked spoof ..."  British Theatre Guide.

Other plays in the trilogy are:

Secondary Cause of Death

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