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Cast: 4 male, 4 female. Set: Single interior. Library of a country manor house, 1940. The third of the ''Inspector Pratt' trilogy. (Can be performed as a 'stand-alone') Pratt is back! Inspector Pratt's record of crime detection at Bagshot House is not enviable. In his two previous visits, the body count mounted disasterously as he looked on, helpless and hopeless! Now he is back and, as usual, chaos reigns supreme. During the course of his latest investigations, Pratt meets the new owner of the house, Nancy Allwright, and soon he is embroiled in more mystery, aided and abetted by Miss Maple and Constable Thomkins. Upper-crust Ginny and Italian gigolo, Enzo, help with enquiries, but danger soon looms with an unexpected arrival and a frightening suggestion by Welsh busybody and clairvoyant, Blodwyn Morgan.
"spoof it is, a very funny one" - Nottingham Evening Post
Death by Fatal Murder featured in a 'Play Produced' article in Amateur Stage.
The first professional production of the play was staged at Murry's Dinner Playhouse, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA in 2010, with another production taking place at Derby Dinner Playhouse, Louisville, Kentucky, USA in 2011.
The play has also been toured in the UK by Ian Dickens Productions and has been produced at Nottingham Theatre Royal in 2011 as part of their 'Classic Thriller Season'. It returns for another week in Nottingham in 2012. The other plays in the trilogy are:
Murdered to Death
Secondary Cause of Death
Logo discs, containing publicity material for the three plays in the Inspector Pratt trilogy, are available from Josef Weinberger Ltd.
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