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The Playwrights Scheme Turns Deadly Dinner Theatre
A dinner party plot spirals from theatrical vanity to murder as Mortimer Frentrup and colleagues discuss a stage scene involving poison. Burton executes a plan after mock toast, then collapses as the wine proves fatal, revealing a lethal jealousy and a deadly coincidence. A second brutal twist underscores the evening’s dangerous theatrics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burton
Prunella
Mortimer
Sir Cholmondeley Twerp-Gerald
Horatio Steele
Mortimer Frentrup
Quint
Poissn