Hardcover, 245 pages
Published Nov. 21, 1953 by St. Martin's Press.
Hardcover, 245 pages
Published Nov. 21, 1953 by St. Martin's Press.
The script of the Unicorn Theatre's new play uncannily echoes a quarrel in the star's dressing room. And the stage drama gets all too real when charming Felix Gardener shoots his blustering rival, Arthur Surbonardier, dead-with a gun Arthur himself loaded with blanks. Or did he? How the live bullets got there, and why, make for a convoluted case that pits Inspector Roderick Alleyn against someone who rates an Oscar for a murderously clever performance