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23024: The Third act of a play ends in murder….
23024: The Third act of a play ends in murder….
Six nights a week the cast of the smash-hit play Daughter of the Revolution performs to a sold-out audience. A thrilling story of forbidden marriage and a secret love child, the critics say it’ll run for years. That is until one night the third act ends not in applause but in death, when leading lady Alexandra Dyce is beheaded live on stage.
Every cast member has a motive, but it is the dead woman’s co-star – and ex-husband – Hollywood legend Leo Lusk who is charged with the crime. When defence barrister Charles Konig is brought in last minute, he knows this ought to be the case of a lifetime. But Charles would rather be on his holiday trekking up K2, and he isn’t interested in celebrities, especially ones that seem to be mysteriously trying to derail their own defence. But as he and his co-counsel New York lawyer Yara Ortiz sift through the evidence, it becomes clear that clues may lie in the play itself. And that Charles’s only chance of victory is to identify the real murderer…
London
Much of the novel centres around theatres in London and the Central Criminal court. The locations are few and far between but it’s the setting of the court house and theatres that shines here.
Nice mention of Cleopatra’s Needle.
We do get a few peeks into other locations but the central one is the courts of London.
Destination/Location: London Author: Guy Morpuss Departure: 2024
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