Par for the Corpse
Jack Sharkey
Slaughterhouse
by Norman Robbins
Highlights
120 minsPresent DayRole(s) for Senior Actor(s)Interior SetContemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
Synopsis
In Usher, his great country house, aging horror star Romney Marsh gathers a group to read a new play.
When the last guest arrives, Romney unleashes the guard dogs and, with a moat full of piranha, he has his visitors trapped.
Someone has been sending him newspaper clippings about the suicide thirty years ago of Mabel Monk, an actress and Romney's lover.
He intends to find out who is responsible, but first one of his quests is found with her throat cut.
Then Romney dies, poisoned by his own chocolates.
Marooned in the house with thick fog swirling outside, the guests realize that the murderer must have some connection with Mabel.
The finger of suspicion points at each of them until the truth is revealed with fatal consequences.
Publication
Slaughterhouse is a play written by Norman Robbins and published by Samuel French (1990).
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Samuel French · 1990 · 60 pp
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