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"The Butler Did It"
Tim Kelly
The Thirteenth Chair
by Bayard Veiller
Synopsis
The Thirteenth Chair is a detective play that applies to melodrama the methods of detective fiction.
On the night of a dinner at the home of Roscoe Cosby one of the guests, Edward Wales, invites a celebrated medium to give a séance in which to trap his friend's killer.
He invites 13 suspects, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again.
The play was made into a movie by the same title in 1929.
Publication
Publisher Samuel French
Year 2012
Pages 142
Language English
ISBN-13 9781479337651
ISBN-10 147933765X
The Thirteenth Chair is a American play written by Bayard Veiller and published by Samuel French (2012).
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