

Dead Reckoning
Eric Chappell


Victor and Harlan are two young philosophy professors who have been friends, rivals and inveterate pranksters since their student days, but things have changed: Victor has turned into a wild hedonist in keeping with his belief that "when you're dead, you're dead", while Harlan has become a dull Stoic leading a strict unemotional existence in preparation for the afterlife.
They are on holiday with their long-suffering wives in the Canadian wilderness, and Victor has devised a prank which he believes will prove the falseness of Harlan's philosophy and shake him out of his passionless state -- but the prank goes horribly wrong.
After a heated argument a shot is fired, and one of the professors lies dead!
This is far from the end of the story however; in fact, the nightmare is just beginning ...
With When the Reaper Calls, the author of I'll Be Back Before Midnight has done it again, concocting a highly entertaining, scary tale that will keep audiences laughing, gasping and guessing throughout.
When The Reaper Calls is a British mystery play written by Peter Colley and published by Samuel French in London (2006).
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Samuel French · 2006 · 90 pp
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