Charles Paris is on the way up again, career-wise. He is offered several small parts in the play dreaded by superstitious theatre folk, who will not even speak its name: 'the Scottish play' - Macbeth. It's only in provincial rep, but you have to start (or re-start) somewhere.
The principals in the cast could hardly be more ill-assorted. Macbeth is played by George Birkitt, the TV game-show personality whom we met in Dead Giveaway. Lady Macbeth comes straight from Stratford: an intense young woman with Method in her madness. And Duncan is that notorious old ham, Warnock Belvedere, who feels that he is in the tradition of the great actor managers.
With such a cast, sparks are bound to fly. It's not long before death strikes in the night. And Charles Paris takes on the role of private eye...
Dated. Not much about the mystery, more about the characters.
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