Murdered to Death

Synopsis

Agatha Christie spoof set in a country house In the 1930s. Will the murderer be unmasked first? When Mildred, owner of the house, is murdered, an assorted cast of weird and wonderful characters assembles. There's the hopeless police inspector, the various suspects including the English colonel with the prerequisite stiff upper lip, his long-suffering wife, Pierre the shady art dealer, Bunting the butler.. And then things are complicated by the arrival on the scene of the local amateur sleuth who seems to attract murder wherever she goes..

Our Review:

Simon Cole - 19 January 2011

Ian Dickens Productions’ Murdered to Death, now showing at Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts as part of a UK tour, is another in an ever growing collection of ‘spoof’ whodunnits, and it seems ‘sending up’ the Agatha Christie-esque murder mystery is becoming a genre all its own.

Set in the obligatory isolated country house in the 1930s, all the clichés are there; the stiff-upper-lipped Colonel, the shady foreign art dealer (with a shockingly dodgy French accent), the debutante, the butler, and the hawk-like amateur sleuth – in this case Miss Joan Maple (!?!), local spinster of the parish. The lady of the manor is shot dead during the course of a weekend house-party, the guests fall under suspicion, each having secrets and motives of their own….

Unfortunately, Murdered to Death, is not one of the better examples of this genre. Peter Gordon’s script is amusing, and works well as a mystery, but lacks the bite to be a truly fine spoof. ...

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