Write Me a Murder

Synopsis

Faced with such a title you might instantly anticipate a thriller with an ingenious plot that has been devised to kill somebody in a murder story and is then twisted into reality. And that is precisely right! To begin with!! There are many more surprises in store in this intriguing tale of Charles and David Rodingham, two brothers who inherit the family fortune upon the death of their father. Frederick Knott, author of Dial M for Murder and Wait Until Dark and one of the world's most successful thriller writers, invites you to solve the dilemma of not only who is the murderer. But also is the victim in this intricate maze of clues and crimes and cross and doublecross.

Our Review:

Anne Morley-Priestman - 23 July 2012

It’s been around since the 1960s and now clunks a bit. Just like those old-fashioned sit-up-and-beg typewriters used the two of the main characters to peg down their fictions. One of these is houseboat-dwelling David Rodingham (Mark Jackson); the other is Julie Sturrock (Kate Middleton – no, not that one), who’s married to the crass businessman Charles (Simon Snashall).

They meet because David’s older brother Clive (Jonny McPherson) is about to inherit a 500 year-old country seat and the title which goes with it. Julie has set her heart of winning a short-story competition and so finally seeing her words in print. Sturrock wants to buy the estate, and has few compunctions about how he goes about it. Clive just wants the money, and an American heiress. David is a successful-enough author, but can’t bear to see the estate pass into unworthy hands.

This being a thriller by the author of Dial “M” For Murder and...

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