![]() ![]() If I, the reader, know – or at least strongly suspect – that it was actually a murder, why don’t they? They’re the ones who are supposed to be brainy and skeptical regarding these matters! Also, there’s a death that’s immediately presumed by the police to be a suicide. One has to do with the way in which Lovesey makes use in the plot of the phenomenon of self-harming, or self-injury. ( In the writing of this play, Van Druten in turn drew his inspiration from Christopher Isherwood‘s Berlin Stories, in particular “Goodbye to Berlin.”) The production being thus bedeviled is John Van Druten’s I Am a Camera, the play upon which the musical Cabaret is based. This time, Chief Superintendent Peter Diamond is faced with a particularly baffling crime – or rather series of crimes, all of which take place within the precincts of Bath’s storied Theatre Royal. Peter Lovesey has delivered yet another surefire entertainment with Stagestruck. Its crimson, cream and gold decorations were just discernible, the silk panels, the gilded woodwork, garlands and crystal chandelier giving a sense of the antique theatre that this was, essentially no different from the interior known known to the actors who first played here in the reign of George III. ![]() The horseshoe-shaped auditorium was in darkness. Jat 8:42 pm ( Book review, books, Mystery fiction, The British police procedural) ![]()
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