The Prompt Book
Seasoned — two halves that must both be in the file before it will stand.
Alistair Crowe, a crow, producer of the Alhambra Repertory, was found dead behind the pass door of his own theatre after last night's final curtain. The back of his head was opened by something heavy. Nothing heavy enough has been found. The house was sealed within four minutes and five people were behind that door: an investor, an understudy, a solicitor, a stage manager and a character actor. That is the whole of what you have been given. There is no timeline, no statement and no witness. Everything else in this file you will have to ask for.
Who is in the house
- Sher — Investor and backer
- Debbie Lamb — Stage manager
- Rosa Hare — Understudy, nineteen
- Mrs. Fox — Company solicitor
- Ambrose — Character actor
You may take 3 of them into the interrogation room. Choosing which is most of the game.
Where you are
the death of Crowe, the producer, in the wings of the Alhambra Repertory Theatre on the closing night
The dead: Alistair Crowe.
Where it comes from
Grounded in The Quintinshill rail disaster, Dumfriesshire, 22 May 1915. Meakin and Tinsley, High Court, Edinburgh, September 1915. Read the original. The case is original; the story it learns from is not.