Bombed
Out
a
Pyramid Puzzles Murder Mystery
by Bob Cooke
Sat
13th September -Cleave Warne Hall, Borstal
Wed
8th October 2008 - The Brook Theatre, Old Town Hall, Chatham,
The Air raid
siren has roared and a somewhat odd assortment of people find
themselves thrown together in a bomb shelter, somewhere in the
south-east of England, on a September evening in 1941.
Larry Barton-Smythe
helps a young recuperating soldier, Andy Jones, into the bunker
and they join Lydia Ludovski, a teacher, dreadfully frightened
of all the bombing and Mrs Edna Grimbert, a land army organiser
who is fretting about her 'girls' on the 'outside'. They are seated
with Sir Mansfield Carpenter, an Industrialist, who finds himself
rather partial to the young American socialite Pamela Pinkerton,
whilst Sir Mansfield’s wife Lady Millicent, is similarly
taken with young Larry Barton-Smythe – a charming young
man of means, however, she’s miffed since it appears Larry’s
affections appear to also lie with the American socialite Pamela
Pinkerton.

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Poster design
by Tim Cooke
So Lady Millicent
turns her affections to the lone recuperating soldier Andy Jones,
much to Sir Mansfield irritation. Could this be a motive for murder?
Stanley Whitworth,
in the motor trade, Jean-Pierre Jumper, a Belgian refugee, and Colonel
Fortune, who is in civilian dress (the Americans aren’t in
the war yet!) were enjoying a pint or two at the White Horse Pub
and have joined the mix of relative strangers in the bunker –
causing tensions to rise when accusations of war racketeering, and
cowardice are raised. Could this be a motive for murder?
With espionage,
jealousy, hatred and blind ignorance- there are certainly a few
motives for murder in the bunker – but who dies, and how,
and more to the point – why? Will your little grey cells will
solve the puzzle before the 'reveal'! |