Williams: The Jinx Theatre Murder

“. . . the story of a murder done in a theatre, back stage, while the audience talked and gossiped between acts. It is a crisp and exciting story, with action in every page, and it presents a somewhat glamorous picture of life behind the scenes in a city playhouse. When the murder of the star of the show, a beautiful but ungracious woman who had just come off-stage, was discovered, the police were summoned. The murderer was still supposed to be within the theatre. . . . All the details of the police work, the loves and hatreds of the players, are brought out and make a story that is thoroughly realistic and at all times interesting.” (Boston Globe, 1933)

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First published in 1933.