Death and the Assassin's Blade

The man was not meant to die; the daggers were only theatrical props, plastic and harmless.

A summer's night, a production of Julius Caesar among the ruins of an Anglo-Saxon fort. Detective Inspector Tremayne is there with his sergeant, Clare Yarwood.

The assassination scene, the man collapses to the ground, Brutus defending his actions; Mark Antony's rebuke.

It was meant to be high drama, not murder, but someone's switched the daggers.

The man's death, in plain view of two serving police off...