Death and the Assassin's Blade

Amateur dramatics was never meant to be so deadly!



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.



They're a disparate group, the amateur actors. One's an estate agent, another, an ac...