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Guests are due at Lady Valonia's stately manor (a castle with a
weird history) for the announcement of her nephew Dustin's engagement to Judy
Blake. Unluckily, Dustin's former flame also arrives to find out why Dustin
dumped her while Judy's brother is persuaded to go shoot at starlings. The
family solicitor is on his way to change Valonia's will (out of Dustin's favor)
and Judy's school chum Gwendolyn is coming to ensnare Dustin's cousin, a humble
curate. A stray bullet enters the library and Dustin finds Valonia with a hole
in her blouse oozing warm red liquid. By the time he gets help, the body has
vanished. Meanwhile, the picketing cooks' and maidservants' unions have raised
the drawbridge, entrapping everyone as night falls. The solicitor's wife thinks
he's having an affair with Gwendolyn and arrives with horsewhip in hand on the
incoming fire engine. Who said the place was on fire? This rollicking romp is a
mélange of off the wall farce and near murder mystery. |