Full Length Play / Melodrama(Mystery/Thriller) / More than 120 minutes
Samuel French, London, 1958
Presented by Peter Saunders at the Strand Theatre, London, on 22nd May 1958, with the following cast of characters: (in the order of their appearance)
LESTER COLE | George Roubicek |
MRS ROPER | Gretchen Franklin |
LISA KOLETZKY | Patricia Jessel |
PROFESSOR KARL HENDRYK | Gerard Heinz |
DR STONER | Derek Oldham |
ANYA HENDRYK | Viola Keats |
HELEN ROLLANDER | Moira Redmond |
SIR WILLIAM ROLLANDER | Norman Claridge |
DETECTIVE INSPECTOR OGDEN | Michael Golden |
POLICE SERGEANT PEARCE | Gerald Sim |
Directed by Charles Hickman
Decor by Joan Jefferson Farjeon
SYNOPSIS OF SCENES
The action of the play passes in the living-room of Professor Hendryk's flat in Bloomsbury
- ACT I
- SCENE 1 - An afternoon in early spring
- SCENE 2 - A fortnight later. Afternoon.
- ACT II
- SCENE 1 - Four days later. About midday.
- SCENE 2 - Six hours later. Evening.
- SCENE 3 - Two month later. Late afternoon.
Time : the present
UK/US covers
- Samuel French, 1986
- Samuel French, 2010; ISBN:9780573619311
- Samuel French, 2014; ISBN:9780573702327
- Samuel French
- Samuel French; ISBN:9780573114809
Northern Europe covers
Southern Europe covers
Verdetto
- Il Giallo Mondadori(#2167), 1990
- Mondadori, 2018; ebook; ISBN:9788852089763
O Veredicto
- Record, 1988
- Record, 1997