It is 1940 and Mrs Mudge the cleaning lady is busy tidying the Little Theatre in Lulverton which is run by the local amateur dramatics society. But she is in for a surprise when she finds a corpse in the ticket office stabbed with a dagger a prop from the societys latest play Measure for Measure. The novel is in two sections. In the first the narrator Vaughn Tudor describes the formation of the small amateur theatre group in a sleepy village on the South Coast in the period leading up to the S