The Sound of Murder

by

William Fairchild

 

Performed by West Moors Drama Society   5 - 7 May 1977

 

                                                              Cast

 

Charles Norbury...............................................Peter Foster

Anne Norbury...................................................Suzanne Eames

Peter Marriott...................................................Derek Collins

Miss Forbes.....................................................Julie Wells

Inspector Davidson..........................................Leslie Saunders

PC Nash..........................................................Ken Mee

 

Director.............................Frank Behennah

 

Synopsis

Charles Norbury is a successful writer of children's books but he doesn't like children. An unlovable man, he has no friends, is arrogant, controlling, sadistic and cruel. His wife, starved of love and denied children of her own, has met another man. In their cottage in Surrey, a tape recorder has been left on during a conversation between his wife and her lover in which the latter plans the author's murder. Charles' secretary listens to the tape and hears the murder plot.