The House by the Lake

by

Hugh Mills

 

Performed by West Moors Drama Society - 24 - 26 November 1983

 

                                                         Cast

 

Colonel Forbes................................................ Leslie Saunders

Stella................................................................Suzanne Eames

Janet................................................................ Jane Hilliard

Brenda.............................................................Doreen Taylor

Maurice...........................................................George Turnbull

Colin................................................................Derek Collins

Iris....................................................................Diana Champ

Mr Howard...................................................... Phil Bowditch

Nurse Thomson............................................... Mary Mosley

 

Director....................Bill Thoroughgood & Frank Behennah

 

Synopsis

Maurice, together with his sister Stella, plans to murder his brother Colin by poisoning him and dropping him through the ice on a nearby lake. As Colin always used the lake to cross from his own house it would look like an accident. 
  Assisted by a police inspector Janet discovers the murder, and when he knows of her suspicion Maurice decides to murder her too...