The Great Detective
by Peter Griffith
 
The guests are all assembled for the party in Swigwell
Castleand - then Lady Swigwell discovers that someone
has stolen her diamond necklace!
Lady Swigwell and her butler Speaking begin to search
the guests - every audience member is a possibe suspect!
And then a terrible cry is heard: Someone has murdered
Lord Swigwell!
Only one person can solve these terrible crimes: Smellsock
Fomes, the greatest detective in the world. Mr. Fomes
arrives by helicopter and sets to work - with the audience’s
help - to unravel the mystery.
 
This criminal melodrama pokes fun at popular crime stories
and at British social costums. Is the butler as guilty as he
looks? And is Lady Swigwell as innocent as she seems?
And what are Smellsock Fomes’s real motives in coming
to Swigwell Castle?