The Riversid Villas Murder by Kingsley Amis

Saturday-Night Theatre: The Riverside Villas Murder Sat 26th Jun 1976, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM
By Kingsley Amis
Dramatised by Frederick Bradnum

A classic armchair mystery, a lovely little murder, set in the suburbs of Surrey, England in the 1930s.

'Don't grow up too fast. Peter. When I was your age I couldn't wait to get out into the world. because I thought it was going to be so marvellous. Well. it isn't. Things like this -they're happening all the time. And it isn't fair. It isn't fair at all.’

Bert Soper’s Rhythm Boys
Bill McGuffie (piano)
Tony Gilbert (violin)
Henrv McKenzie (clarinet)
Bobby Orr (drums)
Produced and directed by Harry Catlin
Colonel Manton:……Peter Jeffrey
Peter Furneaux:…..Ian Sharrock
Mr Langdon:……Malcolm Reid
Daphne Hodgson:……Deborah Paige
Mrs Trevelyan:……Norma Ronald
Capt Furneaux:……Stephen Thorne
Det-Con Barrett:…..Paul Meier
Mrs Ellington:…..Anne Jameson
Mr Trevelyan:…..Leslie Heritage
Mr Hodgson:….Clifford Norgate
Mr Inman:……Steve Hodson
Insp Cox:…..Garard Green
Sgt Duke:…..Douglas Blackwell
Mrs Furneaux:…..Joanna Wake

A mummy is stolen from a small town museum along with some Roman coins and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen year old Peter Furneaux's living room bleeding from the head. What was a suspected student prank is followed by murder. At first it is impossible to see the connection, but the eccentric Colonel Manton does. With Peter's help the Colonel unravels a mystery that strikes fear into the heart of a genteel suburban neighbourhood and gives Peter rather more excitement than he bargained for at the tennis club social. This meticulously paced thriller shows Amis at his most subtle and daring.

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