- When Jessica is called to London to rewrite the stage adaptation of her novel, she must prove her actress friend innocent of killing a producer.
- Jessica comes to the rescue of her friend, actress Glenda Highsmith, who is mounting a play in Martin Kramer's London theater adapting a Fletcher-mystery. It is a defective adaptation by the play-writer Mae Shaughnessy who has not done a mystery before. Jessica and others get strange calls from Malcolm Brooker, claiming to be a reporter for Empire magazine trying to get background information on Glenda's past. The actors have their own troubles.. Waning glory Lawson Childress is drinking a bit much, worrying about Glenda. Rising star Franklin Smith fears he is to be replaced. And his girlfriend Sally Briggs is told it would take her pleasing Kramer more intimately the she's prepared to do for Franklin to be kept. Director Peter Drew tells Jessica that Glenda can't concentrate because of Kramer who is called by phone to the props basement and stabbed to death. Stage manager Oliver Hopkins finds him. Scotland Yard's Detective Chief Inspector Ellen Jarvis investigates. Her friend tells Jessica, and Glenda confirms, that the Earl Glenhaven is actual her former youth love, then a grenadier, now dying and the unknowing father of Brett Dillon, who she gave up for adoption. Jarvis says Brooker is no reporter but just a 'grifter' (petty crook) and paid by Kramer. He tells Jessica he saw a blond woman go in after Martin, wearing a white raincoat like Glenda in the play, but ran from the police. Glenda is arrested and admits she was there, only in another raincoat. The disappearance of the white raincoat from props inspires Jessica to solve the murder.—KGF Vissers
- Jessica Fletcher travels to London where her good friend Glenda Highsmith is planning a return to the stage in a play adapted from one of Jessica's novels. The adaptation was written by a capable playwright, Mae Shaughnessy, but almost everyone involved feels that it just isn't working. Glenda is hoping that Jessica can help them out. There is tension on the set, however. The producer Martin Kramer is nasty, constantly threatening the director and some of the stars. A sleazy journalist is also making inquiries about Glenda and her past relationship with a member of the aristocracy. When Kramer is killed, however, Jessica works with Scotland Yard to find the killer.—garykmcd
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