Word: edwina
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...Edwina Black (by William Dinner & William Morum; produced by Donald Flamm) dies, just before the play opens, of arsenic poisoning. Surviving are an unfaithful husband (Robert Harris), a companion-secretary (Signe Hasso) he has been unfaithful with, and a devoted servant. A Scotland Yard man arrives, scrutinizes, interrogates, looks for clues, makes much of weedkiller, mutters about hand lotion, deliberates, deduces, turns up trumps, unravels...
...Edwina doesn't come to a bad end: the solution is tolerably ingenious. But it comes to it by a tedious route in a pretty lumbering conveyance. The Scotland Yard man furthermore insists on going over every inch of the way; and the lovers, both of whom are understandably suspect, become understandably and loquaciously suspicious of each other. The whole thing is blameless enough. But it remains a terribly staid, genteel British whodunit that almost never sets the brain aracing, the spine atingle or the mouth agape...
There are five characters in "Edwina," four of whom are alive. Edwina, of course, is the dead one; the purpose of the play is to show the effect that she has on the survivors...
...simple account of the relationship between characters is enough to give away the entire plot. Robert Harris plays Edwina's husband, who is in love with his dead wife's companion, portrayed by Signe Hasso. There are also a maid and a Scotland Yard detective...
...mystery in "Edwina" is not whodunit...