Deathtrap: A Thriller in Two ActsUnknown dramatist Clifford Anderson has sent his new thriller to award-winning Broadway author Sidney for comment - or has he? Without a success to his credit for some years, Sidney plots with his reluctant wife Myra about how best to plagiarise 'Deathtrap' and when Clifford turns up to discuss the play with the 'Master' events take a sinister turn. |
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