A Tomb with A View

by Norman Robbins

Comedy Thriller / Casting: 4m, 6f / Scenery: Interior A Tomb With A View is set in as sinister an old library as one is likely to come across presided over by a portrait of a grim faced, mad eyed old man. There, a dusty, lawyer reads a will (involving some millions of pounds) to an equally sinister family one member of which has were wolf tendencies, another wanders around in a toga of Julius Caesar and a third member is a gentle old lady who plants more than seeds in her flower beds. By the third act, there are more corpses than live members left in the cast and what about the sympathetic nurse and the author of romantic novels are they all, or more than, they seem to be? All is revealed as the plot twists and turns to its surprising conclusion.

75 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1978

Reviews

[Olivia Godwin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read it for my film and lit classes mystery unit. It was eh. Nothing special. Gave me “And Then There Were None” vibes but not as good.

Not gonna go through the effort of an extensive review for this one.

[Carole · Rating 5 out of 5]

Side-splittingly funny. Now come and see me in the play in September. :D

[Martin J Saxton · Rating 2 out of 5]

Playwriting by numbers. There are a few funny moments amidst the contrivance

Weak, neither comedy nor thriller - AmDram fodder of poor quality