The Butler Did It

by Tim Kelly

“The Butler Did It” is set in the drawing room of the Ravenswood Manor on Turkey Island, off the coast of San Francisco. She has invited a group of detective writers to eerie Ravenswood Manor where they are to impersonate their fictional characters. Chandler Marlow is the hard noised, womanizing Private Investigator, Laura Carlyle is a Manhattan socialite with a flair for investigating murders, Father Frank White is the crime investigating Priest and Peter Flimsey is a modern day Sherlock Holmes.

 The hostess has arranged all sorts of amusing incidents: a mysterious voice on the radio, a menacing face at the window, a mad killer on the loose. Who is that body in the wine cellar anyway? Why do little figurines keep toppling from the mantle? Then a real murder takes place, and Miss Maple is outraged. She offers an immense reward to the “detective” who can bring the killer to justice. And what an assortment of zany would-be sleuths! When they're not busy tripping over clues, they trip over each other!