Louis needs to impress his aunt, from whom he wants to get money. So he tells her that her houseguest Jane Martlet must leave before another guest, Dora, arrives, because the two women are deadly enemies due to a quarrel over a hen. He gets Jane to leave by convincing her that one of the servants has gone mad.
A one-act play. First published in One-Act Plays for Stage and Study 8 (1934). It is the same story as the short story "The Hen."
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| December 2006 |
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A Shot in the Dark | Hesperus Press | Collection | |14 |