The Marquis Crossing Ladies Society's
First Atempt at Murder!

You think it's easy to write a murder?  Just ask the Marquis Crossing Ladies Society for the Arts.  They decided to do just that, especially when they found out they had to pay royalties to do someone else's play.  "Anybody can write a murder", Emma tells the others, and Opaline immediately begins to try to strangle the other members "just to figure out how to do it".

The ladies soon find themselves writing an "operatic murder mystery dinner theatre with possible audience participation, providing no one sells fruit to the audience."  When two actual convicts arrive on the lam, they decide the best place to lay low is with the ladies, who then drag them into the play.

What is part of the play and what is really happening?  Find out for yourselves in the wise-cracking farce where no one can tell the loaded guns from the unloaded one.

"All we really want to do is throttle a congressman."  Audrey tells the other.

Well, you can't blame them.  After all, this is The Marquis Crossing Ladies Society's First Attempt At Murder.