THE STORY: Having engineered the social coup of the Long Island season, the imperious Millicent Foxxe-Firestone has snagged the Earl of Baggersley as a weekend guest. Anxious to show off her catch, she has invited a number of the “right people” to her estate, including the enormously wealthy (but distressingly plain) Carlotta Gumpert—who might just be the right match for the bachelor earl. Also present are the charming and debonair Mariners, Clarke (who had once been engaged to Miss Gumpert) and Cora (who had once almost married the earl). Having made the mistake of marrying for love, Clarke and Cora are reminded upon renewed acquaintance with their former sweethearts, of all the riches their foolishness has denied them, and the simultaneous thought occurs to them that perhaps it’s not too late to try again. But, as divorce is unthinkable in their circle, murder appears to be the only answer, whereupon they try to do away with each other—their hilariously diabolical plans going awry to the extent of nine unintended victims. Suffice it to say that the police are as inept as the murderers, and all ends in as stylishly—and as charmingly bizarre—a fashion as it began.
