THE STORY: As John Chapman describes, it deals with “a stuffy English motor magnate with an evil look to him, and he is married to Miss Landis. They have adopted and brought up Hardy. Hardy is a problem boy. He has failed in his law exams and he hates his adopted father. He also is upset because his best friend has just been hanged for murdering a servant girl in this very apartment, and he thinks his friend was innocent. So in comes Carroll, with gentle good manners and a baffled look, as the new tutor hired to get the boy through the law exams next time. He is, one soon learns, the father of the boy who was unjustly hanged for murder. He has come here to administer justice all by himself to whoever it was in this house who really did the killing. You can take it from there…Before the evening is over you will find you have been misled several times—but never dishonestly, for playwright Williams has his tidy mind and is an honorable trickster. And if you can guess beforehand what will happen at play’s end you are smarter than I am."
“…a drama of murder and revenge which stretches suspense from the first moments of the first act to the final line of the third act…soundly wrought. As an addict of the psychological thriller, I had a fine time.” —New York Daily News.
