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I’d decided that all the titles would have some sort of literary reference. After all, I was a writer; he was a detective. The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, A Line to Kill. It had seemed like a good idea at the time, but I’d already run out of grammatical allusions.
Theatre, at its best, is a candle that never goes out and all of these productions, along with many more, still burn in my memory.
That was something Harriet learned from him, the pleasure that comes with the twist of a knife.
And why do you think I gathered everyone on the stage like that? I did that for you, mate. It’s a terrific end – just like Agatha Christie!’

