[3] Cotes adapted the play Suspect by Edward Percy and Reginald Denham which was based on the Sandyford murder case.
A press baron, Sir Hugo, arrives who thirty years ago covered a trial where Maggie cut up her mother and father with an axe.
The show starred Cotes' wife, Joan Miller, who had performed in the play on British TV for the BBC in 1958.
[10] It was one of four productions Cotes made in Australia, the others being Long Distance, Candida, and Shadow of the Vine.
[12] The Bulletin called it "lunacy... most of the cast borrowed their dramatics from a time when over acting for the silents set the universal style... a fusty, trivial play.