[3] At Amberwood, a country estate not far from London, Edwina Black has been murdered with arsenic and lies in a coffin.
Several people could be suspects including her husband Gregory, his spinster lover Linda, and elderly housekeeper Ellen.
The play had been performed numerous times on stage in Australia and had been adapted for radio on several occasions, most recently in 1960.
ABC designer Jack Montgomery found two 70 year old dresses in a house in Ashfield.
[5][6] The Canberra Times said "everyone involved was at the peak of their form, from the anonymous member of the Drama department responsible for selecting such a completely worthless and unimportant murder mystery, up to the producer, designer and splendid cast who were able to make of it an enjoyable, if thoroughly unmemorable, hour of viewing.