Smrt darebáka - Vraždy v Midsomeru - CDmp3 (Čte Vladislav Beneš)

You can't slit your throat to avoid showing any blood." ***** Passion runs high among the actors before every premiere; however, the amateur troupe from Causton in Midsomer County has been seriously at odds for quite some time. The blame lies not only with the class struggles that the British make their lives miserable with by emphasizing, but mainly with various affairs, slanders, below-the-belt blows, and grievances that pile up in the souls of local theater people. Thus, their staging of the famous play Amadeus by Peter Shaffer has a laughably provincial level – until the moment an unpretended murder takes place on stage. All it took was for someone to remove the tape from the razor with which the unrecognized Salieri shaves at the end, and the self-satisfied leading man of the troupe and the director's favorite collapses to the ground in a pool of real blood, as if fate itself had punished him for his tricks... Who is responsible for him? Causton's Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby will have an even harder time with the investigation as he knows the participants personally, since his wife helps them with costumes and in minor roles. And since the author – regarded as a worthy successor to Agatha Christie – has also provided a thorough psychoanalysis of the entire ensemble of suspects before the crime, it is guaranteed that there will be no shortage of leads regarding the perpetrator in the tangled web of backstage plots...