Premiering in London in 1929 before moving to Broadway, this play, inspired by a true story, was adapted by Hitchcock into a film starring Jimmy Stewart.

They believed they had committed the perfect crime. In fact, university students Wyndham Brandon and Charles Granillo were so assured of how expertly they had covered up their heartless murder of a fellow undergraduate, they decided to throw a dinner party. Using the wooden chest that contains the corpse as a table, they invite everyone the victim knew, including his father.

But the gruesomeness of their depravity soon proves to be their undoing...

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