Corpse Author:Gerald Moon A Comedy Thriller — (the play is written for the twins to be played by the same actor) — It is Abdication Eve in England, and murder is in the airwaves. As Edward VIII gives up the British throne for Mrs. Simpson, all of England grieves and glues its ears to the wireless. — All, that is, but two--identical twins locked in mortal sibling rivalry to... more » settle old scores and declare a new winner while England proclaims a new monarch. For the British government has unwittingly contrived to provide a national tragedy that virtually guarantees no witnesses to a plot that turns like a dervish, twists like a knife, and spawns whole schools of red herrings. At stake: a long-vanished father ostensibly buried somewhere in the wilds of Canada in mysterious circumstances, a feckless vaudeville mother who played favorites with love and money, and a bounteously lopsided will that left Evelyn destitute in a squalid Soho actor's flat and Rupert up to his ears in vintage port and cheroots. And the tool of the murderer's trade? Major Powell, a minor hood on the lam from a Chinese hit-man, whose brother Powell hit by mistake.« less