Daily Casefile · Detective
A Shadow Over the Prompt Book
≈ 6 min
Twenty minutes before curtain, the Guild's borrowed centerpiece — a 1920s brass carbide lamp lent by the county museum for the final scene — was found slick with dark stage makeup and wrapped in a dresser's cleaning rag inside the props cage. Beside it lay dresser Tessa Lunn's monogrammed brush and a smear of her signature greasepaint, all but signing her name to the sabotage. The cast insist Tessa adores the piece; someone wanted the museum, and the Guild's standing with it, to blame her.
Subject
Tessa Lunn (the framed) and the museum lamp
The wardrobe dresser set up to take the fall, and the fragile borrowed carbide lamp smeared to look like her careless handiwork.
The suspects
- Tessa Lunn — Wardrobe dresser
- Corin Vale — Director
- Della Pryce — Stage manager
- Jonah Reeve — Lead actor
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