Director Ian Dickens | Designer David North

Stephen McGann, who set female hearts racing as love rat Sean in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale and Stephen Beckett (Coronation Street, The Bill) star in this Victorian tea and arsenic drama.
The invalid Edwina Black has died and is about to be buried when, the night before the funeral, Detective Martin from Scotland Yard arrives to say that there is some suspicion about her death and the funeral must be delayed so that a post-mortem may be carried out.
By this time we know that Edwina’s widower Gregory and her ‘companion’ Elizabeth are lovers, freed by her death and her bequeathed fortune to run away to Italy together; a plan to which Scotland Yard’s arrival puts an abrupt and unwelcome end.
Will the couple find happiness or will Edwina continue to dominate their lives in death as she did in life? The twists and turns in this gripping thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end.