Abstract: Inspector Casey Clunes' casebook includes many intriguing problems... In CURTAIN CALL, an actress, Eloise Boucher, has disappeared and failed to turn up for the local theatre's evening performance. Casey's enquiries throw a spotlight on the owner of the theatre, hard-nosed Gwen Griffiths, her vain husband Caradoc and Eloise's friend and understudy, Pippa Jones. A body is found, but the discovery only makes the investigation more complicated... And in THINGS BAD BEGUN, even a weekend break in Cambridge proves that Casey is never off duty...