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A Killing at the Inn
A candlelit coaching inn, a missing landlord, and a guest list where everyone claims to have retired early.
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Immersive whodunits with an awkward relationship to reality.
The company specialises in murder mystery weekends, historical entertainments and bespoke dinner theatre for hotels, heritage venues and audiences who like their clues served before coffee.
Their performances are carefully scripted, expertly staged and, on almost every occasion, entirely fictional.
The Last Act Players are fictional. The murders are worse. Read the books.
Featured book
Murder Well Rehearsed
Book One in The Simon Cade Mysteries
A Civil War-themed weekend. A historic Worcester hotel. One corpse too many.
Read the case fileThe Last Act Players arrive in Worcester to perform a Civil War-themed murder mystery weekend at a historic hotel. But when the scripted victim is found dead for real, Simon Cade becomes the obvious suspect, and the fake detective has to solve his first real murder before the police decide he has finally taken method acting too far.
About Simon Cade
Simon Cade
Actor | Writer | Reluctant Detective Energy
Simon Cade is one of the founding members of The Last Act Players and the company's principal writer-performer. A trained actor with a fondness for difficult rooms, difficult audiences and difficult people, Simon specialises in characters who know more than they are saying and regret almost all of it.
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From ballroom bodies to pub-based peril.
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Death Before Dessert
A dinner theatre favourite for hotels, private parties, and hosts with unusually calm carpet cleaners.
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The Body in the Ballroom
An elegant hotel mystery with period manners, sharp dialogue, and a finale best enjoyed away from the chandelier.
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