Perfect Crime

Perfect Crime

Perfect Crime

Perfect Crime

Overview

This cat-and-mouse thriller is one of off-Broadway's longest-running hits. Margaret Thorne Brent, psychiatrist and author, has returned to America with her husband, also a psychiatrist, and settled in an affluent Connecticut community where at least one bizarre murder has taken place. Inspector James Ascher, the local cop, becomes obsessed with Margaret, her patients and their sitting room, where he believes the solution to the murder lies.

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Cautions

  • Caution Mild Adult Mild Adult Themes

Details

  • Genre: Mystery/Thriller
  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Adult, Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18)

Authors

Warren Manzi

In 1980, while playing Mozart on Broadway in Amadeus, Warren Manzi wrote his first full-length play, the original version of Perfect Crime. The play was optioned for Broadway that same year, making Warren – then, age twenty-five – the youngest American ever to have a play opt ...
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