Death at the dress rehearsal
"In 1970, while on location shoot in Shropshire for the downmarket BBC sitcom Floggit and Leggit, ageing actor Edward Lowe--a "short, stocky northerner with a receding hairline and bad eyesight", who plays the pompous and officious lead, a role based on himself--stumbles across the body of a young woman, apparently the victim of a tragic drowning accident. But there's something about her death that rings the faintest of bells in his head and, con...