"Shortbread will crumble"
When a pompous legal consultant is found dead during a blackout at a secluded holiday home, two detectives must untangle a web of conflicting accounts from five eccentric suspects. As strange flashbacks and buried grudges emerge, nothing is quite what it seems.
Becky B.
Cleo Bowes
Joshua M. T.
Giuseppe Nibblioni
Ella T.
Lady Mibble / The Oracle
Joel T.
Mowbray De Creasejudger
Maurice T.
Gavin Shortbread
Janine T.
Tabitha Fenchurch-Wright
Simone T.
Baroness Élodie Beaumont
Samantha T.
Frieda Vroom
Jack T.
Archibald 'Rhubarb' Pearson
When a pompous legal consultant is found dead during a blackout at a secluded holiday home, two detectives must untangle a web of conflicting accounts from five eccentric suspects. As strange flashbacks and buried grudges emerge, nothing is quite what it seems.
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