01/10/2023
Faking It 3 m. 6 f 3 either
We join a Weekend party of art enthusiasts – coming together of moneyed people to buy a painting the victim wished to sell. We join everyone at the advance party for Sir David’s Grand Art Auction, where his latest lot is to be sold to the highest bidder. But the pensioners with attitude are back! Esther and Hetty are present as part of the art lectures, with their friend Bing the Zing, their very own handy Taser gun that they are so fond of, much to the annoyance of Hetty’s granddaughter, Detective sergeant Evie. On the first night, everyone played Scrabble after dinner, but that very night, their host, Sir David, was found murdered- stabbed with an artist’s palette knife – with scrabble tiles spelling out the word FAKE stuffed into his mouth. But who or what was fake? Why was Sir David murdered? and most importantly, whodunnit? was he really only a con man in disguise? Why was he killed – did someone try and stop him doing something dishonest? Did someone think the painting to be sold was a fake and did they then have a fatal fight over it? In the morning, guests are being stopped by police at the end of the drive to stop them leaving- everyone is waiting for CID to come to take statements, but in the meantime, the gruesome twosome pensioners are armed and dangerous and in charge of collecting information to help the CID discover who did it! Will they find out anything useful, or just find out all the juicy gossip?
