ROPE by Patrick Hamilton

What do you do for fun?
Dinner with friends? A night out? Cold-blooded murder?

For Wyndham Brandon, the thrill of danger is the ultimate amusement. Persuasive and calculating, he convinces his impressionable friend, Charles Granillo, to help commit the perfect crime: the murder of a fellow student, Ronald Raglan—chosen not out of hatred, but for the sheer intellectual challenge.

Their victim’s body is hidden in a wooden chest. And in a chilling twist, the chest becomes the centrepiece of a dinner party—attended by the victim’s own father and former teacher. As the evening unfolds, tension mounts. Will the murder remain undiscovered? Or will guilt, suspicion, and arrogance unravel their carefully laid plan?

Have they given themselves just enough rope to hang themselves?

First staged in 1929, Rope is a gripping psychological thriller that explores the dark allure of power, morality, and consequence. Though once nearly forgotten, it has since earned its place as a classic of 20th-century theatre—immortalised by Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic film adaptation and revived time and again for its chilling relevance and dramatic intensity.

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