Angel Street

by Patrick Hamilton

Tells the story of the demonic Manninghams of Angel Street. Under the guise of kindliness, handsome Mr. Manningham is torturing his wife into insanity.  He accuses her of petty aberrations that he has arranged himself; and since her mother died of insanity, she is more than half convinced that she, too, is going out of her mind. While her diabolical husband is out of the house, a benign police inspector visits her and ultimately proves to her that her husband is a maniacal criminal suspected of a murder committed fifteen years ago in the same house, that he is preparing to dispose of her.  Then starts the game of trying to uncover the necessary evidence against Mr. Manningham. It is a thrilling and exiting melodramatic game.  An English thriller set in the days of London gaslight.

“Your dark, confused, rambling mind has led you into playing some pretty tricks, tonight.”

May 30 – June 14, 2008