A HILARIOUS spoof in the Agatha Christie tradition awaits audiences in the Rossendale Players' production of Murdered To Death.

Set in a country manor house in the 1930s, the play has a "Cluedo-esque" cast of characters, including Bunting the recalcitrant butler, Colonel Craddock with the pre-requisite stiff upper lip, Pierre, a shady French art dealer and his high class moll, Elizabeth, the bumbling Inspector Pratt and a well meaning local sleuth, Miss Maple, who attracts murder wherever she goes!

They all get caught up in the side-splitting antics which follow the mysterious death of the house owner.

But are they all what they seem?

Soon it becomes clear the murderer isn't finished - but will the killer be unmasked before everyone else has met their doom, or will the audience die laughing first?

Directed by award-winning Len Taylor, Murdered To Death by Peter Gordon runs at Bacup Leisure Hall from November 25 to 29. Performances with meals (27 - 29) have been sold out in record time, but to see the play without a meal on Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26, tickets £5, call (01706) 228720.