You will want to get the real skinny on this one
Agatha Christie's "The Case of the Missing Lady" adapted by Jonathan Hale.

The Scene opens with a moaning lady; hovering over her is a brute assistant Muldoon to what looks like a mad doctor and his Brunhilda looking assistant. To make matters worse there is the biggest hypodermic syringe ever conserved by man. It is half full of green glop.

Gabriel Savansson (Jonathan Newth) just returned from a two year stint in the artic and is getting the runaround while trying to find his fiancé Herminie. To make matters the Lady Susan that was giving him the runaround was FAT and he has always hated fat women. He is in need of a detective agency.

After the Great War Tommy Beresford (James Warwick) and wife/ assistant Tuppence (Francesca Annis) buy the Blunt International Detective agency. And with out any background become detectives. By the time you get to this episode they are getting good at it (maybe).

Why Tommy and Tuppence are discussing the situation with the large, charming Lady Susan (Elspeth March). A telegram arrives that gives them a clue to the whereabouts of Herminie. This clue may take to them to the sinister world we started out with.

Tuppence will be required to be East European ballerina and is forced to explain Swan Lake. Tommy has a "nose" for these things.

The acting at first make you thing that you are sitting in the front row of a Bernard Shaw play. During the Swan Lake scene we are wondering why the comedy of manners, when we should be deadly serious and terrified.

Will the "partner in crime" be able to foil what surly looks like a wicked plot?