THE usual Agatha Christie twists and turns abound in the Nonentities' latest offering, and I certainly didn't guess "who dun it".

Clarissa Hailsham-Brown loves to imagine herself in all kinds of situations, including dangerous ones, and her husband and friends are quite used to her cooking up stories.

When a tragedy happens for real, who will believe her? And when she misunderstands what she believes to be a confession she starts making up stories for the police, and the intrigue becomes even more tangled.

Nicola Blakemore is superb as Clarissa, and she is ably supported by some other strong performances.

Les Laws is brilliant as the kindly, avuncular, and usually sensible, Rowland, and Dennis Beasley is so well cast as Hugo Birch, pillar of the society, and a JP for goodness sake - he doesn't want to get mixed up in anything criminal!

A new face, to me, Tom Oakley, is most impressive as Jeremy Warrender, young lad about town, who thinks the whole thing is great fun.

Robert Graham makes a great police inspector, and he is backed up by Craig Rigsby as Constable Jones, who plays his role well, even if the Welsh accent slips a little at times.

David Wakeman, as ever reliable, in the role of Henry, and Laura Potter is excellent as his young daughter, Pippa.

Straff Dance and Mel Atkin add to the mayhem, as does Joan Wakeman, as the gung-ho gardener, but as is sometimes the case, she goes over the top, and is irritating.

This is a terrific performance, the cast doing justice to the wonderful Christie plot.

VJS