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Mile Away Murder is a 1937 murder mystery play by the British writer Anthony Armstrong. It ran at the Duchess Theatre in London's West End between 2 April and 8 May 1937. The cast included Walter Hudd, D. A. Clarke-Smith, Wilfred Caithness, Oliver Johnston, Evelyn Roberts and Gillian Maude. It received a negative review in The New Statesmanwhich considered it unmysterious while The New York Times described it as "highly competent".

References

1. Watson & Willison p.907
2. Wearing p.592
3. Wearing p.592
4. https://www.nytimes.com/1937/04/03/archives/mystery-play-in-london-mile-away-murder-is-highly-competent.html

Bibliography

• Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1930–1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
• Willison, I.R. (ed.) The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 4, 1900–1950. Cambridge University Press, 1972.

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