Kris J. Anderson
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A deliriously happy cast after the rambunctious fourth night of Agatha Holmes: 'The Whodunnit of the Footprint on the Wall', guest starring Tom Dunstan as Tom Onions.
Tom Onions - manservant, dung shoveler, groundsman and general dogsbody of Cadsworth Manor - is not all that he appears to be. Having eavesdropped on numerous conversations and gotten his hairy paws on a few private letters, Onions has accumulated his betters' sordid secrets. More than just a disgusting little scrote, Tom Onions is also a blackmailer. It's just as well for his blackmailees that just as he announces his money-grubbing intentions, the temperamental electrical supply at Cadsworth Manor fails, giving one of the suspects the chance to run Onions through with an 18th century sabre.
But Agatha Holmes is on the case, and this time he's got steampunk technology on his side! As remarkable as it seems to Wastings, Holmes uses actual science to sift through the clues, noting that Antony Thatcher is outraged at being the only member of the household Onions wasn't blackmailing; Augusta Wellesley had an illegitimate bastard child with Winston Churchill; and Pickering is a silly butler. But it was Oliver Redgrave's ability to move about in a cluttered room in the dark unaided that told Holmes the horrible truth - that the Colonel was a highly trained spy, and that he killed Onions to prevent him from blowing his cover at the delectable Cadsworth Village brothel, Madam Pumpers.
Photography by Tim Gawne.
20100708_5611.jpg
A deliriously happy cast after the rambunctious fourth night of Agatha Holmes: 'The Whodunnit of the Footprint on the Wall', guest starring Tom Dunstan as Tom Onions.
Tom Onions - manservant, dung shoveler, groundsman and general dogsbody of Cadsworth Manor - is not all that he appears to be. Having eavesdropped on numerous conversations and gotten his hairy paws on a few private letters, Onions has accumulated his betters' sordid secrets. More than just a disgusting little scrote, Tom Onions is also a blackmailer. It's just as well for his blackmailees that just as he announces his money-grubbing intentions, the temperamental electrical supply at Cadsworth Manor fails, giving one of the suspects the chance to run Onions through with an 18th century sabre.
But Agatha Holmes is on the case, and this time he's got steampunk technology on his side! As remarkable as it seems to Wastings, Holmes uses actual science to sift through the clues, noting that Antony Thatcher is outraged at being the only member of the household Onions wasn't blackmailing; Augusta Wellesley had an illegitimate bastard child with Winston Churchill; and Pickering is a silly butler. But it was Oliver Redgrave's ability to move about in a cluttered room in the dark unaided that told Holmes the horrible truth - that the Colonel was a highly trained spy, and that he killed Onions to prevent him from blowing his cover at the delectable Cadsworth Village brothel, Madam Pumpers.
Photography by Tim Gawne.