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While Oscar and Hildegarde are attending a Broadway show, a press agent is shot in an actress' dressing room and an actor is murdered onstage in full view of the audience. Oscar and Hildegarde are on the case.

Police Inspector Oscar Piper and Hildegared Withers attend the opening night of a Broadway play in New York City, and the show's press agent is murdered before the curtain goes up. But the show must go on and while Piper is busily investigating the killing while the play goes on, the play's librettist is shot. Piper and Withers are in and out of dressing rooms, in audience cubicles belonging to the producer and press agent, and in the basement storeroom, and far stage left and right working on finding the killer before the curtain drops.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Forty Naughty Girls, a musical revue, is the hottest ticket on Broadway and the first starring vehicle for Rita Marlowe. Much is secretly going on behind the scenes, from the happy - such as Rita and producer Ricky Rickman getting engaged, and Ricky selling the show's movie rights for $100,000, half of which would go to the show's up and coming book writer, Tommy Washburn - to the not so happy which includes theft, cheating and blackmail. During one the the evening shows, one of the featured players finds someone associated with the show backstage shot dead in the back of the head. Knowing that he is in the audience, Ricky enlists the help of Police Inspector Oscar Piper to investigate, while the show must go on. Hildegarde Withers, Oscar's seemingly scatterbrain girlfriend who is his companion for the evening, can't help but insert herself into the investigation, much to an exasperated Oscar's chagrin. Oscar and Hildegarde go off in different directions in their respective investigations, sometimes getting in the other's way and getting in way of the on-going show, but in combination they may be able to bring to light the secrets that abound behind the scenes to discover who the murderer is and what was his/her motive for the murder.—Huggo