The Brie, The Bullet and The Black Cat

As Time Goes By
The year is 1942, the town is Casablanca. The final few days of Vichy France. Of all the joints in all the world, Monsieur Huges Le Grandbutte, the Deputy Mayor of Casablanca invites his guests to the Official Residence to meet France’s greatest living mime artist.

Fundamental Things Apply
Mon Dieu! Bonne Douleur! France’s greatest living mime artist, The Black Cat, cannot attend. He is dead, he is no more, he is deceased. Il est mort. Qui a tué Le Chat Noir? (Who killed The Black Cat?)

Bienvenue aux femmes

• EDITH LE GRANDBUTTE - the mayor's wife, a former dancer
• NICOLE LE GRANDBUTTE - Edith and Hughes' daughter, an idealist
• COUNTESS BOGOV - an exiled, glamorous Russian aristocrat
• CHERIE BOOT - a husky-voiced French cabaret singer
• INGRID PITH - a flirtatious Danish art dealer

Bienvenue aux hommes

• HUGHES LE GRANDBUTTE - Deputy Mayor of Casablanca, a bureaucrat
• KIRK RANSOM III - an American who runs Kirk's Cafe in downtown Casablanca, a doomed romantic
• MONSIEUR OU MADAME OILY-CARTE – an ambiguous booking agent for the Moulin Bleu in Paris
• PIERRE PAYANSKI - a 24 year old half-Russian rather-leftish poet, Nicole’s lover

Suspect suspicious suspects
Is Huges as respectable as he seems? Does Edith yearn for her earlier days as a dancer? Will Nicole finally lose patience with her German-appeasing father? Why is Kirk nursing a broken heart? What happened in Countess Bogov’s past? What plans did Monsieur (ou Madame) Oily-Cart have for The (late) Black Cat. How did Pierre get his wooden leg? Does Cherie always sing for her supper or does she have another source of income? What priceless paintings are being pursued by Ingrid across wartorn Europe and Northern Africa. Which of them knew The Black Cat personally? Who has the strongest motive for wanting him dead?

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