The German Baron and the Italian Count were firm friends – but theirs was a friendship with a complicated past.

Years earlier, a love triangle had threatened to tear them apart. Somehow, the matter was resolved, their differences put aside and cordial relations restored.

Or so it seemed.

For beneath the surface, one of them nursed a grudge – and a secret desire for revenge. Was that revenge ever carried out? And if so, did it end in murder? Could it even have been the perfect murder?

Set against the atmospheric backdrop of 19th-century Italy and inspired by an ingenious tale within Robert Louis Stevenson’sThe Master of Ballantrae, this is a gripping story of friendship, betrayal, revenge and murder – with far more twists than first meet the eye.

Following their productions of The Comedy of Terrors and The Haunted Bride, the brilliant Rumpus Theatre Company returns with this all-new, classic spine-tingling mystery.