Hattie Steals the Show
By (Author) Patrick Gleeson
Bedford Square Publishers
Bedford Square Publishers
26th August 2025
8th May 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Performing arts
Comic (humorous) crime and mystery
Crime and mystery: women sleuths
Paperback
304
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
Stage manager Hattie Cocker is looking around the West End theatre where she's about to start her new temporary gig, when she stumbles across the dead body of the current musical's composer.
A week later the prime suspect in the murder is on Hattie's doorstep asking for her help in proving his innocence, and to do that she needs to find a missing musical score. And that may be found in the grand country home of producer Sir Trevor Dougray, where Hattie is stage managing a two-week workshop for his new show.
As deception is layered on deception, Hattie will have to work out who she really knows, and can trust...
Patrick has a degree in philosophy and classics, another one in technical theatre and stage management, and one more in business administration. He has worked as a theatre sound designer, an 'interpretive naturalist' at an aquarium, a software developer, a business mentor to fledgling entrepreneurs, and a voice actor. He composed the music for a musical about taxidermy that The Stage said 'put to shame the hackneyed standards of the contemporary musical scene', and has been performed in London, Edinburgh, Suffolk and, weirdly, Alaska. He now lives in Norfolk with his wife and two children, where he brews mediocre cider.