It\'s a warm Summer evening in Cedar County.
A member of the cast has been found fatally stabbed..
When the electricity is restored, Ray Elkins, the Sheriff of Cedar County, is guided from his seat in the auditorium to the stage area.
The building and surrounding countryside go black.
Then the power fails.
Flashes of lightning cast eerie shadows through the rolling, heavily wooded landscape.
The old auditorium reverberates to the violent tumult.
By the first intermission the intense thunderstorm is overhead.
In the auditorium of the Mission Point Summer Colony, the audience settles in for a performance of a stage adaptation of Agatha Christie\'s Death at the Vicarage.
A storm is just beginning to roll onshore from Lake Michigan.
It\'s a warm Summer evening in Cedar County
