Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of
Tories
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The time is 1776 and the aristocratic Lee family
of Virginia is in peril – the victims of a Tory plot.
To flush out the would-be assassin, the family
invites all their neighbors, Tory and
Revolutionary, to a dinner at Stratford Hall.
Before they can even discover who is after them
they find the assassin dead in their midst.
Flummoxed, they must now find out who killed the
killer! Unfortunately, the Lees are not much help
to themselves. Arthur is an utter fop more
interested in fashions and young ladies than
sleuthing. Henry is forever writing speeches for
the Continental Congress. Elizabeth would
normally have solved the entire problem herself
but something is definitely amiss with the widow.
Missy and her beau, Dr. Hall, are a bit too
preoccupied with each other. That leaves Toby,
Arthur’s manservant. But what is he to do? His
every moment is spent attending to Arthur. It is up
to the audience to help poor Toby solve this
mystery and right the ship of the American
Revolution, gone slightly astray in the straights of
Stratford.
