Lawrence C. Connolly

Tag: word games

  • This Week on Mystery Theatre:Arsenic, Old Lace, and Obnoxious Padre

    This Week on Mystery Theatre:
    Arsenic, Old Lace, and Obnoxious Padre

    For a gallon of elderberry wine, I take one teaspoonful of arsenic, then add a half teaspoonful of strychnine, and then just a pinch of cyanide. That’s Aunt Martha’s recipe for wine with a kick (as in kick the bucket) from Joseph Kesselring’s dark-comedy classic Arsenic and Old Lace, and it’s too bad Jonathan Brewster…