The Home Secretary lies dead on his sofa and his wife Desdemona admits to murdering him. But why did she kill him and why would anyone confess to such a crime? Sir Richard Everall of Scotland Yard wants to cover things up and avoid another embarrassing scandal for the Government. But Desdemona is she wants everyone to know why she murdered the Illustrious Corpse. Murder is high places, political marriage, the complications of party all come under dramatic scrutiny in this sharp contemporary satire.