Sleuth (play) Sleuth (play) Sleuth is a 1970 play written by Anthony Shaffer. The Broadway production received the Tony Award for Best Play, and Anthony Quayle and Keith Baxter received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance. The play was adapted for feature films in 1972, 2007 and 2014. The play is set in the Wiltshire manor house of Andrew Wyke, an immensely successful mystery writer. Wyke's home reflects his obsession with the inventions and deceptions of fiction and his fascination with games and game-playing. He lures his wife's lover Milo Tindle to the house and convinces him to stage a robbery
USS Baretta (AN-41) and released more chain, enabling the landing craft to free herself. During the night, the wind velocity increased until, at 0100 on the 18th, "Baretta" clocked it at between 81 and 89 knots. Yard and landing craft in her vicinity continually dragged anchors, but "Baretta's" bow anchor held. By 0730, the wind quieted to 30 knots, and "Baretta" headed for the lee of Awajii Island to avoid heavy swells coming from the northeast. The storm abated that afternoon, and "Baretta" returned to Wakanoura Wan and surveyed the devastation: three "LST's" and a "YMS" lay stranded on the northern beaches of