Murder on the Second Floor (play)

Murder on the Second Floor is a play by Frank Vosper. The 1929 Broadway play was produced by Albert H. Woods and directed by William Mollison.

Cast

 * Charles Brown as Joseph Reynolds
 * O. B. Clarence as Edward Armitage
 * Florence Edney as Mrs. Rose Armitage
 * Phyllis Konstam as Sylvia Armitage
 * Viola Lyel as Lucy Timson
 * Laurence Olivier as Hugh Bromilow
 * George Probert as Jam Singh
 * John R. Turnbull as A Police Inspector
 * Henry Warwick as A Police Constable
 * Drusilla Wills as Miss Snell

Adaptations
The play was adapted into the films Murder on the Second Floor (1932) and Shadows on the Stairs (1941) and for television as Murder on the Second Floor (1939). Vosper adapted the play into a novel of the same name, published in 1930.