Article: Arts Diary: Ex-soap star dials M for a classic thriller; A former soap actor treads the boards in a role of intrigue Lew Baxter reports.(News)

Byline: Lew Baxter reports

OVIE maestro Alfred Hitchcock filmed it with Grace Kelly amongst others in the Fifties while Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow tackled a more recent version, which all goes to show that murder does actually pay - if only at the box office.

Now former Brookside star Steven Pinder - he was Max Farnham for almost a decade in the now defunct soap - is treading the boards in a new touring production of Frederick Knott's classic thriller, Dial M for Murder.

In fact, says Pinder, it's more of a conspiracy play than a whodunnit.

'And its been used as the template for innumerable plays about murder and plotting,' ...

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