Information for Rebus: A Game Called Malice at Oxford Playhouse, Oxford (Play). Told exclusively on stage. A splendid dinner party concludes with a game created by the hostess. A murder in a stately home needs to be solved. Suspects, clues and red herrings await - but the dinner-party guests have secrets of their own, threatened by the very game they are playing. And among them is Inspector John Rebus. True crime is his calling - is he playing an alternative game, one to which only he knows the rules? There is danger with every twist and turn - and a shocking discovery will send this game called Malice hurtling towards a gasp-inducing conclusion.