'Sensational' lost play by Peter Pan author JM Barrie published

The Reconstruction of a Crime, which the Scottish author co-wrote with the humorist EV Lucas, has been unearthed by the Strand magazine

An unperformed play by the Peter Pan author JM Barrie that has languished in a Texas archive for half a century is to be published for the first time.

The play, entitled The Reconstruction of a Crime, was found in Barrie’s archives at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, where the catalogue describes it as “a sensational scene”, in which the audience is requested to assist one “Mr Hicks … in the detection of the criminal”. It takes its bow alongside new fiction from Ruth Ware, Jo Nesbø and Charles Todd in the Strand magazine, an American journal that has previously unearthed work by writers such as Mark Twain and Tennessee Williams.

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