The Abominable Constable
Drama Review: The Abominable Constable
The Abominable Constable is a farcical mystery about a ham-fisted enforcer of pointless regulations.
As mysteries go, there is no way to spoil this one, as it is laughably rotten from the gitgo.
The title role is played by the inestimable Testy of Toyaanisqatsi, who sternly (if not gleefully) bullies wayward miscreants who run afoul of her rancid regulations.
The drama takes a bizarre turn when Testy encounters her inevitable antagonist, a curious character named Barsoom who styles himself as an Anthropologist from Mars. Barsoom, it appears, is in the habit of studying Earth Culture, with special emphasis on its legendary dysfunctionality.
Barsoom, being an intrepid scientist, impishly inquires into Testy's inscrutable method of hypothesis testing, knowing full well that she lacks one. Predictably, Testy goes postal and kiboshes Barsoom, skipping such normative niceties as Due Process.
Barsoom, as is his custom, documents the episode in his burgeoning lab notebook, The Hamartian Chronicles.
The mystery, of course, is to figure out Barsoom's diagnosis of Testy's humorless Antisocial Personality Disorder.
The Abominable Constable is a farcical mystery about a ham-fisted enforcer of pointless regulations.
As mysteries go, there is no way to spoil this one, as it is laughably rotten from the gitgo.
The title role is played by the inestimable Testy of Toyaanisqatsi, who sternly (if not gleefully) bullies wayward miscreants who run afoul of her rancid regulations.
The drama takes a bizarre turn when Testy encounters her inevitable antagonist, a curious character named Barsoom who styles himself as an Anthropologist from Mars. Barsoom, it appears, is in the habit of studying Earth Culture, with special emphasis on its legendary dysfunctionality.
Barsoom, being an intrepid scientist, impishly inquires into Testy's inscrutable method of hypothesis testing, knowing full well that she lacks one. Predictably, Testy goes postal and kiboshes Barsoom, skipping such normative niceties as Due Process.
Barsoom, as is his custom, documents the episode in his burgeoning lab notebook, The Hamartian Chronicles.
The mystery, of course, is to figure out Barsoom's diagnosis of Testy's humorless Antisocial Personality Disorder.
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