A host of TV soap stars will tread the boards in a murder mystery in Basingstoke next month.

Strictly Murder will star legendary 'Corrie Killer' Brian Capron who after leaving Coronation Street went on to become a popular actor in Where the Heart Is.

Also starring is Corrinne Wicks (Doctors, Emmerdale) and Gary Turner (Emmerdale).

Strictly Murder, presented by Talking Scarlet, comes to The Haymarket from Wednesday May 3 to Saturday May 6.

It is April 1939. An English couple, Peter and Suzy, are living in Provence in idyllic isolation, far, it seems, from the rumblings of the coming war. But their peace is shattered from within when Suzy discovers she has been betrayed: Peter is not the man he claims to be.

Suzy's life is thrown into turmoil as the possibility arises that Peter may in fact be a ruthless killer on the run. Then a Scotland Yard detective arrives and events become even more complicated and frightening.

Lies, subterfuge and murder make this fast-moving thriller a dark and disturbing roller coaster of bluff and double bluff.

Written by Brian Clemens, the man behind such sixties’ and seventies’ hits The Avengers and The Professionals, this production has a plot that twists and turns, keeping you guessing right to the very last.

For more information or tickets, call the Anvil Arts box office on 01256 844244, or visit the website anvilarts.org.uk.