Nine Girls

The holiday chatter in their mountain clubhouse is silenced as a radio announces the news of Paula's death. Alice has just received a letter from Paula that contains an important clue. She confides this to only one of the girls, who instantly snatches the letter and burns it! Alice may have made a fatal error in choosing her confidante. Then the killer strikes at Alice, cleverly making her death seem like a suicide. Only shrewd Eve rejects the suicide theory, but then she, too, errs in her choice of a confidante.

BETTY (Tennessee): She has a marked southern accent, wears a little-girl dress which accentuates her tender years.

SHIRLEY: She is correspondingly cute, with big round eyes and an energy that is apparently inexhaustible.

STELLA (Shotput): She is a heavy-set girl, the horsy, athletic type. She arrives with miscellaneous sports equipment. She wears ski-pants and an oversize sweater adorned with the college letter.

MARY: She is pretty, graceful, and sinuous; she displays no hint of her plebeian background.