Hugh Walpole

The Inquisitor Hugh Walpole

The Inquisitor is a murder thriller set in a haunted village. State of rest which they call Yin...state of action which they call Yang. The play opens with a perfect state of Yin. When Yin is thus complete it is ready to pass over into Yang. The impulse or motive which makes a perfect Yin-state pass over into the new Yang-activity comes from an intrusion of the Devil into the universe of God. Men in the pressure of their daily business forget the examiner. This spiritual world may at any moment break in upon the material world, causing a general disorder which men, in their blindness, attribute to casual accident. I was just going to tell Pa if there was any errands he wanted run my chum and me was just aching to run them, when a yellow cat without any tail was walking over the minister...