My beautiful mistress - Carolyn Terry

London in the 1880s; actor-manager De Vere Cavendish is found dead on his own stage. A beautiful woman admits to the crime, but while she is innocent, the real murderess is one of her equally beautiful sisters. All five have been involved with De Vere's theatre but his one love is the stage, his beautiful mistress. Despite the stigma, Marion, the eldest, turns to acting as the family need money and the others follow. An abortion leaves her sterile, after De Vere makes her pregnant but refuses to marry her. A back-stage accident leaves her sister Charley crippled, as De Vere refused to spend money on safety. And Imogen, who had killed their father for sexually abusing her twin and has a drink and drug problem, commits suicide after De Vere gives her a job. Marion and Charley are plotting to buy him out when he turns his attention to Arabella, the second twin. They all have motives but only one killed De Vere...