A young, wealthy opera singer has come to a small country town looking for “hidden treasurers”, (i.e., common folk who have the gift for singing opera) but instead she finds herself buried in get-rich-quick schemes, stolen art, suspicious land deals, jealously, and deception, all the elements for a perfect picture of murder.

Portrait of Murder premiered in 2002 at the Cumberland Heritage Village Museum, Ottawa, Ontario, by Vintage Stock Theatre, directed by Susan M. Flemming.