An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could ...

Analysis This is such a shocking image presented in plain language ... concerns that Priestley had at the time of writing An Inspector Calls around age, gender, class and social responsibility.

At the heart of this is Inspector Goole, who gatecrashes the fancy dinner held by factory owning industrialist Arthur Birling to celebrate his daughter Sheila’s forthcoming nuptials with the ...