Lioness fundraiser to feature Adam Marshall in murder mystery for Simon O'Brien

Kay Arthur, president of Glen Innes Lioness Club, said Adam Marshall signed up to their September fundraiser, a crime mystery play called Murder in the Glen, right away.

"He's like that," she said.

Lioness this year hope to raise $10,000 for Simon O'Brien, who was injured in an accident in Fiji. Simon's family live in Glen Innes - they held an earlier fundraiser in May to help raise money to pay for some of the hospitalised window tinter, who is self-employed.

Fourteen actors, including the Member for Northern Tablelands and Minister for Agriculture and Western NSW, will assume characters within a 19^th century costume drama on September 14.

All fourteen will have costume and character instructions relating to their roles and the audience will guess the murderer at the end of the play. There will also be three auctions plus a silent auction and a raffle.

The local MP said it wasn't his first time treading the boards.

"Being a keen amateur thespian myself, a veteran of two theater restaurant productions when I was in Gunnedah I though this sounds like fun and it's for a very good cause so happy to help out," he said.

Did he have any other experience with acting or murder?

"I'm in politics so probably both!"

Lioness president Kay Arthur said if an actor is too obviously the murderer and picked by several tables, they will go to a sudden-death round, testing recall of the events of the play.

Murder in the Glen is set for September 14, with kickoff set for 6.00.

Last year's Lioness fundraiser netted thousands for six-year old Poppy Challacombe, who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia on Valentine's Day, and Bradley Knox, diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, a bone tumour, in April, shortly before his eleventh birthday.

The fourteen murder suspects will be: Jay Post, Col Wallace, Dennis Hazelwood, Lloyd Hornsby, Richard O'Dell, Adam Marshall, Dean Gillett, Ruth Brummel, Naomi Bain, Catie Macans, Helen Miller, Cindy Moore, Deanna Montgomery and Sal Molesworth.

Joan O'Brien said Simon is improving, but will be hospitalised until at least Christmas, though he has recently had his first weekend pass away from hospital since the accident.