An adaptation for the stage of the original novel, The Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton by Magdalen King-Hall Lady Barbara Skelton is beautiful, wild and truly wicked. Forced into a respectable marriage with a man she cannot love, she soon becomes bored and embarks on a secret life of gambling, highway robbery and murder. But she is playing a dangerous game. Shadowed by betrayal, threatened by revenge, can Barbara escape her wicked life? Or will she be abandoned to her terrible fate?