"An Inspector Calls" was written by John Boynton Priestley in 1945 and set in 1912, before the Titanic set sail and before there is any substantial talk of war. Bromley is a fictional place which is, in reality, Bradford. "An Inspector Calls" is a play in the guise of a detective thriller genre, as we later discover that there is an inspector attempting to gain information on an incident. Priestley had to disguise his play because at the time 1947, just after the end of the war, the most popular types of play were those written by famous crime and detective thriller authors. Inspector Goole whether a real inspector or not is Priestley's instrument for teaching the moral lesson in the play and that is if you don't care for the unfortunate, it will haunt you later in life.

The play itself is very compact and has no sub-plot to distract...