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A Spot of MurderAuthorGeoff Bamber
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus.
Run time Around 100 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Richly comic murder mystery play. Full-length play, single domestic set. Contains mild swearing and mild adult themes.
Synopsis When faded theatrical diva, Corrina Marcham, senses that she is in great danger, she calls in Detective Inspector Trench to investigate a murder that has't been committed yet - her own. With the suspects, marooned at the Marchams' isolated country house because of a storm, Corrina ensures that Trench's journey has not been wasted by conveniently dying. Has Corrina simply died of fright after an alarming Tarot card reading? Has she committed suicide in a bout of thespian depression, or has she really been murdered? And by who? Somebody with something to gain? Somebody with something to hide? Or simply somebody she had upset? Can Trench and the eager PC Pendlebury uncover the truth before they have to call in somebody else to do it properly?
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Death in a Most Peculiar ManorAuthorRoger Mathewson
Roles Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus.
Run time Around 150 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length murder mystery play. Single box set - the classic domestic set, complete with French windows. Contains mild swearing.
Synopsis Old, right-wing Sir Edwin teagle-Bland is furious with his son for being thrown out of college and worried his wife will find out he's planning to sell off part of the estate to make a golf course. When he's killed in his own gun room, most people assume it's suicide, but there's much more than meets the eye.
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Ghosts at the GrangeAuthorKaren Doling
Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. No chorus.
Run time Around 85 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length comic whodunnit. Single living room set.
Synopsis Lancelot and Guinevere are dead, and have been for a hundred years. They haunt Arthur's house, and are the only witnesses to his murder. But how can they let his family know who committed the foul deed?
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Murder at Mole EndAuthorKaren Doling
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus.
Run time Around 85 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length murder mystery play (single set). A comedy which manages to get as far as self-parody whilst delivering a complex and satisfying mystery.
Synopsis Two couples attend a Murder Mystery Weekend, only to discover that they all have links to the main actor in the piece. Before too long, he's been murdered for real and the race is on to solve the murder and avoid jail!
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Murder! Mystery! - and Suspenders?AuthorKaren Doling
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. All characters are adults. Variety of ages.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Comic take on the classic whodunnit. Single box set with practical door and French window.
Synopsis There's a body in the library - apparently strangled with a suspender belt (unless you're American, in which case he was strangled with a garter belt) - a mystery to be solved and lots of people acting suspiciously. All the ingredients of the classic whodunnit, including the pipe-smoking amateur detective - though in this case, she might well be one of the suspects!
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RipplesAuthorPete Grocock
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus.
Run time Around 70 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Long one-act murder mystery (or short full-length play). Single set. Simple props. Contains mild swearing.
Synopsis A family meal is marred by the discovery of the body of a murdered woman in the hall trunk. The owners of the house don't know who she is or how she got there, but some of their guests know her well, and one is hiding further secrets.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Mallen HallAuthorRichard James
Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus.
Run time Around 110 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Brilliant full-length mystery in a single Baker Street set.
Synopsis The redoubtable Holmes is presented with a murder mystery that took place three weeks previously, hundreds of miles away. With his usual brilliance, he solves the case from the comfort of his rooms in Baker Street.
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The Affairs At Meddler's TopAuthorRichard Coleman
Roles Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus.
Run time Around 75 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style A hilarious comic spoof of a murder mystery, set in the 1920s. (Two acts - but relatively short.)
Synopsis A country house weekend is organised with a view to trapping a thief. Various tangled affairs a revealed, leading up to a murder.
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The Death on the Smug JugglerAuthorRichard Coleman
Roles Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. One of the female characters is optional (with only a brief appearance for the first scene). If this character is dropped then alternative dialogue is provided in the Producer's copy of the script.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Classical 'Whodunnit' - a closed environment, a murder and lots of motives - as a full-length play. Single main set plus front-of-gauze scenes. Simple props.
Synopsis Theodore Shimmer is a businessman, smuggler, blackmailer and crook - a man who easily attracts enemies - and many of them seem to have been invited onto 'The Smug Juggler' for a Nile cruise. There's the fading film-star, the debt-ridden gambler, the dodgy doctor and the business rival. No surprise, then, that Theodore Shimmer is found dead. However, the manner of his death is more of a surprise. (Fans of this genre will be led to thinking that they are witnessing a cross between 'Death on the Nile' and 'Murder on the Orient Express' - only to be taken in by the author's cunning plot twist!)
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The Killings at Snowball's DriftAuthorRichard Coleman
Roles Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 15. No chorus. A (male) newsreader appears in the opening prologue. Could be doubled with the Police Inspector or could be done as a voice over.
Run time Around 100 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Two-act murder mystery set in 1948. Single interior set (with the stage split into two or three rooms). Simple props.
Synopsis Snowball's Drift is the home of Sir Gerald Mooncast, head of the Mooncast publishing empire. Authors are gathering at the house for the announcement of the annual Mooncast literary prize. In addition to the artistic tensions, there's skulduggery within the publishing house, romantic rivalries for the affections of Sir Gerald and a family feud involving his estranged sons. The stage is set for murder!
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