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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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An Elliot Steinway MysteryAuthorGary Diamond
Roles Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 20. No chorus.
Run time Around 120 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length farce, a parody of murder mysteries with labyrinthine plots! Contains mild swearing and many shots in the dark.
Synopsis Henri Gilbert is dead, and his will asserts that he was murdered. Unless all those who stood to gain for his death remain at his mansion for a fortnight, his money will go to charity. During those two weeks, Elliot Steinway, the TV detective (or rather, Donald Smart, the actor who portrayed him) must unmask the murderer and win the fortune for himself. Aided only by the solicitor and his faithful sidekick Badger, he struggles through labyrinthine plots to get to the truth... probably.
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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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Mind Over ManorAuthorLoretta Willoughby
Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The characters are all adults. They are written as 3M, 7F, but one of the male characters could be switched to female with the change of a couple of lines.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Modern comedy play. Single set (reception room of large, old US house), simple props. Three acts.
Synopsis Jasmine and Chester arrive at Summer Meadows, a large out-of-town mansion, looking for the owner. What they meet is a collection of people who are, at the very least, eccentric. When Jasmine starts to question them fiercely, the residents start to question her motives - then Jasmine goes missing...
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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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Read All About ItAuthorColin Calvert
Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. The minimum character count assumes that the driver doubles as D.I. Throgge.
Run time Around 95 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Comedy Thriller. Single main stage set with additional car interior set in front of the main stage. Includes gun violence and mild swearing.
Synopsis It's a big day for McTaggart, the editor of The Biggleswick Bugle - he's meeting the mayor of the German twin town, and he's out to impress. Unfortunately, that means relying on his staff. There's Ted, the disillusioned hack, Britney who does the classifieds, Blodwen Jones - Jones the Death - the obituary specialist, Kevin the odd-job man and Mrs. Parmeter, the tea lady. And there's a madman on the loose. With a machine gun. Things just aren't going the way they were planned...
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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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Sherlock Holmes And The Pirates Of The HornAuthorVithal Rajan
Roles Minimum Male roles = 11. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 14. Minimum total without doubling = 24. Chorus.
Run time Around 120 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music None.
Style Full-length play set in and around Victorian London.
Synopsis It's 1888, and Sherlock Holmes is set the task of unravelling the identity of pirates operating off the Horn of Africa (the coast of Somalia!) where they are threatening British Interests in the shipping using the Suez Canal.
A satisfying Sherlockian mystery with modern resonances.
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Sherlock's Excellent AdventureAuthorJames Barry
Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus.
Run time Around 90 minutes. [Caution! This is very dependent on your production.]
Music Sheet music for four original songs provided with the Producer's Copy of the Script.
Style Parody of Sherlock Holmes stories, visual jokes, theatrical jokes, wordplay. Not strictly a pantomime, but has some of the elements (including Mrs. Hudson as a pantomime dame) and could fit in a slot in the panto season.
Synopsis Lucy Matravers engages Holmes and Watson to resolve a dispute over a family will, bringing conflict with Holmes's arch enemy, Moriarty.
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