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| Inspector Whalley's Casebook by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 80 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A play in three episodes. (Think of this as three acts!) |
| Synopsis | Three cases involving Inspector Whalley and the hapless PC Hitchcock. They try to catch the Battersea Batterer, the Wandsworth Weirdo, and solve the mystery of Hitchcock's breakdown. All with the help of a profiler and Doctor Boffin. |
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| Inspector Whalley's Casebook - Volume 2 by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Same principal characters as Inspector Whalley's Casebook, but functions completely independently. |
| Run Time | Around 96 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Single set - a police operations room with a single entrance (which need not be a practical door). |
| Synopsis | Inspector 'Bloodhound' Whalley and his team take on a trio of tricky cases - missing persons, ATM cash theft, and ...Team Building! |
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| Person Or Persons Unknown by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Detective Sergeant French is written male but could probably be played female. |
| Run Time | Around 100 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length thriller with a single living-room setting. |
| Synopsis | Robert's wife has been brutally murdered but the police have no clues as to the perpetrator, but there seems to have been some kind of love triangle involving a beautiful young actress and an unstable neighbour. |
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| The Windfall by Barry Lambert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One (gender non-specific) character is voice only and can be doubled. |
| Run Time | Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length farce with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | When an intruder drops dead in their Sudbury flat, Laura Barrett passes off the corpse as husband Neville and claims the life insurance, thereby solving their multiple financial problems. In return for a cut, neighbour Peter supplies a car so Neville can take refuge in Yorkshire while Laura deals with the sale of their flat. Long-suppressed feelings between Laura and Peter soon come to the surface, but all efforts to ‘cement their relationship’ seem doomed to end in frustration at the hands of the emergency services. |
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