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The Affairs At Meddler's Top by Richard Coleman	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. 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. [Estimated!] 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 are revealed, leading up to a murder. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. Feedback Click here to find out what other customers said about this script.
Being of Sound Mind by Andrew Hull	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. (One character is - deliberately - uncredited in the script.) Run Time Around 140 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Full-length murder mystery. Single set. Synopsis Edward Goodchild has died, and the will is read. Penny and Stephen are hoping for cash. Rebecca wants the truth about her sister's death. Martin is surprised to be there, but to get a single penny, they must first survive a night in the house. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Death in a Most Peculiar Manor by Roger Mathewson	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. 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. [Estimated!] 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. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
The Death on the Smug Juggler by Richard Coleman	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. 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. [Estimated!] 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!) Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
A Fete Worse Than Death by Richard James	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Run Time Around 95 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Full-length comic murder mystery. (The comedy comes from situation and character. The murder mystery is handled seriously.) Single simple set - a marquee at a village fete! Contains a small amount of mild swearing. (And a murder.) Synopsis Actor Ray Martin is opening the village fete, playing on his fame as TV's Inspector Brady. Little does he know that ambition, infidelity and marrow envy will lead to murder, and he'll be left to solve the murder - without a script! Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Fishing for Clues by Geoff Bamber	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. As written, there are six men and five women, but two of the men are identical twins, and since very few acting companies are blessed with such a pairing, the characters are assumed to be played by one chap. Run Time Around 120 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Full-length, wryly comic whodunnit. Single country house set. Contains mild swearing and hanky-panky. Synopsis When Lady Rosemary Huntley brings a new gentleman friend home on the evening of a talk given by prominent Member of Parliament, Ewart Stewart, little does she imagine that the gentleman friend is not long for this world and that the Foreign Office and some offshoot of the KGB will soon be in attendance, along with the ever-enthusiastic PC Pendlebury and the less than enthusiastic Inspector Trench, unimpressed by having his fishing holiday interrupted. Trench is determined to get back to the river bank as soon as possible despite finding himself having to sort through a diverse cast of characters all of whom had motives for committing the deadly deed. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Five Americans, Three Murders and a Poisoning by Robert Bloomfield Players/Rebecca Preen	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 15. Minimum total with doubling = 20. Minimum total without doubling = 31. No chorus. Run Time Around 125 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style A ripping comedy whodunnit with fast paced dialogue and changes of scene very cleverly keeping the audience on its toes. Written for a youth theatre performance but would be equally suitable for an adult cast. Synopsis Set in the splendour of Grantham Manor, England, 1926, a Murder Mystery unravels. Lady Grantham and her children, Jeremy and Miranda are awoken to discover that Lord Grantham, husband and father respectively, has been murdered - his Brandy glass laced with poison. One of the country's most promising young Inspectors is brought in to investigate along with England's first female Professor of Forensic Pathology. Together they must discover who perpetrated the death of this prominent local dignitary before anyone else falls prey to a roaming killer. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Ghosts at the Grange by Karen Doling	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. 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. [Estimated!] 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? Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
The Killings at Snowball's Drift by Richard Coleman	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. 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. [Estimated!] 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! Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
The Mayhem on Smuggler's Pier by Richard Coleman	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 16. Minimum total without doubling = 19. No chorus. Run Time Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Murder mystery set within a cabaret show and therefore interspersed with cabaret acts. Simple sets. Synopsis The Pettigrew Players have assembled for their annual summer show on Smuggler's Pier, but just as they begin their rehearsals, maverick financier Cornelius Van De Vellt announces that he has bought the pier and is closing them down. With all the players depending on the success of the show, there are plenty of suspects when Van De Vellt is found murdered. Will Inspector Bacchus solve the case (or will he just sit back and enjoy the cabaret)? Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.

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