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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.
Custard and Disinfectant by Jim Pinnock Performance by Carbost Community Drama came overall second at the Skye Division One Act Drama Festival, 2012	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Run Time Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Murder mystery with a darkly comic edge. Includes swearting. Synopsis Albert's a terror in the old folks' home, making improper suggestions and using bad language. But when he's found dead with a dagger in his chest and sleeping pills under his chair, the problem isn't whodunit, but who DIDN'T... Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Death in Character by Stuart Ardern	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. Characters are all adults. Run Time Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style One-act whodunnit, with lots of comic potential. Single simple set (a theatre stage strewn with the debris of previous productions), one act play. Synopsis The management committee meets on the stage for the last time to arrange closure of their theatre. By the end of the evening the police are called in to investigate a murder with a rather unusual victim. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. Feedback Click here to find out what other customers said about this script.
Inspector Quaker of the Yard by Peter Stallard	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Run Time Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style One-act comedy play - a spoof detective story. Synopsis Cecil has gone missing (from his position on the mantlepiece) and Lady Boulder has to find him - and his urn. The stage is set for Inspector Quaker of the Yard in The Return of the Cecil Vessel. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Miss Glossop Comes to Tea by Stuart Ardern	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. No chorus. Character ages range from young adult to retired. Run Time Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Humorous one-act murder mystery. Single set (domestic living room). One-act play. Synopsis Hapless amateur sleuth, Miss Glossop visits an old friend and solves a murder to the satisfaction of everyone - especially the guilty. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. Feedback Click here to find out what other customers said about this script.
Miss Glossop's Weekend Break by Stuart Ardern	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. Characters range from young adults to retirees. Run Time Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Humorous one-act murder mystery. Single set. One act play. Synopsis A murder is committed at a small hotel, and Miss Glossop is on hand to demonstrate how easy it is to jump to the wrong conclusions. A second outing for the incompetent detective who first appeared in Miss Glossop Comes to Tea. (Note that this is not a sequel - the two plays function independently.) Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost. Feedback Click here to find out what other customers said about this script.
Murder at Peculiar Manor by Paul Mathews	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. Run Time Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style One-act murder mystery - a satisfactory plot, with twists and red herrings, but with tongue-in-cheek comedy thrown in. Contains very mild swearing. Synopsis Dr Fincham certified that Lady Peculiar died of natural causes, but an Inspector is asking questions of the staff... What's the Maid's secret? Why was the will changed, and is it important that the apples are being stolen? Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Murder in the Green Room by Iris Winston	Click here to read the script or Click here for more details. Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. Run Time Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Very short one-act play. A murder mystery with a single simple set (backstage at a theatre) and good opportunities for character acting. Synopsis It looks like the new members of the 'Oak Six' drama club are getting on the nerves of the founders, but surely the old guard wouldn't resort to murder? Or would they? Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
Over My Dead Body! by Pat Baker	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 = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. Run Time Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Comic murder mystery set in a manor house in the 1920s. One act, one set, simple props. Synopsis Tensions are rising at Grabbit Manor. Lord Grabbit won't buy his daughter a new dress for her engagement to the unsuitable wastrel Roger. Curt, the butler, hasn't been paid for months and Lord Grabbit suspects Cook of cooking the books. When the lights come on after a sudden blackout, a body is found - a problem for Inspector Foot (of the Yard)... the problem being that the corpse has been poisoned, strangled, stabbed and shot! Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.
The Perils at Peddler's Cove 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 = 16. No chorus. Run Time Around 75 minutes. [Estimated!] Music None. Style Murder mystery peopled with eccentric - and suspicious - characters. One set with additional front-of-curtain scenes. Synopsis Letters from a lawyer summon a group of people to a remote island, apparently for a weekend house-party, but then one of the guests is murdered. Price Please click on the Price Link to find the cost.

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