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Mrs Hudson and the Twisted Pilchard by Richard Moon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | A one-act comedy in a single set, loosely based on The Second Stain, a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A fun update of a Holmes mystery using modern sensibilities and humour. |
Synopsis | An exciting tale of international spies, blackmail and tinned fish. A top-secret document has gone missing. If it gets into the wrong hands, it would mean war! Sherlock Holmes is struggling to work out where it is, but Mrs Hudson has her own ways of finding the answer. |
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Sherlock Holmes' Last Case by Charlie Cook |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One act comedy play (single set). |
Synopsis | The fabulous Kalimari diamond has been stolen from a locked bag in a locked safe, and when Watson hands over the ransom, the receiver is murdered horribly! A brilliant Holmes pastiche with appropriate gags and a surprise ending. |
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The Sinister Mrs Eaves by Robert Black |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 25 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | Short one-act play, single set (Sherlock Holmes' study). |
Synopsis | Holmes and Watson tackle the bizarre case of the Sinister Mrs Eaves and twenty-one-and-a-half Harper Street without leaving their comfortable rooms at 221b Baker Street. A fine Holmes mystery with more than a touch of humour. |
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The Sleuth Slayer by Paul Mathews |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. |
Run Time | Around 50 minutes. [Estimated!] |
Music | None. |
Style | One act comedy send-up of detective fiction in general and the country house murder mystery in particular. Single country house set. Contains mild swearing. |
Synopsis | The world's greatest detectives are invited to a murder at Carnage Hall, but no one there knows anything about it... Until one of the detectives is found dead! The hunt is on to find the killer before there's no one left to solve the crime! |
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