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| Augustin Homes and the Eye of the Beholder by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Dry, surreal one-act comedy play set in a detective's office. |
| Synopsis | Another case for the Word Famous Detective, Augustin Homes. A husband has disappeared. Or is he simply missing? Aided and abetted by his tabloid-reading associate, the World-Famous Detective stumbles his way through the case before it finally resolves itself. |
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| Augustin Homes and the Golden Floor by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 24 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy in which a detective doesn't solve a case. Single office set and lots of witty, slightly surreal wordplay. |
| Synopsis | An upturned pot of gold paint, six acres of prime development land, a good solid dependable pair of shoes and a series of badly drawn cartoon sheep all combine to upset the ordered, if somewhat eccentric world of Augustin Homes, the world-famous private detective. |
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| Augustin Homes and the Lost Juliet by Bob Hammond |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 42 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy in a single office set. The third in the series of Augustin Homes cases. |
| Synopsis | Barrat Homes, an actor, shows up at the office of his brother, World-Famous Detective Augustin Homes. He's up for an audition to play a detective and wants some advice. But Augustin is out and when a client walks in, Barrat sees an opportunity to do some method-style research. |
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| Blackmail in Bohemia by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 44 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy, with minimal set dressing required. A companion piece to Pemberton’s previous Death by Detective, inspired by Conan Doyle’s story A Scandal in Bohemia. |
| Synopsis | When the legendary Inspector Bucket is hired to stop a royal prince from being blackmailed by a former lover, he is thrown into a fiery and passionate encounter with a femme fatale that threatens to melt his intellectual froideur and stir undiscovered emotions. |
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| Butchers by Tim Cole |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 129 minutes. [Estimated!] Original production running time was between 95 and 105 minutes. |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy whodunnit with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | John Cleaver has just changed his will when he is found apparently murdered. The new will demands certain unpalatable tasks from some, but not all, of the beneficiaries. Novice detective Bullock struggles with his investigation into the members of the dysfunctional Cleaver family. |
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| The Crime Done in Rhyme by tlc Creative |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 8 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Rhyming skit (parody of Dr. Seuss) no set requirements, a few common props. |
| Synopsis | There's been murder afoot, but who can have done it? If there's a prize for rhymed mystery, this one has won it! The victim's a cat, but much more than that, He's a cat that has often been seen in a hat. A detective is called and a Mistress is found, (while the corpse of the cat is left there on the ground). It's funny, irreverent and won't take much time, and the best of it is, every line is in rhyme! |
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| Curse of the Headless Huntsman by Robin Steggles & Sharon Hulm |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 82 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | The Producer's Copy of the script includes suggestions for three songs. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A very funny, fast-paced comedy-thriller with a satisfying (if very silly) mystery. |
| Synopsis | It is 1900, and in the sleepy Suffolk village of St Dunstan's. A local legend says that when the Headless Huntsman rides, a death will follow. After the bizarre and unexplained death of the vicar, Acting Sergeant Angelica Thorn and hapless Constable John Long are called in to investigate. But as more deaths follow, Angelica's ambition to become England's first female detective seems to be slipping from her grasp. |
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| Death at the Deanery by Jim Hollingsworth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 31 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with a single (large study) setting. |
| Synopsis | Horror grips the village of St Martini Mead when the body of General Rupert Stick-Monocle is discovered in the drawing room of the deanery. Is it suicide or has he been murdered? The doctor and local amateur sleuth Miss Marbles disagree, and it's left for Detective Inspector Titus Tyte-Canby to deduce what has happened. But if it is murder, who did it, and why? And who else may the murderer pounce on - the curate, the tennis-club alcoholic, the Russian au pair, the doctor, the Dean? A spoof whodunit inspired by Agatha Christie and Midsomer Murders. |
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| Death by Detective by David Pemberton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 70 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A witty and fast paced comedy loosely based on The Speckled Band with a solid mystery plot provided by the Conan Doyle source material. A lot of fun for cast and audience. Structured in two acts, but could form half an evening of one-act plays. |
| Synopsis | When a legendary detective solves a terrible murder and discovers his own guilty part in the affair, it is left to his closest friends to prevent him from arresting himself. |
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| Doggy Noire by Jamie Hope |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. All the characters are animals. (All literally, some figuratively.) The characters are nominally 4M, 1F, but in the context, there's a lot of flexibility. |
| Run Time | Around 38 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act play in a single setting. Contains adult themes and language (although in the context of dogs, 'bitch' is not necessarily a term of abuse).
Noire as in 'bête noire' rather than 'film noir'. (No hard-boiled detectives.) |
| Synopsis | Bonzo the enforcer has brought Paulette the Poodle to the bridge, as arranged, but who is being set up for a fall? When Big Fido arrives, it turns out there may not be any winners, since the rats that come with him have grudges of their own. |
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