Set in an amateur theatre company

For 10 actors

Join the Ad Hoc Musical Society, a group of keen but amateur thespians, at their first meeting after the death of one of their members. Frank Vignetti was brutally killed in their rehearsal rooms shortly after their successful production of “Oklahoma” in which he, as usual, played the leading role.  It seems that Frank was killed by one of the company, but who, and why?  

Set in a University Philosophy Department

For 10 actors

Professor Elizabeth Hong has been found slumped over her desk.  Initial suggestions were that she had died of a heart attack, but subsequent postmortem results indicated that she had ingested a quantity of amphetamines.  Professor Hong suffered from a weak heart and the quantity of speed she had ingested in her morning coffee had been sufficient to kill her.  Because of this, Professor Hong’s death is being treated as suspicious, and talk within the shocked Department leads to the idea that she may have been murdered. 

A harvest festival murder mystery

For 7 actors

The play takes place in a church hall during the Harvest Festival. Just a few days ago the Rev. Christopher MacAfee tragically fell from the belfry. Although initially viewed as an accident, the police are now treating his death as murder. Did the Reverend harbour suspicions about some unsavoury activity in the community? Or are his prize tomatoes a motive for murder? 

A Wild West murder mystery  

For 5 actors

The action takes place in The Rose of the West Saloon, Model Valley, Texas around the 1890s.  Present are Rosie Mitchell, who runs the saloon with her husband Jack and also earns her living doing ‘horizontal work’.  Also present is Jem Brady, the owner of Brady’s General Store; Charlie Harris, a cowboy who arrived in town a few days ago, being just about to start a cattle drive; and Mahelia Werritt, a female gunslinger who has ended up in Texas to escape the law in Wyoming.  All these characters are suspects in the murder of Daniel Henry Wright, a rich and powerful cattle baron who has been stabbed in an alley near the stockyards.  Marshal Eustace Forfardy is charged with working out who did it, and bringing the culprit to justice. 

Set in a village hall

For 7 actors

The play takes place in a village hall during the AGM of the Village Hall Committee, now sadly without its Vice-Chairman following the death by poisoning of busybody Duncan Paul. Did Duncan stick his nose into the wrong business? Or was the poison really meant for someone else?

A hen night murder mystery

For 6 actors

The play is set on a hen night, where Michelle Taylor is celebrating her forthcoming marriage to Tom Crombie.  The hen party comprises Michelle, her mother, her two best friends and some colleagues from work.  The hens have spent the afternoon in a spa, where one of their number, Anna Daniels, a colleague from Bargain Buckets, has been murdered.  The hens haven’t noticed that she has gone missing until a detective arrives to notify them that she has been found dead, stabbed in the eye with a nail file.

A celebrity chef is murdered on a book tour

For 6 actors

"Eat like Shakespeare!"  That's the catchphrase of celebrity chef and former Shakespearean actor, Leonard de Vries, who is here to publicise his latest Elizabethan cookbook, 'The Virtuous Sweets'.  That is, if his enemies don't catch up with him first...

A member of a creative writing group is murdered

For 6 actors

The Creative Writing Group at the Library were shocked when one of their members, Lavinia Couper, signed a million-pound book deal for her first novel.  But now Lavinia has been murdered and they are all under suspicion