Plays by Genre - Murder and Mystery Plays

In Two Minds

Richard Harris

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 2 Female

Divorced, go-ahead bookseller David is moving into a Victorian house with his new partner, Annie. The vendor has emigrated, leaving furniture, a welcoming bottle of champagne and the services of a daily h...

$12.99

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

William Inge

Dramatists Play Service

7 Male 4 Female

"In this latest play Mr Inge has taken us back to the early 1920s and into the home of the Flood family in a small Oklahoma townHere we find Rubin, a traveling salesman for a harness firm, Cora his sensitive...

$13

The Light in the Mill

D. K. Oklahoma

Dramatic Publishing

2 Male 7 Female

The time is 1843, and the play that is about to begin has a rich authentic sense of reaching into another time and place for a dramatic involvement in an absorbing mystery that's about to unfold The play ...

$10.99

Shock!

Brian Clemens

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 3 Female

Air hostess Maggie, who lives in a converted windmill, has invited Ann and Terry, her latest pilot, to celebrate her birthday Maggie has some peculiar tastes, including taping the most private intimacies be...

$12.99

Audience with Murder - A thriller

Roger Leach & Colin Wakefield

Samuel French Ltd

This intriguing and multi-layered, witty thriller is full of unexpected twists "It is no accident that the Jermyn Street playbill for this comedy thriller is free of all descriptive matter, save for a photo...

$12.99

Find the Lady

Michael Pertwee

Josef Weinberger

3 Male 5 Female

When Rosie Lake, the proprietress of the Delamere Private Hotel, stumbles across the strangulated body of one of her residents, she faints! But when Rosie comes to, there is no body and no evidence to prov...

$15.99

The Devil at Midnight

Brian Clemens

Samuel French Ltd

Psychoanalyst Liz Burns receives an unexpected visitor - Nicki, a deeply troubled young woman who is visited in her dreams by a bearded devil who carries her away to a lonely, terrifying old house Liz reali...

$12.99

Spygame

Bettine Manktelow

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 4 Female

Prospective contestants for a TV reality show gather in a country house, aiming to win a large cash prize But only if they survive the rigours of the ultimate Spygame! "... this well-written thriller rev...

$12.99

Hypnosis

David Tristram

Flying Ducks

2 Male 1 Female

A mesmerizing thriller with plenty of twists and a liberal dash of comedy ... The Great Gordo, an alcoholic stage hypnotist in the twilight of his career, randomly chooses Alan Briggs as his next stooge ...

$13.99

Death Suite

Peter DePietro

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 4 Female

Natasha Kutchka, famed Kirov prima ballerina, and Sergei Bolstov, artistic director of the Kirov, are in the United States as part of a Cultural Exchange Or are they? Secret codes are dropped, mysterious ...

$10.99

Checkmate

Leslie Sands

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

As this witty and unconventional whodunit opens, British television star Peter Conway arrives home to find his wife Stella dead from a drug overdose Police Sgt. Drummond is assigned to investigate He is pr...

$10.99

Clever Dick

Charles Marowitz

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 3 Female

The action begins at a stately home in rural England, where Colonel Calvarley, the lord of the manor, suddenly expires (or seems to) after sipping a glass of (apparently poisoned) Sauterne His body is d...

$13

Suspicions

N.J.Crisp

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 2 Female

When Bill announces to his lover, Lucy, that he and his wife, Kate, have decided to separate, Lucy becomes suspicious of Kate's sudden disappearance. The arrival of a large chest freezer and her abandoned ca...

$12.99

Strictly Murder

Brian Clemens

Samuel French Ltd

It's April 1939, and an English couple, Peter and Suzy, are living in Provence in idyllic isolation, far, it seems, from the rumblings of the coming war Their peace is shattered from within when Suzy discov...

$12.99

Murder Among Friends

Bob Barry

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 2 Female

Take an aging, exceedingly vain actor; his very rich wife; a double dealing, double loving agent plunk them down in an elegant New York duplex and add dialogue crackling with wit and laughs and you have the ...

$10.99

The Crucifer of Blood

Paul Giovanni

Samuel French Inc

1 Female

The Crucifer of Blood is an ingenious pastiche of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, primarily The Sign of Four Taking place in 1887, it deals with the Agra Treasure stolen 30 years before by two Englis...

$10.99

Murder by Poe

Jeffrey Hatcher from Edgar Allan Poe

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 4 Female

A dark and dreadful night. A woman in white lost within a wood. And the only shelter is a house full of murderers Mixing funhouse tricks, Grand Guignol and a deadly game of cat and mouse, Murder by Poe is...

$13

The Phoenix Dimension

Kent R. Brown

Dramatic Publishing

7 Male 5 Female

Justin, an unimaginative middle-manager, is director of the Phoenix Dimension He is doggedly loyal to this project, but younger employees are smart, carnivorous They want power and money. They want Jus...

$9.99

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Jeffrey Hatcher from Robert Louis Stevenson

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 2 Female

A new and shocking version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of depravity, lust, love and horror ... On the fog-bound streets of Victorian-era London, Henry Jekyll's experiments with exotic "powders ...

$13

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Simon Williams from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Josef Weinberger

8 Male 2 Female

When Sir Charles Baskerville dies in mysterious circumstances, his last remaining relative, Sir Henry Baskerville, travels home from America to claim his inheritance - Baskerville Hall, which lies on the ...

$15.99