Plays by Genre - Murder and Mystery Plays

The Velvet Sky

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 2 Female

Poor Bethany Palmer hasn't slept in thirteen years When her husband, Warren, steals their son, Andrew, away in the middle of the night, her already fragile grip on reality starts to weaken as she sets off a...

$13

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Hound of the Baskervilles

F Andrew Leslie from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 3 Female

Perhaps the most famous and popular of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, this gripping tale deals with the curse of the Baskerville family - and the fiendish killer-hound which stalks its members As the acti...

$13

You Have the Right to Remain Dead - An Audience-Participation Mystery Comedy

Pat Cook

Dramatic Publishing

5 Male 5 Female

You've just settled down in a theatre to solve an audience-participation murder mystery The Narrator comes out and gives you a few "ins and outs" on what to look for in the play The show then starts and y...

$11.99

Proscenophobia (Stage Fright)

Bettine Manktelow

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 4 Female

This clever whodunnit takes place in the dressing-room of a provincial theatre during the performance of a thriller The star - Addie - is attempting a comeback and is understudied by her best friend Millie ...

$12.99

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