Plays by Genre - Murder and Mystery Plays

The Monkey's Paw - A Victorian Ghost Story

Paul Thain from W. W. Jacobs

Stageplays

3 Male 2 Female

The Monkey's Paw is a famous supernatural short story by W. W. Jacobs It tells the macabre tale of an ordinary family given three wishesThe wishes are grantedBut they come at a terrible costFor almost 120 ye...

$10.99

The Visit or The Old Lady Comes to Call

Friedrich Durrenmatt adapted Tony Kushner

Nick Hern Books

The Visit is one of the greatest dramas of the 20th Century and this adaptation is the first to be published in the English language since Maurice Valency's original translation in 1958Friedrich Dürrenmatt's...

$18.99 , $17.09 (10% off)

Make It Mystery - 12 Royalty-Free Short Mystery Plays

Craig Sodaro

Meriwether Press

Make it Mystery is a great-value Collection of 12 Royalty-Free Mystery Plays The Anthology offers a wide variety of plays, each running 20-30 minutes Perfect for classroom exercises, competitions, or an e...

$26.99

The Girl on the Train

Rachel Wagstaff & Duncan Abel & Paula Hawkins

Oberon

4 Male 3 Female

This is the stage adaptation of "The Thriller That Gripped the World"Rachel Watson longs for a different life Her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window every day So happ...

$14.99 , $13.49 (10% off)

Ghost Stories

Jeremy Dyson & Andy Nyman

Nick Hern Books

4 Male 0 Female

Keep telling yourself it's only a show ...Ghost Stories mixes the very best of theatre with the buzz of a thrill-ride, delivering something unforgettable Following record breaking sell out shows, a West E...

$21.99 , $16.49 (25% off)

Twist - A Comedy Thriller

Miles Tredinnick

Josef Weinberger

3 Male 3 Female

Twist is an hilarious spoof of the much-loved theatrical thriller where nobody is what they seem and nothing is what it should be David Woods is a mild-mannered accountant who sees a sensational way of maki...

$15.99 , $14.39 (10% off)

The Revival - A Ghost Play

James Cawood

Josef Weinberger

5 Male 3 Female

A chilling ghost story full of shocks, twists and gothic atmosphere from the author of Stone Cold Murder and Death Knell The cast of Lucian O'Keefe's 1946 classic ghost play Scared to Death are gathered and...

$16.99 , $13.59 (20% off)

The Verdict

Margaret May Hobbs from Barry Reed

Josef Weinberger

An accomplished stage adaptation of the novel by Barry Reed and the film by Sidney Lumet starring Paul Newman, James Mason and Charlotte Rampling Frank Galvin is a washed-up veteran lawyer and an alcoholic,...

$15.99 , $14.39 (10% off)

The Twilight Zone

Anne Washburn from Rod Serling & Charles Beaumont & Richard Matheson

Oberon

"What you are about to watch is a nightmare. It is not meant to be prophetic, it need not happen, it's the fervent and urgent prayer of all men of good will that it never shall happen. But in this place, in ...

$14.99

Neil LaBute - Plays Two

Neil LaBute

Faber & Faber

"LaBute takes us to shadowy places we don't like to talk about, sometimes even to think about" ~ Newsday Obsession with surface and secrets runs through this Second collection of Neil LaBute's work The Sh...

$24.99 , $18.74 (25% off)

Consent

Nina Raine

Nick Hern Books

3 Male 4 Female

Why is Justice blind? Is she impartial? Or is she blinkered? Friends Ed and Tim take opposing briefs in a rape case The key witness is a woman whose life seems a world away from theirs At home, thei...

$21.99 , $16.49 (25% off)

The Night in Question

Eric Chappell

Josef Weinberger

5 Male 3 Female

A woman is attacked in a city car park The staff of Faraday Finance - whose offices overlook the car park - fall under suspicion In particular Brian Heath, who has been picked out at an identification par...

$16.99 , $12.74 (25% off)

Hamlet, who's there?

Kelly Hunter from William Shakespeare

Methuen

Hamlet, Who's There? is a tightly written highly theatrical abridged version of Shakespeare's great play Reimagining the action to take place over the course of one night, the play can be produced to last n...

$15.99 , $14.39 (10% off)

Spirit Level

Pam Valentine

Josef Weinberger

3 Male 4 Female

Famous crime writer Jack Cameron and his wife Susie drown in a boating accident But they are refused entry into heaven because Jack is an atheist And so they return to haunt the country cottage where the...

$15.99

The Perfect Murder

Shaun McKenna from Peter James

Josef Weinberger

3 Male 2 Female

Peter James is one of the foremost proponents of crime drama, his novels selling more than 15 million copies worldwide And The Perfect Murder is the first of his works to be adapted for the stage... Victo...

$16.99 , $15.29 (10% off)

Storefront Church

John Patrick Shanley

Theatre Communications Group

6 Male 1 Female

Storefront Church concludes the "Church and State" trilogy of plays that began with Pulitzer Prize winning Doubt and Defiance It tells the story of a Bronx Borough President who is forced by the mortgage cr...

$14.99 , $13.49 (10% off)

Scared to Death

Ron Aldridge from Sally Hughes

Weinberger

4 Male 1 Female

** 25% DISCOUNT **The year is 1857 ... Young mill owner Will Nichols woos and weds lovely local girl Mary to the fury of his best friend Jacob Ford whose earlier love for her went unrequited Taking ad...

$11.25

The Woman in White

Nicola Boyce from Wilkie Collins

Josef Weinberger

On a moonlit road in Hampstead, Walter Hartright is accosted by a woman dressed from head to toe in white She asks the way to London No sooner has Walter directed her than he is overtaken by a carriage in...

$16.99 , $12.74 (25% off)

The Play That Goes Wrong

Henry Lewis & Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields

Methuen

6 Male 2 Female

OLIVIER AWARDS 2015 - BEST COMEDY The Play That Goes Wrong is a farcical murder mystery, a play within a play Following a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama...

$15.99

Dead Reckoning

Eric Chappell

Josef Weinberger

3 Male 1 Female

++ 25% DISCOUNT ++ In this gripping psychological thriller, a renowned artist finding himself caught up in a maze of chilling mind games and deceit When the mysterious Mr Todd arrives at painter Tony Reed'...

$11.25