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    Death in the Fearful Night

    When a serial killer stalks a sleepy English village, a Scotland Yard detective must search for clues among terrified townsfolk in this classic mystery.Samuel Bracknell is found dead in his home with a knife in his back. It's the third murder of its kind...
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    The Allingham Casebook

    A classic collection of mystery stories: "With skillful plotting laced with tongue-in-cheek humor, Allingham never ceases to intrigue and surprise" (Daily Mail).This volume offer eighteen delightful mysteries from the Queen of Crime that will baffle the...
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    Bred to the Bone

    In this small-town mystery, a retired teacher moves to the Ozark mountains, where her eager manner ruffles some feathers-and unearths dark secrets. Retired schoolteacher Caroline Hudson has moved to Hickory Bend, Missouri, to embrace small-town life. But...
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    Conversations with an Octopus

    An addictive and cozy crime novel about female rage.Diana Parks is a beautician with a temper, and she's not the only member of Ottersea WI who's had enough of bullies and slimeballs. When the body of lecherous landlord Raj Sumal washes up on the beach,...
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    Devils Island

    Six guests embark on a wilderness tour, but only two emergeDevils Island is home to abundant wildlife, making it the ideal place to reintroduce endangered Tasmanian devils. Working to rescue, rehabilitate, and release devils has been Kerry's job and...
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    Death in Room Five

    Inspector Littlejohn confronts a challenging case across the Channel in this classic mystery from the "venerable" British author (Kirkus Reviews).When Alderman Dawson is stabbed to death while visiting the Riviera with a group of English tourists,...
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    The Other Oregon

    A Portland activist ventures into rural militia country to face a threat from his past in this crime thriller by the author of the Kaspar Brothers series.Greg Simmons is an idealist. From his home in Portland, he's a major proponent of the Cascadia...
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  • Any Body for Tea?
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    Any Body for Tea?

    C. B. GilfordMystery ComedyCharacters: 3 male 6 female. Interior SetDetective Dennis O'Finn investigating the death of an elderly lady discovers that he is the motive for murder. Six sweet but slightly balmy ladies are all in love with their bachelor...
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  • A Night of Dark Intent A Night of Dark Intent
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    A Night of Dark Intent

    Mystery / ThrillerCharacters: 8 female (2 male recorded voices) Unit Set: Interior (living room two bedrooms and small attic).Set in October 1978 A Night of Dark Intent is the story of six women who spend the weekend together in an abandoned house. The...
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  • Hookman Hookman
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    Hookman

    Freshman year at college is hard when your roommate is weird you're feeling homesick and a hook-handed serial killer is slashing girls' throats. But if Lexi can discover what really happened to her high school best friend on that car ride to the movies...
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    Sandra

    In this one-woman thriller, Sandra seeks to get to the bottom of the mysterious disappearance of her closest friend, a young pianist and composer who went on a trip to Mexico and never returned. Her search for clues leads her into both a highly charged...
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    Ken Ludwig's Moriarty

    Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are back on the case! An investigation into the Bohemian king's stolen letters cascades into an international mystery filled with spies, blackmail and intrigue. With world peace at stake, Holmes and Watson join forces with...
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  • How a Boy Falls How a Boy Falls
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    How a Boy Falls

    The disappearance of a young boy casts suspicion on his newly-hired au pair as well as on the wealthy parents who have hired her. As the parents seek revenge upon one another the young au pair is hatching a plot of her own.How a Boy Fallsis a...
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    On Clover Road

    At an abandoned motel on a desolate American road a mother meets with a cult deprogrammer believing she will be reunited with her runaway daughter. What happens instead - in this smart harrowing edge-of-your-seat thriller - is something that will shock...
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    Four Old Broads on the High Seas

    Get ready to set sail with your favoriteOld Broads. Yes... they're back again and ready for a Sassy Senior's cruise to the Bahamas. Beatrice is determined to have her pick of ALL the eligible men on the ship... but Maude fresh from her win at The Miss...
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    The 39 Steps, Abridged

    Patrick Barlow's Olivier Award winning stage adaptation based on John Buchan's gripping whodunit - memorably fi lmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935 - played for nine years at the Criterion Theatre in the West End. The 39 Steps Abridged and The 39 Steps Even...
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  • The 39 Steps, Even More Abridged The 39 Steps, Even More Abridged
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    The 39 Steps, Even More Abridged

    Patrick Barlow's Olivier Award winning stage adaptation based on John Buchan's gripping whodunit - memorably fi lmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935 - played for nine years at the Criterion Theatre in the West End. The 39 Steps Abridged and The 39 Steps Even...
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  • Feeding Beatrice Feeding Beatrice
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    Feeding Beatrice

    It starts with the sound of a spoon scraping against glass and the wet noise of lips smacking together. June and Lurie have a haunting new houseguest - and she's ravenously hungry. They do their best to keep her fed and happy but Beatrice always demands...
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    The Headlands

    InThe Headlands Henry is an amateur sleuth and true crime aficionado who sets out to solve the ultimate case: the unsolved murder of his father. Using his memories and the family stories he was told as a child growing up in San Francisco Henry begins an...
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    Murder for Two

    Officer Marcus Moscowicz is a small town policeman with dreams of making it to detective. One fateful night shots ring out at the surprise birthday party of Great American Novelist Arthur Whitney and the writer is killed...fatally. With the nearest...
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  • Downstairs Downstairs
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    Downstairs

    What happens when a brilliant lost soul comes to stay in his sister's basement and refuses to leave? And if the menacing brother-in-law doesn't approve? In a dog-eat-dog world these siblings find a haven of sorts in an unfinished basement as they attempt...
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    American Psycho

    Based on the electrifying novel by Bret Easton Ellis the musical tells the story of Patrick Bateman a young and handsome Wall Street banker with impeccable taste and unquenchable desires. Patrick and his elite group of friends spend their days in chic...
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  • Thespian Playworks 2017 Thespian Playworks 2017
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    Thespian Playworks 2017

    From the nationally recognized Educational Theatre Association's Thespian Playworks competition come four short scripts all created by high school-aged playwrights! Included in this volume are:Flopsieby Nick KrentelPigeon!by Garrett M. RyanTalking to...
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  • Through the Yellow Hour Through the Yellow Hour
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    Through the Yellow Hour

    The United States has been attacked. Men are being castrated women enumerated. Ellen has been in hiding for fifty-two days subsisting on very little hoping against hope for her husband to return. As the world around her falls further into senseless chaos...
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  • Bellwether Bellwether
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    Bellwether

    Bellwether was a nice safe place to live. Bad things didn't happen there. That was until six-year-old Amy Draft went missing. As the investigation progresses speculation in the media and the neighborhood turns on Amy's parents Alan and Jackie Draft. But...
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  • Long Way Go Down Long Way Go Down
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    Long Way Go Down

    A young Mexican couple is trapped at a way station when they can't pay off their debts to the American coyotes who smuggled them across the border.
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  • A Snowfall in Berlin A Snowfall in Berlin
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    A Snowfall in Berlin

    In this moving and powerful ensemble piece a police detective investigates the mysterious death of a young Mexican actress in a bathtub. She has been making a film about a girl who dies in a bathtub directed by a beautiful and charismatic but troubled...
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    Death by Design: A Comedy with Songs and Murder

    What happens when you mix the brilliant wit of Noel Coward with the intricate plotting of Agatha Christie? Set during a weekend in an English country manor in 1932 Death by Design is a delightful and mysterious "mash-up" of two of the greatest English...
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  • Jacuzzi Jacuzzi
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    Jacuzzi

    In the Marshall family's peacefully remote Colorado ski chalet Erik and Helene are making themselves very much at home. So at home they just might stay for good. At the edge of civilization the lifestyles of the rich collide with the lifestyles of the...
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  • Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
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    Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

    Get your deerstalker cap on-the play's afoot! Comedic genius Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor Moon Over Buffalo) transforms Arthur Conan Doyle's classic The Hound of the Baskervilles into a murderously funny adventure. Sherlock Holmes is on the case. The male...
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    It's Only Murder

    Jerome Teppel a recently married fairly well-off CPA discovers that among his wife Francine's monthly purchases was a gun. Shortly after that Jerome is informed by his neighbor Lenore Franklin that his wife and her husband are having a torrid affair...
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  • The Tangled Skirt The Tangled Skirt
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    The Tangled Skirt

    Breathless from running and staggered by a startling incident Bailey Bryce dashes into a deserted bus depot in the dead of night desperately clutching a travel bag. He's glad to be alone; to think fast to collect himself to figure things out before it's...
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  • Death by Design Death by Design
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    Death by Design

    What happens when you mix the brilliant wit of Noel Coward with the intricate plotting of Agatha Christie? Set during a weekend in an English country manor in 1932 Death by Design is a delightful and mysterious "mash-up" of two of the greatest English...
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  • The North Plan The North Plan
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    The North Plan

    After a ruthless faction seizes power in Washington Carlton Berg a bureaucrat for the State Department runs off with the new regime's top secret enemies list. Unfortunately for Carlton the chase has come to an end in a police station in the Ozarks town...
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  • Buddy Cop 2 Buddy Cop 2
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    Buddy Cop 2

    Dark ComedyCharacters: 2 male 2 femaleInteriorTwo cops...in the kind of quiet little town where a kid dreams of growing up to be a fireman. Or a racecar driver. Where the only question you ask yourself at the end of the day is if you're gonna knock back...
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  • Inana Inana
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    Inana

    DramaCharacters: 5 male 3 female with doublingWinner! 2010 Francesca Primus Prize Finalist! 2010 Steinberg/ATCA New Play AwardFinalist! 2009 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Baghdad one man an Iraqi museum curator plots to...
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  • The Good Counselor The Good Counselor
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    The Good Counselor

    DramaCharacters: 2 male 3 femaleThe Good Counselor is a new drama about a chosen son's quest for truth. Vincent a bright young lawyer in the Public Defender department has been assigned to defend a young woman accused of killing her three-week-old son...
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  • The Psychic The Psychic
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    The Psychic

    Characters: 4 male 2 femaleMurder Mystery ComedyAdam Webster a down-on-his- luck writer in desperation to make the rent has put a sign in his apartment window "Psychic Readings $25". The characters it draws in lead into a tangled murder mystery of sorts...
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  • Deadly Murder Deadly Murder
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    Deadly Murder

    Murder Mystery/Thriller / Characters: 2m 1f / InteriorNominated for a 2008 Edgar AwardCamille Dargus has fought her way up from humble beginnings to a glittering Manhattan lifestyle. She has beauty brains wealth and a successful career as a jewelry...
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  • Karlaboy Karlaboy
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    Karlaboy

    Drama / Characters: 6m 2fBiographer Bill Lauder has penned a ruthless tell-all about Karla Daven a long dead legendary 1950's starlet. As a result he is summoned in the middle of the night to the dilapidated mansion of Karla's celebrity husband Harold...
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  • Devil Boys from Beyond Devil Boys from Beyond
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    Devil Boys from Beyond

    Winner! 2009 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award for Outstanding Play!Nominee! 2010 GLAAD Award for Outstanding New York Theater: Off-Off Broadway!ComedyCharacters: 4m 4f (all female roles can be played by men in drag)Unit SetFlying Saucers! Backstabbing...
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  • Widdershins Widdershins
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    Widdershins

    Characters: 4 male 6 femaleInteriorInspector Ruffing the troubled hero of Nigro's Ravenscroft Demonology Creatures Lurking In The Churchyard The Rooky Wood and Mephisto returns in this baffling mystery that was an audience favorite at the First...
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  • Psycho Night at the Paradise Lounge Psycho Night at the Paradise Lounge
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    Psycho Night at the Paradise Lounge

    Four people have come to the Paradise Lounge on the same night for the same reason - to kill the singer. The four do not know each other and therefore do not know that the others are there for the same purpose. As the singer Cindy is onstage for her...
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  • Gunmetal Blues Gunmetal Blues
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    Gunmetal Blues

    Is this a hard-boiled detective tale disguised as a lounge act - or the other way around?
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  • Murder Is A Game Murder Is A Game
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    Murder Is A Game

    Laughter suspense intriguing characters sparkling dialogue plot twists and irresistible mystery are all here. A successful married mystery-writing team has dried up so their publisher gives them an anniversary present a weekend in an old mansion built...
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  • Toyer Toyer
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    Toyer

    Drama / Characters: 1 male 1 femaleThis psychological thriller is a favorite in acting workshops. It is a mind game play. Toyer is someone who toys; he is a mass paralyzer who toys with his victims. He does not murder or rape he seduces and them...
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  • Ravenscroft Ravenscroft
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    Ravenscroft

    Mystery / 1m 5f / Simple unit setThis psychological drama is a thinking person's Gothic thriller a dark comedy that is both funny and frightening. On a snowy night Inspector Ruffing is called to a remote house to investigate the headlong plunge of...
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Crime & Mystery Books – Best Crime Fiction, Thrillers, Detective Novels & Mystery Books in Australia

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