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  • Murder at Rutherford House Murder at Rutherford House
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    Murder at Rutherford House

    Mystery / Characters: 5 male 6 femaleIt is the fifth anniversary of the death of Lord Rutherford. Lady Rutherford is throwing her annual dinner in commemoration of the event-- to which you are cordially invited. On arrival you are given a character name...
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    Perfect Crime

    This cat and mouse thriller is one of OffBroadway's longest running hits. Margaret Thorne Brent psychiatrist and author has returned to America with her husband also a psychiatrist and settled in an affluent Connecticut community where at least one...
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  • While the Lights Were Out While the Lights Were Out
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    While the Lights Were Out

    A thunderstorm! The lights go out! An agonized voice! A pistol shot! The lights come up! A blonde in black lace stands over the dead man holding a bloody dagger! The detective examines the body and announces 'Hes been strangled!' This is but the opening...
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  • A Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody A Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody
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    A Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody

    Comedy/Murder Mystery / 4m 2f / Unit SetIt's New Year's Eve at the Perry mansion and Julia and Matthew Perry seem to have it all. But Matthew wants something more -- to be rid of his wife Julia so he can have some real fun! He resolves to murder Julia by...
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  • Clue: The Musical Clue: The Musical
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    Clue: The Musical

    Musical comedy Book by Peter DePietro. Music by Galen Blum Wayne Barker and Vinnie Martucci. Lyrics by Tom Chiodo. Based on the Parker Brothers' Board Game. Characters: 5male 3female Unit set. The internationally popular game is now a fun filled musical...
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  • Books Books
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    Books

    Murder Mystery / 5m 2f2008 Mystery Writer s of America Edgar Award nominee for Best Play.After robbing a savings and loan Brian takes refuge in a down-and-out used book store run by Maddy and Betty. The book store s principal customer is Christopher who...
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    Ohio State Murders

    Ohio State Murdersexplores the experiences of Suzanne Alexander a fictional Black writer whose life both is and is not like her author's. When Suzanne enters Ohio State University in 1949 she has no idea what the supposed safe haven of academia holds in...
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  • The Altos The Altos
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    The Altos

    Full Length / Musical Comedy / 4m 3f / InteriorAn Interactive Musical Comedy Mystery Spoof of the famous HBO series. Meet the family that inspired it all the Altos. It's Tony's funeral (Or is it?) and his wife Toffee has invited you to the wake. Chris...
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  • Murderous Crossing Murderous Crossing
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    Murderous Crossing

    Full Length / Comedic Mystery / 4m 3f / InteriorThe year is 1923 and audience members are passengers on board the HMS Victoria as it crosses the English Channel. The famous Inspector Clurrot has tracked down a homicidal mastermind hiding out on board...
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  • Murder at Cafe Noir Murder at Cafe Noir
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    Murder at Cafe Noir

    This '40s detective story come to life features Rick Archer P.I. out to find a curvaceous runaway on the forgotten island of Mustique a place stuck in a black-and-white era. The owner of the Cafe Noir has washed ashore murdered and Rick's quarry was the...
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  • Murder on the Rerun Murder on the Rerun
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    Murder on the Rerun

    Takes a different approach to mystery as a ghost tries to find out who murdered her in a witty sophisticated yet suspenseful look at the upper crust of Hollywood. The curtain rises to find Jane Oscar winning screen writer dead at the bottom of the stairs...
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  • Let's Murder Marsha Let's Murder Marsha
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    Let's Murder Marsha

    A happy housewife named Marsha hopelessly addicted to reading murder mysteries overhears her loving husband discussing her upcoming birthday surprise with an interior decorator. To her ears though it sounds like they are planning to murder her! With the...
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  • Out of Sight... Out of Murder Out of Sight... Out of Murder
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    Out of Sight... Out of Murder

    Mystery Comedy / Characters: 4 males 5 females Set Rewuirements: InteriorPeter Knight is grinding out a murder story in an old mansion where another author was murdered years before. A weird electrical storm effects a cosmic snafu and his characters come...
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  • Done to Death Done to Death
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    Done to Death

    Mystery Comedy / 8 m. 8 f. / Int.Once famous mystery writers involve the audience as they apply their individual methods to solving various murders. They include a couple who write sophisticated murders a young author of the James Bond school a retired...
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  • The Crucifer of Blood The Crucifer of Blood
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    The Crucifer of Blood

    Mystery/Thriller Paul Giovanni Characters: 11 male (with doubling) 1 female Several sets. 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...
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  • The Creature Creeps! The Creature Creeps!
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    The Creature Creeps!

    Comedy Jack Sharkey. Charcters: 4 male 8 female Interior Set This hilarious send up of the horror story genre has an ancient castle creaking doors a mad scientist his misshapen assistant a grim housekeeper secret laboratory shrieks from the depths of...
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  • Noir Suspicions Noir Suspicions
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    Noir Suspicions

    In this hard-boiled comic mystery sequel to the ever-popularMurder at Cafe Noir ex-private eye Rick Archer is now the confused manager of Cafe Noir on the island of Mustique. He is confronted with a corpse on the dock a mysterious femme fatale a French...
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    The Plot, Like Gravy, Thickens

    Great storm effects, spiffy costumes and lots of fun and mystery distinguish this work by the author of Abduction, The Reunion and others. Ever want to commit a murder? Walter, the playwright's alter ego in this madcap mystery, demonstrates just how to...
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  • How Can I Help You
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    How Can I Help You

    A razor-sharp psychological suspense about two librarians whose lives become dangerously intertwined, How Can I Help You explores the dark side of human nature and the dangerous pull of artistic obsession. No one knows Margo's real name. Her...
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  • The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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    The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    One of the Guardian's novels everyone must read.This new edition ofStevenson's renowned gothicmasterpiece has a specially writtenintroduction by Denise Mina.In The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London lawyer Gabriel John Utterson investigates a...
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  • Dark Encounters
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    Dark Encounters

    Tales of suspense for the twilight hour...Dark Encounters is a collection of classic and elegantly unsettling ghost stories. A spine-tingling collection, these tales are set in the brooding landscape of Scotland, with an air of historic authenticity -...
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  • Of Judgement Fallen
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    Of Judgement Fallen

    Spring, 1523. Henry VIII readies England for war with France. The King's chief minister, Cardinal Wolsey, prepares to open Parliament at Blackfriars. The eyes of the country turn towards London. But all is not well in Wolsey's household. A visiting...
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  • Vile Spirits
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    Vile Spirits

    An exhilarating page-turner set in 1920s Vancouver post prohibition, when liquor was the fuel driving big business, big government-and major crime.In this spellbinding follow-up to his mystery The White Angel, John MacLachlan Gray captures the spirit of...
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    When the Corn Is Waist High

    "Highly original. . . Ample dry humor leavens a plotline that thoughtfully explores the heartof human darkness . . . Michael Koryta admirers will be enthralled."-PublishersWeekly, starred review"What appears to be a humorous story set in Indiana farm...
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  • Washboard Tales
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    Washboard Tales

    This sequel to Shadowy Tales opens with the brutal murder of Beverly St. John, the wife of the Piney Falls Chief of Police. Her death triggers fear among the women in this small rural community. Major changes are taking place in the lives of other...
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  • Death of Television
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    Death of Television

    "This is a brilliant and sophisticated thriller. All the usual suspects feature in it: theft, murder, tragedy, drugs, deception, manipulation. There's also a dark and seedy cult (for want of a better word: the members are really just a bit deranged), and...
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  • Get Bek
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    Get Bek

    Max Bek is a 1970s wunderkind and Philadelphia's answer to the nation's better-known gurus and transgressors who graduated from the free love and drugs of the sixties, to the cusp of Reagan era business and New Age values. He is highly intelligent,...
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  • Campus Casualty
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    Campus Casualty

    Finding a dead body feels like Dj vu to Maggie McManus. Her first-semester teaching at PSU was already off to a "deadly start." While taking her students on a field trip to the River Town Hotel and Conference Center, Maggie discovers the dead body of the...
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    Cougar Claw
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    Cougar Claw

    In this outdoors mystery, special agent Sam Rivers investigates the unexplained-and very unlikely-cougar attack that killed a wealthy business owner.The sighting of a cougar in the Minnesota River Valley, outside the Twin Cities, is incredibly rare. A...
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    The Murder on the Links
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    The Murder on the Links

    "Agatha Christie must surely be the most imitated author in the entire canon of literature what greater acclaim could there be?" -Peter JamesPaul Renauld sends for Hercule Poirot, who arrives to find his host dead in a newly dug grave. Can the master...
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  • Poppy Takes the Lead
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    Poppy Takes the Lead

    Emily and Poppy are living happily in the quaint village of Ashton Mead, where every household is friendly - with one exception.Unlike the other villagers, Silas Strang and his mother have a bad reputation. Rude and aggressive, they terrorise their...
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  • Connecticut
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    Connecticut

    The third novel in David Thomson's series inspired by movie genres - an enchanting yet haunting celebration of screwball romantic comedies. In 1985, with the acclaimed Suspects, and then in 1990 with the exhilarating Silver Light, David Thomson...
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  • It Happened at Two in the Morning
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    It Happened at Two in the Morning

    In this fast-moving, fast-talking legal thriller, brash young New York lawyer Tom Weldon happens to witness the 2 a.m. murder of a business tycoon and finds himself held captive with the murdered man's arrogant daughter. The two escape and go on the run,...
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    Black Phoenix Omnibus HC
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    Black Phoenix Omnibus HC

    Black Phoenix magazine is, at its core, a contemporary comics magazine featuring original characters and stories of various comics genresall dreamed up by its sole author and illustrator, Rich Tommaso (Eisner Award winning creator of Clover Honey, Spy...
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    Still Night in L.A.

    Michael Shepard, a detective with his own set of problems, is hired one morning by a fashionable young woman at her Hollywood apartment. Soon he's embroiled in a murder investigation that may shed light on a nearly forgotten tragedy. A divorced father...
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    Dark City Lights

    Famed detective and mystery writer Lawrence Block (A Walk Among the Tombstones,8 Million Ways to Die) takes the helm as guest editor for DARK CITY LIGHTS, the fourth edition of the Have a NYC series. Twenty-three thrilling, hilarious and poignant short...
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  • The Venus of Sal
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    The Venus of Sal

    October 1944, in the Republic of Sal, a German puppet state in the north of Italy and the last fascist stronghold in the country. Colonel Martin Bora of the Wehrmacht must investigate the theft of a precious painting of Venus by Titian, stolen with...
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  • Women and Children First
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    Women and Children First

    A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in a decaying town.Nashquitten, Massachusetts, is a coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town's industries...
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    Life Almost Still
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    Life Almost Still

    One missing person case remains unsolved and now another student has disappeared from Barcelona University. His girlfriend and colleagues report matters to the police and university authorities but they refuse to become involved in the case, believing...
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  • Saffron Yellow
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    Saffron Yellow

    This book features the intertwined stories of three main characters: a director of a financial company, an artifact thief, and a call girl. nci Aral uses the stories of these three characters to discuss themes of love and modernity, showing people...
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    The Corpse with the Diamond Hand

    Professor Cait Morgan and Bud Anderson have finally said 'I do'. To celebrate, they set sail on a romantic Hawaiian honeymoon cruise and, for nearly two weeks, the mystery solving newlyweds are worry-free. But then a man drops dead in the games room...
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    The Fourth Betrayal

    Best friends almost from birth, Ollie Swanson and Dougie Tarkenen grow up in the idyllic surroundings of a small Pacific Northwest fishing village. Shortly after their high school graduation, they commit a desperate act and must share the secret of that...
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    The Corpse with the Platinum Hair

    Welsh Canadian foodie and criminologist Cait Morgan takes off on a short break to the fabulous Tsar! Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas with her significant other, retired cop Bud Anderson. But before they can start celebrating Bud's birthday in style at the...
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    Field of Dead Horses

    Small Town...Big SecretGeorgetown, Kentucky, 1939Soon after dawn on a February morning, Elliott Chapel discovers an unconscious, bloodied, young woman lying face up in the cold waters of Penny creek. Days later, awakening from her hypothermic coma, Ellie...
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  • Ten Mile Valley
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    Ten Mile Valley

    From a three-time Spur Awardwinner comes the tale of an orphaned boy who is forced to become a man.Mark Kelton is eighteen years old-part boy, part man. On the trail to set up a ranch in eastern Oregon, his parents are killed by an unknown assailant and...
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  • Iron Dust
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    Iron Dust

    "Brand practices his art to something like perfection." -The New York Times"Max Brand is the Shakespeare of the Western range." -Kirkus ReviewsAfter Andrew Lanning's father dies, his Uncle Jasper takes him under his wing and raises him for the next...
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    Investigating Turkey
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    Investigating Turkey

    This volume seeks to understand more about the lives and histories of the general population of the Republic of Turkey during the years 1928 and 1945. During this period, concepts of Turkish nationalism were expounded in a top-down effort to rally the...
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