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  1. The Mysterious Disappearance MT3000

    The Mysterious Disappearance

    By Kirt Shineman.

    Product Code: MT3000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 1m, 3w.

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    • 100 min.
    It is December 1975, after Christmas, and Agatha Christie must finish her autobiography and the final novel before the new year. Yet, Agatha is fixated on an event in her past when Nancy Neele stole her husband. With Mary Westmacott’s help, they contemplate what it would be like to kill Nancy. Even though Agatha considered murdering Nancy, did she really do it, or is her reality disappearing? Learn More
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  2. Ghosts in the Machine GD8000

    Ghosts in the Machine

    By Eric Coble.

    Product Code: GD8000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 8 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 70 min.
    It begins after lunch on Melissa’s phone. Someone she doesn’t know is texting her looking for a drug hook-up. Soon, eight very different high-school kids are getting bizarre texts from numbers they don’t recognize—budding romances, bitter rivalries, even violent threats. What’s going on? And what if it’s not people connecting with other people via their phones … but phones trying to connect with other phones via their people? A digital mystery for the mind and heart of the savvy texter. Learn More
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  3. Sherlock Holmes and the First Baker Street Irregular

    Sherlock Holmes and the First Baker Street Irregular

    By Brian Guehring. Based on the characters and mysteries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

    Product Code: S2P000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 7 to 13m., 5 to 12w., up to 13 extras

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    • 70 min.
    On a dare, 14-year-old Wiggins tries to pickpocket an old man. Not only is she unsuccessful, but the old man, Sherlock Holmes, takes the ring that was in her pocket and leaves a note with his address. When she goes to retrieve the ring, she proposes to work as his assistant, and he agrees to begin training her. They must learn to trust each other as Wiggins and her group of street urchins help him solve two dangerous mysteries. Learn More
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  4. The Return of Edwin Drood

    The Return of Edwin Drood

    By Michael Druce.

    Product Code: RD9000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community
    • 9m., 7w.

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    • 100 min.
    When Charles Dickens died halfway through The Mystery of Edwin Drood readers were left with one of the greatest literary mysteries of all time. Now Drood reappears in America where he has overcome amnesia brought on by a savage attack 10 years earlier. Drood sets into motion an elaborate plan to discover the assailant's identity, but questions arise about forgiveness, redemption, justice and revenge. Learn More
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  5. Lead Rings on the Merry-Go-Round

    Lead Rings on the Merry-Go-Round

    By Edward F. EmanuEl

    Product Code: LM2000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community
    • 3 to 6m., 2 to 9w., 2 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 80 min.
    Radio host Lancelot T. Terrierre reveals live on the air that he not only knows who the Lead Rings Murderer is, he has locked himself and his crew into the studio with the culprit and plans to expose the murderer to the public! Every time a murder is discussed on the air, a murder takes place in the studio! Show ratings are going up as actors are going down! Only at the end will the murderer and the ingenious method used to silence the radio cast be discovered. Learn More
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  6. Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Goose

    Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Goose

    Adapted by Michael Menendian and John Weagly. From The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

    Product Code: S2N000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 5 to 7m., 3 to 9w., up to 12 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 60 min.

    In this family-friendly mystery, Sherlock Holmes must discover the identity of a man who lost his hat and goose in a late-night scuffle, and then the countess of Morcar’s rare and valuable blue carbuncle is found stuffed down the goose’s throat. The pursuit of the thief leads Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to Covent Garden Market and all over the streets of wintry London.

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  7. Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Irregulars

    Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Irregulars

    Adapted by Eric Coble. From the graphic novels by Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood.

    Product Code: S2E000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 5 to 10m., 5 to 10w., up to 10 either gender.

      No Livestream or Record and Stream Rights Available

    • 80 min.
    Sherlock Holmes is missing, and the streets of London are awash with crime. Who will save the day? The Baker Street Irregulars—a gang of street kids hired by Sherlock himself to help solve cases. Can a group of orphans, pickpockets, inventors and artists rescue the people of London? The game is afoot! Learn More
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  8. An Evening With Sherlock Holmes

    An Evening With Sherlock Holmes

    By Jules Tasca.

    Product Code: E89000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community
    • 5 to 10m., 2 to 6w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.

    This unique evening of mystery consists of a triad of one-acts that are best performed altogether: The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor (5m., 2w.): A British aristocrat's to-be wife disappears on the day they are to be wed. The Milverton Adventure (3m., 2w.): A nefarious man is blackmailing an engaged woman with letters to a former lover that she wrote. If revealed, they could destroy her impending marriage. Finally, The Disappearance of Adam (2m., 2w.): Holmes must solve the riddle that has puzzled the most brilliant minds in history! How does a person cope with his or her own demise? Does Holmes solve this case? Yes and no. A not-to-be-missed climax!

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  9. The Charitable Sisterhood of the Second Trinity Victory Church

    The Charitable Sisterhood of the Second Trinity Victory Church

    By Bo Wilson.

    Product Code: CQ1000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community
    • 5w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 95 min.
    The roads are flooded, the bridges are washed out, and less generous souls are staying safely indoors, but it takes more than a little rain to keep the ladies of the Charitable Sisterhood from fulfilling their sworn mission. When these ladies meet to organize a relief effort for homeless Guatemalans, they are greeted with a small mountain of community donations—but one woman's junk is another woman's treasure, and that pile of stuff in this little church basement is hiding a thing or two. Learn More
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  10. Mr. Chickee's Funny Money

    Mr. Chickee's Funny Money

    Music and lyrics by Lamont Dozier and Paris Dozier. Book by David Ingber. Based on the novel Mr. Chickee's Funny Money by Christopher Paul Curtis. Orchestrations and arrangements by Brian Usifer.

    Product Code: MP3000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 5 to 6m., 2 to 4w., 1 either gender.

      No Livestream Rights Available

    • 75 min.
    Ten-year-old Steven, a self-proclaimed spy and president of the Flint Future Detectives Club, is asked to unlock the secret behind a mysterious bill. With his pals, Steven discovers family, friends, imagination and determination are the true keys to success. This rhythm and blues musical grooves to original songs by Motown legend Lamont Dozier and his son Paris. Learn More
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