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  1. If It's Monday, This Must Be Christmas!

    If It's Monday, This Must Be Christmas!

    By Pat Cook.

    Product Code: I94000

    • Comedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 5m., 6w., 1 boy, 1 girl.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    In this comedic mystery, Harry Monday solves the mysteries of a department store's stolen payroll and the kidnapping of the store's Santa Claus, just in time for Christmas Eve. Learn More
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  2. House of the Seven Gables

    House of the Seven Gables

    By Vin Morreale Jr. Adapted from the classic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

    Product Code: H84000

    • Comedy | Drama | Melodrama | Tragedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 8m., 6w. (plus extras who may be doublecast.)

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    • 90 min.
    The cruel and cunning Colonel Pyncheon brings a curse down on his entire family. More than a century later, a young woman arrives to find the last of the family, and the mysterious House of the Seven Gables, beset by dark secrets and untimely deaths. Learn More
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  3. Monday Always Leads to Murder

    Monday Always Leads to Murder

    By Pat Cook.

    Product Code: MC9000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community
    • 9m., 5w. (with doubling, 6m, 4w.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    As usual, Harry finds himself way in over his head as he tries to solve a 20-year-old murder mystery and write a play about his career at the same time. Learn More
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  4. You Have the Right to Remain Dead

    You Have the Right to Remain Dead

    By Pat Cook.

    Product Code: Y23000

    • Comedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 5m., 5w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    In this audience-participation murder mystery, not only are you questioning the cast, but they are questioning you! As the show starts and you meet Fat Daddy, a rich but vindictive southern gentleman with an equally conniving and scheming family. So you know who's going to die, right? But who will the murderer be? This frantic mystery-comedy will have you guessing until the last clue is dropped and the last ham overacts. Learn More
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  5. Murder's Bad But Monday Can Kill You!

    Murder's Bad But Monday Can Kill You!

    By Pat Cook.

    Product Code: MA8000

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

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Harry's back! That's right, Harry Monday, that Sam Spade wannabe in the trench coat and gumshoes, is hot and on his latest case. As he investigates a triple murder at Restful Glen Psychiatric Annex, he learns that all the inmates have multiple personalities. And the three murder victims are all the same guy! Learn More
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  6. Nevermore! Edgar Allan Poe, the Final Mystery

    Nevermore! Edgar Allan Poe, the Final Mystery

    By Julian Wiles. Based on the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe.

    Product Code: N41000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 12m., 7w. (2 boys playing 52 parts).

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    • 100 min.
    In 1847, Edgar Allan Poe is reported to have boarded a steamer for an overnight voyage to New York City. Five days later, Poe was found delirious on a Baltimore street and died soon thereafter. What transpired over those missing days has remained forever a mystery...until now. This imaginative play, utilizing Poe's macabre stories and poems, ponders what might have happened to him on the dreary nightmare voyage at the end of his life. Learn More
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  7. If It's Monday, This Must Be Murder!

    If It's Monday, This Must Be Murder!

    By Pat Cook.

    Product Code: I52000

    • Comedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 5m., 4w. (can be expanded to 8m.,5w.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Posing as a golf-playing psychiatrist at the Shady Meadows Country Club, Harry investigates why the club members start dropping like divots! Learn More
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  8. Death and Taxes

    Death and Taxes

    By Pat Cook.

    Product Code: D60000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 5w.

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    • 90 min.
    Ever wonder what goes on at a small-town city council meeting? In Hendricks, they're looking for a murderer. Not only was a man murdered, but he was an employee of the IRS. Slowly it becomes apparent the entire city council had seen the man, and each of them seems to be hiding something. This easy-to-stage intrigue is chock-full of small-town characters and hilarious dialogue. Learn More
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  9. Breaking and Entering

    Breaking and Entering

    By Vin Morreale, Jr.

    Product Code: B75000

    • Comedy | Farce
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 2w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 55 min.
    A charming con man breaks into what he thinks is an empty apartment only to find a mysterious woman waiting for him. Learn More
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  10. Murder Most Fouled-Up

    Murder Most Fouled-Up

    By Nikki Harmon.

    Product Code: M79000

    • Comedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 5w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 110 min.
    Uncle Ridgely has hidden $20 million. The terms of his will give the family only 24 hours to find the money or the ghosts of murdered relatives are doomed to wander forever. Three of the ghosts pitch in to help the undeserving living so their spirits can Learn More
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