Blame it on the Black & Decker

We join the party at Sarah and Jay’s house, where villagers have been waiting for a Neighbourhood Watch meeting to start. The door was open but Sarah couldn't be found, and Jay was absent, so they searched the house. They found Sarah in the utility room, shot with a single bullet to the centre of the forehead. She had been killed somewhere else, cut in two with a power tool of some kind, carried in two large holdalls (dumped by the body) and then reassembled in the utility room.

Who in the village has power tools ? Or the motive for such a gruesome murder ? Take a handful of suspects, add a detective and two barmy old eccentrics, sit back and enjoy solving the case

Passion & Panto

The murder occurs during a Performance of the Locking Stumps Christmas Panto – Cinderella. Barton Seagrove, leading light of the Locking Stumps Amateur Dramatic Society is shot in his dressing room. The murder is cunningly designed to take place at the same time as the thunderflash for the Fairy’s entrance. The Fairy also misses her entrance, but Dandini suddenly enters, madly ad-libbing to cover the confusion, which finally results in a quick, rousing chorus of There’s a Worm at the Bottom of My Garden and his name is Wiggly Woo, which (thankfully) is interrupted by a piercing scream as the body is found by Deirdre, the Lighting Operator / Prompt / SM. The whole performance finally grinds to a halt, and the FOH staff are asked to telephone the police.

The actual investigation takes place straight after the murder occurs and before the police arrive.

Venison & Vitriol

Several paying guests have joined the Laird of Glen Donen and his family on their Estate to take part in a shoot. They had a traditional scottish meal on the Friday night, followed by a drinking session and a lot of headaches in the morning ! This was the last time the Laird was seen alive as he was found early on Saturday impaled on a set of deer antlers fixed to the wall beneath the main stairs in the Great Hall.

The actual investigation takes place during Saturday, after the discovery of the Laird’s body that morning.

Jam & Jerusalem- The Radio Play

Using exactly the same format as the other Murder Mysteries Evenings, this script is designed to work as a radio play and was especially commissioned for Doveridge WI for their regional conference. It's also a little shorter than usual as the ladies required it to fit into their meeting and didn't want to be there all night !

Madam President, prized pain in the posterior, has been murdered - poisoned by her own jam ! There's no shortage of suspects as she's upset absolutely everyone in the village, from her Vice President to her son's fiancee and the lady in the Post Office ! Come watch her get her comeuppance !

Come into the Garden, Victor

It's the annual flower festival at Oakamoor, and the first prize is the honour of naming the new hybrid tea rose grown by the local nursery. But someone's going round sabotaging the bushes, and the Major is murdered ! Have the village horticultural rivalries gone too far ......?

Faking It

Events so far Weekend party of art enthusiasts – coming together of moneyed people to buy a painting the victim wished to sell. We join everyone at the advance party for Sir David’s Grand Art Auction, where his latest lot is to be sold to the highest bidder. But the pensioners with attitude are back! Esther and Hetty are present as part of the art lectures, with their friend Bing the Zing, their very own handy Taser gun that they are so fond of, much to the annoyance of Hetty’s granddaughter, Detective sergeant Evie. On the first night, everyone played Scrabble after dinner, but that very night, their host, Sir David, was found murdered- stabbed with an artist’s palette knife – with scrabble tiles spelling out the word FAKE stuffed into his mouth. But who or what was fake? Why was Sir David murdered? and most importantly, whodunnit? was he really only a con man in disguise? Why was he killed – did someone try and stop him doing something dishonest? Did someone think the painting to be sold was a fake and did they then have a fatal fight over it? In the morning, guests are being stopped by police at the end of the drive to stop them leaving- everyone is waiting for CID to come to take statements, but in the meantime, the gruesome twosome pensioners are armed and dangerous and in charge of collecting information to help the CID discover who did it! Will they find out anything useful, or just find out all the juicy gossip?

The Brain, The Baton and A Nasty Case of Nasal Congestion

We join the fun at the parish church of St Jude’s in Little Hampton where Reverend Leonard Braithwaite and the choir committee are rehearsing for an audition with the BBC’s Songs of Praise. Suddenly the door opens and a blast from the past enters causing great unrest amongst the villagers, who each have a secret to hide. Will this spectre reveal all their little misdemeanours and foibles ? Not if the killer gets there first ! Thus Caris Malone arrives in the village of Little Hampton to act as choirmaster during the BBC recording. However, she is already known to the villagers as she used to live there. It turns out that she was not Mrs Popular and the villagers were extremely relieved when she left. Before the final rehearsal, she is murdered by having her conductor’s baton shoved up her nose – but why ? and by whom ?

Coming soon ! - Jam & Jerusalem II - The Play

Set in the competitive world of the local Women's Institute it involves a winning. but secret, jam recipe desired by everyone in the village..............