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I write plays under my pen name, Eliot Byerrum. A Christmas Cactus and Gumshoe Rendezvous are published by Samuel French, Inc. Contact Samuel French for information. For my other plays, contact me about production rights and royalties.

A Christmas Cactus

 

A holiday mystery comedy in two acts

 

Christmas Eve is no bed of roses for struggling private eye Cactus O'Riley, a fiery redhead with a bad case of the holiday blues. It's a tough business; is she really cut out to be a detective? Should she try to scrape up the rent, or close up shop for good?

     The last surprise package she needs is a lovelorn deputy D.A., a pair of armed-and-goofy fugitives hunting some dead private eye, and her male secretary's overbearing mother--who mistakes a tense hostage situation for the perfect little holiday murder mystery party. Just what she's always wanted! And what Cactus didn't need this Christmas Eve.

     It's a Dickens of a Christmas for Cactus, as she digs up long-buried mysteries, unwraps a few small miracles, and takes a second chance on love and luck--and the life of a private eye.                    

     A Christmas Cactus has been produced across the US and Canada, often just in time for Christmas.

 

Gumshoe Rendezvous

 

Two one-act mystery comedies 

 

Remedial Surveillance Teaching a night school private eye class? Headache enough for one burned-out ex-detective, and now Buzz's "star pupil" is a dizzy wannabe gumshoe who's seen too many old movies. But Irene's surveillance homework not only catches Buzz with his pants down, it might just save his hide. 

     Deja Rendezvous Partners? Buzz and Irene? No way! They can't agree on anything, not even on splitting up, and their new private eye biz isn't booming. Can they make this unlikely partnership blossom before a femme fatale out of Buzz's past poisons their relationship (and a lot more)?

Boom Town Blues 

 

Newsflash: Scandal-plagued senator snowbound in gun-crazy Western boomtown! Tempers flare, trigger fingers itch, and one young female reporter is caught in the middle. Is this the scoop of a lifetime for her--or the end of the road?

Ghost Dance 

 

Long ago, they say, the Ghost Dance could make the dead rise and walk the Plains. When a woman who can't let go of the past lures her old lover to the site of a forgotten massacre, will ghosts rise to stalk again?

The Angel of Death Rises Early

   

A troubled female private eye, a tough case she never wanted, a murdered woman who might have been her double, and a friend who might be her killer. Who will the angel of death come for today?

Interviewing Techniques for the Self-Conscious

   

What they would never dare tell you in the job interview. What you could never dare ask--but wish you could. What if somehow you could both say exactly what you're thinking?

Red She Said

  

Stress is never just a byproduct in this office, it's our most important product! That is, until one very stressed-out woman decides she's finally had enough. Maybe it's time to give some of that stress back--to The Boss From Hell.

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