Mystery Drama / 2m, 4f / Interior set Recipient of the 2008 Mystery Writer's of America Edgar Award for Best Play. Paris, 1963. Director Henry Lockwood has come to the City of Light for the premiere of his new film, Panic. Accompanied on the trip by his wife Emma and his secretary Miriam, Lockwood expects nothing more than to enjoy another cinematic success and to bask in the adulation of young French film critic Alain Duplay. But when Lockwood is accused of a hideous crime---a crime that could destroy his career and his marriage---he's forced to confront the truth about himself and those...
Mystery Drama / 2m, 4f / Interior set Recipient of the 2008 Mystery Writer's of America Edgar Award for Best Play. Paris, 1963. Director Henry Lockwoo...
Drama / 4 m, 3 f / Interior Set in the break room of a quasi-governmental organization, Smoke and Mirrors follows Anita and a handful of her co-workers through the course of a seemingly normal day, complete with bad cafeteria food, inept bosses, inappropriate e-mails and blood-stained lab-coats. Smoke and Mirrors mingles the comic with the nightmarish, creating a world composed of patriotism and cupcakes, of paranoia and air freshener---a world uncomfortably close to our own. "In Smoke and Mirrors, playwright Joseph Goodrich conjures up a wickedly amusing portrait of a stultifying but...
Drama / 4 m, 3 f / Interior Set in the break room of a quasi-governmental organization, Smoke and Mirrors follows Anita and a handful of her co-worker...
2013 Malice Domestic Agatha Award Nominee "What a treasure . . . literally a blow-by-blow account of the creation of three of the strongest Queen novels." Francis M. Nevins, two-time Edgar winner "A superlative book . . . jaw-dropping revelations." William Link, creator of Columbo The writing team of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee (better known by their joint byline of Ellery Queen) produced some of the most ambitious mystery novels of the mid-20th Century. Yet their relationship was acrimonious, marred by pain, financial and professional dependency and mistrust. Here, culled from the...
2013 Malice Domestic Agatha Award Nominee "What a treasure . . . literally a blow-by-blow account of the creation of three of the strongest Queen nov...
Nine early plays by author-dramatist Joseph Goodrich, 2008 winner of the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar for Best Play. Drawing on Modernism and Hollywood noir, these short dramas seethe with violence and desperation. "There are no happy endings for the characters in these plays," says Goodrich in his introduction.
Nine early plays by author-dramatist Joseph Goodrich, 2008 winner of the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar for Best Play. Drawing on Modernism and Ho...