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In nineteen thirty-seven the Monte Carlo gambling ship runs aground in a storm off the Californian coast and a hundred thousand dollars-worth of gold and silver coins belonging to the Mafia go missing. But how did the coins turn up hidden in a house sixteen years later? In the mind of a private detective the coins seem inextricably linked to the brother of a young woman client. He went missing at the same time. It's a cold case, but things get...

Nineteen sixty-eight is a time of great change in Los Angeles with Civil Rights, the oral contraceptive pill and Rock and Roll. But more than anything, it is the Vietnam War that is blowing generations apart. A retired private detective with something on his mind gets suckered into a job that leaves him wishing he'd closed shop a decade before. Caught up in the shady world of secret programs designed to destabilise the Viet Cong, he finds his ...

Los Angeles, 1932, and a town recovering from the chaos of the Olympic Games. What do you do if a respected paragon of LA society asks you to investigate the theft of her dog? But then, after the violence of your previous case, maybe searching for an old woman's pooch has its own rewards. A simple case, easy money. Who would expect that the lost dog wasn't what any reasonable person would expect? As a private investigator, you need to be caref...

Los Angeles in nineteen sixty-eight is a troubled place. Assassinations, school walk-outs and student sit-ins have stirred up that famous LA dust and created an atmosphere where it is hard to get your breath, especially if you're a sixty-five year-old private eye. The trouble with thinking that you're at the end of your career is that others might not necessarily agree. A young British archaeologist with a mystery that at first sight seems not...

Los Angeles is reeling from the paranoia caused by Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Everyone is expecting an invasion of the Californian coast. But where crime is concerned, life goes on as before. A private investigator, struggling with his own demons, gets a call for help. Or, at least, it seems that way. There's only one problem. When he gets caught in a dangerous web of deceit and murder the only clue he has is a room covered in blood. When...

Los Angeles was supposed to be the start of a new life after years of unfulfilling work. Starting a detective agency was meant to be a return to a younger time when, as a disaffected ex-student, Philip had been able to help a young woman find the truth about her murdered brother. Now, eight years later, opening a detective agency was always going to be a gamble. Almost immediately, Los Angeles proves to be a trap in a case that puts the pursui...

What do you do when you discover that a relative turns out to have a surprising past? Clearing the house after his uncle's death, one man unearths evidence that sets him on a quest to uncover who his uncle really was, and what role was played by the mysterious HM. What begins with the discovery of one man's lifetime of folly ends with a story that exposes just how possible it is to live a life that is a complete lie. The question is - who else...

Attending a university fancy dress ball should have been a matter of grinning and bearing it. Fancy dress isn't everyone's idea of a good time, after all. For one man, however, the act of hiring a costume is to have consequences far beyond what any reasonable person could expect. What he hires is far more than just a costume. It is a mystery. A forgotten secret begins to emerge that has lain hidden for more than seventy years. What begins as ...

Set in the years immediately after the start of Prohibition and against the backdrop of a hot and dusty southern California, a love story and tragedy unfolds for two young people. One, a young woman from a wealthy family worried about her genius, scientist brother and the other, a disaffected college drop-out looking to find a future that is his own. What the dropout discovers, as he unpicks the suspense, violence and tragedy of a murder, is h...

The digital revolution should have democratised the process of writing whereas, by virtue of the computer, it has only democratised the means of writing. The rest of the process is still largely in the hands of an elite that owes its existence to an era where writing was the preserve of those with an independent income. In a desperate move to avoid the chaos that the digital world has supposedly brought to the music industry, the fiction publi...

At just 27 years old, Janis Joplin had been famous for just 8 years, yet, in that short time, she challenged not only the music industry but also western society itself, and in particular, an almost global perception of what it meant to be a woman at that time. And yet, there was something else that festered in Janis' heart and, ultimately, would be the emotional cancer that would bring her to that motel room where she died. One single event i...

The thing about photography is that, sometimes, it captures an accidental reality that was never the intention of the photographer. The grinning idiot in the background, the unfortunate reflection in a mirror. But what do you do when an old photograph shows something in the background that challenges an accepted truth about history? Fate drops just such a photograph into the lap of a man who already owns another piece of the same jigsaw. Drawn...

In the sequel to Cause and Defect, the cost of being true to himself is brought into sharp focus for Zack when Carl Muller, the man Zack thought he had beaten, rises from the ashes like a digital phoenix. And he wants revenge and his company restored, not just to its former glory, but re-cast as a world-dominating power. The sort of power that big data can put into the hands of those who know how to use it. In a world recovering from one of th...

You might think that an innocent member of the public might be far removed from the darker side of human existence. However, cause and effect would have it otherwise. For a retired university lecturer, the uncovering of a 19th century aviation mystery exposes more than he bargains for. An organization known as The Sails and Rigging Committee, the onetime super-secret service dedicated to protecting the British Navy's world dominance, has morph...

While out playing with his brother, eight-year-old Michael strays onto a derelict farm. It would be the last thing he ever did. But how did Michael die? Falling through the roof of an old shed? After finding Michael's body, eleven-year-old brother Zack is in no doubt: Michael was savaged to death by evil chickens. Is this just the product of Zack's distressed mind, a random event, or is there some cause and effect at play that nobody wants to ...

Lawrence Goodman wasn't looking for anything in life except to try to deal with a growing disillusionment with his job. Lecturing in Computer Science wasn't what it used to be. He was feeling like an empty shell. But, into the void inside him dropped the Beale Diary. One of life's small mistakes that ends up cascading dramatic consequences. The diary put a match to the tinder wood of Lawrence's own obsessive mind and life would never be the sa...

While clearing out some old research material, Lawrence is faced with the ghost of a murder, trapped in time on an old magnetic tape. Something he'd missed before and now the old obsession rises again. But in feeding the beast, he uncovers a horrible truth. His previous research into the wartime relationship between IBM and The Third Reich turned out to be only the beginning of a thread from that grotesque time. A connection that stretches rig...

A manuscript written nearly 40 years ago tells of a journey that one young man takes to become a teacher. But there has been a personal cost. A dream destroyed along the way by a cruel careers master. It takes one girl in a blue dress to make the boy rediscover that dream and, for both of them, fulfil a destiny.

The stories of managers and record companies who ripped bands off, are legendary. But what about those bands whose fiery arc to stardom fizzled out? Bands that, having got a single into the charts, failed to follow it up. What if the music had been more important than the money? The Why was just such a band. But there was something else. Not the lack of talent, nor the potential for hit singles. Something that was much darker and sinister, and...

In the course pf human affairs, there is a fundamental conundrum. How do you know that what someone else is feeling is genuine? In a relationship, it is a matter of trust. But trust of what? Jessica and Rob become ensnared by a paradox that places them both in an impossible position. You trust someone, but trust is not enough. This short play examines how love for somebody can be a relationship's worst enemy. How love can be mistrustful while ...