Unless otherwise specified, these are “Mystery Dinner Theater” plays – each has thirty or forty minutes of action involving several characters, followed by a newspaper article containing the details of a murder, clues for the actors to sell in character, and a brief resolution scene. Each kit comes with three sets of clues and solutions, so that the play can be presented multiple times without the solution leaking out. These were written for fund-raisers in which the audience experiences a play, eats dinner, buys clues from the characters, and the first table to turn in the solution to the mystery wins (rewards for a winning table sometimes include gift certificates from local businesses – this is for the fund-raising organization to arrange).

I look forward to writing more of these plays. If your group would like a play about a specific Biblical person or time period, I would be happy to write one on a commission basis. I would strongly encourage the choice of a person whose cause of death is not presented in the Bible (Writing a mystery about who killed Abel would be difficult, first because everybody knows who did it, and second because writing multiple solutions would mean contradicting scripture). You can contact me at tjs@snodgrassplays.com to get the ball rolling.