The Mystery of Talbot Manor

By Gary Simpson

If you live in a haunted house, playing with electricity can be a shocking experience...

Deep within the misty depths of Dartmoor, a coach party is stranded during a storm and the only refuge is the dark and foreboding edifice that is Talbot Manor. What are the dark secrets contained within? What devious experiments are conducted in the basement by the unhinged owner, Marcus Talbot? And what does Cringe the butler think… if he thinks at all?

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

 

Cringe, 63: The butler - is he really brain-damaged or does he know more than he admits to?

Frau Schmidt, late 40s: The sinister housekeeper. What dreadful experiment has she been party to in the basement?

Lawrence Wetherby, late 40s: The family solicitor, has arrived to read the will of Mason Talbot, the elder brother who went mysteriously missing several years ago…

Ruby Cookson, 40: The new maid. Is her terror genuine or is she still recovering from that unfortunate nervous breakdown which led to her committal to the local asylum?

Marcus Talbot, 44: The sinister scientist who owns Talbot Manor and spends each stormy night conducting experiments in his father’s laboratory...

Liberty Talbot, 42: His younger sister who has returned from America to claim her inheritance…

Thaddeus Kent, early 20s: Liberty's American toy boy. Is there more to him that at first seems?

Dr Harriet Ffinch, late 50s: Tourist and amateur detective who stumbles on Talbot Manor, just in time for murder…

THE MYSTERY OF TALBOT MANOR

Cast 4M 4F

Flexibility Dr Harriet Ffinch can be played by an actor (as Inspector Foot)

Alternative endings 3

Period 1933

Special costume requirements Period costume

Staging requirements Some sound effects and lightning flashes

Suitability for family audiences Suitable for all ages

Complexity +++

Comedy element ++++

Atmosphere ++++

RETURN TO TALBOT MANOR

If your group has already performed The Mystery of Talbot Manor, you may be interested in the sequel, Return to Talbot Manor. Click HERE.

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A BLOW TO THE HEAD

 

The headmaster’s retiral party

THE MAFIA WEDDING

 

The wedding reception

THE MYSTERY OF TALBOT MANOR

 

The haunted house

THE FINAL ACT

 

A backstage murder mystery

A BRIEF’S ENCOUNTER

 

Murder in the legal profession

THE CATWALK KILLER

 

At a fashion show. Dressed to kill

DEATH BY RADIO

 

Murder during the Blitz

RETURN TO TALBOT MANOR

 

Back from the asylum...

SOAPSUDS

 

The soap opera

A NASTY CASE OF BURNS

 

The Burns Night

A TASTE FOR MURDER

 

The 1970s Disco

OVER MY DEAD BODY

 

The 1920s Manor House Mystery

AN ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK

 

Murdernight noir

HELL HATH NO FURY

 

The Ladies Committee

ALL AFLOAT!

 

The 1920s cruise liner

THE SOUND OF

MU..RDER

 

The hills are no longer alive

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NEW! A FETE WORSE THAN DEATH

 

The vicar drops in to the village fete

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