St
Valentines
"all you get is
death"
Valentines Day party; memories of the sixties
are revived in a group of fifty- somethings; Beatles' songs are played;
secret messages in the national papers; a beautiful but bitchy
girl collapses and dies.
Ref BEN 6A |
Caribbean
"Dr Yes says No"
A threatened hurricane closes the airport;
there is a shortage of booze (except rum); Basildon Bond the famous
playboy millionaire dies in a pool; a story of high finance, black
treachery (and black magic), and off-shore shenanigans.
Ref BEN 6E |
Christmas
"Murder on the moor"
An isolated pub high on the moors; the storm
is getting worse; soon the pub will be cut-off (but there is plenty
of whisky) many travellers are trapped for the night - there is drinking
- arguments start - then murder most foul.
Ref BEN 6C |
Black
and White
"Who framed Charlie the Chaplain"
Hollywood in the thirties - everyone dressed
in black and white because colour film is still in the future; martinis
and manhattans to the fore; the stars (and their characters) gather
for
drinks; a shot rings out.
Ref. BEN 6J |
Wild
west
"Hi Noon"
The sheriff is going to need help before the end of the day; was there
a crime before the murder - and whose body is it anyway?
Ref BEN 6B |
Horror
"By the light of the Silvery Moon"
On the night of the full moon the wind howls
around the vicarage - or is there something else out there?
Ref BEN 6F |
French
"Ooh, la, la - I'homme est mort"
Paris in the gay nineties (even nice girls
don't wear knickers - but nice boys do) Montmartre is thriving (wine
and pastis flow); how many mistresses did the late patron have?
Ref BEN 6H |
St
Patricks
"Race Relations"
A hospitality tent at an Irish racecourse;
several generations of one family are gathered together; trainers,
jockeys and owners mingle; the Guinness flows; but where is the missing
heir.
Ref BEN 6G |
Scottish
"He who pays the piper"
A gathering for a reading of Burns' poems
(and ceremonial drinking of whisky) is interrupted by a dastardly
deed; was it a poisoned haggis - or are they always like that.
Ref BEN 6I |
Halloween
"The ghost gives in"
A group of ghostbusters (fortified with liquid
spirit) settle in to a supposed haunted house to expose a fraud; there
are tensions within the group; then a body is discovered.
Ref BEN 6D |