Brian Cartwright, impecunious adventurer, blackmails four unfortunates unwittingly involved in a crime. As zero hour approaches he invites them all to dine with him.
Category: Joe (Arthur) Brooks
1979
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The Other Fellows Oats
Desmond and Helen are borrowing a flat in London. Desmond discovers that Helen has left her husband and that his own wife has gone to Majorca with George, the owner of the flat.
1978
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The Amorous Prawn
The wife of an army general has hit on hard times needs to raise money, quick. But will her scheme to open the general’s headquarters to visitors pass her husband’s approval?
1977
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The Gentle Hook
Stacey Harrison is a charming, intelligent, successful career woman who unfortunately gets involved in divorce, but several murders as well.
1977
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Hay Fever
Judith Bliss, a retired actress, her writer husband David, and their two grown-up children have all privately invited guests for the weekend, unbeknownst to anyone else.
1976
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Halfway Up The Tree
On returning from the middle east a general finds he hardly recognizes his children. Rather than rant and rave, the general looks into the matter. And, by george, he even adapts to it.
1975
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The Ghost Train
A ghostly driver, sudden deaths and a travelling parrot make this 1920s thriller an unnervingly hilarious exploration of our capacity for belief in the supernatural.
1974
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Spider’s Web
Clarissa, wife of a diplomat, is adept at spinning tales of adventure but when a murder takes place in her drawing room she finds live drama much harder to cope with.
1974
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Doctor in the House
About the off duty lives of a group of medical students, this play weaves their happy triumphs and brave failures, love affairs and parties into a many colored pattern.
1973
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Quiet Weekend
Mildred and Arthur Royd, Marcia’s parents, own a country cottage intended for quiet week-ends. It does not, however, work out that way on some occasions.