A New Style For Murder
by Thomas S Hischak, Thomas Hischak

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Highlights

120 mins Present Day Ensemble Cast Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Mystery

Synopsis

Ladies gather at Cassie and Dee Nolan's beauty salon in Lilac Junction to hear the local gossip and, incidentally, get their hair done.

Today they've really got something to get their tongues wagging Hannah Carlson, the high school principal's wife, dies under the hair dryer murdered!

Who did it?

Characters

Character
Dee Nolan

Cassie's spinster sister; quiet, pretty in a faded way, observant

Lenore Davis

Assistant Principal at the high school; demanding, humorless

Hannah Carlson

wife of the Principal; a cold, superior person

Joleen Kester

a math teacher at the school; innocent and a bit dense about anything but numbers

Mrs. Culver

a wealthy old woman; stubborn, difficult, commands attention

Alice Culver

her granddaughter; a lively, adventurous high school girl

Brandy Eastman

a student at the high school; a quiet, intelligent high school girl

Sheriff Peterson

the local sheriff; friendly, down to earth, easy going

Inspector Trigg

detective from St. Louis; a solemn businesslike man, nobody's fool

Lt. Elizabeth Roberts

his assistant; a knowing woman in her 30s, quiet but alert

Cassie Nolan

a middle-aged woman who runs the salon with her sister; friendly, outgoing, and very talkative

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
Year 1991
Binding Paperback
Pages 73
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573692956
ISBN-10 0573692955
LCCN 92162999
LCC PS3558.I76 N54 1991
DCC 812/.54

A New Style For Murder is a American mystery play written by Thomas S Hischak and published by Samuel French in New York (1991).

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