

Murder By the Book (Hischak)
Thomas Hischak
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?
| 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 |
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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