

Mystery, Mayhem, and Murder!
Jed Parish
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"'Mystery at Greenfingers' invites viewers into a charming yet sinister garden where secrets bloom."
From: Mystery and Thriller ScriptsA snowstorm traps a group of guests and crew into the Greenfingers Palace Hotel.
A detective is sent to the hotel to investigate a top secret crime, but it is Miss Tracey and new hostess who solve everything.-6 women, 4 men
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| MISS TRACEY (an elderly spinster, a lady of independent means from Storton-under-the-Hill, Gloucestershire. She is very lively, intelligent, downright, with a sharp staccato manner of speech. She is dressed throughout in sensible travelling tweeds) |
| HELEN TENNANT (about twenty-five, pretty, and with pleasant manners. She is the games and social hostess of the hotel. Dressed throughout in winter-day clothes, rather “sporting” in type. Preferably fair) |
| EDNA SANDARS (a bookkeeper and secretary, about twentyseven or twenty-eight, and preferably dark and rather sleek. Sometimes wears very smart spectacles. Rather hard and sharp. Quite smartly dressed, in darkish clothes) |
| MRS. (ROSE) HEATON (staff manageress of the hotel. About thirty-five, rather handsome, quiet, efficient, reserved, rather bitter in manner. She is already wearing her uniform, which is a smart black outfit) |
| SALLY PHILIPS (one of the hotel company’s more experienced maids. About twenty-seven. Rather “tough” in manner, sharp-witted, cynical. Quite nice-looking. Wears the hotel maids’ uniform, which should be quite attractive) |
| CLARA PACKER (another maid, younger and far less sophisticated than Sally. Wears same uniform. A simple, good-hearted creature) |
| KEITH HENLEY (assistant manager of the hotel. About twenty-eight. Good-looking nice young man, with good social background. Keen on his job. Wears ordinary good clothes, not the black coat, etc., he will wear when hotel is open) |
| ARNOLD JORDAN (one of the hotel chefs. About forty-five. Preferably large and rather fat. Is half-French, and talks with faint French accent, using the French “r.” Goodnatured, amusing, but temperamental. Wears ordinary good clothes, but can be seen once wearing chef ’s cap and apron) |
| FRED POOLE (the cocktail barman of the hotel. About thirty. Very sleek and smart, and affects slight American style of speech above his native Cockney. Nattily dressed, but wears a white uniform jacket of cocktail barman instead of ordinary lounge coat) |
| ROBERT CROWTHER (the hotel company’s detective. An ex-Scotland Yard officer. About fifty. Preferably tall, heavy, rather military figure. Wears ordinary clothes. Still the selfimportant policeman, with loud voice and heavy-handed manner) |
Mystery at Greenfingers is a British mystery play written by J. B. Priestly and published by Samuel French (1937).
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