A Christmas Cactus
by Eliot Byerrum

Comedy / 4m, 2f Scenery: Combined Interior and Exterior Christmas Eve is tough for private investigator Cactus O'Riley, a white hot redhead with the holiday blues.

She is trying to lure her secretary Fred away from his protective mother, dodging the affections of Deputy D.A.

Windsor, and considering closing her business.

She doesn't need the added aggravation of two fugitives who burst into her office looking for justice and a dead detective named Jake Marley.

Cactus also doesn't need Fred's