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ELIOT BYERRUM |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Samuel French Inc |
Ellen Byerrum, a.k.a. Eliot Byerrum, is a journalist, novelist, playwright and holder of a private investigator's registration. She is the author of the Crime of Fashion series of mystery novels, including Killer Hair, Designer Knockoff, Hostile Makeover, Raiders of the Lost Corset, Grave Apparel, and Armed and Glamorous, all published by New American Library/Signet. Two of her novels have been filmed to date and will be broadcast on the Lifetime Movie Network in June 2009. As a playwright, under the pen name Eliot Byerrum, she has written more than a dozen plays and screenplays, including two plays published by Samuel French, A Christmas Cactus and Gumshoe Rendezvous. Visit her website at www.ellenbyerrum.com for more information.
Plays by Eliot Byerrum
Christmas Cactus, A | ||
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Genre: | Mystery and romantic comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Full-length, two acts | |||||
Synopsis: | Christmas Eve is no bed of roses for struggling private eye Cactus O'Riley, a fiery redhead with a bad case of the holiday blues. It's a tough business; is she really cut out to be a detective? Should she try to scrape up the rent, or close up shop for good? The last surprise package she needs is a lovelorn deputy D.A., a pair of armed-and-goofy fugitives hunting some dead private eye, and her male secretary's overbearing mother, who mistakes a tense hostage situation for just the perfect little holiday murder mystery party. It's a "Dickens" of a Christmas for Cactus as she digs up long-buried mysteries, looks for a few small miracles, and takes a second chance on love, luck, and the life of a private eye. | |||||
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Gumshoe Rendezvous | ||
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Genre: | Mystery and romantic comedy Mystery | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Two connected and sequential one-act plays, Remedial Surveillance and Deja Rendezvous. | |||||
Synopsis: | Remedial Surveillance: As if teaching this cheap night school private eye class isn't enough aggravation for a burned-out detective named Buzz, now he's got star pupil Irene, a bored Bloomingdale's buyer with a Bogart-Bacall obsession. She's a spunky gumshoe wannabe who drives him nuts with her so-called "fashion clues." Buzz has her pegged as a dizzy dame who's seen too many old movies, but Irene is full of surprises. Her surveillance homework project not only catches Buzz with his pants down, it might just save his hide. Deja Rendezvous: Buzz and Irene: partners? The seen-it-all ex-cop trying for a comeback and the worn-it-all ex-Bloomie's buyer living out her film-noir fantasy can't seem to agree on anything, not even on splitting up. And the detective biz isn't booming in their shabby little office next to a singing telegram company. When a flamboyant femme fatale out of Buzz's past threatens to poison their partnership (and a lot more), it looks like Buzz and Irene's last case, unless they discover that together they might just have what it takes. | |||||
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