A searing family drama of Alzheimer's, madness, and murder by the Edgar Award-winning author of Matter of Intent . . . When John Pickett is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, his children find themselves in a virtual war with their stepmother. At every turn she thwarts their efforts to secure John's care and the family's security. Finally she resorts to a shocking act of violence. Wading into family conflicts and long-buried secrets, Detective Maxine Travis tries to piece together what made Ruthie Pickett point a gun at her husband and pull the trigger.
When a strange mystic with a zombie-like slave comes to a sleepy German village--and the bodies begin to pile up--it is up to Francis, a brave medical student, to unmask the killer. Can he do so in time to save his beloved Jane? A stage version of the classic 1919 German Expressionist silent horror film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" suitable for professional and community theaters and schools.
It is 1925. Ossian Cain-a widowed black doctor with a teen daughter, a new wife and baby, and a dentist brother-buys a home in a white neighborhood in a northern industrial city. On their second night, the Cains are threatened by a mob that calls for lynching and hurls rocks through their windows. During the confrontation, a white man is shot dead. The entire family is arrested and charged with first degree murder. Summoned by the local NAACP, legal legend Charles Durham, defender of the damned, comes to town to try to keep the Cains out of the electric chair. Like Inherit the Wind, The Mark of Cain is a courtroom drama with one foot in the history that inspired it and the other in the turbulent time in which it was born.
WINNER of THE 2005 EDGAR AWARD for DRAMA from MYSTERY WRITERS of AMERICA, WINNER of THE 2005 EMANUEL FRIED AWARD for OUTSTANDING NEW PLAY, and a 2009 SELECTION for the NAAA PLAY READING FESTIVAL in London. It is 1960. Kennedy and Nixon are vying for the White House as lunch counter sit-ins spread throughout the South. Sam Cooke is on the radio, and The Untouchables is on television. Buffalo, New York, has so few black women lawyers they can be counted on a single hand. In this stirring legal drama, one of them, Temple Scott, is locked in the courtroom fight of her life. There is no doubt the young woman the press calls the Negro Lizzie Borden murdered her employer. To keep Mae Lou McKitchen out of the electric chair, however, Temple must uncover the truth behind the crime. Murder, you see, is always a matter of intent. A crime without a witness, a society without perspective, a criminal justice system that is anything but just.--The Buffalo News
New York's "Nickel City" is host to a treacherous cocktail of sex, high-stakes corruption, and murder. Private investigator Gideon Rimes, a black Iraq War vet and a retired Army CID detective, thought he'd left behind the danger of the battlefield. He serves subpoenas, finds witnesses, and provides background checks for better pay and little use of his trusty Glock. But then he's hired to protect sultry, young blues singer Indigo Waters from her stalker ex-boyfriend-a hotheaded cop and the mayor's bodyguard. After a very public altercation, the ex-boyfriend's body is found bludgeoned in a city park and Rimes wakes up as the prime suspect and tagged cop killer. Determined to prove his innocence, he begins his own hunt to expose the truth. What he uncovers is a vast plot involving city leaders, a sinister drug lord, corrupt cops, and a dark family secret that someone will do anything to keep hidden, regardless of who they have to kill. Rimes must tap into his former training and survival instincts. It's personal now, and the one thing you don't do is threaten those he loves. . . . A compulsive series from Edgar Award-winning author, Gary Earl Ross.
Queen City Flash, a collection of short-short stories from 32 writers tied to Western New York, a region known for snow, the assassination of President McKinley, and the invention of the chicken wing. But Buffalo is largely forgotten as the first city lit by electricity or as the birthplace of the windshield wiper, the dedicated cancer laboratory, air conditioning, sponge candy, the electric chair, the pacemaker, the grain elevator, Cheerios, kazoos, Mentholatum, Keri lotion, and non-dairy whipped topping. A region with so many wonderful stories stitched into its skin couldn't help but produce so many storytellers with wonderfully divergent voices and styles. So relax. Reflect. Laugh. Gasp. Shiver. Sigh. Smile. Enjoy.
A stage thriller from the 2007 TSC New Play Festival and the Edgar Award-winning author of Matter of Intent: Criminal psychology professor Marcus Micheaux and his mystery writer wife Beverly Hatcher have the perfect life-until condemned serial killer Gunther Creel, whom Marcus interviewed extensively for his research, paints a portrait of them. After Creel's execution the painting gradually begins to change-and so do Marcus and Beverly, until, along with their closest friends, they are entangled in a widening web of betrayal, madness, and murder.
You know the story. A black teenager on his way home from a convenience store in Sanford, Florida, is followed by a Neighborhood Watch volunteer who thinks the boy is planning to commit a crime. A confrontation leads to a struggle. A gun discharges, one of them dies, and the other finds himself thrust into the criminal justice system. This ripped-from-the headlines drama explores what might have happened if the infamous events of February 26, 2012-which inspired the Black Lives Matter movement-had gone differently.
A searing family drama of Alzheimer's, madness, and murder by the Edgar Award-winning author of Matter of Intent . . . When John Pickett is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, his children find themselves in a virtual war with their stepmother. At every turn she thwarts their efforts to secure John's care and the family's security. Finally she resorts to a shocking act of violence. Wading into family conflicts and long-buried secrets, Detective Maxine Travis tries to piece together what made Ruthie Pickett point a gun at her husband and pull the trigger.
Gary Laderman traces the origins of American funeral rituals, & looks at the increasing subordination of religious figures to the funeral director in the late 20th century, demonstrating that the modern director is very far from Mitford's manipulator of 'The American Way of Death'.
It is 1925. Ossian Cain-a widowed black doctor with a teen daughter, a new wife and baby, and a dentist brother-buys a home in a white neighborhood in a northern industrial city. On their second night, the Cains are threatened by a mob that calls for lynching and hurls rocks through their windows. During the confrontation, a white man is shot dead. The entire family is arrested and charged with first degree murder. Summoned by the local NAACP, legal legend Charles Durham, defender of the damned, comes to town to try to keep the Cains out of the electric chair. Like Inherit the Wind, The Mark of Cain is a courtroom drama with one foot in the history that inspired it and the other in the turbulent time in which it was born.
When a strange mystic with a zombie-like slave comes to a sleepy German village--and the bodies begin to pile up--it is up to Francis, a brave medical student, to unmask the killer. Can he do so in time to save his beloved Jane? A stage version of the classic 1919 German Expressionist silent horror film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" suitable for professional and community theaters and schools.
A stage thriller from the 2007 TSC New Play Festival and the Edgar Award-winning author of Matter of Intent: Criminal psychology professor Marcus Micheaux and his mystery writer wife Beverly Hatcher have the perfect life-until condemned serial killer Gunther Creel, whom Marcus interviewed extensively for his research, paints a portrait of them. After Creel's execution the painting gradually begins to change-and so do Marcus and Beverly, until, along with their closest friends, they are entangled in a widening web of betrayal, madness, and murder.
It is December 24, 1914, on the Western Front of the Great War. Two squads of soldiers-one British, one German-face each other across the ruined terrain of No Man's Land, which holds both the bodies of their fallen comrades and the promise of certain death for anyone who attempts to reach the enemy trench. But it is Christmas Eve, and the bombardments trail off early. Then, in the darkness, someone begins to sing "Silent Night" and both sides recognize an opportunity for a brief peace unsanctioned by their commanders . . . A stirring historical drama based on the real-life decision of war-weary soldiers to put down their guns for Christmas.
Private investigator Gideon Rimes knows he’s lucky, a survivor over the years. Now, months after the first anniversary of the pandemic that did not spare his beloved Buffalo—nor everyone in his circle—a sense of mortality lingers over Nickel City. The changed landscape includes word of crime lord Lorenzo Quick’s passing, whose regime is imploding, as a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act case is being avidly built by the ADA. Yet in the territorial vacuum, opportunistic and unpredictable successors emerge. After a year of uncertainty, Rimes is ready to ease back into his old routine. First, State Supreme Court Justice Hal Chancellor hires him to handle the delicate matter of compromising intimate videos of his esteemed sister with a now vanished lover who fabricated his identity along with betraying her trust. Without a ransom request, it doesn’t appear to be 'revenge porn.' But some warning is implicit. The case takes a startling twist when a drive-by shooting at an outdoor concert shares a link and jeopardizes Rimes’s personal world. There’s a bigger picture surfacing—one of interlocked secrets, machinations of fate, and long-game vengeance that encircles Nickel City’s power players. And if that wasn’t troubling enough, Quick’s former hit man and psychopath, Lester Tolliver, aka the Spider, keeps calling Rimes to unnervingly chat like old friends. As he races to connect the dots, Rimes can’t shake the feeling that he’s on borrowed time, and eventually his luck will run out."--Page 4 of cover
There is a storm coming, as destructive as any hurricane or wildfire . . . with winds of rage driving a rain of hate. Jasper Hellman, the surviving spree killer taken down by then Buffalo State security officer Gideon Rimes, is plotting payback from his Attica cell. In addition to busily watching his back after Hellman's reach manages to get past the prison walls, private investigator Rimes is hired to ensure the safety of Drea Wingard, a bestselling author and cultural lightning rod who's headed to Buffalo as the keynote speaker of a major diversity and inclusion conference. Drea too is a survivor. Her revered memoir, In the Mouth of the Wolf, chronicles the horrifying home invasion and murder of her journalist husband by the hands of masked white supremacists. Narrowly escaping a similar fate, Drea took on her late husband's dangerous mission to expose the domestic terrorists at whatever personal cost to her liberty, welfare, and soul. After one of Rimes's inner circle is assaulted in broad daylight and there's indication that Liberty Storm, a notorious hate group with possible ties to Drea's nightmare, has come to spread bigotry and chaos, Rimes knows that in order to quell this cancerous evil, he'll need to assemble a trusted team of surveillance, security, and law enforcement talent. Tasked with protecting Drea's weeklong itinerary throughout town, and the packed conference hosted at a local billionaire's luxury hotel complex, Rimes must lean into his honed skills and instincts, as Nickel City is on course to be in the eye of the storm."--Page 4 of cover.
Holidays are the time of new beginnings. Still on the mend from a bullet to the shoulder, private investigator Gideon Rimes is embracing his budding relationship with attorney Phoenix Trinidad and the Buffalo Police Department's tenuous new respect. But the honeymoon period is cut short when a missing person case comes to Driftglass Investigations. A much-loved teacher and his girlfriend, Keisha, a doctor and volunteer church secretary, both inexplicably overdose on heroin in their parked car. The boyfriend dies on the scene and is immediately labeled a drug dealer by informants. But the girlfriend survives . . . until she mysteriously vanishes before a day treatment center appointment, leaving behind her wallet, phone, car, and a note begging her parents not to look for her. Needing to know she's safe, Keisha's parents hire Rimes to find their daughter, and if in trouble, bring her home. But others are looking for her too--and willing to kill. The pursuit for the widening truth leads Rimes through the city's underbelly of homelessness and mental illness to the merciless allure of greed and power. It's one holiday season promising to be anything but peace on earth."--Page 4 of cover.
WINNER of THE 2005 EDGAR AWARD for DRAMA from MYSTERY WRITERS of AMERICA, WINNER of THE 2005 EMANUEL FRIED AWARD for OUTSTANDING NEW PLAY, and a 2009 SELECTION for the NAAA PLAY READING FESTIVAL in London. It is 1960. Kennedy and Nixon are vying for the White House as lunch counter sit-ins spread throughout the South. Sam Cooke is on the radio, and The Untouchables is on television. Buffalo, New York, has so few black women lawyers they can be counted on a single hand. In this stirring legal drama, one of them, Temple Scott, is locked in the courtroom fight of her life. There is no doubt the young woman the press calls the Negro Lizzie Borden murdered her employer. To keep Mae Lou McKitchen out of the electric chair, however, Temple must uncover the truth behind the crime. Murder, you see, is always a matter of intent. A crime without a witness, a society without perspective, a criminal justice system that is anything but just.--The Buffalo News
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