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Eliot Byerrum

ELIOT BYERRUM

  
Nationality:    USA
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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.

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below is a list of Eliot Byerrum's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Angel of Death Rises Early, The         Boom Town Blues         Christmas Cactus, A         Ghost Dance         Gumshoe Rendezvous         Interviewing Techniques for the Self-Concious         Red She Said

Angel of Death Rises Early, The

Synopsis:
A female private eye investigates the murder of a woman who looked just like her

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Drama

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Boom Town Blues

Synopsis:
A scandal prone senator gets snowbound in a Mid West town. A young female reporter is there too - will she get a scoop of her lifetime or loose her life?

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Comedy

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Christmas Cactus, A

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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Full-length, two Acts

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Genre:
Mystery and romantic comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Ghost Dance

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There is a dance that can bring the dead back. A young woman and her lover go to the site of an old battle

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Gumshoe Rendezvous

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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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Two connected And sequential one-act plays, Remedial Surveillance And Deja Rendezvous.

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Genre:
Mystery and romantic comedy Mystery

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Interviewing Techniques for the Self-Concious

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What if the interviewer and interviewee both said exactly what they were thinking?

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Comedy

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Red She Said

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One stressed out office worker plans revenge on the Boss from Hell

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