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  • A Woman For All Reasons
    Martin Hancock
    It’s hard to be taken seriously as a woman. Not in Los Angeles in the nineteen seventies at least. On the one hand, you’re expected to play the traditional roles of lover, wife, mother, sister and general dogsbody. On the other, some parts of society are holding you to account. Get a job. Get control. Get a life. But what do you do when each birthday puts you closer to the biol...
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    22,25 €

  • Men’s Shorts Women’s Briefs
    Martin Hancock
    This is a collection of ultra-short performances written for one or two actors. The beauty of the very short play (or monologue) is the way it condenses the art of acting to its essential ingredients. A notable quote about this sort of cameo performance says, 'A good cameo is like finding out that the edible decoration on a cake is not only edible, but delicious.' Another stat...
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    11,22 €

  • A Woman of Note
    Martin Hancock
    A young woman kneels on the sidewalk on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles cradling the head of her dead lover. At first, she thinks her man has suffered a stroke, but Juliet soon discovers that he has been poisoned. A private investigator murdered because of what he knew. After months of mourning, Juliet decides to take up the reins of private detection left dangling by her dead ...
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    18,48 €

  • PALMS AND THE MAN
    Martin Hancock
    A young woman kneels on the sidewalk on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles cradling the head of her dead lover. At first, she thinks her man has suffered a stroke, but Juliet soon discovers that he has been poisoned. A private investigator murdered because of what he knew. After months of mourning, Juliet decides to take up the reins of private detection left dangling by her dead ...
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    24,93 €

  • Non-returnable
    Martin Hancock
    Seventeen years ago the story of the discovery of Thomas Jefferson Beale’s buried treasure, Boundless Wealth, hit the public, for a while at least. It told of how a disaffected lecturer stumbled on the means to decode Beale’s coded letters and, in doing so, find the gold. After unearthing Beale’s hidden treasure, he decided to give it all to the descendants of the Arapaho India...
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    27,78 €

  • PORTAL
    Martin Hancock
    When natural resources are gone, what is the future going to look like? In a world where most of the water in the world has been drawn into the salty oceans, the great rivers gone, the only available water is what you can salvage and recycle from your own body. What would nature make us give up to put things right, and at what cost?A group of children find themselves in a stran...
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    7,81 €

  • Out of my Mind
    Martin Hancock
    This is a collection of stories that self-deterministically ended up being shorter that what most people would consider book-length. Of course, it raises the question, what is book-length? Nobody really knows if they’re being honest. But I guess that a book that is shorter than your weekly shopping list might not be worth the effort of designing a cover for it.Some of these sto...
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    31,54 €

  • The Sails and Rigging Committee
    Martin Hancock
    For a retired Professor the accidental discovery that a flying machine graced the skies of a Buckinghamshire village nine years before the Wright brothers flew at Kittyhawk was meant to be the sole subject of a controversial book call ’The Flying Machine’. Instead, his research took the lid off the existence of a super-secret organisation that had been dealing in murder and bla...
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    18,65 €

  • A FAREWELL TO PALMS
    Martin Hancock
    Nineteen sixty-eight is a time of great change in Los Angeles with Civil Rights, the oral contraceptive pill and Rock and Roll. But more than anything, it is the Vietnam War that is blowing generations apart. A retired private detective with something on his mind gets suckered into a job that leaves him wishing he’d closed shop a decade before. Caught up in the shady world of s...
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    20,81 €

  • THE TOSS OF A COIN
    Martin Hancock
    In nineteen thirty-seven the Monte Carlo gambling ship runs aground in a storm off the Californian coast and a hundred thousand dollars-worth of gold and silver coins belonging to the Mafia go missing. But how did the coins turn up hidden in a house sixteen years later? In the mind of a private detective the coins seem inextricably linked to the brother of a young woman client....
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    22,27 €

  • HEADSHOT
    Martin Hancock
    Los Angeles is reeling from the paranoia caused by Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Everyone is expecting an invasion of the Californian coast. But where crime is concerned, life goes on as before. A private investigator, struggling with his own demons, gets a call for help. Or, at least, it seems that way. There’s only one problem. When he gets caught in a dangerous web of dec...
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    17,72 €

  • LAST POST
    Martin Hancock
    Los Angeles in nineteen sixty-eight is a troubled place. Assassinations, school walk-outs and student sit-ins have stirred up that famous LA dust and created an atmosphere where it is hard to get your breath, especially if you’re a sixty-five year-old private eye. The trouble with thinking that you’re at the end of your career is that others might not necessarily agree. A young...
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    17,74 €

  • THIRD PERSON SINGULAR
    Martin Hancock
    Los Angeles was supposed to be the start of a new life after years of unfulfilling work. Starting a detective agency was meant to be a return to a younger time when, as a disaffected ex-student, Philip had been able to help a young woman find the truth about her murdered brother. Now, eight years later, opening a detective agency was always going to be a gamble. Almost immed...
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    19,18 €

  • MOUTH OF THE WOLF
    Martin Hancock
    Los Angeles, 1932, and a town recovering from the chaos of the Olympic Games. What do you do if a respected paragon of LA society asks you to investigate the theft of her dog? But then, after the violence of your previous case, maybe searching for an old woman’s pooch has its own rewards. A simple case, easy money. Who would expect that the lost dog wasn’t what any reasonable p...
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    17,26 €

  • CRIME AS USUAL
    Martin Hancock
    Set in the years immediately after the start of Prohibition and against the backdrop of a hot and dusty southern California, a love story and tragedy unfolds for two young people. One, a young woman from a wealthy family worried about her genius, scientist brother and the other, a disaffected college drop-out looking to find a future that is his own. What the dropout discovers,...
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    16,65 €

  • The Ugliest Man
    Martin Hancock
    At just 27 years old, Janis Joplin had been famous for just 8 years; yet, in that short time, she challenged not only the music industry but also western society itself, and in particular, an almost global perception of what it meant to be a woman at that time. And yet, there was something else that festered in Janis’ heart and, ultimately, would be the emotional cancer that wo...
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    11,65 €

  • I Can’t Tell You
    Martin Hancock
    In the course pf human affairs, there is a fundamental conundrum. How do you know that what someone else is feeling is genuine? In a relationship, it is a matter of trust. But trust of what? Jessica and Rob become ensnared by a paradox that places them both in an impossible position. You trust someone, but trust is not enough. This short play examines how love for somebody can ...
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    8,83 €

  • Cause and Defect
    Martin Hancock
    While out playing with his brother, eight-year-old Michael strays onto a derelict farm. It would be the last thing he ever did. But how did Michael die? Falling through the roof of an old shed? After finding Michael’s body, eleven-year-old brother Zack is in no doubt: Michael was savaged to death by evil chickens. Is this just the product of Zack’s distressed mind, a random eve...
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    17,75 €

  • Ben and the Art of Bicycle Maintenance
    Martin Hancock
    Getting a puncture is irritating at the best of times. But when you’re not sure how to mend it, the last thing you need is a stranger turning up out of the blue and questioning your self-belief. This short play poses some difficult questions concerning the nature of belief in God. It is, in essence, a dialogue between the past and the future, between the unknowable and the know...
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    7,14 €

  • Band Age
    Martin Hancock
    Five rock musicians turn up at a village hall for a reunion nearly fifty years after their one and only hit single. What could possibly go wrong? But past enmities are not forgotten. What transpires next exposes a secret that shocks them all. This short play takes the lid off the price that was paidby the girlfriends of rock musicians during a time that has been called the grea...
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    18,56 €

  • Serial Obsession
    Martin Hancock
    Lawrence Goodman wasn’t looking for anything in life except to try to deal with a growing disillusionment with his job. Lecturing in Computer Science wasn’t what it used to be. He was feeling like an empty shell. But, into the void inside him dropped the Beale Diary. One of life’s small mistakes that ends up cascading dramatic consequences. The diary put a match to the tinde...
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    40,68 €

  • Critical Silence
    Martin Hancock
    While clearing out some old research material, Lawrence is faced with the ghost of a murder, trapped in time on an old magnetic tape. Something he’d missed before and now the old obsession rises again. But in feeding the beast, he uncovers a horrible truth. His previous research into the wartime relationship between IBM and The Third Reich turned out to be only the beginning of...
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    26,87 €

  • The Why
    Martin Hancock
    The stories of managers and record companies who ripped bands off, are legendary. But what about those bands whose fiery arc to stardom fizzled out? Bands that, having got a single into the charts, failed to follow it up. What if the music had been more important than the money? The Why was just such a band. But there was something else. Not the lack of talent, nor t...
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    21,77 €

  • Loop
    Martin Hancock
    A manuscript written nearly 40 years ago tells of a journey that one young man takes to become a teacher. But there has been a personal cost. A dream destroyed along the way by a cruel careers master. It takes one girl in a blue dress to make the boy rediscover that dream and, for both of them, fulfil a destiny. ...
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    24,09 €

  • Critical Race
    Martin Hancock
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    31,81 €

  • Boundless Wealth
    Martin Hancock
    A chronicle set both in the current day and in history concerning the infamous Beale treasure and the mysterious coded letters that hold the secret of where it is buried. ...
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    30,59 €

  • Developing Research in Primary Care
    Beverley Hancock / Martin Williams / Mike Saks
    The rapid development of NHS trusts is making unprecendented demands on those responsible for strategic planning and management for which many are unprepared. This manual is based upon the experience of those who have faced the questions and found the answers. It is intended for all those involved in Trust management. The questions are not all board-level strategic questions; s...
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    51,96 €