Jack Sharkey

Since concert pianist Duncan Latimer and his wife Ellen a famous soap opera star lead impeccable lives their PR lady has no qualms over having a reporter from a scandal magazine interview them. But just before he arrives so does Duncan's old Navy buddy and Ellen's former lover from her literally messy past as well as an extra wife Duncan forgot to tell anyone about. It's crazy and comical confusion all the way.

A zany tale of a warmhearted girl who mistakes a telephone repairman for a burglar tries to save him from his life of crime and ends up having to pretend he's her husband - dismaying her strait-laced sister's evangelist fiance. This play had critics and audiences cheering both at the Maryland and the Chicago premiere productions.

Peter Colton a bank official unwittingly comes home with the loot from a bank robbery masterminded by Willy Nicholas his superior at the bank. Willy frantic to retrieve the money enlists Peter's services to help him find it with the help of Victoria Wickey Peter's secretary. Meantime Laurel Colton Peter's daughter has found the loot and erroneously supposes it is her father who has robbed the bank. So she enlists the aid of her boyfriend Carlos Ortega whose uncle is a retired forger of passports to help her father flee the country. But the arrival of Sheila Mahoney a travel agent who is helping Peter plan a surprise vacation to Rio for Laurel complicates matters even further since she thinks Victoria is married to Willy and planning a honeymoon in Rio for the two of them. By the time Victoria shows up with the passports for the surprise vacation Willy shows up with his passport and Victoria's for a quick escape and Carlos shows up with a pair of forged passports to help Laurel and Peter escape. Everybody is in an ungodly mess the police may close in any minute all concerned are fearfully mistaken about everyone else's motives and loyalties and doom shame and prison stare them all in the face.

David Tuttle is moonlighting as a department store Santa so that he can buy his wife a fur for Christmas. He tells her he's working late at the office but she finds out he isn't at the office. A suspected other woman hypnotism the notorious Santa burglar Kris Kreigle and his gun-toting fiancee and a confused policeman add up to a rollicking tale that is hilarious Christmas entertainment any time of year.

In this riotous showbiz comedy a producer his secretary and associates try to re-write an epic drama by a neophyte playwright into a broad farce.

A bit of madness is loose in the Flinder house.

An outrageous concoction of wild warm and lightning-paced hilarity that is perfect for the entire family.

Psychiatrist Victor Karleen is financially pressed between the rental of his posh office apartment and his fiancee's expensive tastes.

A thunderstorm! The lights go out! An agonized voice! A pistol shot! The lights come up! A blonde in black lace stands over the dead man holding a bloody dagger! The detective examines the body and announces 'Hes been strangled!' This is but the opening of one of the most astounding and hilarious murder mysteries ever staged. Every clue is a lulu and the plot twists furiously. The final solution involves the most bizarre motive ever conceived. The delightful evening of mayhem gallops madly about the stage and will leave your audience breathless with surprise and laughter. The mystery is top-notch the characters marvelous and the comedy explosive!

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. "Horror Gems, Vol. Six" features a fine collection of tales by some of the genre's best authors: H.P. Lovecraft, Rog Phillips, Jerome Bixby, William P. McGivern, E. Everett Evans, Gregory Luce, Jack Sharkey, Henry Hasse, James McConnell and others. All in all this is a GREAT addition to our Horror Gems series and deserves to be read, revered and reviled by each and every horror fiend-dead or alive

Jack Sharkey Full Length, Comedy Characters: 2 male, 2 female Interior Set Take a husband, wife, lover and friend, add a strange lamp, a gun and a rubber chicken plus a party that begins at 8 p.m., then again at 8 p.m. and then again at 8 p.m. and you have this nightmare comedy." Four people find themselves reliving one horrible hour over and over as themselves, as Japanese, as British aristocrats, as gangsters, and almost anything else you can think of. Camille is giving the party. Don shows up in a jealous funk about his wife, Alice, whom he suspects of seeing another man. When Alice and Ben have arrived, it turns out their relationship is innocent. But by the time Don realizes this he has already shot Ben, Alice and even Camille. Camille wishes that things might have turned out differently and that is what happens. All concerned find themselves back at the party's beginning again and again doomed to live that same hour over and over again until they get it right. Is it all an accident? Or is their dilemma part of someone's fiendish plan? A labyrinth of hilarity exits to a shocker of an ending.

Comedy Jack Sharkey. Charcters: 4 male, 8 female Interior Set This hilarious send up of the horror story genre has an ancient castle, creaking doors, a mad scientist, his misshapen assistant, a grim housekeeper, secret laboratory, shrieks from the depths of the cellar, disappearing villagers, an incredibly stalwart and stupid hero of sterling character, the scientist's absolutely dopey daughter, and so many laughs you'll lose count. The setting (designed for both proscenium and in the round performances) is the parlor of Castle Von Blitzen in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania. Where is the Baron Von Blitzen's secret laboratory? That's what the terrified villagers would like to know and when the scientist and his assistant convert the innocent parlor into a fiend's experimental station, the ingenuity of the set provokes both laughter and applause.

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel, "The Programmed People," features a seemingly "perfect" future existence. The people of "the Hive" went about their rigid lives in ignorance of their real ruler and the actual history of their race. How could one slender blonde woman crack this powerful monolithic monstrosity? "Slaves of the Crystal Brain" tells the tale of a horrible machine with an evil purpose. There were only a few that were even aware of this cerebral monstrosity, and those unfortunate few trembled at the thought of it. Lot's of spine-tingling excitement is featured in both of these classic sci-fi novels, penned by Jack Sharkey and William Carter Sawtelle.

Farce Characters: 3 male 2 female Complete interior set. A lawyer who is up for a partnership is visited by a school chum who lives by sponging off classmates. He blackmails the lawyer into putting him up on the very night the boss is coming for dinner whereupon the wife leaves. The sponger discovers that the lawyer's degree is a fraud. A model is hired to play the wife's a dumb beauty whose attempts to help backfire. More trouble erupts when the wife returns. For