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Mystery novel, plays, short stories for sale.

My mystery novel, The Hounding, is available for download for only $5. You can read it on your Kindle, your computer, or you can print it off in hard copy.

In this homage to Sherlock Holmes, tall, thin, androgynous Shirley Combs considers herself the world’s greatest living detective because she uses the methods and casebook of Sherlock Holmes to solve crimes of the gentry of the American city most closely resembling London, England -- in terms of the weather, at least. Sidekick/narrator Dr. Mary Watson both delights in and is frustrated by her partner’s behavioral resemblance to Sherlock. Combs is unemotional, analytical, and given to pacing through the night in the streets of the almost perfectly livable city of Portland, Oregon. Her ability to observe details and understand their relationship to a case is unmatched; her demands on Watson’s time are too.

Shirley Combs bills herself as the world's greatest living detective, and why not? Taunted and teased as a child because her name sounded so much like Sherlock Holmes's, she developed an early obsession with the adventures and methods of Sherlock himself. She considered her fate sealed when she met up with Dr. Mary Watson. Shirley adds the technology of today to Holmes's 100-year-old casebook and solves the mysteries of her much-beloved hometown. Mary assists, and -- of course -- chronicles their exciting exploits.

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You can also find my plays Blue Roses and Copperheads and Common Women on amazon.com or lulu.com for sale.

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The twenty short stories range from 2 to 13 pages, but each one is two bucks. There is a wide range of genres as well. Check them out.

Much of my work is for the theater, with forays into other venues, such as the opera and radio. You’ll find comedies, dramas, musicals, and pieces from one minute to one-act to full length scripts. There are excerpts and complete manuscripts available right here on the web site for you to enjoy.*

Monologues and scenes for actors and directors to use as audition pieces and classroom pieces are readily available, and monologues are free.

NEWS and Coming Attractions

FERTILE GROUND JANUARY 2012

My new full-length, a companion to Blue Roses, Asylum No More, will have a reading directed by Brian Demar Jones on January 20 and 21, 2012 at 11pm. Venue: Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne, Portland, OR. Tickets at www.boxofficetickets.com/go/event?id=163345 If you buy a pass to Fertile Ground (only $50 for 10 days of theatre!) $15 will help me continue to produce my work.

NEW YORK:

My full length Blue Roses had a reading directed by Vivian Meisner in NYC on October 28th at 6pm. Venue: Friday Night Footlights at the Dramatists Guild, 1501 Broadway, #701. We had a marvelous cast and received good feedback. I will make a few revisions to fine tune this chilling play and send it out soon.

I had several poems published in 2011, and have a mini-chapbook coming out entitled Invert Sugar to be published by Binge Press and Productions. I have work in Mother Egg, Vol. 9, Lavender Review: Night Issue, Stillwater Review, pay attention: a river of stones, and Generations of Poetry.

"The Godmother" is about a young butch lesbian assuming responsibility for her crime family in Kansas City during the Prohibition Era. Read at Portland Center Stage, Saturday January 23rd 2010 as part of the 2nd annual Fertile Ground New Works Festival. Contact me if you're interested in producing this or any of my plays: sandra@sandradehelen.com

Some of my plays are now listed with doollee.com, check out the link below:

Plays and Playwrights Link