Heart of Stone: A Jessica Quinn Mystery – Trusting the wrong person can be deadly.
Jessica Quinn is a hard-drinking female detective who gave up her job as a newspaper reporter writing advice columns in order to start her own detective agency and put Alexander King, a local crime lord, out of business. Her most recent case started twenty years ago when Mary McConnell was forced to give up her baby girl for adoption by her father Colonel McConnell. Now a woman by the name of Hannah Stark has shown up claiming to be Mary’s daughter and the Colonel’s granddaughter. Quinn has been hired to find out the truth. Complicating matters is Quinn’s relentless crusade to put King, whom she blames for her father’s death, behind bars. There are plenty of twists and turns and a few gunfights as Quinn tries to find out the truth about Hannah and put King in jail.
Two Act Mystery – 7M, 3W, Multiple Sets, 120 minutes
Includes 2M and 1 F African American Roles
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Jessica Quinn – a detective
Blake Bannister – a reporter
Rodd Steele – a police detective
Colonel McConnell – the patriarch of the McConnell family
Mary McConnell – the Colonel’s daughter
Raymond Holloway – the Colonel’s Butler
Curtis* – the Colonel’s Chauffeur
Alexander King – A Crime Lord
Cornelius Nero – King’s right-hand man
Hannah Stark – A young woman
Bartender* – a bartender at the Auburn
Waiter* – a waiter at the Lincoln Park Café
Thug* – one of King’s thugs
* Could be played by the same actor
SETTING
JESSICA QUINN’s OFFICE
POLICE INTERROGATION ROOM
HOME OF COLONEL MCCONNELL
AUBURN SALOON
ALEXANDER KING’s OFFICE at the SILVER NUGGET
LINCOLN PARK OUTDOOR CAFE
A WAREHOUSE
CABIN OF A YACHT
TIME
1950
