Dial L for Latch-Key: The Radio Play

By Scott Fivelson

She tried to dial M for murder, but instead she accidentally dialed L for latch-key…

A plotting husband who strongly resembles Ray Milland …

A framed wife as elegant as Grace Kelly …

An Inspector straight out of Monty Python …

Hitchcock would be spinning in his grave if he weren’t suiting up for his cameo.

Suspenseful, witty, and romantic, this one-act play is a lively satire of the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
• Release date: Sep 7, 2017
• ISBN: 9781441737571

Scott Fivelson

Scott Fivelson is a playwright, screenwriter, author, and director whose short stories and satirical pieces have appeared in Chicago magazine, the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles magazine, the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Playboy, and Tales from the Heart of Hollywood. His novel, Tuxes, a satire of the classic multigenerational rich-family saga, was published by BeachSide Press. He is also the author of a number of plays, including Dial L for Latch-Key and Leading the Witness, and coauthor of a noir detective novella, Johnny Passe. Dial L for Latch-Key has been performed onstage in London, San Francisco, Toronto, and elsewhere. The audiobook version, Dial L for Latch-Key: The Radio Play, is distributed by Blackstone Audio, which also distributes his audiobook, A Farewell to Legs, a humorous homage to Ernest Hemingway, read by Mariel Hemingway. Dial L for Latch-Key: The Radio Play was selected as the opening presentation at the Second Annual HEAR Now: The Audio Fiction & Arts Festival. His film, American Reel, a comedy/drama about the music business, stars David Carradine, Michael Maloney, and Mariel Hemingway and features songs written and performed by David Carradine. Fivelson won the Best Screenwriter Award at the 2014 Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles for the film 3 Holes and a Smoking Gun, and two years later, he won the Breakthrough Director Spotlight award at the 2016 Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival for the film Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story, starring Lenny Von Dohlen as legendary director Oskar Knight.

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DIAL L FOR

LATCH-KEY

A One-Act Play

Scott Fivelson

Copyright © 2010 by Scott Fivelson

Blackstone Publishing eBook edition

Published by Blackstone Publishing in 2016

All rights, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part, in any form, including digital reproduction, are reserved. Published in the United States by Blackstone Audio.

CAUTION: Professionals and amateurs are hereby warned that Dial L for Latch-Key, being fully protected under the Copyright Laws of the United States, is subject to royalty. All rights, including professional, amateur, motion picture, recitation, lecturing, public reading, audiobook, radio and television broadcasting, and the rights of translation into foreign languages, are strictly reserved. Particular emphasis is laid on the question of readings and stage performances, permission for which must be secured in writing directly from the author at: [e-mail]

The professional and amateur acting rights of Dial L for Latch-Key are controlled exclusively by the author.

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Dial L for Latch-Key premiered on February 22, 2011, at the Etcetera Theatre, Camden Town, in London, England. Produced and directed by Nick Pelas.

CHARACTERS

RAYMOND

A man in his mid-40’s; the murderous husband.

THE INSPECTOR

A man of advanced years; the brilliant detective.

G

A woman in her mid-20’s; RAYMOND’s glamorous wife.

BOB

A man in his mid-30’s; G’s American boyfriend.

ADDITIONAL CHARACTERS

THE MAN WITH THE NYLON STOCKING

THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH

ABOUT HITCHCOCK

HITCH