Murder by Natural Causes

by Tim Kelly

Paperback

Published January 1, 1985

About the author

Mr. Kelly, who was born in 1931, wrote more than 300 comedies, dramas, one-acts, mysteries, melodramas, children's shows and musicals, making his living writing for the stock, amateur and educational markets.

He wrote under his own name, and also at least four pseudonyms (Vera Morris, J. Moriarty, Robert Swift, Keith Jackson), for publishers such as Samuel French, Pioneer Drama Service and Contemporary Drama Service, among others.

Pioneer alone has 130 scripts by Kelly, according to Pioneer publisher Steven Fendrich. "It covers the gamut," Fendrich told Playbill On-Line Dec. 10. Mr. Kelly was the first playwright to sign up with the Colorado-based Pioneer when it was founded in 1967 by Fendrich's father.

Reviews

[Yourfiendmrjones]

One of three plays adapted from Levinson and Link (the creators of Columbo) tv-movie mysteries. This one involves a wife and her lover trying to scare her TV psychic husband to death. As in the other adaptations, the writer smartly leaves the dialogue pretty much intact and the writing reads better for it. This will be the same review for the other two (Guilty Conscience and Rehearsal for Murder)as they are all decent adaptations with the onstage fireworks saved for the crisp L&L dialogue.

[Andrea]

Fun show to do! I was "Mrs. Carrington". 2005