Ray Cooney - Böcker

Jean is preparing a birthday dinner for her mild-mannered accountant husband Henry, and friends Betty and Vic are expected any minute. When he ventually arrives Jean finds Henry is not quite the man he used to be - he wants emigrate to Barcelona immediately with a briefcase stuffed with bundles of 50 pound notes amounting to 735,000 pounds. Henry, Vic, Betty and Jean are forced intp a frantic game of cat and mouse with the police and the two couples assume different identities in their battle to keep the money. Will they succeed? This Ray Cooney farce enjoyed a run at the Playhouse Theatre, London, starring Sylvia Syms, Trevor Bannister, Henry McGee and the author himself as Henry.

The sequel to "Run for your wife" finds bigamist taxi driver, John Smith, still keeping both his families blissfully unaware of each other. However, his teenage children have met on the Internet and are determined to see each other. With the help of lodger Stanley, John juggles with the truth.

The Kerwood brothers are not your everyday Tom, Dick and Harry. So when Tom Kerwood and his wife Linda nervously await Mrs Potter from the adoption agency, who's to assess them at home, it's not surprising that events get out of hand. Dick has returned from a French smuggling trip with brandy and cigarettes - and two Kosovan refugees. Meanwhile, hospital porter Harry has embarked on an ambitious plan (involving body parts) to get the price reduced on the house Tom and Linda want to buy. Hilarious mayhem ensues, as Tom must fabricate ever wilder explanations to placate Linda, Mrs Potter and a suspicious policeman. Seen to critical acclaim at London's Duke of York theatre in 2005, the Cooneys' smart, resourceful comedy starred the McGann brothers.

Property lawyer Steven Tancred is disillusioned with Monday morning meetings and evicting little old ladies from their homes. He senses that there must be more to life than lawsuits and his imminent marriage to Barbara, the boss' daughter. When Steven visits hypnotist Dr Patel to stop smoking, he unexpectedly regresses to a previous existence in 1920s Chicago as Johnny May, a reluctant gangster with the notorious Bugs Moran. Returning to the present, Steven is determined not to let his past get away from him, and proceeds to 'become' Johnny as often as he can. Soon Johnny has fallen for nightclub singer Ruby, who also happens to be Bugs' 'broad'. When Steven reads in an old newspaper that Johnny and Ruby were killed in the Valentine's Day Massacre of February 1929, he is determined to save them from their fate. True love might conquer all, but can it rewrite history? A riotous time-travelling adventure, "Twice In A Lifetime" offers a number of challenging doubling opportunities as it switches between modern day London and 1920s ragtime Chicago.