Triangulation

4m, 2w
1m 65-80, 3m 30s; 2w 55-75

In 1937, the captain of the ship O.M. McFarland disappeared from his locked cabin in the middle of the night.  Triangulation proposes a solution to the mystery, but in a way that would allow it to remain a mystery to this day to the world at large.

Elfriede Deardorff runs a boarding house in which her three residents are an old bachelor, Johnson; an old maid, Margaret Smith; and Will Lindor, the (fictional) second mate of the O.M. McFarland.  When a reporter and a shipmate of Lindor's show up after the Armistice Day blizzard of 1940, secrets behind the disappearance come out.  It's all tied together with other mysteries of the Lake Michigan Triangle, where ships and crews have disappeared without a trace.

With a single set of the boarding house's parlor and a simple list of props like a newspaper, a notepad and pencil, and a coffee pot and coffee cups, Triangulation is an easy play to produce, with comedy and mystery and hints of homosexuality sparking the proceedings.