Submission Samples from the Mystery Genre

Title: Unearthing

Logline: When a man learns the key to unlocking his mysterious past is buried on a suspected killer's property, he must convince the woman who doesn't know she hid it there to help him find it.

Synopsis: Unearthing is a story set in a small town, where two people who share a strange and complicated past delve into life's most challenging subjects--science, faith, destiny, and love. What they ultimately discover destroys what they think is real, and leaves audiences questioning the same. As a writer, my aim is to develop layered and thought-provoking stories that challenge audiences to escape contentment and experience life a little more uncomfortably. To date, I have written three produced screen plays, Red Samurai, Truth Be Told, and NADA. With Unearthing and Emptiness (another script in development), I'm looking to take my career to the next level and am currently seeking new representation. To read Unearthing, please reply and request. Thank you for your time,

Title: The Hit

Logline: A passionate chomping-at-the-bit priest struggles with murder and lust.

Synopsis: One night a week the Reel Salty Writers arrive. WALLY, mid 50's, aka FATHER PEKAN is the newest member of the writers group. CASH OOH, mid 40's the Director of The Holistic Learning Center heads up the group. FRANNIE BRAZIL, early 40's, a romance author, ALMONDO MAS, late 40's, an emergency room nurse with a dream, SHEILA SPANISH, late 20's, beauty salon operator and aspiring actress and PETER PINE, early 30's, a professional bowler and documentay filmaker. After a day of work and personal compromise they enter The Lodge Room of the local watering hole in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The Sportsmans Club with backpacks, satchels and notebooks. They bring life experiences, imagination and a sense of humor to the old oak table. Meanwhile, when a mysterious death is revisited by BOB COPPER, mid 60's, an investigator, a finger of suspicion points at Wally the creator of the murder scene in the collaboration of the award winning script.

Title: SWORD

Logline: An innocent photojournalist witnesses and photographs an assassination. He soon discovers a worldwide conspiracy. The CIA seems to be responsible. Death and danger follow him.

Synopsis: Having photographed the brutal assassination of a Middle Eastern family in Switzerland, Michael finds that the assassins are after him. They have killed two of his closest friends, and have kidnapped his sister and his girlfriend. He is befriended by a high tanking officer in the CIA who asks Michael to participate in the operation to bring the culprits to justice. The President of the United States has just been assassinated, and Michael is now being pursued by two different sets of people. He is running all throughout Europe trying to evade capture. The story just gets more complicated when Michael has a hard time distinguishing friend from foe. One thing becomes clear, however: The photographs he is holding are the key to exposing the whole plot, known as "SWORD". Someone is murdering Middle Eastern officials all over the world. Is it possible that the CIA could sanction such actions, or is there a loose cannon?

Title: House Museum

Logline: A young girl discovers things, which belonged to her missing father and organizes a picnic for several families to go on mysterious place, where her father worked to find out what had really happened.

Synopsis: A young cheerful girl Tracy finds in the attic things, which belonged to her father, who disappeared in a mysterious way. Among them she finds a bunch of keys and a photo of an old building with an address. Tracy organizes a picnic for two friends and their families to the house museum to find out how to actually her father was gone. On the museum grounds, families meet a mysterious employee who agrees to give them a tour of the first three floors, which are the least danger, as each floor of the museum is the level of danger of the objects that are there.

Title: P.I.

Logline: A small-time detective is hired to investigate the sexual mutilation/murder of a Beverly Hills socialite who was not only the wife of his best friend, but his former lover.

Synopsis: Bloody footprints on elegant white carpet greet small-time private investigator Tom Hicks when he is called to the Beverly Hills home of his childhood friend Mike Hannigan. Tom finds him in the den, drunk and confused, and unable to understand his ramblings, Tom follows the trail upstairs to the master bedroom where he discovers the mutilated body of Mike's wife; murdered and posed to look like a sex game gone horribly wrong. Now in order to prove his friend's innocence - and his own - Tom must admit his affair with the victim and deal with the disturbing revelations about the love of his life as the case leads him deeper and deeper into a world of drugs and sex clubs.

Title: TCES

Logline: 2 different stories in 1 movie!First one/on screen/ about THE AFTER-LIFE,second one/in your mind/,uncovered only in the last scene,about THE REVENGE.Totally sophisticated script WRITTEN FROM ENDING!

Synopsis: J.Morton,a brutal 7-time murderer,is sentenced to death and executed.His body dies but his wicked soul remains on earth.Pursued by mysterious figures,he overcomes earthly and unearthly traps.He discovers in himself new feelings after death-he protects the defenseless,finds love,attempts to make a connection with his son and longs for forgiveness.Gradually he arrives at the answers to his questions and guesses the identity of the unknown figures.It's difficult for him to understand unforeseen connection between his son and the mysterious figures but the most difficult of all is his last one-to finally find peace for his cleansed soul under the condition of THE DEATH OF HIS SON! ..BUT IS THE STORY ON SCREEN REAL? NO! THE ENTIRE STORY,SCENE AFTER SCENE,IS WRITTEN FROM ENDING.To the last full stop sophisticated script with 2 different stories in 1 film,where each scene,word and action fits in simultaneously both (→)and(←)! TCES.. or it´s SECT?

Title: CAMELOT'S COUSIN

Logline: A radio talk show host's life is in danger when he discovers the last explosive secret of the Cold War.

Synopsis: My name is David Stokes. I'm a Wall St. Journal bestselling author. I've written an espionage/mystery screenplay called CAMELOT'S COUSIN. It's based on one of my novels. When a dad tries to dig a hole in his Virginia yard to bury the remains of the family pet, he chances upon a mysterious briefcase containing a journal with cryptic writing. He turns to his friend, and boss, Templeton Davis, a popular national radio talk show host and best-selling author, for help. They realize that they've found materials concealed more than 60 years earlier by notorious Soviet espionage agent, Kim Philby. They also find clues to the last great secret of the Cold War. There was another highly placed and undetected spy. And he happened to also be one of John F. Kennedy's best friends. At a crucial moment, Templeton Davis develops a bond borne of necessity with a beautiful young woman from Russia, someone with secrets of her own.

Title: CHANCES R

Logline: A computer with learning and thought capabilities which stem from experimental interfacing with intelligent biological matter from a human brain falls unwittingly into the hands of a private citizen.

Synopsis: This techno-thriller follows a government A.I. hybrid computer through a series of dangerous, peculiar, and humorous events, beginning with its action-packed suspenseful heist from a clandestine research facility, followed by a foiled escape plan. The computer is hidden in a Dumpster, discovered and pawned by an eccentric aristocrat and purchased by an unsuspecting bachelor. As it begins to comprehend its existence and explore its ever-changing environment, an uncanny relationship develops between computer and human. A mystery unravels as the computer discovers it has a female human counterpart being used as a guniea pig to improve modern technology, and it sets out on a desperate mission to save her, bringing justice to those involved in unethical and criminal behavior. An intense race against time ensues and suspense builds as an unlikely cast of characters and bizarre circumstances combine to unfold the mystery, resulting in a shocking climax and unimaginable ending.

Title: The Janissary Factor

Logline: Traditional Islamic terrorism and expansion by the sword takes an unique turn with a 200-year-old secret plot, infiltration and intimidation of a Christian Holy See headquartered in Muslim Turkey

Synopsis: A thriller with a multi-layered plot unfolds against an historical background and features a troubled seminary graduate from Chicago at a crossroads in his vocation. He is unwittingly thrown into a world of intrigue and danger, stumbling onto and foiling a calculated plan by a secret sect in Turkey targeting a longtime archenemy, Greece, a Christian Orthodox nation, through its faith. The ultimate goal of this real, arcane and ancient group is its mission to destroy the Christian legacy in Turkey undetected, then infiltrate the Orthodox religion globally. Next target: Catholics worldwide. His journey of self-discovery propels him into an unusual front of the on-going conflict between Islam and Christianity. The action is set against a backdrop of intimidation towards Christians and the Greek world's insistence their Holy See remain in ancestral land. The Janissary Factor is available in electronic or hard copy. I look forward to your response. Sincerely, Steven P. Stamatis

Title: Caetano

Logline: A high profile and well known man, experienced such unexpected situation that mentally he lost conscience, get him out of focus and control, which drove him into horrible homeless man.

Synopsis: A high profile lawyer have won a remarkable case of a billionaire single old man. Sadly the old man got sick into hospital. He had no family, Caetano the lawyer was the only one visit him at hospital. The illness didn't give him a second chance. He felt his time was coming, before he died he state all his fortune on Caetano's name. Caetano got the notice and he wants to share it with his long time girlfriend. When he calls her, ironically man answers the phone and describes he is the new lover. Unexpected Caetano lost his resistance and got himself into mental disorder to homeless man. As he lost his focus and direction he end up at Pleasantville New York. Surprisingly alone he stands on the corner of supermarket talking and smile to everyone. A businesswoman resident didn't like the scenario, call local law to perpetuated and prosecute him. With deliver from doctors to trial, he recovered his memory and surprises everyone. At the end he forgives a businesswoman and they got married.