More information about all the murder mysteries described below can be found on the Lazy Bee Scripts web site (click on the titles).
However, unlike the play scripts, we display 'tasters' instead of the entire contents because many groups run these competitively, and would not want their audiences to be
able to find out whodunnit in advance!
Prices and licensing arrangements can be found on the detailed pages or by clicking on the "Price" links.
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Abram Skinner - A Steampunk Murder Mystery by Stuart Ardern |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 35 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 30 minutes. |
Style | A Murder Mystery which could be used at a private party (with guests taking roles) or performed to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | Inventor Abram Skinner is taking full advantages of the opportunities of the Steampunk age and has invited guests to the launch of his latest project. The invitees include the audience (if any) and a group of VIPs. There's an adventurer, a naval pilot, wealthy investors and industrialists, and, amongst them, an assassin...
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Price | Script pack: £27.50 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £34.50 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £17.25 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Agent in a State by Emma Northcott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 12. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 90 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 minutes. |
Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience members have to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | The mystery follows a property chain, from first-time buyers Daisy and Ed to domestic goddess Yasmina and her husband Matt. In the middle of the chain, Amanda and Ali await the birth of their first child while Tanya and Kevin aspire to life in a gated community. When personal secrets are exposed, unscrupulous estate agent Brad seizes upon an opportunity... |
Price | Script pack: £25.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £46.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £23.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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The Allotment Plot by Emma Northcott |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 70 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 minutes. |
Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience members have to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | Baldock Allotment Growers meet in their shed prior to their annual competition. With jealousy, rivalry, secrets and a shed packed with pesticides and sharp implements, what could possibly go wrong? |
Price | Script pack: £23.50 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £39.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £19.50 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Amdram is Murder by Karen Ince Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 60 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 5 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 20 minutes. |
Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | The acting company take the roles of Marchfield Amateur Drama (MAD) a community theatre group rehearsing, of all things, a murder mystery and two acts of drama are played out before the audience - a typical village theatre. But underneath, jealousies lurk and the group harbours someone capable of murder! Rehearsals are interrupted by the news of an unexpected death. Three eye-witnesses come forward with information. Can the audience find out the truth? |
Price | Script pack: £27.75 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £42.50 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £21.25 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Blue Murder at Bluestone Hall by Cheryl Barrett Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 50 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 10 minutes. |
Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | It is 1923 and Lady Constance Dunne-Wittering is hosting a meeting at Bluestone Hall, her country estate. When someone screams blue murder and interrupts afternoon tea, Lady Constance is not amused. Hapless Detective Inspector Mayday arrives to investigate the killing. He soon realises that more than one person has a motive. The question on everyone’s lips is whodunnit? |
Price | Script pack: £20.50 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £34.50 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £17.25 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Blue Murder at the Blue Parrot by Cheryl Barrett Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 55 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 10 minutes. |
Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience members have to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | It's 1925 and in London, new nightclubs are opening every week. Despite the buzzing scene, Soho nightclub owner Harry Ferrari is struggling to save his Blue Parrot club from collapse. Is there more to Harry’s employees than meets the eye? Is Giuseppe Dolce intent on putting Harry out of business for good? And what brings bumbling police inspector Mayday to the club? Join us at the Blue Parrot for music, mayhem and murder. |
Price | Script pack: £21.75 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £35.50 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £17.75 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Board to Death by Ian McCutcheon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 30 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 minutes. |
Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience members have to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | Ricky T. Bridge is the owner and managing director of Health and Proficiency, a successful spa and fitness club. But his less than honest business dealings are about to be exposed at a potentially fatal board meeting...The Narrator, as master of ceremonies, distributes further evidence before the accusations, and revealing the solution at the end. |
Price | Script pack: £21.75 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £30.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £15.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Body of the Play by Eileen Clark Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 50 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 minutes. |
Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience members have to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | In the village hall, the rehearsal for a whodunnit, the props and the actors are going badly, missing and early, respectively. Then there is a problem that the cast and director had not anticipated in a murder mystery - a dead body. |
Price | Script pack: £20.75 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £32.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £16.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Bowing Out by Alan Robinson Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 120 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 minutes. |
Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | There's bitter rivalry amongst a group of faded actors and television stars. This is largely a scripted mystery, but the actors need to improvise responses to audience questions from character briefs. |
Price | Script pack: £33.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £62.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £31.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Breaking Windows by Richard Adams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 70 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 10 minutes. |
Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience members have to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | Detectives looking into a report of intruders at the home of Monica Goose, both find themselves drawn into a web of intrigue and malice centring around entrepreneur and villain Jacob Gilmore. Gilmore is surrounded by seedy family and business associates, and among them someone bears a serious grudge. |
Price | Script pack: £22.75 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £40.50 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £20.25 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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