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: £20.00 Fee per performance to an audience: £25.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Act of Union by Adam Croft |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 30 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 minutes. |
| Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors improvise the dialogue based on plot and character briefs. The audience members have to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | As the guests assemble for the reception following the wedding of Gary and Victoria Sponge, family feuds and class divides rise to the surface with a fiery passion. After all, blood is thicker than water… An murder mystery improvised by the actors from a scenario and character briefs, and solved by the audience. |
| Price | Script pack: £15.00 Fee per performance to an audience: £25.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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The Allotment Plot by Emma Northcott
Best Seller |
| 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: £16.00 Fee per performance to an audience: £30.00 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: £20.00 Fee per performance to an audience: £30.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Anne Gets Cleaved by Die Laughing Murder Mysteries |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 90 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 minutes. |
| Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors improvise the dialogue based on plot and character briefs. The audience members have to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | The year is 1526 in the reign of King Henry VIII. The king is on tour, and his arrival at a manor house is eagerly anticipated. There's a speech from the host and a dodgy cardinal selling relics, but before the King arrives, one of the guests is murdered and on the body is discovered the calling card of deadly assassin The Thrush |
| Price | Script pack: £20.00 Fee per performance to an audience: £25.00 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: £20.00 Fee per performance to an audience: £25.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Body of the Play by Eileen Clark |
| 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: £17.00 Fee per performance to an audience: £25.00 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: £15.00 Fee per performance to an audience: £30.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| A Brief Period of Rejoicing by Jane Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 25 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 10 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 | A VE Day party is interrupted when the local black-marketeer is found murdered. |
| Price | Script pack: £20.00 Fee per performance to an audience: £25.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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A Chicken Fried Murder by Kathleen Maule Holen
New |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 40 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 | A New York property developer is causing disruption to a town with his plans for a chicken processing plant. Trying to get the buy-in of the townsfolk, he invites everyone to a fried chicken diner, but things don't go to plan. |
| Price | Script pack: £16.00 Fee per performance to an audience: £25.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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