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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.

Scripts 1 to 10 of 20
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The Great British Bump-Off by Lesley Gunn
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10.
Run TimeScripted Dialogue: 40 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 10 minutes.
StyleA Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience members have to work out whodunnit.
SynopsisAs baking fever hits the country, the village fete organisers in the village of Crabblebottom are delighted when celebrity chef Eduardo D’Angelo takes up residence and agrees to judge the annual cake baking competition. But this year there is a change of plan, as the bake-off turns into a bump-off.
PriceScript pack: £23.25  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £30.50  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £15.25  Buy the pack and rights here.
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A Hair-Raising Halloween by Lesley Gunn
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9.
Run TimeScripted Dialogue: 70 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 15 minutes.
StyleA Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience members have to work out whodunnit.
SynopsisVictor the Vampire has a strange group of dead and unded characers living in his vast house. They decided to attend a Halloween party, where they can mix without causing panic. The last thing on their minds was a murder in their midst – after all, how do you murder the already dead or the undead? With a dead body and hair-raising revelations sending shockwaves through the spooky group, it is down to one detective (and the audience) to solve the crime... but who will do the time?
PriceScript pack: £22.75  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £41.75  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £20.88  Buy the pack and rights here.
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Murder on the Overnight Express by Patricia Gay
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8.
Run TimeScripted Dialogue: 60 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 minutes.
StyleA Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience members have to work out whodunnit.
SynopsisA body is found in a First Class sleeping berth of an overnight train in the 1960s. The train is shunted to a siding, where the remaining passengers and staff are corralled into a disused waiting room where Inspector Pluckett investigates (with the audience).
PriceScript pack: £22.00  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £35.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £17.50  Buy the pack and rights here.
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Blue Murder at the Blue Parrot by Cheryl Barrett
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10.
Run TimeScripted Dialogue: 55 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 10 minutes.
StyleA Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience members have to work out whodunnit.
SynopsisIt'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.
PriceScript 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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Dying for a Leek by Ian McCutcheon
RolesMinimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8.
Run TimeScripted Dialogue: 30 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 15 minutes.
StyleA Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience members have to work out whodunnit.
SynopsisDel Fyniam is chair of his local gardening club, and a multiple winner of the annual prize for the biggest leeks. But not everything in the garden is rosy. Del has called an emergency committee meeting to discuss a few urgent matters, and possibly conduct a leek enquiry. This being a murder mystery, we can assume it doesn't go well.
PriceScript pack: £21.00  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £29.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £14.50  Buy the pack and rights here.
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Death By Paintbrush by Lesley Gunn
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9.
Run TimeScripted Dialogue: 55 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 10 minutes.
StyleA Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience members have to work out whodunnit.
SynopsisLord Rothersfield's will, and with it the fate of his family, depends on the death of his wife. A household gathering for a portrait is interrupted by an unexpected death. Inspector Moody and PC Sullen investigate - with help from the audience.
PriceScript 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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Amdram is Murder by Karen Ince
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8.
Run TimeScripted Dialogue: 60 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 5 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 20 minutes.
StyleA 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.
SynopsisThe 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?
PriceScript 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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Death by Chocolate by Lesley Gunn
RolesMinimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8.
Run TimeScripted Dialogue: 80 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 10 minutes.
StyleA Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience members have to work out whodunnit.
SynopsisIt's not all sweetness and light at the world-famous, but very exclusive, chocolate company Fountain Chocolate, and when, not long after a major announcement, a body is found in the soft centre of the company, it's sure to be a sticky ending for one of the suspects.
PriceScript pack: £22.75  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £44.50  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £22.25  Buy the pack and rights here.
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Body of the Play by Eileen Clark
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7.
Run TimeScripted Dialogue: 50 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 minutes.
StyleA Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience members have to work out whodunnit.
SynopsisIn 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.
PriceScript 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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Just Desserts [Murder Mystery] by Andrew Hull
RolesMinimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10.
Run TimeScripted Dialogue: 60 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 20 minutes.
StyleA Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors perform a script. The audience members have to work out whodunnit.
SynopsisAt the opening of celebrity chef Raymond Myers's new themed restaurant there are staff and guests with grudges, not to mention Raymond's notoriously abrasive temprament. Someone is going to get their just desserts and the audience need to work out whodunnit.
PriceScript pack: £25.50  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £52.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £26.00  Buy the pack and rights here.
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