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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Downtown Crabbey by Joanne Mercer |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 15 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 5 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 is around 1900. A Hotel Inspector is due to inspect Downtown Crabbey, a hotel designed for young American travellers to feel at home in London. His arrival is causing something of a panic, but before he can complete his work, events take an unfortunate turn… |
Price | Script pack: £21.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £21.25 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £10.63 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Dying For A Drink by Ian McCutcheon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. |
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 | Emma Royde is a wealthy widow with a drink problem. And to make matters worse, she’s had an anonymous letter, telling her that one of the beneficiaries in her will is going to kill her. So is it wise of her to invite them all to her home…….? |
Price | Script pack: £21.50 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £31.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £15.50 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Dying for a Leek by Ian McCutcheon Best Seller |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 30 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 15 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 | Del 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. |
Price | Script 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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The Elvis Presley Convention by Archie Wilson |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 20 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 55 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 10 minutes. |
Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. A mix of scripted elements and improvisation based on plot and character briefs. The audience questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | It is time for the annual Elvis Presley Convention to find out which of the King’s pretenders can claim his crown for this year. But with a killer in their midst, the party is about to be All Shook Up! Enter the redoubtable DCI Sherbert Holmes, super sleuth, to track down the murderer with the help of the guests, and have the guilty party doing the Jailhouse Rock! |
Price | Script pack: £22.50 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £39.25 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £19.63 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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An Extortionate Death by Ian McCutcheon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 25 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 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 | Accomplished professional blackmailer, Jack Hammer is normally very careful never to meet his victims - or the police - but now he has invited a collection of his current targets to his country house. But far from blackmail, the result of the encounter is murder! |
Price | Script pack: £19.25 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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A Fashionable Murder by Andrew Hull |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 45 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 | Today is Saturday 13th August 2016 and you are getting ready for the latest fashion show from Harpers Fashion House; The Siddlington Collection. A select audience and members of the press have been invited to witness this exciting event. However all is not running smoothly behind the scenes and tension and tempers are running high. |
Price | Script pack: £24.25 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £43.50 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £21.75 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Foulplay at Fotheringhay by Jane Morris |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 30 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 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 members have to work out whodunnit. |
Synopsis | Tomorrow will be Laura's 70th birthday and her 3 sons have arranged a treat. The family has rented a cottage in the village of Fotheringhay. They plan to spend the weekend exploring the history of the area. Fotheringhay Castle was the scene of the trial and execution of Mary Queen of Scots. Some may say she had committed treason – others may say she was murdered. But that trial is history now – there is another case to solve! Someone in the party will be the subject of Foul play at Fotheringhay. |
Price | Script pack: £21.00 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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A Frightful Evening by Ian McCutcheon |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. 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 | Courtney Fish is a crime writer, and although rich and famous she has a serious heart condition. The beneficiaries to her will are due to gather at her home, and someone’s in for a fatal shock. |
Price | Script pack: £21.75 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £44.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £22.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Getting Away With It by Richard Adams |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 60 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 | DCI Ben Cleveleys' last case - the investigation of a murder - is played-out against a background of domestic and working difficulties. That's normal. The big surprise is another murder. |
Price | Script pack: £21.75 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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Good Deeds, Deadly Deeds by Karen Ince |
Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. |
Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 80 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 5 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 | Chris is a successful businessman, recently widowed, living with his daughter Becca. Their life is interrupted by the arrival of his late wife's long-lost cousin, Nigel. Nigel joins Chris and Becca at a 'charity dinner and casino event', organised by their friend, Helen. Half way through the charity dinner, what could be a jolly evening is marred - by the discovery of a body. |
Price | Script pack: £28.75 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £46.75 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £23.38 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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