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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| Media Murder by Really Horrid Productions |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 80 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 | Max and Maggie Burdock, successful media tycoons, have invited the great and the good of the media world for the launch of their new channel. The launch should be a great occasion but as Max unveils details of a secretive hostile takeover, tempers flair and the guests are soon each others’ throats. Eventually two are murdered! |
| Price | Script pack: £21.75 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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Murder Is Served by Jo West
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 11. |
| 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 questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | A surprise 80th birthday party for Clarissa Hopgood descends into chaos when Clarissa seems determined to upset her guests. This leads to unexpected revellations about members of the assembled company - and two dead bodies! |
| Price | Script pack: £21.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £36.50 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £18.25 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Murder on Air 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: 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 | It is September 1957 and the cast of long-running radio play, Major Siddlington Rides Out, are preparing to record the final episode. A select audience has been invited to witness this historic event and meet the cast and crew. However, tensions are running high and the cast and crew prove to be not quite the happy family that the public have been led to believe… |
| Price | Script pack: £26.25 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £49.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £24.50 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Pass the Poison by Jenny Gilbert |
| 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: 40 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 village hall party to celebrate the retirement of Betty Blocker is interrupted by the untimely death of one of the guests! |
| Price | Script pack: £20.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £24.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £12.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Pub Mystery by Sean Dooley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 60 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 minutes. |
| Style | A Murder Mystery for a private party in which each of the guests takes a role. The actors improvise the dialogue based on plot and character briefs. The participants have to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | The landlord has called all his staff together for a meeting to discuss the future of the pub. On the agenda are things such as an increase in prices, the quality of the food, the cleanliness of the rooms and an idea to re-develop the bar area to make it more sociable. It seems set to be a night of business, but soon the business turns to murder... |
| Price | Script pack: £20.00 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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| Raising the Dead by Alexi Stonehouse |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 80 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 30 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 questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | The audience are (supposedly) guests at a séance, however a murder amongst the VIPs (the cast) stalls the proceedings. The cast mingle with the audience, revealing information under audience interrogation. But can the audience identify the murderer? |
| Price | Script pack: £19.50 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £48.50 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £24.25 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| A Recipe for Murder by Really Horrid Productions |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 80 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 | Clint Plumb has invited an audience of valued customers and a few special guests to announce the long anticipated extension plans for the event venue. What should be a cause for celebration quickly descends into chaos as what Clint reveals is not quite what everyone expected! Sordid secrets, recriminations and blackmail finally end in a double murder! |
| Price | Script pack: £20.75 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £37.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £18.50 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| A Shotgun Wedding 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 questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | It's the wedding reception for entrepeneur John Davenport and his bride, Juliet, thirty years his junior. They're running late and tensions are running high. Insults in the wedding speeches don't help matters, and shortly afterwards, a shot rings out... |
| Price | Script pack: £23.25 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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| A Silent but Deadly Auction by E. Scott Icenhower |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 20 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 | An attorney is running a silent auction to dispose of some of the effects of the late businessman, Jacob Thorbridge, in the presence of some of his colleagues. A detective arrives to announce that Thornbridge was murdered. Can the audience work out whodunnit? |
| Price | Script pack: £19.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £23.25 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £11.63 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Some Anniversary by Geoff Fulford |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 20 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 25 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 | The 30th wedding anniversary dinner of Clark and Barbara Seville (at which the audience are guests) is salted with speeches peppered with barbed comments. The atmosphere becomes increasingly heated, leading to a murder. |
| Price | Script pack: £21.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £29.25 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £14.63 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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