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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| 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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| Til Death Do Us Part 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 | The swirling undercurrents of a wedding rehearsal lead to a murder. It's up to the audience to work out whodunnit. |
| Price | Script pack: £25.25 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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| Torturellini by E. C. Chapman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 35 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 members have to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | In Chicago in 1930, mafia boss Jimmy Mancini is hosting a wedding reception. His family, every member of his gangland elite, and all the wedding guests have axes to grind. A murder takes place toward the end of the evening and, aided by witness statements from the audience, FBI Agents Eliot Mess and Ellen Highwater must quickly find the culprit before gang warfare ensues.
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| Price | Script pack: £27.50 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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| The Wedding Reception by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 20 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 30 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 | The match between Dillon and Lindi is not to everyone's taste, and their wedding brings all the animosity within and between the two families to the surface... |
| Price | Script pack: £22.25 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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| Who Killed Santa Claus? by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 40 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 35 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 | It's Christmas and Lord Barnett Prime is celebrating in his usual bombastic, obnoxious fashion with his family, servants and guests (the audience). Things go exactly as Lord Prime intends, with the possible exception of the murder. DCI Sherbert Holmes investigates, with the help of the audience. |
| Price | Script pack: £21.50 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £33.75 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £16.88 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Who Sleighed Santa by Really Horrid Productions |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. |
| 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 | Santa announces some unexpected plans for Christmas - so distrubing that members of his entourage are willing to contemplate murder! |
| Price | Script pack: £22.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £40.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £20.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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