Lazy Bee Scripts
Murder Mystery - Search Results

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.

A Hair-Raising Halloween by Lesley Gunn Best Seller

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 70 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 Victor 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? Price Script 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. Click here for more details

A Hole in One by Alexi Stonehouse

Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 90 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 Guests are gathered for a dinner to celebrate the launch of Ferdinand Two-Inbush's golf tournament. Unfortunately, a murder is discovered and suspicions fall on members of the 'Happy Hookers' golf club. It's up to the audience to work out whodunnit. Price Script pack: £19.50  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £53.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £26.50  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

I'm Your Number One Fang by Really Horrid Productions

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. 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 The head of Buena Pasta Pictures has invited an audience of valued movers and shakers of the movie world to attend a party to celebrate the imminent release of a new picture. The event descends into chaos when the movie trailer - and the picture itself - is revealled to be appalling! Accusations fly, tempers rise and finally we have a double murder! Price Script pack: £22.25  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. Click here for more details

Just Desserts [Murder Mystery] by Andrew Hull Best Seller

Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 60 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 At 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. Price Script 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. Click here for more details

Lights, Camera, Murder by Andrew Hull

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 60 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 Siddlington Studios is shooting the latest British blockbuster, 'A Bittersweet Affair', and competition winners (the audience) have been invited along for a day to watch the filming and to see what goes on behind the camera. Tensions are running high amongst the cast and crew and eventually spill over into a murder - but it's down to the audience to name the guilty! Price Script pack: £26.25  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. Click here for more details

M'Nango Valley 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 questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. Synopsis Oregon Smith, intrepid (and boastful) explorer, has purchased land on Stockgrove Park to build a theme park, celebrating African culture and history (in a slightly warped way!) The event is a gathering to launch the plans of the park to local residents and business representatives (the audience). The event is gatecrashed by a pair of eco-warriors and recriminations start to fly amongst Oregon's team, leaving the audience with two murders to solve! Price Script pack: £21.25  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. Click here for more details

Mates Meet Again by Really Horrid Productions

Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. 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 The local school reunion for the pupils from the early 1990's. Many of them have got in contact through the 'Mates Meet Again' web site, and the get-together has been organised by popular teacher Fennella Brodie. However, when the old headmistress arrives uninvited, recriminations start to fly, culminating in two murders! Can the other reunion guests (the audience!) crack the case? Price Script pack: £20.75  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. Click here for more details

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. Click here for more details

Murder at the Manor 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 The year is 1926. The place is the country estate of Sir Clive and Lady Clarissa, home to the Worthington-Jones family since the Seventeenth Century. The event is the evening meal to mark the start of a weekend retreat at the estate. The audience are all invited family friends and members of the family's aristocratic social circle. Arguments distrupt the jolly social occasion and family skeletons are unearthed, eventually provoking two murders! Price Script pack: £20.00  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. Click here for more details

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. Click here for more details