Lazy Bee Scripts
Scripted 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 Legendary Death by Giles Black

Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 35 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 Professor Rupert Theakston is conceited, ambitious, extremely telegenic and a rising star in the world of television history. Tonight he is in the studios of Archaeology Quest where he will discuss his latest discovery, the legendary sword of Damocles. Helping things run smoothly - give or take the odd murder is the Director of Archaeology Quest (who has a minor scripted role - not a suspect - and can act as facilitator for the audience parts of the mystery). Price Script 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. Click here for more details

Life After Murder by Ian McCutcheon New

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. 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 members have to work out whodunnit. Synopsis As stipulated in his will, the investigation of the murder of Albert Hall takes place at a séance. Can the audience work out whodunnit before the culprit is revealed? Price Script pack: £21.25  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £33.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £16.50  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

The Monster Mashed by Debi Irene Wahl

Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 30 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 Doctor Dementia delights in detaining you at his deadly dinner. A monstrous murder is mandated to materialise! Aftewards, audacious accusations from the astute audience. Price Script pack: £20.25  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £27.50  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £13.75  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Murder at Rancho Mucho Denaros by Joanne Mercer

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 50 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 30 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 Every year, Mary Moonshine invites guests (including the audience) to celebrate the anniversary of her Uncle Stinky who fell comatose after taste-testing his new moonshine recipe. The family hopes Stinky will finally awaken, so they may safely launch their new moonshine, Stinky’s Revenge. Unfortunately, the mix of guests lead to arguments and the arguments quickly spill-over into murder... Price Script pack: £23.50  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. Click here for more details

Murder at the Movies by Mary Portalska

Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 50 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 questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. Synopsis It's 1945 on the set of 'Brief Liaison', a British film. Director Charles Reynolds has cast Laurence Craven, an actor of questionable talent, and his amiable wife, Clara Bennett in the lead roles. Things are not, however, going smoothly on set, in fact, they're going so badly there's going to be a Murder at the Movies. Price Script pack: £21.00  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £35.75  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £17.88  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Murder by Mattress by Lesley Gunn

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. 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 Inspector Harry Moody and his sidekick, PC Joe Sullen, return to investigate a second murder at Rothersfield Hall when a body is found during Victoria Rothersfield's birthday party. As with all events at the Hall, life, and death, is never straightforward. The police learn about a stolen pocket watch, a long standing feud over a prize herd of cattle and quite a few glasses of champagne. Can Moody and Sullen solve the case? (Indeed, can the audience?) Price Script pack: £22.50  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

Murder in Hollywood by Giles Black

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. 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 questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. Synopsis Megalomaniac film director Mickey Moviemaker has a questionable approach to film making, accounting and his private life. Not only have such tactics made him many enemies, but new tensions arise as he battles to create his latest epic, a radical reworking of the life of Joan of Arc. Just as the first scene is filmed, there is a murder on the set, using a vital prop. Lieutenant Oscar Winner of the Hollywood Homicide Squad is called in to investigate. Price Script pack: £21.75  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £34.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £17.00  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

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. Click here for more details