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.

Mystic Myrtle by Richard Adams Best Seller

Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. 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 Laura Dent, Mystic Myrtle, her husband Hubert, Laura’s husband Lioneland Laura's sister Joyce each have a motive for killing one of the others. Who kills whom and how? It's up to the audience to solve the mystery with a little help from DCI Cleveleys. Price Script pack: £22.25  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £28.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £14.00  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Nightmare at Nightschool by Jane Morris

Roles Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 17. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 15 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 15 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 questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. Synopsis A pre-Christmas party for an evening class becomes hazardous when the lights go out on the entrance steps. The ladies of the class arrive and seem safe, but when the caretaker fixes the fault, a body is discovered... Price Script pack: £24.00  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £26.75  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £13.38  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

A Rehearsal for Murder 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: 50 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 It is October 2015 and the SOADS are rehearsing for their production of Twelfth Night. Before long some skeletons begin climbing out of a few closets. Can the director keep everyone in check or will there be bloodshed? Price Script pack: £25.00  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £46.50  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £23.25  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

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. Click here for more details

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. Click here for more details

Sinning at the Twinning by Gordon Lewis and Lynn Rushby

Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 40 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 celebration of the tenth anniversary of twinning arrangements between a small Kentish town and their French counterpart is interrupted by the death of a member of the twinning committee. Detectives Hagley and Racey need the help of the audience to investigate. Price Script pack: £20.00  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £30.50  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £15.25  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Strictly Murder by Lesley Gunn

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 60 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 At a dance championship, the local TV station interviews the finalists and uncovers squabbles over sequins, frenzies over feathers, and a tussle with the tango, but nobody would ever have thought it would end in a murder on the dance floor! Price Script pack: £22.25  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £38.75  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £19.38  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Sudden Death at Thornbury Manor by Chris Lewis & Carol Hutton Best Seller

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 80 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 35 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 murder mystery presented as an old-fashioned radio play, with members of the company standing in front of microphones and making live sound-effects and announcements as they play-out the mystery, before mingling with the audience for informal interrogation. Price Script pack: £26.00  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £53.75  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £26.88  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

This Business of Murder by Mike Standing

Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 60 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 Sir Alan Sweetener is not a very nice boss, so when he announces he is going to sell the family confectionary business to a company of asset-strippers, everyone (including his own family) has a motive for murder. Price Script pack: £23.50  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £37.50  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £18.75  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

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. Click here for more details