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.

An Extortionate Death by Ian McCutcheon

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. 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 questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. Synopsis Accomplished professional blackmailer, Jack Hammer is normally very careful never to meet his victims - or the police - but now he has invited a collection of his current targets to his country house. But far from blackmail, the result of the encounter is murder! Price Script pack: £19.25  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. Click here for more details

A Fashionable Murder 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 members have to work out whodunnit. Synopsis Today is Saturday 13th August 2016 and you are getting ready for the latest fashion show from Harpers Fashion House; The Siddlington Collection. A select audience and members of the press have been invited to witness this exciting event. However all is not running smoothly behind the scenes and tension and tempers are running high. Price Script pack: £24.25  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £43.50  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £21.75  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Foulplay at Fotheringhay by Jane Morris

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. 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 members have to work out whodunnit. Synopsis Tomorrow will be Laura's 70th birthday and her 3 sons have arranged a treat. The family has rented a cottage in the village of Fotheringhay. They plan to spend the weekend exploring the history of the area. Fotheringhay Castle was the scene of the trial and execution of Mary Queen of Scots. Some may say she had committed treason – others may say she was murdered. But that trial is history now – there is another case to solve! Someone in the party will be the subject of Foul play at Fotheringhay. Price Script pack: £21.00  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. Click here for more details

A Frightful Evening by Ian McCutcheon

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 70 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 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 Courtney Fish is a crime writer, and although rich and famous she has a serious heart condition. The beneficiaries to her will are due to gather at her home, and someone’s in for a fatal shock. Price Script pack: £21.75  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £44.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £22.00  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Getting Away With It by Richard Adams

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 60 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 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 DCI Ben Cleveleys' last case - the investigation of a murder - is played-out against a background of domestic and working difficulties. That's normal. The big surprise is another murder. Price Script pack: £21.75  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £35.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £17.50  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Good Deeds, Deadly Deeds by Karen Ince

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 80 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 5 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 Chris is a successful businessman, recently widowed, living with his daughter Becca. Their life is interrupted by the arrival of his late wife's long-lost cousin, Nigel. Nigel joins Chris and Becca at a 'charity dinner and casino event', organised by their friend, Helen. Half way through the charity dinner, what could be a jolly evening is marred - by the discovery of a body. Price Script pack: £28.75  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £46.75  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £23.38  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

A Grand Design for Murder by Ian McCutcheon

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 25 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 Rich Pikkins is a former professional burglar who made a great deal of money from his crimes. He used much of it to have his dream home built, and he and his partner have invited two friends to join them for an informal housewarming. But danger arises when uninvited guests arrive. Price Script pack: £21.00  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £29.50  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £14.75  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

The Great British Bump-Off by Lesley Gunn Best Seller

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. 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 members have to work out whodunnit. Synopsis As baking fever hits the country, the village fete organisers in the village of Crabblebottom are delighted when celebrity chef Eduardo D’Angelo takes up residence and agrees to judge the annual cake baking competition. But this year there is a change of plan, as the bake-off turns into a bump-off. Price Script pack: £23.25  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

The Hadleigh Hall Inheritance by Jos Biggs

Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 45 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 questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. Synopsis Miss Frobisher is dying, and she has changed her will one final time - and not to the liking of her family. The will won't be legal until the signing, tomorrow. Under these feverish circumstances, the family gathers and the result is murder... Detectives Grabham and Bailey are called, but to solve the mystery, they need the help of the audience! Price Script pack: £19.50  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £30.25  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £15.13  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

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