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.

Murder on the Menu by Jane Morris

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: 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 Things are not going well at McMurdo Manor restaurant - there's chaos in the kitchen, unhappy diners and, to cap it all, a dead body... Price Script pack: £20.25  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £29.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £14.50  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Murder on the Overnight Express by Patricia Gay Best Seller

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. 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 A body is found in a First Class sleeping berth of an overnight train in the 1960s. The train is shunted to a siding, where the remaining passengers and staff are corralled into a disused waiting room where Inspector Pluckett investigates (with the audience). Price Script pack: £22.00  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

The Murder Stakes 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 members have to work out whodunnit. Synopsis Jim Carner is one of England’s most successful racehorse trainers… and one of the richest. He lives in considerable luxury with his girlfriend in a beautiful old Georgian manor house in the Widdleshire countryside. It’s no secret that he has made a will, in which there are very generous provisions for his girlfriend, his sister, and even his housekeeper. So do any of them have sufficient motive to hasten his death? You bet they do - it’s a racing certainty! Price Script pack: £21.00  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

The Mysterious Murder at the Murder Mystery by Lesley Gunn Best Seller

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. 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 members have to work out whodunnit. Synopsis The final rehearsal of the North Undersfield Theatrical Society's performance of 'The Murder Mystery' is somewhat derailed by the discovery of the dead body, but after all, the show must go on, mustn't it? Price Script pack: £21.75  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £36.75  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £18.38  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Mystic Myrtle by Richard Adams

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

Once Upon a Murder by Sharon Harrison

Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 45 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 10 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 15 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 members have to work out whodunnit. Synopsis In the kingdom of Far Far Away, a royal reception ball is underway to celebrate the wedding of Prince Charming and Cinderella. Thanks to an error by Buttons, the blundering butler, everyone in the kingdom has received an invitation to the party. This includes Charming’s honoured guests, who are all well-known panto personalities, some of whom have motives for murder … Oh yes, they do! Price Script pack: £21.75  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £38.50  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £19.25  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

Seance for Murder by Angela Lanyon

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. 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 Evelyn Johnson has come to clairvoyant Alice Parkin with other believers (and a few sceptics) trying to contact the dead. Unexpectedly, someone is destined to join them. Price Script pack: £23.00  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £38.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £19.00  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