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 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

Some Anniversary by Geoff Fulford

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 20 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 25 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 questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. Synopsis The 30th wedding anniversary dinner of Clark and Barbara Seville (at which the audience are guests) is salted with speeches peppered with barbed comments. The atmosphere becomes increasingly heated, leading to a murder. Price Script pack: £21.00  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £29.25  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £14.63  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

Sugar and Vice by Patricia Gay

Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 50 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 The year is 1888 and in the house of a prosperous sweet manufacturer something stirs. The stirring is done by the Cook, Mrs Enid Baggins, who is putting the final touches to the secret recipe for the Davenport Dreadnought Drops. Sales of this new product are expected to enhance the fortunes of the Davenport family. But Mrs Baggins is found drowned in her own concoction and foul play is suspected. Can Inspector Pratt solve the case? Indeed, can the audience? Price Script pack: £22.75  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

This Business of Murder by Mike Standing Best Seller

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

Torturellini by E. C. Chapman

Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 35 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 10 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 members have to work out whodunnit. Synopsis In Chicago in 1930, mafia boss Jimmy Mancini is hosting a wedding reception. His family, every member of his gangland elite, and all the wedding guests have axes to grind. A murder takes place toward the end of the evening and, aided by witness statements from the audience, FBI Agents Eliot Mess and Ellen Highwater must quickly find the culprit before gang warfare ensues. Price Script pack: £27.50  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

A Vintage 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: 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 August 1926. George and Mary are having an engagement party at his family home, hosted by his parents Sir Charles and Lady Jane Trumpington-Smyth. Family, staff and a few close friends have gathered to set up the ballroom before the guests arrive. But Sir Charles' past seems to be catching up with him and fans the flames of an already volatile afternoon. When shots ring out, 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): £47.50  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £23.75  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details