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.
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| Robin Hood and His Merry Menace by Die Laughing Murder Mysteries |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 90 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 minutes. |
| Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors improvise the dialogue based on plot and character briefs. The audience members have to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | The historical re-enactment society is thrown into chaos when the chairman's proposal to rescue the society's finances is blocked by his wife (for reasons of historical inaccuracy). The squabbling eventually leads to a murder. Can PC Leighton Buzzard, a member of the society, solve the crime? Well, not by himself, obviously... |
| Price | Script pack: £19.75 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. |
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| 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. |
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| I'm Your Number One Fang by Really Horrid Productions |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 80 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 minutes. |
| Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors improvise the dialogue based on plot and character briefs. The audience members have to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | The head of Buena Pasta Pictures has invited an audience of valued movers and shakers of the movie world to attend a party to celebrate the imminent release of a new picture. The event descends into chaos when the movie trailer - and the picture itself - is revealled to be appalling! Accusations fly, tempers rise and finally we have a double murder! |
| Price | Script pack: £22.25 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £40.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £20.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Pass the Poison by Jenny Gilbert |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 40 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 minutes. |
| Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors improvise the dialogue based on plot and character briefs. The audience members have to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | The village hall party to celebrate the retirement of Betty Blocker is interrupted by the untimely death of one of the guests! |
| Price | Script pack: £20.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £24.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £12.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Christmas on Croma Isle by Jane Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 10 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 20 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 | The owner of a small, remote guesthouse and her guests meet on Christmas Eve - a gathering at which their tangled relationships come unravelled. |
| Price | Script pack: £23.75 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £23.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £11.50 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Media Murder by Really Horrid Productions |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 80 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 minutes. |
| Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors improvise the dialogue based on plot and character briefs. The audience members have to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | Max and Maggie Burdock, successful media tycoons, have invited the great and the good of the media world for the launch of their new channel. The launch should be a great occasion but as Max unveils details of a secretive hostile takeover, tempers flair and the guests are soon each others’ throats. Eventually two are murdered! |
| Price | Script pack: £21.75 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £39.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £19.50 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Mates Meet Again by Really Horrid Productions |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 80 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 minutes. |
| Style | A Murder Mystery for an acting company to perform to an audience. The actors improvise the dialogue based on plot and character briefs. The audience members have to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | The local school reunion for the pupils from the early 1990's. Many of them have got in contact through the 'Mates Meet Again' web site, and the get-together has been organised by popular teacher Fennella Brodie. However, when the old headmistress arrives uninvited, recriminations start to fly, culminating in two murders!
Can the other reunion guests (the audience!) crack the case? |
| Price | Script pack: £20.75 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £39.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £19.50 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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