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 at Rancho Mucho Denaros by Joanne Mercer

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 50 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 30 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 Every year, Mary Moonshine invites guests (including the audience) to celebrate the anniversary of her Uncle Stinky who fell comatose after taste-testing his new moonshine recipe. The family hopes Stinky will finally awaken, so they may safely launch their new moonshine, Stinky’s Revenge. Unfortunately, the mix of guests lead to arguments and the arguments quickly spill-over into murder... Price Script pack: £23.50  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

Let Sleeping Frogs Die by Patricia Gay

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 40 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 Monsieur le Comte d’Avignon, a wealthy French aristocrat exiled in London, has not arisen in time for his usual evening drink at the Yacht Club. The Comte’s two squabbling ex-wives and his drinking pal, the Colonel, discover the Comte dead. Price Script pack: £21.25  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

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

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

Zoo Detective by Barry Wood

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 100 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 Light-hearted, farcical murder mystery in which the audience have to work out who is responsible for the fate of animal victims at the Hamilton zoo. Full scripted, including interrogation of the suspects by the hapless Zoo Detective. Price Script pack: £26.50  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £50.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £25.00  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Just Desserts [Murder Mystery] 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: 60 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 At the opening of celebrity chef Raymond Myers's new themed restaurant there are staff and guests with grudges, not to mention Raymond's notoriously abrasive temprament. Someone is going to get their just desserts and the audience need to work out whodunnit. Price Script pack: £25.50  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £52.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £26.00  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

A Legal Murder 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: 55 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 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 Hugh Balls is the senior partner in a firm of solicitors. But he has made many enemies among the staff. Several are angry enough to want to kill him. Is Balls about to come to a shocking end? The script also calls for a Narrator who acts as a master of ceremonies, distributing further evidence before the accusations, and revealing the solution at the end. Price Script pack: £21.00  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. 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

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

Who Sleighed Santa by Really Horrid Productions

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. 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 Santa announces some unexpected plans for Christmas - so distrubing that members of his entourage are willing to contemplate murder! Price Script pack: £22.00  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. Click here for more details