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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| Raising the Dead by Alexi Stonehouse |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 80 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 30 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 questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | The audience are (supposedly) guests at a séance, however a murder amongst the VIPs (the cast) stalls the proceedings. The cast mingle with the audience, revealing information under audience interrogation. But can the audience identify the murderer? |
| Price | Script pack: £19.50 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £48.50 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £24.25 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| 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.
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Murder at Dragon's Nest by Patricia Riley |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 90 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 | Peter Ellis Marshall, returns home to Dragon's Nest after a car crash that killed his wife and left him wheelchair-bound. He finds relatives, colleagues, and a murderous atmosphere waiting for him. |
| Price | Script pack: £24.50 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £49.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £24.50 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Who’s The Maddest Of Them All? 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 | Kate and her teenage children, Lois and Kenny, try to maintain order when their house is invaded by George, Judith and the trigger-happy Bernie. Inspector Ben Cleveleys who calls to investigate the gun shots reported by a neighbour, but finds he has a different problem on his hands. |
| Price | Script pack: £22.50 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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| Ding Dong Dell - Kitty's Down The Well! 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: 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 | Kitty Blaine, the casting director of a pre-war repertory company, has been stabbed and her body dumped in a well – a prop made of canvas and plywood. Police Inspector Laura Lovelace is soon on the scene, but will need the help of the audience to find out whodunnit. |
| Price | Script pack: £21.75 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. |
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| Board to Death by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 30 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 | Ricky T. Bridge is the owner and managing director of Health and Proficiency, a successful spa and fitness club. But his less than honest business dealings are about to be exposed at a potentially fatal board meeting...The Narrator, as master of ceremonies, distributes further evidence before the accusations, and revealing the solution at the end. |
| Price | Script pack: £21.75 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. |
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| The Little Willey Murder by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 9. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 30 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 Little Willey Players are assembled to hear their director's latest controversial casting choices. But that's not the only shock they’ll get, as there is about to be a murder in the village... |
| 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. |
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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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