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 Morpeth Manor by Eileen Clark

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. 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 Inspector Grayson is reminiscing about a notorious murder case he was involved in at Morpeth Manor Hotel which occurred just as the last guests were preparing to leave. He enlists the help of the audience as events are replayed for their benefit. Price Script pack: £20.50  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

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

Murder At The Chateau by Roger Lee

Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 80 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 In the summer of 1944, with the Battle of Normandy raging close by, Lafosse found himself back at Château Brioche along with a disparate multi-national group. But then there was a murder... Price Script pack: £23.25  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £42.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £21.00  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Murder at the Manor by Really Horrid Productions

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. 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 year is 1926. The place is the country estate of Sir Clive and Lady Clarissa, home to the Worthington-Jones family since the Seventeenth Century. The event is the evening meal to mark the start of a weekend retreat at the estate. The audience are all invited family friends and members of the family's aristocratic social circle. Arguments distrupt the jolly social occasion and family skeletons are unearthed, eventually provoking two murders! Price Script pack: £20.00  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £37.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £18.50  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Murder at the Movies by Mary Portalska

Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 50 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 It's 1945 on the set of 'Brief Liaison', a British film. Director Charles Reynolds has cast Laurence Craven, an actor of questionable talent, and his amiable wife, Clara Bennett in the lead roles. Things are not, however, going smoothly on set, in fact, they're going so badly there's going to be a Murder at the Movies. Price Script pack: £21.00  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £35.75  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £17.88  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Murder by Mattress by Lesley Gunn

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 70 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 members have to work out whodunnit. Synopsis Inspector Harry Moody and his sidekick, PC Joe Sullen, return to investigate a second murder at Rothersfield Hall when a body is found during Victoria Rothersfield's birthday party. As with all events at the Hall, life, and death, is never straightforward. The police learn about a stolen pocket watch, a long standing feud over a prize herd of cattle and quite a few glasses of champagne. Can Moody and Sullen solve the case? (Indeed, can the audience?) Price Script pack: £22.50  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £41.75  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £20.88  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

A Murder Has Been Arranged by Patricia Gay Best Seller

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. 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. The actors perform a script. The audience members have to work out whodunnit. Synopsis A wedding ceremony is going to be held at Castle Crantham, home of the Earl of Crantham. The marriage has been arranged by wealthy rival developers, and the bride isn't happy. In fact, there are many grudges in play and Inspector Gorse has to be called-in to investigate a murder. Price Script pack: £21.25  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

Murder in Cheddar Gorge by Scott Elias

Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. 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: 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 In Cheddar Gorge, an ice-age family is hunting the local megafauna and warming themselves in a cave. However, all is not well, there is discontent between the family members and disruption from outside, leading to a murder. Can the audience find the solution before the local shaman? Price Script pack: £22.25  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

Murder in Hollywood by Giles Black

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 30 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 questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. Synopsis Megalomaniac film director Mickey Moviemaker has a questionable approach to film making, accounting and his private life. Not only have such tactics made him many enemies, but new tensions arise as he battles to create his latest epic, a radical reworking of the life of Joan of Arc. Just as the first scene is filmed, there is a murder on the set, using a vital prop. Lieutenant Oscar Winner of the Hollywood Homicide Squad is called in to investigate. Price Script pack: £21.75  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £34.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £17.00  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Murder Is Served by Jo West Best Seller

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 11. 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 A surprise 80th birthday party for Clarissa Hopgood descends into chaos when Clarissa seems determined to upset her guests. This leads to unexpected revellations about members of the assembled company - and two dead bodies! Price Script pack: £21.00  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