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 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

Deadly Encounter by Sarah Curran

Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 45 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 In 1949, the newly married Bunty Parlington-Dormer has founded a drama group in her new home village, but preparation for their first production is not going well. Company members are at each other's throats, and one of the members ends up murdered. Price Script pack: £23.00  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £33.75  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £16.88  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Death at the Distillery by Molly Rogers with Tom Honey

Roles Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 45 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 10 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 In 1921, Sam Stallard has risen to head the family distillery in Birmingham, and is establishing more business in London. This provokes a confrontation with the Campden Mob, leading to kidnapping and murder. Can the audience - on a tour of the distillery - work out whodunnit? Price Script pack: £20.75  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. Click here for more details

Agent in a State by Emma Northcott

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 12. 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 The mystery follows a property chain, from first-time buyers Daisy and Ed to domestic goddess Yasmina and her husband Matt. In the middle of the chain, Amanda and Ali await the birth of their first child while Tanya and Kevin aspire to life in a gated community. When personal secrets are exposed, unscrupulous estate agent Brad seizes upon an opportunity... Price Script pack: £25.00  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £46.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £23.00  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

A Chicken Fried Murder by Kathleen Maule Holen

Roles Minimum Male roles = 8. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 13. 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 A New York property developer is causing disruption to a town with his plans for a chicken processing plant. Trying to get the buy-in of the townsfolk, he invites everyone to a fried chicken diner, but things don't go to plan. Price Script pack: £20.25  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £27.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £13.50  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

Death and Waxes by Barry Wood

Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. 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 The International Moustache Championships are being held in Edinburgh where Douglas Palmer is the current reigning champion, but there's a serial killer on the loose - one who targets victims for their facial hair. Of course there's a murder - but it takes three detectives (and the audience) to sort it all out. Price Script pack: £25.75  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £46.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £23.00  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Breaking Windows by Richard Adams

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 70 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 Detectives looking into a report of intruders at the home of Monica Goose, both find themselves drawn into a web of intrigue and malice centring around entrepreneur and villain Jacob Gilmore. Gilmore is surrounded by seedy family and business associates, and among them someone bears a serious grudge. Price Script pack: £22.75  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. Click here for more details

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

The Murder Stakes by Ian McCutcheon

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 25 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 Jim Carner is one of England’s most successful racehorse trainers… and one of the richest. He lives in considerable luxury with his girlfriend in a beautiful old Georgian manor house in the Widdleshire countryside. It’s no secret that he has made a will, in which there are very generous provisions for his girlfriend, his sister, and even his housekeeper. So do any of them have sufficient motive to hasten his death? You bet they do - it’s a racing certainty! Price Script pack: £21.00  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