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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| A Murder Most Legal by Roger Lee |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 12. |
| 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 | Murdoch 'Doc' McNee is the less-than-competent senior partner in a legal practice. Things come to a head whilst his office is being decorated and he has to use the reception area where stroppy staff and difficult clients are bound on various collision courses. The reading of a will brings enmity and angst to the fore - a trigger for murder... |
| Price | Script pack: £18.25 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £36.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £18.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Murder on Air 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: 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 | It is September 1957 and the cast of long-running radio play, Major Siddlington Rides Out, are preparing to record the final episode. A select audience has been invited to witness this historic event and meet the cast and crew. However, tensions are running high and the cast and crew prove to be not quite the happy family that the public have been led to believe… |
| Price | Script pack: £26.25 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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| Murder on the Home Front 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: 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 members have to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | A fundraising event during the second world war is interrupted by a murder. Suspicion falls on the members of the organising committee. It's up to the audience to find out the real villain. |
| Price | Script pack: £25.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £44.50 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £22.25 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Murder on the Menu by Jane Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 20 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 | Things are not going well at McMurdo Manor restaurant - there's chaos in the kitchen, unhappy diners and, to cap it all, a dead body... |
| 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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Murder on the Overnight Express by Patricia Gay
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. 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 | A body is found in a First Class sleeping berth of an overnight train in the 1960s. The train is shunted to a siding, where the remaining passengers and staff are corralled into a disused waiting room where Inspector Pluckett investigates (with the audience). |
| Price | Script pack: £22.00 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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| 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. |
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The Mysterious Murder at the Murder Mystery by Lesley Gunn
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. 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: 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 | The final rehearsal of the North Undersfield Theatrical Society's performance of 'The Murder Mystery' is somewhat derailed by the discovery of the dead body, but after all, the show must go on, mustn't it? |
| Price | Script pack: £21.75 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £36.75 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £18.38 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Mystic Myrtle by Richard Adams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. |
| 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 | Laura Dent, Mystic Myrtle, her husband Hubert, Laura’s husband Lioneland Laura's sister Joyce each have a motive for killing one of the others. Who kills whom and how? It's up to the audience to solve the mystery with a little help from DCI Cleveleys.
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| Price | Script pack: £22.25 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. |
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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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| Oliver with a Twist 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: 100 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 questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | An adult Oliver Twist, now a wealthy philanthropist, holds a fund-raising dinner, inviting a number of associates from his less-privileged childhood. But the evening soon descends into mayhem and murder. Who would ‘do anything’ for revenge? |
| Price | Script pack: £19.25 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. |
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