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.

The Knife Before Christmas 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 Fry and Boyle is an old-fashioned, family-run department store. Lance Boyle has recently taken control of the business, but his drunken, lecherous behaviour has upset many of the staff. Lance has agreed to partake in the traditional staff Christmas party, but does he have an ulterior motive? Price Script pack: £21.00  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

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

The Hit Man by Geoff Fulford

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 13. 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 A scripted Murder Mystery in which the audience deduce whodunnit. The Vestals were once an all-girl pop group. They had a number of hit records but broke up 25 years ago. Their manager, Orson, has invited then to his house for a reunion but during the evening a lot of secrets from the past come out and it seems that there may well be something in Orson’s premonitions... Price Script pack: £22.25  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

Death at the Shangri-La by Roger Lee

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 12. 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 In the Shangri-La Residential Home Martha died, even before the rest of the residents finished breakfast. That was when the trouble really started. Jenny and Ray's main concern is filling the newly created vacancy - but why is Ray pointing a gun at Major Backhurst? What has Heather, the care assistant overheard? Has Cedric noticed something he shouldn’t? Why is Aggie so annoyed with Victoria? And what will the Vicar learn about the deceased? Price Script pack: £23.25  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £38.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £19.00  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Cold-Blooded Murder 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: 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 Pearl Barley is a devious, scheming woman, who has tricked her husband Charlie into marriage, and is about to take him to the financial cleaners. She also plans to blackmail two ‘old friends.' So is she playing a dangerous game by inviting them to join her and Charlie for a weekend at their country home...? Price Script pack: £21.00  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. 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

LepreCON by Die Laughing Murder Mysteries

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. 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 The event is a meeting of LepreCON – the convention for believers in all things fairy! They have a special guest tonight – a local-born film star who is just making it big! As the actors progress with the evening, further revelations send the event spinning out of control until one of the characters is found murdered. Price Script pack: £20.75  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £43.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £21.50  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

Class War by Gordon Lewis and Lynn Rushby

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. 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 The staff of Corkscrew Community College have arrived for a training day before the new term starts. A new bursar has been preparing the school for a likely Ofsted inspection. Suffice it to say, the staff aren't happy. Price Script pack: £21.00  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £32.50  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £16.25  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Killing Thyme 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: 50 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 1925 Killington Annual Village Fete and Vegetable Show has its normal round of gossip, rivalry, argument and skulduggery interrupted by a murder. The audience investigates (with the help of detectives Moody and Sullen). Price Script pack: £22.25  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £34.50  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £17.25  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details