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.

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. Click here for more details

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. Click here for more details

Dead Men Don't Get Dessert by Die Laughing Murder Mysteries

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 90 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 Based in Chicago, 1929. A top secret meeting of the leading gangsters and criminal minds of the city has been organised by Sal Capone. The objective: to sign a syndicate pact to combine forces and unite against the Feds. But the arrival of PI Mike Slammer, a gumshoe hated by all the gang leaders present, changes the course of the evening. Slammer has an alarming revelation about an undercover Federal agent among the gathered fraternity. Price Script pack: £21.50  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

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. 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

The Allotment Plot by Emma Northcott

Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. 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 Baldock Allotment Growers meet in their shed prior to their annual competition. With jealousy, rivalry, secrets and a shed packed with pesticides and sharp implements, what could possibly go wrong? Price Script pack: £23.50  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

Lights, Camera, Murder 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: 60 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 Siddlington Studios is shooting the latest British blockbuster, 'A Bittersweet Affair', and competition winners (the audience) have been invited along for a day to watch the filming and to see what goes on behind the camera. Tensions are running high amongst the cast and crew and eventually spill over into a murder - but it's down to the audience to name the guilty! Price Script pack: £26.25  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £52.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £26.00  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

Let Sleeping Frogs Die 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: 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 Monsieur le Comte d’Avignon, a wealthy French aristocrat exiled in London, has not arisen in time for his usual evening drink at the Yacht Club. The Comte’s two squabbling ex-wives and his drinking pal, the Colonel, discover the Comte dead. Price Script pack: £21.25  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. Click here for more details

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. Click here for more details