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.

Zoo Detective by Barry Wood

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 100 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 Light-hearted, farcical murder mystery in which the audience have to work out who is responsible for the fate of animal victims at the Hamilton zoo. Full scripted, including interrogation of the suspects by the hapless Zoo Detective. Price Script pack: £26.50  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £50.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £25.00  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Raising the Dead by Alexi Stonehouse

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 80 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 30 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 audience are (supposedly) guests at a séance, however a murder amongst the VIPs (the cast) stalls the proceedings. The cast mingle with the audience, revealing information under audience interrogation. But can the audience identify the murderer? Price Script pack: £19.50  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £48.50  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £24.25  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Murder at Dragon's Nest by Patricia Riley

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. 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 Peter Ellis Marshall, returns home to Dragon's Nest after a car crash that killed his wife and left him wheelchair-bound. He finds relatives, colleagues, and a murderous atmosphere waiting for him. Price Script pack: £24.50  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. 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

Harvey's Wallbanger by Lesley Gunn

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 80 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 body is discovered before a meeting of the Marshtown Cocktail Club. The club has not been running smoothly, and the prominent members are all suspects. The audience investigates (under the guidance of Detective Inspector Abbott). Price Script pack: £24.25  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. Click here for more details

A Fashionable Murder 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: 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 Today is Saturday 13th August 2016 and you are getting ready for the latest fashion show from Harpers Fashion House; The Siddlington Collection. A select audience and members of the press have been invited to witness this exciting event. However all is not running smoothly behind the scenes and tension and tempers are running high. Price Script pack: £24.25  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £43.50  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £21.75  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Who Killed Rob Cockyn? by Ian McCutcheon

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. 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 questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. Synopsis Rob Cockyn is in serious financial trouble. His chain of fish and chip restaurants, largely financed by loans from business associates and an ex-lover, is facing bankruptcy. Rob has been forced to call a creditors’ meeting. But has he had his chips? 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

Act of Union by Adam Croft

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 30 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 As the guests assemble for the reception following the wedding of Gary and Victoria Sponge, family feuds and class divides rise to the surface with a fiery passion. After all, blood is thicker than water… An murder mystery improvised by the actors from a scenario and character briefs, and solved by the audience. Price Script pack: £17.50  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £22.50  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £11.25  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

A Legal Murder by Ian McCutcheon

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. 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. A mix of scripted elements and improvisation based on plot and character briefs. The audience members have to work out whodunnit. Synopsis Hugh Balls is the senior partner in a firm of solicitors. But he has made many enemies among the staff. Several are angry enough to want to kill him. Is Balls about to come to a shocking end? The script also calls for a Narrator who acts as a master of ceremonies, distributing further evidence before the accusations, and revealing the solution at the end. Price Script pack: £21.00  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 Tenth by Archie Wilson

Roles Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 70 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 10 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 Herbert Gloom, green keeper at the Primrose Hill Golf Club, has harboured a grudge against the entire club committee. The annual Club Dinner is the perfect opportunity to present his evidence of fraud, etc. During the evening he goes out of his way to be obnoxious to both committee and guests ending with a tirade against everyone present, with desperate effects. Price Script pack: £21.00  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. Click here for more details