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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| Abram Skinner - A Steampunk Murder Mystery by Stuart Ardern |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 35 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 30 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 | Inventor Abram Skinner is taking full advantages of the opportunities of the Steampunk age and has invited guests to the launch of his latest project. The invitees include the audience (if any) and a group of VIPs. There's an adventurer, a naval pilot, wealthy investors and industrialists, and, amongst them, an assassin...
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| Price | Script pack: £27.50 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. |
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| 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. |
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Bowing Out by Alan Robinson
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 120 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 questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | There's bitter rivalry amongst a group of faded actors and television stars. This is largely a scripted mystery, but the actors need to improvise responses to audience questions from character briefs. |
| Price | Script pack: £33.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £62.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £31.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| 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. |
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| Foulplay at Fotheringhay by Jane Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 10. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 30 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 | Tomorrow will be Laura's 70th birthday and her 3 sons have arranged a treat. The family has rented a cottage in the village of Fotheringhay. They plan to spend the weekend exploring the history of the area. Fotheringhay Castle was the scene of the trial and execution of Mary Queen of Scots. Some may say she had committed treason – others may say she was murdered. But that trial is history now – there is another case to solve! Someone in the party will be the subject of Foul play at Fotheringhay. |
| Price | Script pack: £21.00 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. |
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| A Hole in One by Alexi Stonehouse |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 90 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 | Guests are gathered for a dinner to celebrate the launch of Ferdinand Two-Inbush's golf tournament. Unfortunately, a murder is discovered and suspicions fall on members of the 'Happy Hookers' golf club. It's up to the audience to work out whodunnit. |
| Price | Script pack: £19.50 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £53.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £26.50 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Just Desserts [Murder Mystery] by Andrew Hull
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 4. 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 | At the opening of celebrity chef Raymond Myers's new themed restaurant there are staff and guests with grudges, not to mention Raymond's notoriously abrasive temprament. Someone is going to get their just desserts and the audience need to work out whodunnit. |
| Price | Script pack: £25.50 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. |
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| 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. |
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| M'Nango Valley 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 questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | Oregon Smith, intrepid (and boastful) explorer, has purchased land on Stockgrove Park to build a theme park, celebrating African culture and history (in a slightly warped way!) The event is a gathering to launch the plans of the park to local residents and business representatives (the audience). The event is gatecrashed by a pair of eco-warriors and recriminations start to fly amongst Oregon's team, leaving the audience with two murders to solve! |
| Price | Script pack: £21.25 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. |
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| Mates Meet Again by Really Horrid Productions |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 5. 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 local school reunion for the pupils from the early 1990's. Many of them have got in contact through the 'Mates Meet Again' web site, and the get-together has been organised by popular teacher Fennella Brodie. However, when the old headmistress arrives uninvited, recriminations start to fly, culminating in two murders!
Can the other reunion guests (the audience!) crack the case? |
| Price | Script pack: £20.75 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. |
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