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.

Poison by Numbers by Jenny Gilbert

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 70 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 15 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 Everyone in the village who has money has been invited to artist Charles Crimson’s workshop to have an advanced viewing of his paintings and sculptures. An event which should be a social highlight turns to a disaster when... Price Script pack: £20.25  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £35.25  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £17.63  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Pub Mystery by Sean Dooley

Roles Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 60 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 minutes. Style A Murder Mystery for a private party in which each of the guests takes a role. The actors improvise the dialogue based on plot and character briefs. The participants have to work out whodunnit. Synopsis The landlord has called all his staff together for a meeting to discuss the future of the pub. On the agenda are things such as an increase in prices, the quality of the food, the cleanliness of the rooms and an idea to re-develop the bar area to make it more sociable. It seems set to be a night of business, but soon the business turns to murder... Price Script pack: £20.00  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. 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

A Recipe for Murder 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 members have to work out whodunnit. Synopsis Clint Plumb has invited an audience of valued customers and a few special guests to announce the long anticipated extension plans for the event venue. What should be a cause for celebration quickly descends into chaos as what Clint reveals is not quite what everyone expected! Sordid secrets, recriminations and blackmail finally end in a double murder! Price Script pack: £20.75  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £37.00  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £18.50  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

A Rehearsal for Murder 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: 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 members have to work out whodunnit. Synopsis It is October 2015 and the SOADS are rehearsing for their production of Twelfth Night. Before long some skeletons begin climbing out of a few closets. Can the director keep everyone in check or will there be bloodshed? Price Script pack: £25.00  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £46.50  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £23.25  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Robin Hood and His Merry Menace 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: 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 The historical re-enactment society is thrown into chaos when the chairman's proposal to rescue the society's finances is blocked by his wife (for reasons of historical inaccuracy). The squabbling eventually leads to a murder. Can PC Leighton Buzzard, a member of the society, solve the crime? Well, not by himself, obviously... Price Script pack: £19.75  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £40.50  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £20.25  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

The School Reunion by Archie Wilson

Roles Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 30 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 100 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 It is 1995 and ‘A’ stream pupils from the Alderman Woodrow Secondary Modern School years 1960 to 1970 are having a reunion. Initiated by Wendy Parkhurst each member has been requested to wear St. Trinian style outfits or short trousers, shirt and tie for the men. Set in a village hall, with a three course meal, comprising “School Dinner” type food, the ex-pupils catch up with each other. Old rivalries surface jealously abounds. Price Script pack: £22.75  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £52.50  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £26.25  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

Seance for Murder by Angela Lanyon

Roles Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. 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 Evelyn Johnson has come to clairvoyant Alice Parkin with other believers (and a few sceptics) trying to contact the dead. Unexpectedly, someone is destined to join them. Price Script pack: £23.00  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

A Shotgun Wedding 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 questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. Synopsis It's the wedding reception for entrepeneur John Davenport and his bride, Juliet, thirty years his junior. They're running late and tensions are running high. Insults in the wedding speeches don't help matters, and shortly afterwards, a shot rings out... Price Script pack: £23.25  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £40.50  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £20.25  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details

A Silent but Deadly Auction by E. Scott Icenhower

Roles Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. Run Time Scripted Dialogue: 20 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 5 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 An attorney is running a silent auction to dispose of some of the effects of the late businessman, Jacob Thorbridge, in the presence of some of his colleagues. A detective arrives to announce that Thornbridge was murdered. Can the audience work out whodunnit? Price Script pack: £19.00  Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £23.25  Livestream to a non-paying audience for £11.63  Buy the pack and rights here. Click here for more details