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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| Death on Delivery by Richard Adams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
| 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 | The widowed Ada has moved in with her dottie sister, Annie. Ada is distracted from writing her will because someone keeps delivering groceries that they haven't ordered. So what's going on? Why does this lead to murder? Can the audience, with the help of Detective Chief Inspector Cleveleys, solve the mystery? |
| Price | Script pack: £22.25 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. |
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| Dial M for Monster 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: 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 | SCREAM!, the Secret Coven Reuniting Evil and Monsters holds an annual meeting to review the past year's mayhem and to look forward to the new. Their leader, Granny, the little old lady, who has ruled the organisation with an iron fist, is planning to retire. Everyone hopes to be the new top dog (especially the Werewolf - well, he has the pedigree.) However, Granny reveals that she has different ideas... |
| Price | Script pack: £21.00 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. |
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Dig For Vengeance by Patricia Gay
Best Seller |
| 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 | The explosive murder of an outwardly popular villager brings Detective Inspector Murray to Sodbury End, where outward appearances prove to be deceptive - not everyone was happy with the behaviour of the late Mrs Jardine... |
| Price | Script pack: £20.50 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £28.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £14.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| 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. |
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| Ding Dong or Murder at the Belfry by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 0 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 90 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 | SACS, a bell-ringing society have won a prestigious competition in Oxford. They throw a party to celebrate their triumph, inviting the whole church congregation. During the celebrations the door bursts open and a ringer from a rival group, barges in accusing SACS of stealing her society’s composer. An 'accident' follows. Super sleuth Sherbert Holmes is needed to help the guests solve a dastardly murder! |
| Price | Script pack: £21.00 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. |
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| Downtown Crabbey by Joanne Mercer |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 15 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 | It is around 1900. A Hotel Inspector is due to inspect Downtown Crabbey, a hotel designed for young American travellers to feel at home in London. His arrival is causing something of a panic, but before he can complete his work, events take an unfortunate turn… |
| Price | Script pack: £21.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £21.25 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £10.63 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Dressed to Kill by Sarah Curran |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 10. Minimum total without doubling = 10. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 50 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 members have to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | A drama group prepares to stage a fundraising musical fashion show in a village hall. It's an ill-thought-out hybrid mess of a production, and as the clock ticks towards curtain-up, tension is mounting. Before the audience have taken their seats, rivalry, discord, and conflict bubbles over and one of the members ends up murdered.
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| Price | Script pack: £22.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £36.75 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £18.38 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Dying For A Drink 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: 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 | Emma Royde is a wealthy widow with a drink problem. And to make matters worse, she’s had an anonymous letter, telling her that one of the beneficiaries in her will is going to kill her. So is it wise of her to invite them all to her home…….? |
| Price | Script pack: £21.50 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £31.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £15.50 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Dying for a Leek by Ian McCutcheon
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 30 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 members have to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | Del Fyniam is chair of his local gardening club, and a multiple winner of the annual prize for the biggest leeks. But not everything in the garden is rosy. Del has called an emergency committee meeting to discuss a few urgent matters, and possibly conduct a leek enquiry. This being a murder mystery, we can assume it doesn't go well. |
| Price | Script pack: £21.00 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. |
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| The Elvis Presley Convention by Archie Wilson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 20 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 55 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 10 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 questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | It is time for the annual Elvis Presley Convention to find out which of the King’s pretenders can claim his crown for this year. But with a killer in their midst, the party is about to be All Shook Up! Enter the redoubtable DCI Sherbert Holmes, super sleuth, to track down the murderer with the help of the guests, and have the guilty party doing the Jailhouse Rock! |
| Price | Script pack: £22.50 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £39.25 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £19.63 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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