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 By Paintbrush by Lesley Gunn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 55 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 | Lord Rothersfield's will, and with it the fate of his family, depends on the death of his wife. A household gathering for a portrait is interrupted by an unexpected death. Inspector Moody and PC Sullen investigate - with help from the audience. |
| Price | Script pack: £21.75 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £35.50 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £17.75 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Murder Is Served by Jo West |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 11. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 55 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 | A surprise 80th birthday party for Clarissa Hopgood descends into chaos when Clarissa seems determined to upset her guests. This leads to unexpected revellations about members of the assembled company - and two dead bodies! |
| Price | Script pack: £21.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £36.50 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £18.25 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Sudden Death at Thornbury Manor by Chris Lewis & Carol Hutton |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 80 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 35 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 | A murder mystery presented as an old-fashioned radio play, with members of the company standing in front of microphones and making live sound-effects and announcements as they play-out the mystery, before mingling with the audience for informal interrogation. |
| Price | Script pack: £26.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £53.75 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £26.88 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Just Desserts [Murder Mystery] 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: 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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| Killer Chili by Debi Irene Wahl |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. |
| 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 | An old diner, in a small town in the southern United States, ruled by a despot sheriff. Even Mean Ole Henry, the diner’s resident cat, hates the sheriff. Because of illegal activities that span several states, the FBI has an agent working undercover - which comes in handy when there's a murder... |
| Price | Script pack: £22.25 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £39.75 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £19.88 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| This Business of Murder by Mike Standing |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 60 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 | Sir Alan Sweetener is not a very nice boss, so when he announces he is going to sell the family confectionary business to a company of asset-strippers, everyone (including his own family) has a motive for murder. |
| Price | Script pack: £23.50 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £37.50 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £18.75 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| Bowing Out by Alan Robinson |
| 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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| Curiosity Killed the Caretaker by Patricia Gay |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 7. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. |
| 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 | In 1953, a week after the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, staff and residents of the Jubilee Hotel for Retired Gentlewomen are shocked by the murder of the hotel caretaker. Detective Inspector Prince investigates - and the audience members make accusations. |
| Price | Script pack: £21.25 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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| A Rehearsal for 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: 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. |
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| Mystic Myrtle by Richard Adams |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 55 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 | Laura Dent, Mystic Myrtle, her husband Hubert, Laura’s husband Lioneland Laura's sister Joyce each have a motive for killing one of the others. Who kills whom and how? It's up to the audience to solve the mystery with a little help from DCI Cleveleys.
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| Price | Script pack: £22.25 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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