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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| A Brief Period of Rejoicing by Jane Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 25 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 10 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 | A VE Day party is interrupted when the local black-marketeer is found murdered. |
| Price | Script pack: £23.25 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £26.50 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £13.25 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| The Chameleon by Debi Irene Wahl |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 40 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 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 members have to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | In the USA, in the 1890s, in the aftermath of a murderous bank robbery, an accomplice, and master of disguise, is hiding in a party. It's up to Inspector Wilhelm William (and the audience) to find the culprit. |
| Price | Script pack: £20.50 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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| Christmas on Croma Isle by Jane Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 10 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 20 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 | The owner of a small, remote guesthouse and her guests meet on Christmas Eve - a gathering at which their tangled relationships come unravelled. |
| Price | Script pack: £23.75 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £23.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £11.50 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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Death of a Well-Spoken Gentleman by Stuart Ardern
Best Seller |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 35 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 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 members have to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | The ladies of the Women's Institute are gathering to hear a talk on the history of a local family and their stately home, but there are undercurrents of resentment, jealousy and deceit. Then, just as the meeting is starting, the guest speaker is found murdered... WI members are called-upon to make witness statements (which could be read rather than memorised) and the audience is called-upon to solve the case. |
| Price | Script pack: £22.50 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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| Nightmare at Nightschool by Jane Morris |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 17. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 15 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 15 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 | A pre-Christmas party for an evening class becomes hazardous when the lights go out on the entrance steps. The ladies of the class arrive and seem safe, but when the caretaker fixes the fault, a body is discovered... |
| Price | Script pack: £24.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £26.75 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £13.38 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| 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. |
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| Torturellini by E. C. Chapman |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 12. Minimum total without doubling = 12. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 35 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 10 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 members have to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | In Chicago in 1930, mafia boss Jimmy Mancini is hosting a wedding reception. His family, every member of his gangland elite, and all the wedding guests have axes to grind. A murder takes place toward the end of the evening and, aided by witness statements from the audience, FBI Agents Eliot Mess and Ellen Highwater must quickly find the culprit before gang warfare ensues.
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| Price | Script pack: £27.50 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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