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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| Board to Death by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
| 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 | Ricky T. Bridge is the owner and managing director of Health and Proficiency, a successful spa and fitness club. But his less than honest business dealings are about to be exposed at a potentially fatal board meeting...The Narrator, as master of ceremonies, distributes further evidence before the accusations, and revealing the solution at the end. |
| Price | Script pack: £21.75 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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| Cold-Blooded Murder 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: 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 | Pearl Barley is a devious, scheming woman, who has tricked her husband Charlie into marriage, and is about to take him to the financial cleaners. She also plans to blackmail two ‘old friends.' So is she playing a dangerous game by inviting them to join her and Charlie for a weekend at their country home...? |
| Price | Script pack: £21.00 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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| 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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| An Extortionate Death 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: 25 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 questions the suspects and tries to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | Accomplished professional blackmailer, Jack Hammer is normally very careful never to meet his victims - or the police - but now he has invited a collection of his current targets to his country house. But far from blackmail, the result of the encounter is murder! |
| Price | Script pack: £19.25 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 Frightful Evening by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. 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 | Courtney Fish is a crime writer, and although rich and famous she has a serious heart condition. The beneficiaries to her will are due to gather at her home, and someone’s in for a fatal shock. |
| Price | Script pack: £21.75 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £44.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £22.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| A Grand Design for Murder by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 25 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 | Rich Pikkins is a former professional burglar who made a great deal of money from his crimes. He used much of it to have his dream home built, and he and his partner have invited two friends to join them for an informal housewarming. But danger arises when uninvited guests arrive. |
| Price | Script pack: £21.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £29.50 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £14.75 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| The Knife Before Christmas 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: 25 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 | Fry and Boyle is an old-fashioned, family-run department store. Lance Boyle has recently taken control of the business, but his drunken, lecherous behaviour has upset many of the staff. Lance has agreed to partake in the traditional staff Christmas party, but does he have an ulterior motive?
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| Price | Script pack: £21.00 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £34.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £17.00 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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| A Legal Murder by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 55 minutes. Improvised Dialogue: 0 minutes. Audience Interrogation: 0 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 members have to work out whodunnit. |
| Synopsis | Hugh Balls is the senior partner in a firm of solicitors. But he has made many enemies among the staff. Several are angry enough to want to kill him. Is Balls about to come to a shocking end? The script also calls for a Narrator who acts as a master of ceremonies, distributing further evidence before the accusations, and revealing the solution at the end. |
| Price | Script pack: £21.00 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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| Life After Murder by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. |
| Run Time | Scripted Dialogue: 25 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 | As stipulated in his will, the investigation of the murder of Albert Hall takes place at a séance. Can the audience work out whodunnit before the culprit is revealed? |
| Price | Script pack: £21.25 Fee per performance to an audience (or livestream to a paying audience): £33.00 Livestream to a non-paying audience for £16.50 Buy the pack and rights here. |
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