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Murder at Haynes Manor by Rebecca Preen
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 9. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Short comical murder mystery play for junior school children! (In theory it's set in a manor house, but designed to be performable with minimal scenery.) |
| Synopsis | There's a family gathering at Haynes Manor, with more than a few surprises planned, but someone has murder in mind. Is it the greedy housekeeper, or someone with a different grudge? Can the family ghost help to solve the case? |
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| Murder At Merryweather Mansion by Lauren Jones |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 10 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Sketch-length murder mystery parody. In theory, two sets, but the opening scene could be delivered front-of curtain or in a spotlight to one side of the stage. |
| Synopsis | When the odorous Mike Merryweather is murdered in his own living room, Detective McGloclyn is left with a roomful of suspects and more than a few clues and motives. His keen detective sense may not be up to unmasking the killer. |
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Murder at Mole End by Karen Doling
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| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 8. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 85 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Full-length murder mystery play (single set). A comedy which manages to get as far as self-parody whilst delivering a complex and satisfying mystery. |
| Synopsis | Two couples attend a Murder Mystery Weekend, only to discover that they all have links to the main actor in the piece. Before too long, he's been murdered for real and the race is on to solve the murder and avoid jail! |
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| Murder at Peculiar Manor by Paul Mathews |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act murder mystery - a satisfactory plot, with twists and red herrings, but with tongue-in-cheek comedy thrown in. Contains very mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Dr Fincham certified that Lady Peculiar died of natural causes, but an Inspector is asking questions of the staff... What's the Maid's secret? Why was the will changed, and is it important that the apples are being stolen? |
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| Murder at Ten Twenty by Ian McCutcheon |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 4. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 7. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 108 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length murder mystery thriller with a single (living room) setting. |
| Synopsis | Wealthy entrepreneur and crossword enthusiast Abel is convinced that one of his children is planning to murder him, and hires a private detective to help catch the killer. But it doesn’t go to plan, and Detective Inspector West must uncover the truth. |
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| Murder at the Murder Mystery Party by Geoff Parker |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 64 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Comedy thriller in two short acts and one (dining room) set. |
| Synopsis | Richard and Miranda's stormy marriage might reach some semblance of stability during a murder mystery party for their friends. Unfortunately tensions abound at the party and someone is actually murdered. |
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| Murder at the Music Hall by Laura Sanderson |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 11. Minimum total with doubling = 18. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 40 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Some suggestions for music and songs are made in the Producer's Copy of the script, though other period music could work just as well. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A melodramatic spoof of a country house murder mystery for a youth theatre company. Music Hall acts might be interspersed with the action! |
| Synopsis | The cast of the Music Hall are invited back to the manor house of their sponsor, Hector Clarkson. They are joined by most of the Clarkson family and a Duchess, but his Lordship is missing... until he is found murdered! Time to ask: Whodunnit? |
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| Murder at the Theatre by Emma Bevan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 12. No chorus. Eleven on-stage characters and an off-stage voice that might be recorded. The gender of five characters (written 4M, 1F) could be changed by changing names and pronouns. |
| Run Time | Around 88 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A full-length comedy murder mystery play. |
| Synopsis | A director, his assistant, the stage manager and a range of actors are all rehearsing when a murder takes place. Bumbling Inspector Ambrose shows up just in time to start investigating before the theatre is shut off from the world by a snowstorm. Will the murderer strike again? |
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| Murder at Twilight Gardens by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. No chorus. One (male) role is voice-only and can be pre-recorded. |
| Run Time | Around 35 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy with minimal set requirements. |
| Synopsis | Four sprightly senior sleuths try to solve the murder that has taken place in their residential home, with the reluctant assistance of their Activities Supervisor. |
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| Murder by Proxy by Elizabeth Poynter |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 48 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One-act thriller. |
| Synopsis | Harold is bullied and oppressed by his confident colleague, Charles, who casually seduces the woman Harold loves. But then Charles is accused of murder... |
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