Mystery Screenplays for Sale
Browse 2 professional mystery screenplays in the ScriptLix catalog. Each script is evaluated for cast size, location count, VFX needs, and overall producibility before publication. Read free sample pages, compare ratings, and own the full script from $19. Production rights are licensed separately.
Mystery screenplays in the catalog
- DEAD RETURN
When a routine cold case follow-up brings state detective Claire Hardy to a coastal Maine fishing town, she finds the missing woman exactly where she should not be: behind the counter of a bait shop,
120 pages - SECOND DROWNING
A retired homicide detective hired by an insurance company to investigate a suspicious drowning finds the dead man officially died eleven years earlier. Following the paper trail leads to his own empl
106 pages
DEAD RETURN
Detective Claire Hardy arrives in Garrett's Cove, Maine on routine follow-up of a thirty-year-old missing persons case. When she recognizes the missing woman, now calling herself Donna Marsh and running a bait shop, Claire begins a quiet investigation that reveals not a crime but a survival. Donna fled her father, Walter Pollard, in 1994 and has built a complete life under a new identity. When Claire discovers Walter's nature and learns he has been tipped off, she must choose between closing the case as solved and protecting the woman who was never actually missing.
120 pages
SECOND DROWNING
RAY OKEKE, 58, a methodical retired detective now working insurance claims, is assigned to investigate the drowning of Thomas Voss. A fingerprint discrepancy leads him to discover Voss had faked his death in 2013, and that the institutional machinery that erased him was run by his current employer, Martin Leff. When Leff confronts Ray with evidence of a 2009 evidence suppression that sent an innocent man to prison, Ray must choose between self-protection and exposure. He chooses exposure, all of it, including himself.
106 pages