Murder Mystery and Mayhem

21/12/2024

Want to play a murder mystery with a group of friends this Christmas? Go to our www.murdermysterygames.co.uk site for info on what games we have and how to buy and dcownload one.

Murder mystery games for dinner parties of 6 to 200 people. Buy online, download and host your own Whodunit. Virtual video chat game now available.

21/06/2023

A tv company is looking for UK-based female amateur sleuths to assist and appear in its new series True Crime Women. Interested? Or know anyone else who might be? Go to https://www.rare-tv.com/casting to apply.

06/01/2023

Great article about different approaches to making a mystery work. Given a choice, which do you prefer? https://gamerant.com/types-of-mystery-explained/ All our games use the "breadcrumbs" approach, the traditional Conan Doyle approach. Even if not everyone succeeds in identifying who the murderer is, our aim is for them to feel satisfied afterwards that all the pieces were there for them. "Of course!" is the reaction we look for each time...

Armchair detectives

22/12/2021

The sort of question I'm glad to have an answer to - and I'm definitely not alone. https://www.cbr.com/murder-she-wrote-how-many-people-murdered-cabot-cove/ Has anyone got a similar statistic for how many murders have happened in Midsomer?

Over the course of twelve seasons, Jessica Fletcher solved hundreds of murders on Murder, She Wrote. But how many were in Cabot Cove?

16/07/2021

Hoping to make a killing...

Tudor Close in Rottingdean near Brighton is up for sale with a guide price of £1,000,000. | ITV News Meridian

22/01/2021

Haven't read any of these. Have you? Any good?

A year ago, when the world was very different, I contributed an essay to CrimeReads discussing the revival of popularity of Golden Age detective fiction. One thing is for sure. Apart from all their…

08/01/2021

Showing another side to Conan Doyle as a writer: a fine piece about his "Rider Haggardy kind of book" The Lost World.

“I have wrought my simple plan, If I give an hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.’ ‘That’s my foreword,’ declared Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherl…

15/09/2020

Fascinating info about the Great Dame Agatha, 130 today. Her plotting method and devices and how to spot one of her killers - all c/o the Blackpool Grand Theatre.

From murder and mystery, Agatha Christie takes us through scintillating whodunnits in which we can’t help but try to find the murderer.

18/08/2020

Gripping hokum with some amazing production values: if you missed the reality tv/crime investigation series Whodunnit before, you can now catch every episode here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nZ5E9s9quk&list=PLdUGA0NFIvcCiopr96CcaQNNVvc_idYmG It's easy to get hooked.

think u can solve a murder??? well now's ur chance... each episode, solve the crime to be 1 step closer to the identity of the killer... will u get it right?

30/01/2020

Big thanks to Sarah Hawkins for her kind comments about the "incredible... brilliant...witty" Martin South and how well he ran our murder mystery for her last week:
"I just want to say a huge thank you. Saturday night went really well and Martin was incredible! He kept the evening moving smoothly, got everyone involved and was brilliantly witty and funny with his comments... I couldn’t have asked for it to go any better so thank you so much!"

08/03/2019

Not sure what's really going on here. But still makes me laugh. https://www.facebook.com/icelollyholidays/videos/270436190519413/UzpfSTEwMDAwMDMxNjUzODkxMToyMjQzMDE4OTA5MDUxOTcy/

07/02/2019

Thanks to Viv Gibbons at https://www.facebook.com/VivGibbonsWeddingPhotography/ for these fine pics of a recent murder mystery we ran. They catch the mood nicely!