Do you want your party to be a killer? Then collect clues from the scene of the crime and recreate the thrill of the kill with a murder mystery game.

From the deadly plots uncovered by Marcus Didius Falco in the historic novels of Lindsey Davis and Raymond Chandler’s black, white and blood red mysteries to the poisoned monks in Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose and the eerily silent bodies in Henning Mankell’s Inspector Wallander series, we all love a bit of murder.

Well, it’s not actually the blood that we sniff around for. In crime thrillers, what grips us is the plot afoot: the sleuthing in the shadows and the hunt through labyrinthine streets for the killer. Is it the ghost from the past, the jilted lover or the silent witness? Could it, possibly, be us?

You can solve that crime by hosting a murder mystery party at home. Is that too complex a mystery? Not really. It’s just like Agatha Christie’s Peril at End House. All you need is a group of suspects, a curious mind, a bit of distraction and, of course, a body.

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