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There's something about a garden that makes a murder feel more plausible. Perhaps it's the shrubbery offering convenient hiding spots for eavesdropping guests, or the fact that everyone already associates lawns with croquet mallets and the faint suggestion of violence. Whatever the reason, an outdoor mystery party has a charm that no dining room can quite replicate. It also comes with its own set of headaches, most of which have nothing to do with the plot and everything to do with the weather.
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It's one of the first questions people ask before they commit to hosting one. Understandable, really. Nobody wants to invite friends round for what they've billed as a fun evening, only to still be interrogating Colonel Mustard about the study at half past midnight while everyone's coats are quietly making their way towards the front door.
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There is a moment at every murder mystery dinner party when someone leans back in their chair, narrows their eyes at the person accused of hoarding the good silverware, and announces, with total confidence, "I can always tell when someone's lying."
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There is a particular kind of optimism that arrives with a bank holiday. Suddenly, the diary has room in it. Suddenly, your friends have room in it too, because for once nobody has to be up for work the next day, and the usual excuse of "I can't, it's a school night" evaporates. It is, on paper, the perfect window for a murder mystery party.
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There's always one. You've sent the invitations, sorted the characters, decanted something into a decanter for effect, and somewhere between the starter and the first round of clues, you notice that one of your guests has found the single quietest corner of the room and is doing an excellent impression of the furniture.
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There's a particular kind of bravado that takes hold of a parent roughly a week before a birthday party, somewhere between ordering the bouncy castle and casually deciding that this year, instead of pass-the-parcel, the eight-year-olds are going to solve a murder.
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Summer is the season of long evenings, garden furniture dragged optimistically onto patios, and the quiet national sport of staring at a weather forecast and trying to decide whether it counts as "dry enough."
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People sometimes ask us where our games come from. Not in a philosophical sense, more in a genuinely curious, slightly suspicious way, as if they expect us to admit that we have a warehouse full of chained-up thriller writers producing scripts on a conveyor belt.
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There comes a moment, usually in late spring, when the weather has been inexplicably pleasant for three days in a row, when a murder mystery host looks at their dining room and thinks: what if we did this outside?
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So you've hosted your first murder mystery party. You bought the feather boa, the fake moustache, the period-appropriate hat that took three trips to different charity shops to find. Your guests had a wonderful time. The murderer was unmasked. Dessert was served. And now the feather boa is sitting on the back of a dining chair, wondering what its future holds.
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