Gather the suspects...

My best friend Agnes is a real crime buff.  An Agatha Christie fan, she loves nothing more than a whodunit.  For her birthday in December 2019 I bought her a murder mystery dinner party game, the plan being we would organise a large dinner party and play the game.  Of course Covid arrived and it didn't happen.

Fast forward to 2024.

My God-gaughter Emily (Agnes's daughter) got in touch a couple of weeks ago to start discussions about getting the Murder Mystery dinner party set up as a surprise for her mum's birthday at the end of the year, so we arranged a clandestine lunch today (along with D, Emily's dad Adrian and her husband Sam) to start planning.

We had lunch in a lovely local cafe and got deep into discussions about dates, venue, invitees, before I asked how these sort of evenings actually run (having never been at one)  Emily explained she would be the hostess and official invitations would be sent out a couple of weeks in advance with details of our characters and setting the scene.  This particular game is set in the 1930s and costumes are expected to be worn.  It sounds like great fun.

The conversation then turned to the crime and who would be the murderer (obviously we only find that out on the night) but it led to the following conversation...

D - So will it be the perfect murder?
E - Of course but hopefully not too gory.
Me - Oh no, don't want gory.  Too much mess to clean up.
S - I don't want to be the murderer, that's no fun.
A - I'm happy to be the murderer, be good to release some blood lust! (we all laughed) 
E - I'm in charge.  I'll decide who the murderer is!


The conversation was then paused as we tucked into our very delicious lunch.  It was only after a few minutes, when the conversation resumed, that we realised we'd been having the above conversation while the lovely but very nervous waitress (it was her first day) was serving our food!  We spent the rest of our lunch waiting for the arrival of the local Bobby to take us in for questioning!  hahahahahahahahahahaha!

After lunch we all headed back to ours for more chat and planning.  It's all rather exciting!  As they left we had to run the sticky roller over the three of them to get rid of any evidence of Lola as as far as Agnes is concerned, Adrian was out for lunch with Emily and Sam at Dobbie's in Stirling.  She knows nothing of our plans and hopefully it will stay that way until she gets her invitation two weeks prior to the event.  Watch this space :-)