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How to Host a Murder

In How To Host A Murder, the world's best-selling mystery dinner party game, you and your guests assume the roles of humorous suspects – each with a motive and opportunity to commit the crime – in a light-hearted murder mystery.

How To Host A Murder provides everything you need to bring a murder mystery to life – from detailed player guides, maps, and secret clues to costume suggestions and recipes tailored to the era featured in each episode.

Contents include a comprehensive Host Guide; eight invitations and envelopes; name tags; a CD, which sets the scene and details the crime; and a diagram of the crime scene.

4 tiltes available:

The Chicago Caper	The Good, The Bad and The Guilty
Roman Ruins	An Affair To Dismember

How To Host A Murder - The Chicago Caper (with CD)

It is September 1928 in Chicago. The return of notorious gangster Harold "Hal" Coppone is expected to trigger a wave of violence. Instead, Coppone has disappeared, mystifying police and the criminal underworld. To the small group gathered in a speakeasy near Coppone's headquarters, the crimelord's whereabouts become only part of the mystery when murder is discovered. There's no shortage of suspects, motives, speakeasy glamour or gorgeous flappers in this crime tale.

Item number: 102118
UPC: 0-45748-10020-9
ISBN: 1-87887-500-0
Dimensions: 10-1/2" x 8-1/2" x 3"
Weight: 1.6 lbs
Case Pack: 12

How To Host A Murder - The Good, The Bad and The Guilty (with CD)

It is 10:10 p.m. on July 2, 1881 – a balmy evening in the little Wyoming Territory town of Roadkill. In response to a warm invitation from His Honor, Judge Waylon Payne, you have gathered in his home beside the courthouse, in the heart of town, for a sumptuous dinner. Dinner will be followed by the hanging of the infamous, formerly elusive Malevolent Seven – a villainous gang of criminals rumored to have secretly victimized your fair territory for many years. Although no one knows the identity of the Malevolent Seven, everyone will find out tonight.

Item number: 104025
UPC: 0-45748-10229-6
ISBN: 1-58236-229-7
Dimensions: 10-1/2" x 8-1/2" x 3"
Weight: 1.6 lbs
Case Pack: 12

How To Host A Murder - Roman Ruins (with CD)

Having mentioned your name in his Roman epic, the renowned poet, Flabbius Corpus, invites you to a banquet for the premier recitation of his historical work. When you arrive, you discover there's been a murder in the garden and a priceless statue is missing. You assume the role of one of these great Roman characters and solve the mystery. Like a history lesson come to life, the schemes of less-than-noble characters are laid bare.

Item number: 104024
UPC: 0-45748-10279-1
ISBN: 1-58236-279-3
Dimensions: 10-1/2" x 8-1/2" x 3"
Weight: 1.6 lbs
Case Pack: 12

How To Host A Murder - An Affair To Dismember (with CD)

Set in the Castle Von Morgue in Deadbolt, Transylvania on All hallow's Eve, this is a haunting whodunnit of murderous mayhem. Written by award winning author Neil Shusterman, the guest list includes:

The Mummy of King Aldrinktotat – a bag of bones wo knows how to party
Balihi – the Rogersandhammerstein MOnster
Asthmadeus – The Prince of Dimness
Hannibel Shecter – the world's only known kosher cannibal
Glumda – the Wicked Witch of DePressed
Dr Angela Deth – a dentist famous for putting her patients under – six feet under.
Aretha Garlik – the flamboyant clairvoyant
Lizzie Bordeaux – a gothic and enigmatic woman from the south of France

Item number: 103312
UPC: 0-45748-10278-4
ISBN: 1-58236-278-5
Dimensions: 10-1/2" x 8-1/2" x 3"
Weight: 1.6 lbs
Case Pack: 12

Put some mystery into your next party!