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Solving The Murder at a Murder Mystery Party

If you are invited to a murder mystery partyto commit the murder. Once you know where and
you have the chance to act out the role ofwhen the dirty deed was committed, you can
your favourite detective - whether it's Misseliminate from your questioning anyone with a
Marple, Sherlock Holmes or Inspectorconcrete alibi.Which brings us to
Morse.While many murder mystery parties havemotive."Motive" answers the "why" question.
a role specifically for the detective,Why was the victim killed?Motive can be both
everyone can join in the hunt for thethe easiest and hardest of the Holy Trinity
murderer. Sometimes the games are written soto solve. Sometimes there are lots of people
that even the murderer doesn't know that theywith a good motive to kill, and sometimes it
have committed the crime - so they can joincan be hard to find anyone with any kind of
in the fun as well.So while these tips aremotive at all.So, the first thing you should
particularly useful for anyone taking on theask is "Who benefits?" Who has the most to
role of the detective, they will also helpgain from the victim's death? And if it's not
anyone else trying to solve the murder. (Theyimmediately obvious, the you are going to
may also help the murderer cover theirhave to talk to everyone.(And even if it is
trail...)The secret to solving murderimmediately obvious, you may still have to
mysteries is in determining three things, thetalk to everyone as the murderer isn't always
"Holy Trinity" of detection: Means, motivethe person with the most obvious motive.
and opportunity."Means" is probably theThings are rarely as straight-forward as
easiest of the three to determine. Bythat!)If nothing else, whenever you talk to
"means", I mean how the murder was carriedone of the other guests at a murder mystery
out and usually an examination of the bodyparty, you should ask them who they think
will tell you this. Typical examples includekilled the victim. Someone will have a clue
stabbing, shooting, poisoning, drowning andas to the identity of the murderer, but
so on.In the case of something like poison,without asking absolutely everyone, you might
you might need to find out how it wasnever find them.You need to watch for the
administered. Was it something the victim atevarious tricks and twists that can confuse
or drank? Was the poison injected?Sometimesthings further. These can include the
it's not always easy to work out how themisdirected murder (where the victim wasn't
victim died - particularly if there are otherthe intended victim at all but just happened
wounds or marks. Also, the murder might beto be in the wrong place at the wrong time)
disguised as an accident.Once you haveand murder-by-proxy (where the murderer isn't
determined the means, you should have morethe one with most to gain, but is a misguided
avenues of investigation. For example, if thefriend or servant).Here, then, are my tips on
victim was shot, who has access to a gun?solving a murder mystery:Find a piece of
This line of questioning brings us to thepaper and write down three headings: Motive,
next in the Holy Trinity:Means and Opportunity. As the party
opportunity."Opportunity" refers to theprogresses and you learn more about the
timing and planning of the murder, rathermurder, write down what you learn on the
than the actual method of killing. In thepaper under the appropriate heading.Keep a
case of a poisoning, for example, it meanschecklist of everyone present and work
having the appropriate access to deliver thethrough them, one by one. Most murder mystery
poison - such as in a bedtime drink, aparties have a list of characters who are
favourite chocolate or whatever.Opportunitypresent, so you can use that to make sure
also means being in the right place and timethat you don't miss anyone.



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