Case Seven · Case dossier

Providence House

Peasenhall · Suffolk · 1902

“A note somebody wrote, and nobody will claim.”

The scene, before you arrive

Peasenhall goes to chapel, and Peasenhall goes home, and in between it keeps a close and kindly eye on itself. On the night in question there is a storm over the village, loud enough to cover almost anything. By morning a young woman who worked at Providence House is dead, and there is a note in the house that somebody wrote and that nobody will own. The village has already decided what it thinks. The village is generally the last to change its mind.

That is as much as the file will give you. The rest arrives one piece at a time, and the handwriting is only the first thing your table will argue about.

Inside the file

What you get

The script

Fully scripted evening

Every act cued, every scene set, your lines where you need them. No prep, no printing, no experience required.

The evidence

Clues arrive in stages

Evidence and private dossiers drop to your guests' phones as the night unfolds, one act at a time.

The host

You play the victim

Set the table, welcome your guests, then haunt the evening while they work out who wanted you gone.

The table

6 to 12 players

A core cast carries the case, with flexible roles as your table grows. Latecomers can join as observers.

The stage

App-hosted

The case runs from any screen in the room. Your TV is the stage, the phones are the wings.

The real history

Rose Harsent, a young servant, was found dead at Providence House in the Suffolk village of Peasenhall in June 1902. A man from the village stood trial twice. Both juries failed to agree, he was released, and the case has never been resolved.

The game reopens the case and reaches a solution of its own. Knowing the history will not spoil your night, and history does not decide the verdict at your table. Your guests do.

These were real people and real deaths. The file is written with that in mind: we reopen the questions, not the graves.

Reopen Providence House.

Host it for your own table, or take the free case for a spin first and see how the evidence treats you.

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