The Twelve Suspects of Christmas
Hartley Grange, Yorkshire · 27 December 1955
“Snowed in since Boxing Day, and now one fewer for dinner.”
The strange flat days between Christmas and New Year, in a house nobody can leave because the drifts have closed the road. The party has been together long enough to have stopped being polite. When one of them is found dead, the guest list and the suspect list are the same list, and everybody knows it.
That is as much as the file will give you. The rest comes out on the night, one piece of evidence at a time, and the room will be well into the evening before the shape of it shows.
What you get
Fully scripted evening
Every act cued, every scene set, your lines where you need them. No prep, no printing, no experience required.
Clues arrive in stages
Evidence and private dossiers drop to your guests' phones as the night unfolds, one act at a time.
You play the victim
Set the table, welcome your guests, then haunt the evening while they work out who wanted you gone.
6 to 12 players
A core cast carries the case, with flexible roles as your table grows. Latecomers can join as observers.
App-hosted
The case runs from any screen in the room. Your TV is the stage, the phones are the wings.
Hartley Grange and its houseparty are invented. Original fiction in the snowbound country-house tradition.
Unlike our eight Case Files, which reopen real unsolved cases, this file is invented from end to end. There is no historical verdict to look up and nothing to spoil by reading around it. The solution is fair, the evidence is all in the room, and your table settles it.
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Host The Twelve Suspects of Christmas.
Host it at your own table. Nothing to print, no script to learn, and you play the victim, so you finally get to attend your own party.