Case One
Poisoned at the Priory
Charles Bravo · Balham · 1876
A young barrister taken ill in a grand Balham house, and a household that has settled on its version of the evening before anyone thinks to ask.
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The Case Files
Eight core cases, each one a famous real case reopened at your table, plus three seasonal collections of six. Every file is a complete evening: the story on your screen, the evidence on your guests' phones, and one killer to name before the night is out.
Pull a file from the shelf
Pick the case your
table will argue over.
Case Two
The Cellar at Hilldrop
Dr Crippen · London · 1910
A wife who left for America and never wrote, a very tidy house in north London, and friends who keep asking the same question.
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Not Proven
Ardlamont · Argyll · 1893
A shooting party on a Scottish estate, one shot among the trees before breakfast, and an account that holds together a little too neatly.
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Under the Crab Apple Tree
Hall-Mills · New Jersey · 1922
A farm lane past the last of the streetlights, letters left where anyone might read them, and a county that will talk to reporters but not to a court.
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Curtain Call
William Terriss · Adelphi Theatre · 1897
A leading man at the very height of his fame, a stage door on a wet December evening, and a company that has to go on regardless.
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The Red Velvet Swing
Stanford White · New York · 1906
A rooftop theatre on the hottest night of the year, a room packed with people who matter, and not one account that matches another.
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Providence House
Peasenhall · Suffolk · 1902
A Suffolk village where everyone sits in the same chapel on a Sunday, a storm loud enough to cover most things, and a note nobody will admit to writing.
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A Death in the Family
Croydon · 1928-29
Two houses a short walk apart, more funerals in one family than a single year should hold, and a street that prides itself on keeping things pleasant.
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The Secret War
Six wartime cases · 1942 to 1944
Codebreakers, couriers, a safe house in occupied Paris and a grounded bomber crew. Careless talk costs lives. So, it turns out, does careful silence.
Open the War Files →The Christmas Files
A Very Murderous Christmas
Six festive cases · snowbound
A body under the tree, twelve snowbound suspects, a carol singer with something to hide and a Christmas in the Blue Mountains that goes very badly indeed. The roads are closed and nobody is coming.
Open the Christmas Files →The Halloween Files
Six cases for
the thirty-first
Six original cases · 1888 to 1971
Not history this time. A mill village that believes in the old things, a sealed séance, a masked ball, an anatomy theatre, a lighthouse nobody can leave, and a town that sells ghosts for a living. Every haunting has a living hand behind it.
Open the Halloween Files →Be the Detective
Two players,
one case
A separate two-detective game
Not a dinner party and not on this shelf. Two of you work one case together, evidence to your phones in stages and the board building on your television. No cast, no catering, no guests.
See Be the Detective →One evening.
One killer to name.
Pick a file above, send the invitations, and say nothing else until the plates are cleared.