The Charles Bravo case · 1876
Poisoned at the Priory
A poisoning nobody was ever charged with. The most argued-over inquest in Victorian London.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Easy to moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Real historical case.
The Ardlamont mystery · 1893
Not Proven
A shooting on a Scottish estate and a verdict Scots law reserves for exactly this.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Real historical case.
The killing of William Terriss · 1897
Curtain Call
An actor stabbed at his own stage door. Everyone in the building had a motive and an audience.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Easy to moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Real historical case.
The Peasenhall murder · 1902
Providence House
A village that tried the case twice and could not agree either time.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Real historical case.
The killing of Stanford White · 1906
The Red Velvet Swing
Shot in front of a rooftop crowd. The trial that gave America the phrase trial of the century.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Easy to moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Real historical case.
The Crippen case · 1910
The Cellar at Hilldrop
The case that made forensic evidence famous, and the one modern testing reopened.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Easy to moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Real historical case.
The Hall and Mills case · 1922
Under the Crab Apple Tree
A minister, a choir singer, and a jury that acquitted everybody.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Real historical case.
The Croydon poisonings · 1928
A Death in the Family
Three deaths in one family in under a year. Nobody was ever tried.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Real historical case.
Blackthorn village, Dorset · 1897
All Hallows at Blackthorn Mill
A village with an old custom and a very literal way of keeping it.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
Victorian goldfields, Australia · 1899
Ghost Season at Gallows Hill
A goldfields town, a hanging tree, and a claim worth killing for.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Easy to moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
Merchiston Medical College, Edinburgh · 1888
The Anatomy Theatre
Medical students, a body on the slab, and a question about where it came from.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
Skerry Point Lighthouse, Cornwall · 1954
The Light at Skerry Point
A lighthouse, a storm, and nobody who could have come or gone.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
Carfax Hall, Kent · 1932
The Masque at Carfax Hall
Everybody is already in costume. Only one of them is wearing it for a reason.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Easy to moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
Ravensmere House, Norfolk · 1923
The Séance at Ravensmere
A medium, a grieving family, and a message from the other side that names a name.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
Ashworth Hall, Gloucestershire · 1952
A Body Under the Tree
Christmas Eve, a full house, and a body where the presents should be.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Easy to moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
A ski lodge, Snowy Mountains · 1973
A Cold Christmas
Christmas in July, one road out, and the road is shut.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
St Cuthbert's, Dunmore, Dorset · 1953
The Carol Singer's Secret
A church choir with forty years of grudges and one carol nobody will sing.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Easy to moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
Hartley Grange, Yorkshire · 1955
The Twelve Suspects of Christmas
The largest cast in the catalogue. Built for the Christmas table that will not fit in the dining room.
- Players
- 11 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Hard (largest cast)
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
Hargreaves Department Store, Manchester · 1958
Tinsel and Treachery
The staff Christmas party, after hours, with the shutters down.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Easy to moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
The Grand Mountain, Blue Mountains · 1980
Yulefest
Christmas in July in the Blue Mountains. Mulled wine, mountain fog, one guest short at breakfast.
- Players
- 7 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Easy to moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
RAF Tempsford, Bedfordshire · 1943
Operation Nightfall
A drop that never took off and a crew who all had a reason to ground it.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire · 1943
The Cipher at Bletchley
The quietest room in the war, and the one place a secret could not be kept.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
Occupied Paris · 1943
The Paris Safe House
Six people above a bookshop on the Rue de Rivoli, and one of them is talking to the Germans.
- Players
- 7 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
Estoril, Portugal · 1943
The Lisbon Handover
A neutral casino town where every guest is somebody's agent.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Easy to moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
Cairo, Egypt · 1942
The Cairo Conspiracy
Heat, gin and a leak that only somebody at the table could have made.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Easy to moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
Admiralty House, Portsmouth · 1943
The Admiral's Dinner
A formal dinner, a sealed order, and a host who does not make it to dessert.
- Players
- 6 to 12
- Time
- 2 to 3 hours with dinner
- Difficulty
- Easy to moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
Caldwell Manor, Wiltshire · 1957
The Wrong Kind of Dead
A locked house. An open safe. The money trail is a lie.
- Players
- 1 or 2
- Time
- 60 to 90 minutes
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
Arden Cross, Herefordshire · 1943
The Keeping of Secrets
Wartime. Everyone has a secret. The killer's bond to the victim is nothing like it looks.
- Players
- 1 or 2
- Time
- 60 to 90 minutes
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
The Royale Theatre, London · 1962
The Last Performance
A death on a lit stage, four hundred witnesses, and a past in Coventry no one mentions.
- Players
- 1 or 2
- Time
- 60 to 90 minutes
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
Dunmore-on-Sea, Devon · 1971
Dead Calm
A planning dispute, a quiet harbour, and a blackmail no one reported.
- Players
- 1 or 2
- Time
- 60 to 90 minutes
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
St. Agatha's College, Oxford · 1969
The Open Verdict
Academic rivalry, a plagiarised proof, and a verdict the college would rather leave open.
- Players
- 1 or 2
- Time
- 60 to 90 minutes
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Price
- A$39
App hosted on your TV and phones. Printable pack included. Original fiction.
Circuit Court · 1879
The Arsenic Mirror
A wife, a packet of arsenic bought for rats, and two analysts who do not agree.
- Players
- Solo, or 6 to 12 as the jury
- Time
- Not published
- Difficulty
- Not rated
- Price
- A$29 solo · A$39 group
App hosted. Solo against eleven jurors the app argues for you, or with 6 to 12 in the room. Original fiction.
High Court of Justiciary · 1926
The Third Verdict
A student, a pistol, eleven forged cheques, and the verdict only Scotland allows.
- Players
- Solo, or 6 to 12 as the jury
- Time
- Not published
- Difficulty
- Not rated
- Price
- A$29 solo · A$39 group
App hosted. Solo against eleven jurors the app argues for you, or with 6 to 12 in the room. Original fiction.
Central Criminal Court · 1889
The Fourth Jury
Three juries could not agree. You are the fourth.
- Players
- Solo, or 6 to 12 as the jury
- Time
- Not published
- Difficulty
- Not rated
- Price
- A$29 solo · A$39 group
App hosted. Solo against eleven jurors the app argues for you, or with 6 to 12 in the room. Original fiction.
Central Criminal Court · 1935
The Empty Witness Box
The Crown's only eyewitness was shot the night before he was due to give evidence.
- Players
- Solo, or 6 to 12 as the jury
- Time
- Not published
- Difficulty
- Not rated
- Price
- A$29 solo · A$39 group
App hosted. Solo against eleven jurors the app argues for you, or with 6 to 12 in the room. Original fiction.
Supreme Court of New South Wales · 1873
The Claimant
A Wagga Wagga butcher who says he is a baronet, and the one man who could have exposed him.
- Players
- Solo, or 6 to 12 as the jury
- Time
- Not published
- Difficulty
- Not rated
- Price
- A$29 solo · A$39 group
App hosted. Solo against eleven jurors the app argues for you, or with 6 to 12 in the room. Original fiction.
Supreme Court of Victoria · 1934
Two in the Dock
A wife and a chauffeur, tried together. The jury may convict both, acquit both, or split them.
- Players
- Solo, or 6 to 12 as the jury
- Time
- Not published
- Difficulty
- Not rated
- Price
- A$29 solo · A$39 group
App hosted. Solo against eleven jurors the app argues for you, or with 6 to 12 in the room. Original fiction.
Short cases for a spare ten minutes
Quick Mysteries
Short interactive cases for one person or two, three to thirty minutes each. The first, a daily whodunnit, is being written and tested. Nothing is playable yet.
- Players
- 1 or 2 (planned)
- Time
- 3 to 30 minutes (planned)
- Difficulty
- Not rated
- Price
- Not decided
In development. Browser based, on a phone, is the plan. Original fiction.