Don’t you just love hearing Christmas carols such as “Ding Dong Merrily on High”? Or how about the “Carol of the Bells”? And what about Jingle Bells? One of the best-known songs in the world, it was written by James Lord Pierpont and published under the title “The One-Horse Open Sleigh” in the autumn of 1857. Although it… More DING DONG MERRILY AND DIE!
The City Adventurers spent a lot of time solving online murder mysteries over the Christmas and New Year holidays, in addition to solving live murder mystery events. Things kicked off with “Who Sleighed Santa?” by Murdered For Money Santa appeared to have a problem with logistics. Luckily there was help on hand. Or was there?… More Online Christmas Murders
In September we were invited down to the English village of Marshtown and a meeting of the local cocktail appreciation society. The group were facing a potential change in their leadership committee and tensions were running extremely high. Some members were visibly shaken by events taking place. Others were stirred into action by threats of… More What’s your poison?
Strolling along the prom. Paddling bare foot in the surf. Lining up for donkey rides. Hunting for crabs. Burying your dad in the sand. Spending time in the arcades. Riding the dodgems. Posing for family photos. Grabbing ice-creams, donuts, chips or jellied eels and pickled whelks as the mood takes you… The City Adventurers were… More Who can forget the thrills of a classic British seaside holiday?
This blog has appeared on City Adventurers One hot evening the City Adventurers were mysteriously invited to a fancy dinner party. The host was a man called Butler. He knew all of us guests, but we had not met each other before. Well, some of us had, as two of us were playing Mr and… More The Butler is Dead!
Movies Mobsters and Murder Last week City Adventurers were whisked back in time to Hollywood in the 1920’s…..To a time when the studios were just moving from silent films to the new talkies. We had been invited to an extravagant house party, hosted by the notorious Katsby. With stars of stage and screen on the… More Murdered For Money
Although there was one team of City Adventurer Investigators at “Sudden death at Thornbury Manor”, we missed that event. So we were looking forward to fielding two teams at Murdered for Money’s next production. The Gateau from the Chateau Starting on 17th June 2020, the murder mystery was a comedy tribute to the TV series ‘Allo,… More The Gateau from the Chateau
During lockdown the City Adventurers came across an interesting concept from Ian Williams. For this Lockdown Murder Mystery the audience play the part of the detective and the detective plays everyone else. What do you mean by “the detective plays everyone else”? Over five weeks of the London lockdown in April 2020, ONE MAN… More Lockdown Murder Mystery
Moonstone Murders are currently performing their second series of play-a-long murder mystery events. Bippity, Boppity, Buried! For the latest online Moonstone Murders we were transported to a mystical kingdom. A ball had just been held to find a suitable suitor for Princess Aquaria. Unfortunately, the princess had been murdered – poisoned by apple! The suspects… More Yet More Moonstone Murder Mysteries
Moonstone Murders have just started their second series of play-a-long murder mystery events. Mr Wobbly’s Murdertime Spectacular! This time a well-loved children’s entertainer, Mr Wobbly, had been murdered. He may have been well loved by children but there were at least four possible suspects who could have killed him. Luckily Inspector Rutherford was on the case,… More More Moonstone Murder Mysteries