Another successful murder mystery party! This one was a prefabricated “kit” one, unlike many of our recent ones, in the Inspector McClue range.
![As usual, Murder Mystery Night starts a day or two earlier, with Ruth preparing a monumental quantity of food.](/_q23u/2011/08/IMAG0072-169x300.jpg)
I was slightly worried that – with only six people (we four Earthlings and Ruth‘s brothers) in attendance, that the evening might be a little too “quiet”, but Robin and Owen did a pretty good job of ensuring that this wasn’t the case by any stretch of the imagination.
![Maurice de Cheval (Robin) and Wallis Simper (Owen)](/_q23u/2011/08/IMAG0084-300x169.jpg)
My character was Marlene Deepditch, a German wine merchant. Not wanting to take things by halves, I put a perhaps-excessive amount of effort into my last-minute costume, even going so far as to shave off my beard… as well as my sideburns… chest… armpits…
![My dress wasn't quite as long on me as I'd expected, and I'd neglected to shave my legs, unfortunately.](/_q23u/2011/08/IMAG0098-300x169.jpg)
The night yielded three surprises:
- Paul wasn’t the murderer.
- The straight-edge razor I wrote about the other week is remarkably good at removing body hair in bulk.
- Regrowing chest hair is remarkably itchy.
![Hilarity ensues as the combination of wine and outrageous accents kicks in.](/_q23u/2011/08/IMAG0085-300x169.jpg)
All in all, a fantastic night, full of exactly the kind of delicious chaos that’s usually reserved for larger murder mystery parties – watch this YouTube video (may contain spoilers) to see what I mean.