The Kit
You'll get everything you need, including:
- Complete instructions on how to conduct the investigation of Grimsby Graves's death.
- An invitation to the Halloween murder mystery party.
- Instructions for the sheriff on how to facilitate the investigation.
- Roles for all suspects that include backgrounds and recollections of events that led up to the murder.
- A Special Edition of The Reaper Harvest, the local newspaper, with the story of Grimsby Graves's death. (Remember: the investigation takes place the day after Graves died.)
- A series of written clues that are handed out to prepare the group for the murder mystery.
- Key supporting information, such as an investigative report and results of the coroner's examination.
- "The Denouement" ties the event together. Remember: MOTIVE, MEANS and OPPORTUNITY will point to the guilty party.
6 Suspects
as many as 60 can participate
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The Suspects
Gregory Graves - Grimsby Graves's only child
He is a loner with few acquaintances and even fewer friends. His time is occupied with his unusual hobby.
Penelope Crust - Owner of the Reaper Bakery
Lily Her recipes for Halloween treats have been passed down from generation to generation. No one is quite sure of the ingredients.
Bella Bones - Mortician and owner of the Bones Mortuary
The Bones family has supervised the eternal interment of Reapers for as long as people can remember.
Todd Sweeney - Reaper Junction's barber
He's been cutting Reaper hair for years and still uses a straight razor to give his customers the closest possible shaves.
Tara Cardoli - Mystic and fortune teller
Townspeople clandestinely seek her advice. Her predictions have been amazingly accurate.
The Plot
He was called Evil-Eyes Emil. When he looked at people with his infamous right eye, so the story went, bad things invariably happened. Townspeople cringed and covered their faces as Emil came near, not daring to look directly into his ominous orb.
And, as he was being driven out of Reaper Junction on Halloween night exactly 100 years ago, Emil vowed to return one day to wreak his vengeance on the mob and its progeny for the way he had been so rudely tossed out.
That cryptic curse was all but forgotten by today's generation of Reapers who laughed at such nonsense. But, the laughter has stopped. For, last night, shockingly and unexpectedly, a local resident staggered into the town square and announced that Emil had been sighted in the woods and, true to his century-old proclamation, someone had been the victim of Emil's anger.
The deceased was Grimsby Graves, the patriarch of a family whose ancestors had helped found Reaper Junction in 1770. The Graves' seemed to have had their fingers in every pie that was ever baked in Reaper Junction. The history books say that it was, in fact, the Graves brothers who had led the torch-lit mob that oversaw Emil's abrupt exit into the stormy night.
So, how then can justice be done? How can someone who is already dead be brought to trial? And, can the court truly find a jury of his peers? Or, will the explanation be less scintillating and more sinister?
Evil Never Dies
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