Murder Mystery Dinner

Ben and I decided to host a Murder Mystery Dinner with some of our friends to get us in the Halloween Spirit.  We got a 'kit' from my parents with all the characters, descriptions and clues.  We decided to have the party at my parents house because there is more room and it is beautiful. We hired two babysitters to watch all the kids in the basement  with pizza and snacks and Mom and Dad watched James upstairs. 

Our murder was set at a wealthy mansion in England in the 1930s.  Mom and Dad helped us prepare, plate and serve a beautiful authentic time period meal.  We had a green salad (not authentic), roast, potatoes, gravy, carrots, green beans, rolls, cucumber pickles and rolls. Our friends brought desserts (french pudding cups and pound cake with strawberries). We set up in the formal dining room with beautiful silver platters, goblets and napkin rings. It was so fancy and so beautiful. 

The owner of the mansion, Sir Roger Watersdown was murdered. My character was E.R.A, Sir Watersdown's Personal Secretary and hostess to the mansion since his wife's death.  Ben was Sir Watersdown's lawyer and golf friend and people knew him as Pro.  It was fun to dress up like our characters.  Ben wore old tradition golfing attire; cut off pants, high socks, and a sweater vest.  I wore a long gown, with a velvet 'business' coat and ruffled tie/bow. 

 

 We also had Ali (Mindy), a successful mystery author and Mal (Kevin) the family physician.

  

 Randy (Jaime), a very well known American movie star and Rog (Eric), Sir Roger's long lost illegitimate son and an avid rock climber.

Flo (Megan), an old beauty model and wife to Donny, Donny (Josh), a wealthy Financial Planner and Sir Roger's nephew.

 

 It was fun to see everyone's characters and see everyone try to portray their character; the girls did this more than the guys, some of the guys just read their parts.

Look of shock!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 No, I am not going to tell you who did it but I will mention that everyone had a motive and there were acrobatics, porn stars, more illegitimate children,  a missing will and blackmail involved.  The food was delicious and the timing of everything turned out perfect (thanks to my amazing parents).  We have amazing friends who are willing to do fun things like this with us.  And we had fun solving a muuurrrrdddeeerrr!