Murder Mystery Dream Team

This time we are here for business and planning begins sharp-ish at 7. The wine is poured long before dinner starts - and large sheets of brainstorming maps are unfurled along the floor where we can better "see" the picture of our murder mystery and imagine how the cacophony of characters we have created might be linked. We scrawl character notes and plot lines and hidden secrets across the sheets, while dinner gets cold and the concept of incest or murder motivation is discussed. At 1 in the morning we drag ourselves home, pondering whether our twenty friends will ever guess who the murderer is.