Friday 26th April – Murder & The Millionairess
You are invited to the 21st birthday party of twins Greta and Ottilie Lovelace, the night before Greta inherits £9.7 million from a recently deceased wealthy aunt…if she lives long enough. Ottilie is delighted that her older sister, by just a few minutes, is about to come into a fortune but their stepmother has different ideas. The wealthy aunt died in a break-in gone wrong, an unsolved crime that you need to solve and fast because this 21st birthday party is going to be murder!
May 3rd and 18th – A First Class Murder
Join the first-class passengers as they board the unsinkable Titanic heading for New York but not everyone is as they seem. Secrets are about to be revealed, blackmail and revenge are being served up with dinner and a killer is stalking the decks. Everyone has a motive for murder but who will be bumped off first. Mrs Clementine Nokkham-Dedd is taking her daughter, Eglantine, to seek a suitable husband in New York but Eglantine has other ideas. Tonight they will dine at the First Officer’s table with people they have never met before, people they will get to know very well when a body is discovered and accusations begin to fly.
June 15th and 21st – Murder Without A Hitch
Maia Millions is getting married but with her bridegroom has gone missing, her bridesmaid is green with envy and a paparazzi photographer has gate-crashed the wedding. Family secrets mean the best day of her life is about to become her worst!
July 19th and August 3rd – Murder On The Menu
Celebrity judges Jayne Fondant and Mario Mascarpone have arrived at the village fete to judge the cake competition, but someone has put murder on the menu and one of them won’t be leaving alive! Was it poison in the icing or a beating with the buttercream?
September 6th and 21st – Murder By The Book
It’s 1926 and the Queen of Crime is missing. The staff at Lumley Castle Hotel are all agog with the news and they’re convinced the woman sitting writing her novel in the corner is the real Christie! When a murder occurs, it seems to have come straight from the pages of her book. From fiction to fact and it looks as though one of the guests is committing murder!
October 18th – Murder Is Frightful
You are invited to spend the night in a haunted house…if you dare. Wealthy recluse Madden Batty was found dead on the doorstep of her home, Haunts Hill House. Your invitation offers you a chance to share in her inheritance but not everything is as it seems, and you’ll soon be investigating a murder.
November 8th and 23rd – Murder & Sparkling Wine
Lord Jolyon Jape is hosting the annual Lumley Castle party but there’s an uninvited guest, a Bulgarian ballet star who is not all he seems and a body in the library! Meet a Countess, a ballet dancer, a former maid and his Lordship in this classic-style murder mystery. Set in 1932 and Lumley Castle is Lord Jolly’s home for the night.