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Dinner party ideas
Seen #RHONY? Looking to host your own 1920s themed mystery?
Seen #RHONY? Looking to host your own 1920s themed mystery? Social media is awash with viewers discussing the recent murder mystery episode of Real House Wives of New York. Their game was set in the roaring 20s and used actors to add atmosphere (and a dead body!). If you’ve…
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News
Where did murder mystery games came from?
Where did murder mystery games came from? In order to understand where murder mystery games come from, we need to start at the very beginning and look at where murder mystery fiction came from. As the genre has not been around as long as you think. While…
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News
Crime Con – meets the cryptic clues of CosyKiller.
Crime Con – meets the cryptic clues of CosyKiller. Over the last 9 months we’ve been developing CosyKiller – the latest in solo sleuthing experiences prompted in part by our delivery of a murder mystery scenario for Crime Con in 2017. Last year’s Crime Con saw over 500 guests in Indianapolis…
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News
Dying for a Good Time?
Dying for a Good Time? Are you and your friends sick of ordinary dinner party get togethers, or going out for drinks? If the answer is yes, then perhaps it’s time you started shopping with us! We’ve just launched “Murder of the Month” – which is a unique summer…
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From the Authors
They think it’s all murder ….
They think it’s all murder …. Match of the Day has been a constant feature of my married life. Do I like football? No. Does my husband? Yes. So, when Jo Smedley suggested a foot ball-themed murder mystery, my husband’s first words were, “That’s brilliant!” I was…
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Cost and Pricing Questions
Commercial or Domestic user – what is the difference?
Is my event eligable for a not-for-profit discount? What is the difference between a commercial user and a domestic user? For those who work in the Am Dram theatre world you’ll know all about paying licenses or royalties and it will come as no surprise to you that we…
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Dinner party ideas
Death By Dog – Michelle Crowther
Death By Dog – Michelle Crowther The Hound of the Baskervilles is the hugely popular story written by Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle of a savage, black beast that rap aciously haunts Dartmoor. It was serialised in the Strand Magazine between August 1901 and April 1902. In the opening chapters of the book we…
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News
Christmas and CosyKiller
Christmas and CosyKiller Red Herring Games started preparing for Christmas in June. That’s right. June. You may think this is strange, but with over 1000 games to print and only 3 people to pack them, its best we started early. When we looked at the ever growing print list…
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News
Cripes! We only went and won!
Cripes! We only went and won! WE WALKED AWAY FROM LONDON ON THE 25TH MAY PROUD WINNERS OF THE “HOME AND AWAY” EXPORTER CATEGORY AT THE NATIONAL SMALL AWARDS ! The glittering black tie affair was held at Christ Church in Spitalfields and hosted by Sue Perkins (comedienne…
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Fundraising
Cosykiller – looking for support for our new Solo Sleuth venture
Cosykiller – looking for support for our new Solo Sleuth venture WE’RE CROWD FUNDING! I can’t tell you how young and funky I feel saying that; all the fashionable and trendy types are crowd funding their great ideas and well, so are we! As a small business we really…
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News
No 10 again!
No.10 again… Emma’s daughter was so in awe of Emma standing with Sherlock in front of No 10 Downing Street she’s decided to create a series of photos, all of Emma standing in front of No 10. So, first in the series is Emma @ No 10 Floriana Villas,…
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News
Coming soon…Red Herring Games Australia
Coming soon…Red Herring Games Australia Emma’s just returned from Australia, taking her family with her and meeting her friend Joanna. Lovely though this all sounds, there was a purpose for the trip and yes, the rumours are true; Red Herring Games Australia will launch later this year! We’re…
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Best Fit (Suitability)
Murdering Games for small groups
Murdering Games for small groups FINDING THE RIGHT MURDER MYSTERY GAME FOR YOUR GROUP. Some people get a bit nervous when it comes to planning a murder mystery party. They’ve heard all sorts of stories of people having to be “killed” and sitting out of the rest of the…
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Event management
Adapting Multi-room games for single room use.
Adapting Multi-room games for single room use. While we provide most of our games as “single room” murder mysteries already – and that’s often where we send someone when they’re looking for a single room scripted game – there are also times when that style of event with acting…
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Best Fit (Suitability)
Creating Bespoke Murder Mysteries
Can we design something bespoke from scratch? Yes! In fact this is a question we get asked quite regularly. And the answer is – yes we can! As well as designing 6 standard formats of murder mystery game from scratch we are also extremely skilled in games design born out…
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Bespoke Kits
Emma went to 10 Downing Street!
Emma went to 10 Downing Street! When I went for my first job interview, fresh out of university and in my new suit, all ready to answer the hardest questions I could imagine any interviewer would put to me and certainly ready to explain why I was the best…
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Dinner party ideas
Ever wondered what Wine should accompany your Murder Mystery Party? – Find out from the expert!
Thinking of hosting A Bad Vintage? Looking to combine it with a themed wine tasting for double the fun and total immersion and authenticity?
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Decoration Ideas
Tips for creating body outlines
Tips for creating body outlines When people play a murder mystery – they often ask us for help when it comes to creating that “chalk outline” effect. So here are our top tips for creating that “authentic” looking chalk outline. Solid Rough Surface: So long as…
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News
Big announcement – we made Small Business Saturday 100
Big announcement – we made Small Business Saturday 100 We were under a media black-out until the official news release, but now it’s out in the Guardian newspaper today, we can tell you all how excited we are toget listed as one of the UKs top 100 small businesses being…
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From the Authors
Meet the Authors – Danny Hamilton
Meet the Authors – Danny Hamilton We asked Danny one of the latest authors to join our ranks and who works as a teacher in Glasgow when he’s not penning mystery games to tell us a bit about himself… “I first experienced a Red Herring Murder Mystery in a…
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From the Authors
Bump off at the Grind – a long time in development… – by Jo Smedley
Bump off at the Grind – a long time in development… – by Jo Smedley Finally, after 2 and a bit years of threatening, Bump off at the Grind has hit the shelves. I must admit it’s taken me some time to write, not least because of the number of large…
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Dinner party ideas
What have the Romans ever done for me? By Michelle Crowther
What have the Romans ever done for me? By Michelle Crowther I wasn’t much interested in the Romans as a child. The excavation of a Roman Painted House in Dover in 1975 was big news locally and I can remember visiting and learning about underfloor heating, mosaic floors and…
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Bespoke Kits
Murder Mystery events for small large group sizes of around 12-25 guests
Murder Mystery events for the smaller size of large groups We’re often asked to host events for small numbers of guests. While it might seem unlikely you’d want an event management team when you only have between 12 and 25 people at an event, we can and regularly do…
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From the Authors
Meet the Author: Tony Brown
Meet the Author: Tony Brown Tony Brown has penned a number of murder mystery games on our website . We asked him to tell us a little about how he ended up in the murder mystery world. Tony said: I started writing verse when I was in junior school.…