Murder Mystery is today’s fancy dress theme suggestion as today we are watching the detectives as the creators of two of the most popular – Sherlock Holmes and Tintin – were born
today. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, born 1859, famously tried to kill off his best-known creation in a fight to the death with his nemesis Professor Moriarty, but was forced to bring him back from the dead ‘by public demand’. Meanwhile, Hergé (pen-name of Georges Remi who was born today in 1907) created comic strips about the Belgian boy reporter-cum-detective which were collected into over twenty-four story ‘albums’. These have translated into numerous foreign languages and Tintin is destined to reach a whole new audience with a series of three Stephen Spielberg films, the first of which ‘The Secret of the Unicorn’ is due for release at the end of October 2011. What better way to celebrate these anniversaries than with a Murder Mystery evening, possibly based around one of the many ‘off-the-peg’ games on the market? These can be great fun but we have found that, for some reason, those having food and drink between each ’round’ of clues, don’t always get to the end of the game so the whodunit is never solved. Why is a mystery, or is it?
If you do not want to go to the effort of organising a Murder Mystery dinner party, why not have this as a theme for a standard fancy dress evening? Take a look at these blogs that will give you some Murder (&) Mystery costume ideas….
Still need costume ideas?
- Any detective (real or fictional)
- Anything that is unexplained, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, gods & goddesses, angels or fairies
- Dress up as a corpse who has been murdered
- Any real life or fictional murderer
- Any Cluedo character
