Intrigue and Italian food (i.e., look, I have friends!)

Friday night a friend and I hosted a murder mystery dinner party at my place. We made all kinds of Italian food, drank a lot of wine and all employed Italian accents of varying believability (they evolved from Italian to Irish to Russian).

During college my dorm had several murder mystery nights, though they didn't involve much homemade food or any wine. I think my favorite was the Mexican-themed one when one of the girls played the miner Rusty Pick's mule, Montezuma (invented by her, for lack of enough characters) and I was Cactus Flower, the killer.

However, late nights have become painful for me. Guess I'm getting old...

Comments

[Leah]

Looks like tons of fun! How do you organize those? Do you make up stories or find them somewhere?

[April]

You can buy the games online. There are a ton of different ones. I think I've done a few by the same company, Murder a la Carte, and they've all been good. They even come with costume suggestions and menu ideas.