Murder Happens: The Beatnik Who Wasn't Beat, but was Shot

Murder mystery party game for 8-12 players that you host at home. Each player dresses up as a character, one is the murderer and the rest must figure out who that is. To solve the mystery there are clues, police report, crime scene photos, and a map. You go over these materials then question all the players about what their characters did and saw to finally solve who done it. The game lasts a timed 2.5 hours.

In the medium sized town of Richmond, north of San Francisco, is a flourishing beatnik community. It’s not a big time city but they have gained some notoriety for their poets and artists. Richmond has the typical big city intrigues of politics and the art business. It also has drugs, wild music, orgies, political scandals, anarchists, wild philosophers and even some bikers that are all part of the scene. Throw into the mix characters with criminal backgrounds, frustrated writers, fake artists and fake beatniks and you have a recipe for the oldest crime known to man. Get out your bongos, berets, some Jazz, red wine, spaghetti, and garlic bread. Brush up on your beatnik lingo and you will set the mood for this titillating tale of coooool cat intrigue.

—description from the publisher