The cast of our Murder Mystery night / myLot

Rockingham, Australia

January 3, 2023 7:02pm CST

The photo shows the ‘cast’ of our Murder Mystery night. On the left is our hostess who coordinated the evening, then Tiny Bubbles, an effervescent man-chaser, then Otto von Schnapps, a German wine-merchant. Next comes Hedy Shiraz, a vigneron who was counterfeiting money, Papa Vito, an Italian vineyard worker, Marilyn Merlot, a film star, and Ralph Rottingrape, cousin of the deceased, Barry Underwood. He inherited the vineyard on Barry’s death but he is not the real Ralph. He stole Ralph’s identity in jail. He turns out to be Papa Vito’s grandson. Papa Vito orchestrated for ‘Ralph’ to return and take over the vineyard, then he killed Barry. All very complicated but great fun!!

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99405)

• Atlanta, Georgia

4 Jan 23

That’s so interesting I see you and Vince are on the right. Seems like we used to have a board game of Murder Mystery. Do you remember it?

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (340413)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Jan 23

The board game might have been Cluedo which was a murder mystery game. They still sell it in the shops.

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99405)

• Atlanta, Georgia

5 Jan 23

@JudyEv We played all the board games when the boys were growing up and I still have a few board games.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (340413)

• Rockingham, Australia

5 Jan 23

@RubyHawk Board games have made a big comeback and even more so once covid hit.

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much2say

@much2say (55685)

• Los Angeles, California

4 Jan 23

I've never done a mystery night . . . oh that must be so much fun!

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (340413)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Jan 23

It was fun but we weren't very good detectives. lol

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much2say

@much2say (55685)

• Los Angeles, California

4 Jan 23

@JudyEv

I'm sure I'd be plenty confused

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Bojel

@jobelbojel (35650)

• Philippines

4 Jan 23

Seeing the cast, I am more.convinced that this was a fun night!

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (340413)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Jan 23

We had some wacky costumes. lol

Anna

@LadyDuck (471524)

• Switzerland

4 Jan 23

I would love to be there with you, I could be the daughter of Papa Vito.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (340413)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Jan 23

He looked great with his moustache and waistcoat.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (471524)

• Switzerland

4 Jan 23

@JudyEv

The name of my husband's father was Vito.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (340413)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Jan 23

@LadyDuck Oh, I understand now!! How funny is that?

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (106540)

• Marion, Ohio

4 Jan 23

Sounds like a lot of fun. Love the costumes

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (340413)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Jan 23

The costumes were a lot of fun.

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (13050)

• Ireland

4 Jan 23

@JudyEv A collection of rascally characters with colourful lives right out of Agatha Christie’s head!

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (340413)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Jan 23

Yes, it would seem so. The further we got into the instructions the more red herrings that we ran into.

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (47377)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

4 Jan 23

Who solved the mystery? I don't see any cops or even Miss Marple...

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (340413)

• Rockingham, Australia

5 Jan 23

We were all supposed to work out who was the murderer. We were given questions to ask and, if we were accused of something, we were given how to answer. We could also ask any questions we wanted to of the others. You could try to 'hedge' a question but you weren't allowed to lie and if asked a direct question you had to answer truthfully.

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Always smiling

@allknowing (136713)

• India

5 Jan 23

This gives me an idea for my next party!!

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (340413)

• Rockingham, Australia

5 Jan 23

I'm sure you'd have a lot of fun.

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rebelann1949

@rebelann (112879)

• El Paso, Texas

4 Jan 23

That sounds like really good fun. Love the photo.

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OceanTiara

@RebeccasFarm (89971)

• Arvada, Colorado

4 Jan 23

What a lovely photo of you all Judy..such fun

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (340413)

• Rockingham, Australia

5 Jan 23

Thanks. Vince took a photo of the six of us, I took a photo of five plus Vince, then back home, he cut and pasted himself into the first photo. It is no longer true that the camera never lies!!