This was my first murder mystery and I think it was excellent. The dialogue and the mechanics worked well. There weren't very many gaps. We took 5 hours to get through it and one of the five players got all the questions right - while the rest of us did much less well...which just goes to show you that it can be done, but it isn't easy.

I purchased this for my son. He thought it was awesome. Looking forward to more.

This was the fisrt of these type of packages we've tried....I wanted to go straight in with 'Hastur', but SWMBO decided we should ease ourselves in gently. We bought this back in the Summer with the intent that it should be opened once the dark nights set in and we could puzzle over it with a fire roaring and a glass of red on the go. We started it on Saturday night and upon opening the box we were pleasanty surprised with the contents of the file. A map, a newspaper page, evidence bags, notebook and the novel. We'd never done a narrative driven puzzle before and it took a few minutes to get the 'gist' of what we should be doing, but the informants helped a little (not as much as we'd hoped) The novel was written in the style of the pulp detective novels and contained a few red herrings and a few twists and surprises. We played it in total for about 8 hours over saturday and Sunday nights before we decided that we had the answers.......but we were wrong! The solution required a bit of lateral thinking and piecing together some bits of what seemed to be innocuous information and it was only after we'd broken the seal on the solution that we were able to 'reverse engineer' and find out where we'd gone wrong.

All in all, we thoroughly enjoyed it and would certainly do another. If you don't write in the notebook and don't write on the report at the end, you can reseal everything and maybe pass it on to a friend or relative that likes this sort of thing.

I got this for a Christmas gift for my girlfriend, who loves murder mysteries. We did it together and had a great time. Definitely worth the money and I will be a repeat customer!

I liked the characters and the story and got a lot of information out of it, but the actual solution is really difficult to come up with from it.