Murder Mysteries and Murder Mystery Events

Participative murder mystery events for team building or private groups

Murder Mystery and Mayhem was one of the first British companies to run murder mystery events, murder mystery games and murder mystery dinners professionally for corporate groups and private parties.

Our participative murder mysteries are ideal for company away days, team building, staff morale-boosting and pure fun events. Suitable for anything from 6 to 250 people, they break down barriers and soon have everyone talking and mingling in a way no ordinary function can. The murder mysteries are designed so that everyone has a great reason for talking freely to everyone else – and that’s exactly what they do!

The butler did it?

Unlike some of our competitors, we only use properly-trained professional actors in our murder mysteries and our plots contain enough Agatha Christie-ish twists and turns to ensure that everyone stays involved. And they’re very funny, too!
A good team building murder mystery is a very effective way to improve how people get on. Our whodunnits work in almost every kind of venue either as murder mystery dinners over a meal or as stand-alone events. We’ve run them in country houses, hotels, restaurants, offices and private homes – go to Exclusive Hotels, Elite Hotels, Handpicked Hotels and Classic Lodges for more information about superior venues you might like. Our only real requirement is that things take place in a private room with enough space in it for people to move around easily.
If you’re looking for highly-participative corporate murder mysteries where you work, a fairly-participative fun London murder mystery or a less-participative “Watch The Action” murder mystery anywhere in the UK or Europe, check out the different plots and murder mystery types we offer.

Among the many murder mystery options you can choose from are:

BEST VALUE MURDER MYSTERIES

We have murder mystery events to match almost every budget, from a few pounds to many thousands of pounds. If you are looking for a murder mystery party, murder mystery event or downloadable murder mystery game that isn’t going to break the bank or if you want to hold a murder mystery as a charity fund-raiser, you’ll find several options here that deliver a high quality product at a very reasonable price – which makes them the ideal murder mysteries for those on a tight budget.

HIGHLY PARTICIPATIVE MURDER MYSTERIES

In these, everyone has a character to play and one of you will be the murderer. Playing a character doesn’t require any great acting skills and the characters are written so that even people who are naturally quite shy will still have a great time. These interactive murder mysteries give everyone a very good reason to talk to everyone else. For team building, this is the best choice of all.

FAIRLY PARTICIPATIVE MURDER MYSTERIES

These plots always include a few guest characters. Those who aren’t assigned a character are still treated as if they are part of the mystery’s theme – members of the aristocracy in High Society, 1970s rock legends in The GRIT Awards, guests at a wedding in Shotgun Wedding, and so on. People are in teams and, as well as having actor characters to questions, have clues and information to trade with other teams, so everyone mixes freely. Some plots are run over a meal, some can be run without one. Some can have ingredients added to make them even more effective as team-building events. And many have themes which lend themselves particularly well to fancy dress.

WATCH THE ACTION MURDER MYSTERIES

A load of Sherlocks

These fun murder mysteries are always run over a meal. In them, our actors act out short scenes between courses and guests are observers rather than participants. People work in teams and there are still opportunities for the more extrovert to be more involved. This format allows guests to “talk shop” while having their food, then enjoy a short burst of lively, high-quality entertainment while waiting for the next course to arrive.

ALL DAY, WEEKEND AND CUSTOMISED, MURDER MYSTERIES

Whatever you are looking for, we may well be able to provide it. Whether it’s an entire day or weekend of murder, a tailored, customised plot that includes information about your own people, company or organisation, a plot that links in with other activities your group is taking part in – our huge experience of delivering successful events means there’s little we can’t do.