The murderous butterfly,

The murderous butterfly

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This is a detective game. You have to work out who comitted the crime.

It is based in a mansion in 1920s high society. And you are a Poirot style investigator who happens to be their with you chum, with you making moves, which can see you discovering who comitted the dastardly deed, and being able to progress from there.

Here is a link to a picture of The Mansion It sits in a lake in the golf pitch.

Below is the story

You have been invited to a mansion in 1927. The mansion is by a seaside resort, in a golf pitch owned by the mansion dwellers.

You can decide where it is, maybe Montrose, or Brighton, or a fictional town in Yorkshire, maybe even the USA, or some other land,

You and your chum Clement, have arrived, he is like the one in Poirot, you are like Poirot. You have solved some cases in the past, but are just starting, and have only solved a few cases so far, and this is the case that could make your reputaion, and see people coming to you and asking you to solve the cases. If you fail, the opposite is likely.

Anyhow here is the story. Brigadier Withering has invited 130 people, to his mansion celebrating 20 years of his golf course, which he opened with money he made trading in China, after going there after the war in South Africa.

You can be like Poirot in personality, or more like yourself. The reason you have come along is as the colonel's wife is a relative of him, and you have come along, as there is free food, and you live near here. You meet many people such as local Beauty pageant winner, and mayor, and lots of others, lost of big wigs, and famous locals.

At night the Brigadier, states that the lake, the mansion is sitting in, is seeing the last boat for the day leave, he has decided in his eccentric way after the boat leaves, to state that nobody can leave now till 2.00 on Monday, as he has sent all the boats away. It is Friday and 10.00 today. This is just a 1 day longer stay than you expected, but it so everything can be used up.

Anyway it becomes night time, and you go to your expensive room, only 50 people stay in the mansion, including 2 butlers, 3 cooks, and 6 maids.

You wake up the next day and go downstairs for your breakfast. you hear a scream, the Brigadier's wife says that the ancient Chinese vase, that the Colonel, got when giving money to a charity to relieve a famine, has been stolen. He bought it for 4 times it's then price, and it is now worth that, so he could help the famine victims, and have some resources. The Qing Dynasty vase, is patterned in butterflies.

Colonel Macdonald, a Scottish World War One hero, says he heard someone creaking past his room at night, twice as do you, so the evidence points to that being the only noise heard at night.

As of your expertise the Brigadier's wife says that you and your chum, can help discover who comitted the crime.

When the brigadier, finds out it has the left the glass cage, he says where is it, his wife says it is away being cleaned, and will be back as soon as possible. He says if it is not back, when the next boat across this small man-made lake, is back, then he will believe it has been stolen, and will probabaly go mad and even kill somebody. the vase is worth a huge amount of money and he was planning to sell it next year and give the money to pay for the building of the local Hospis,

So you have to solve this crime, or you will lose your reputation, and things will be very bad.

There are only 60 people here in the mansion, and only 10 could be guilty of the crime, as 48 (you and your pal make the number) were in the part of the house, the old part of the mansion, and would have been noticed by the cook, walking past her kitchen.

So how do you start trying to solve this crime.

The brigadier goes to the library to finish his autobiography, and will over the weekend, and all the guests have been told not to admit it was a robbery.

By getting your chum, and yourself to interview, the 10 possible culprits (the brigadier, and wife are unlikely culprits), by the end of this morning, and by searching through all the guests rooms, via the butler, and maids.

Or by searching through the 10 possible cuprits rooms, and interviewing the 10 people.

Clement checks with some equipment he has for finger prints but realises the robber was using gloves, by very light touches, and everyone handled that area anyhow. All the guests are saying they will be leaving on the first boat to leave, as of the anger of the brigadier. None of the servants could have comitted the crime, as the cook was the only person who was up, staying awake to do this, and many live oputside the mansion, added to this the cook could not have done it, as she was never out of the kitchen between 2.00am and 7.00am, when she was making today's meal, and the next cook was there for the rest of the time. None of them could have stolen the vase as the brigadier commented by happen chance from his training on tracing people's direction that after he had seen them enter the kitchen after him, nobody could have crossed from that kitchen to this main dining room, as the dog that wakes, up every time anybody walks, past it had not been awoken, and it does every time, anybody even tip toes past it, and people would have noticed the dog barking. The only way the dining room coul dhave been reached is across a other room, and so that is why only 10 people could be guilty. Although they could have been working with others, and so everybody could be guilty on some level.

You can choose the wrong person, and this can be uncovered, you can choose the right person, but you have a choice and may have some adventures. You are not loads of moves from victory or defeat.

I will tell you if you were right, by a click choice, and you can see if you were right. at the end of each of the choices you make.

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