If you follow me on Twitter, you might have seen a flurry of tweets a couple of weeks back hashtagged #MurderOnThePoshFloor… no real murder of course, just an incredibly fun afternoon with a fabulous bunch of Yorkshire bloggers. Posh Flooring and Search Laboratory invited me to the Leeds Hilton City for a three course meal and a murder most mysterious hosted by The Murder Mystery Company – dressed to impress, of course.
I spent the morning at home preening and then took a super glamorous bus into town in a petticoat. A god damned petticoat, people. The 50A was not built for petticoats. Strange looks ahoy! Thankfully on arrival at the hotel, we were all greeted with wine (yay!) and photo booth props to play with while we chattered away with nervous excitement…
The bloggers were whisked into the Magnum Suite and split into three teams – for full disclosure, my table (Table 1) was the naughty table at the back of the room. This set us up for things to come.
I’d hardly had chance to refill my wine glass before Lord John Burlington staggered in making a right song and dance about a little bit of poison… poor bloke, clearly upset by his Captain Hook-esque costume, took his time wobbling around all three tables before conveniently dying in the most dramatic way possible.
Not to worry though, as we had Sherlock Corbyn Holmes and PC World on hand to help us…
We worked our way through an afternoon of super sleuthing… asking all the right questions, doing forensic tests, searching suspects…
Dusting for prints… and alienating other bloggers with my weird knowledge of cyanide and almonds… I’m not weird, I swear…
Wining and dining… which erm, kind of gets in the way of sleuthing to be honest. I’d recommend not getting sloshed on wine if you’re actually trying to solve a murder. Top tip for aspiring crime fighters right there.
And eventually, settling on our verdict… Top secret like, you know how it is with these high profile murder cases. After a short while, one of the other tables disappeared. Surely we’d got the wrong verdict. Gutted. THEN THEY CAME IN AND ACTED OUT OUR VERDICT?! Colour us confused Jez… So were we wrong? NO! We’d come to the right conclusion, but apparently the other group came to the same conclusion in a better way. I think it’s because they were less… rowdy… than our table. Pfffffft.
A murder mystery dinner party has long been on my bucket list, and it was just as much fun as I’d expected – even if we were robbed! Moral victory table one, moral victory.
The most good natured Sherlock ever… cheers Jez.
Thanks so much to Posh Flooring and Search Laboratory for inviting me, The Murder Mystery Company for the entertainment and Leeds Hilton City for hosting us!