Murder Mystery at the Arden Hotel Solihull

The Arden Hotel is proud to announce our partnership with Murder 57 – the UK’s leading murder mystery entertainment company with over 20 years combined murder mystery experience behind the team.

Your Murder Mystery evening will be filled with Intrigue, Suspicion and of course Murder! The Murder 57 experience includes everything to make your break a memorably murderous one. Your evening will include a delicious 3 course meal including tea and coffee, interactive evening entertainment from professional actors. If you manage to guess the murderer and the correct murderous motive then you could be the evenings Super Sleuth, and receive a prestigious certificate plus some Murder 57 prizes.  Why not make a weekend of it and book a room?!

Haunting by moonlight

Murder Mystery with 3 course meal £49pp

It is said that an awful murder was committed in the dining room and the victim cannot rest until the bloody act has been avenged. Can the local researcher and fellow of the British Institute of parapsychology and his colleagues find out the truth or will his investigations lead to tragedy and death?

Murder Mystery with 3 course meal £49pp

The Hargreaves family have made a fortune in the  Christmas decoration business and are celebrating tonight with an unforgettable Christmas party after having yet another successful year. Patriarch of the family is Sir Declan Hargreave, who established the business many years ago. Tonight he is promising to reveal some important news. Everyone is expecting him to announce his retirement and who will succeed him as head of the company. The new head will instantly be in control of a multimillon-pound business and reap the rewards that kudos would bring ….is everyone excited about this possible news – surely nothing sinister could happen at Christmas?

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Twas the night before Christmas

Murder Mystery with 3 course meal £49pp

It is Christmas Eve 1987 you are part of Smartoys staff Christmas party. This year, Fiona Smartley-Price (Smartyoy’s CEO) has extra cause to celebrate because the company have achieved having the Christmas Number 1 toy in the shops. Mouseville Friends is that the toy and was the brainchild of Siobhan (Fiona’s daughter and a managing director of the company). She launched the new toy with her fiancée Noel Thrust who is a television executive that has launched an animated series based on the toys. This has just completed its first series on CBBC. Will the celebrations continue all night long or will sinister happenings halt them?

Murder Mystery with 3 course meal £49pp

Welcome to the celebrations of the first night of Sleeping Beauty pantomime, at the Emerald theatre. The first night was a runaway success, it’s looking like Jack will be able to save his beloved Emerald theatre from closure. Sleeping beauty was awakened, but were there secrets that were also awakened and should Golden Secrets have been left to lie?

Gold, Frankincense and murder
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Murder Mystery with 3 course meal £49pp

Style TV is new to the UK. Owned by Australian media magnate Greg Copeland, the TV company is set to go head-to-head in an all-out war with BBC’s ‘Strictly’ this year. Their new dance show, ‘Step Up & Dance’ promises to be big & brash. Fronted by TV host Sam Delaney, the show will have notorious musical star P.J. McQueen as lead judge, who makes Craig Revel Norwood seem like a pussycat!!

Tonight, will be an opportunity for one lucky person to join the show. So, if you feel lucky, put on your dancing shoes and practice that hip sway but be careful, with all those egos, fake tan and sequins.

Murder Mystery with 3 course meal £49pp

Cupid’s Arrow Introduction Agency is the brainchild of retired couple Robert and Marion Cole and is run by their daughter-in-law Scarlet. It was a retirement idea born from the fact that Robert and Marion were originally introduced through an introduction agency, and they have enjoyed a long and happy marriage.

But is the Agency all that it professes to be? Or does it hide sinister secrets?

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Murder Mystery with 3 course meal £49pp

It is 1926. Mable Cartwright is a spinster living in the small village of Killinton, and she often encounters and investigates unusual crimes, much to the annoyance of the local constabulary. She is here for tonight’s church fundraising party and has really been looking forward to it. However, the event turns out not be the success that she prays for as disturbing news of a death is received from the St. Cuthbert’s.

Can she, with the help of the guests and the police, solve this most unholy of murders?

Murder Mystery with 3 course meal £49pp

Having all been interviewed on the infamous Jenny James Show that morning, light-hearted teasing turns to full-blown arguments as interviewees condone each other’s’ behaviour. But when one of them ends up dead, there’s a more serious matter to be discussed – one not suitable for the likes of day-time television.

Time to call in the detectives

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Murder Mystery with 3 course meal £49pp

It’s the time of the year where the Kirk-Moulding family host the local event. Welcoming the community onto the grounds for a long traditional “get together”. The kids love it and the parents enjoy the atmosphere. But it’s not just the event going on. A serial killer is on loose and threatens the integrity of this fantastic tradition.  
After an amazing day it has now come to the evening party for the Kirk-Moulding family and parents to let down their hair. But in the background, there has already been two deaths, with many more to come!! With staff, guests and family members dying, no one is safe, not even the police!!

Murder Mystery with 3 course meal £49pp

Mary Langford has been widowed twice, but they were both long and very happy marriages. So you’d think she’d be content with her memories. Sir Robert Langford OBE, her second husband, was CEO of the British and Commonwealth Petroleum company and left Mary a huge fortune. So why is she getting married a third time?

And to a man young enough to be her son! At least it has the blessing of her daughter, Jemimah. Or does it?

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Murder Mystery with 3 course meal £49pp

The Wedding Guests are invited to join elderly, upper class Bertrum Wallace-Smythe and his young, unsophisticated bride, Zoë Matthews, at the evening reception to celebrate their marriage. Not everyone feels like celebrating, however. Will these two very mismatched families get on – or will their dirty laundry be aired in public?

Murder Mystery with 3 course meal £49pp

Lorna Davis was the shock winner of the latest ATP ranking event, beating her arch rival Sky Sommerville in the final, which Sky did not take well as she was the clear favourite to win. Lorna is delighted as it has now qualified her for Wimbledon. She is resolute that one day she will win the tournament, and this could be her time!! Lorna burns with a desire not only to win tennis’s greatest competition but also to prove a point and to shame some of the biggest names in the tennis world, for Lorna hides a dark secret, a secret she has harboured for some time and is now fixed upon humiliation and revenge. In her eyes no one will get in her way and there is only one result. Game, Set & Match!!!!

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Murder Mystery with 3 course meal £49pp

A strange circle of stones has been found on land belonging to Killinton resident, Amos Wheatley.  Archaeologists believe this could be an ancient monument to rival Stonehenge and is of huge significance.  Amos and a fracking firm, who are also interested in the land, are not so sure!  Will interested parties be set on murderous intent to achieve their goals?

Murder Mystery with 3 course meal £49pp

We are celebrating the 150th anniversary of Captain ‘Fearless’ Falcon’s death. Captain Falcon was a merciless pirate who was responsible for much death and destruction on the high seas. It is rumoured that there was a vast treasure hidden at the captain’s house, Talon Hall, but this has never been discovered. The new owner of Talon Hall, Sir Graham Buchannan will also be here tonight, along with members of the Fearless Falcon Society. Is the discovery of an old map key to finding the treasure? And would anybody kill to get their hands on so much money?

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Murder Mystery with 3 course meal £49pp

A journal has been found in the cellars of Hockton Hall. It apparently details the chilling account of one man’s hunt for a Vampire. Written many years ago the find has caused a lot of excitement. Kelvin Smith a noted parapsychologist is the guest of honour tonight at a special dinner of paranormal investigators where no doubt the main topic of discussion will be the journal. Should Kelvin be careful of what he says and who he speaks to? What are the causes of the mysterious deaths at Hockton Hall?

Murder Mystery with 3 course meal £49pp

Alan Gilbraith has spent the last 30 years in jail for the murder of his wife, Loren. Except that a body was never found.  And he has always denied that he killed her. So, what is the truth?

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Murder Mystery with 3 course meal £49pp

It is Christmas in 1899 and the Prime Minister, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, is hosting a lavish party. Spirits are high at the turn of the century, commerce and politics are doing well. It is also 7 years since the infamous Jack the Ripper was last active. But is everyone who they say they are? And has the Ripper really finished his work?

Murder Mystery with 3 course meal £49pp

Alex Holmes, the great, great, great grandchild of the famous Victorian detective has followed in Sherlock’s footsteps and has themselves established a reputation for solving the unsolvable.

Tonight is the Metropolitan Police Commissioner’s Christmas ball.  A whole host of VIPs have been invited and of course Holmes and their good friend Dr Watson are on the guest list… however, when the Commissioner is discovered dead in a sealed room deep in the depths of Scotland Yard – Holmes is brought into action once again…

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Murder Mystery with 3 course meal £49pp

Tonight, it is New Year’s Eve 1999.  Martin McDonald is hosting a fabulous NYE party.  It’s been an incredibly busy year for his company – Techsol. Everybody has required software upgrades to combat the Y2K bug which has meant that 1999 has been the company’s most profitable year to date.

Will the celebrations last well in to the new millennium or are somebody’s days numbered?