"Beyond the Grave"

Today I'm blogging about An Evening of Murder again. As you may remember, it's a murder party series which was quite popular back in the late eighties/early nineties. We played Beyond the Grave on my brother PJ's birthday. To this day, it's one of my favourite. In it, you try to solve the murder of Lorraine Lockwood, who died five years ago of cyanide poisoning. Her daughter has convinced family and friends to come to a séance in order to solve the mystery of Lorraine's death. The last post on the Facebook page of the game series, exactly two years ago, they were advertising Beyond the Grave as a Halloween game. I think it's fitting, given the subject matter. my brother's birthday was in October, so the connection has always been all the more obvious to me.

An Evening of Murder (pulp style)

 I am blogging again about An Evening of Murder, the murder party series which I really enjoyed when I was younger. This is the back cover from Beyond the Grave, the second box we played, but the very first game of the series. I will share its front cover another time, this post is not about the specific plot, but about the art on the back cover. I always loved its aesthetic, but it is misleading. The games are all whodunits, yet this image calls back to pulp fiction and hardboiled stories, with private eyes, gangsters and femmes fatales. I love it to bits all the same, but it is misleading. Anyway, my two cents.