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Story and Characters for this Western Murder Mystery Game
Host a great, rootin' tootin' game of wild west murder and mystery.
It's the American Frontier when The West was still wild. The town of Deadstone Creek is as corrupt as a rattlesnake's den. Murdering outlaws terrorise the stagecoaches. Cowboys and cattle ranchers are up to no good. And that new gold mine is just plumb shady.
In this wild western murder mystery party, no one is honest and violence is just a gunshot away.
The saloon's Cancan dancers swish their petticoats as loud explosions sound from behind the town's only bank.
Everyone rushes outside to find a hole in the rear bank wall and a fire in the General Store.
In the confusion, Belle Hawkes - a suspected member of a gunslinging outlaw gang - is sprung from jail.
Then - Deuce take it! - Marshal Westernby is shot. Plumb dead.
Law enforcers may be no better than the outlaws in this Old Western Whodunnit Party. Doggone treachery is afoot and the petticoated saloon girls know some secrets ...
Get a wiggle on and download this cowboy and outlaw murder mystery dinner party or party game. Transport your family and friends back into the days of the wild, wild west for an evening of ace-high, crime-solving fun.
Elements of the Wild West Included in Our Murdering Mystery
Cattle Ranchers and Cowboys
Our mystery includes cowboys and ranchers and, optionally, cowgirls. It includes typical themes such as cattle rustling, rancher wars and that icon of the Western movie: the posse.
Saloon Girls
Our game is written so that the saloon women are "respectable" women employed to chat, dance and serve drinks. Saloon women do, however, perform a lively and “scandalous” Cancan display each evening – much to the outrage of morality campaigners.
Morality campaigners looked down on these saloon girls but men were required to treat them with respect - although the women often wore a pistol or dagger strapped to their boots just to be sure!
There are optional opportunities for players to perform the Cancan and to sing a saloon song. (This is great fun - but totally optional; the game will play just fine without it.)
Outlaws
Our murdering mystery has more than one fearless, gunslinging, gun-toting outlaw - but to find out who you will have to play the game! There are optional opportunities for pretend gun fights.
Others
Morality campaigners were active along the American Frontier; the sheriff, deputy and marshals might or might not have been law-abiding.
This western murder mystery party game sure has an all-fired, plumb fun mix of cowboys and outlaws, saloon girls and gamblers, law enforcers and Moralism advocates
so
dig out your Stetsons, plump up those petticoats and have yourselves an ace-high, rootin' tootin' time!
Polite notes: please check how many wish to play BEFORE purchase. The two optional/minor characters are fully integrated but have slightly smaller roles.
Murder Mystery Dinner Party Game: 6 - 8 Players
Gender of 6 essential players: 3 female, 3 male, 0 neutrals
Gender of 2 optional/minor players: 2 neutrals
Number of suspects: 6 - 8
Essential Female Suspects
Mrs Faith King – new wife of Sheriff King; founder of the DeadStone Creek Moralist Society.
A truly formidable campaigner against drink, gambling and saloon women; on a mission to turn the saloon into a children's school.
Drinking and gambling are immoral; immoral, I say. And the Cancan is a scandalous dance; scandalous I say …
Petticoat Pearl – saloon girl and Cancan dancer from Texas.
I’m Petticoat Pearl from good ol’ Texas, sugars – bless their hearts, but men love my coloured petticoats and they love my pearls.
Kitty O'Mara – Irish saloon owner who allegedly won her saloon on a game of cards; has convinced the locals to buy shares in the new gold mine.
Oi’m wee Kitty O’Mara from Oireland. The gold mine will make you rich, to be sure it will.
Essential Male Suspects
Hank Henderson-Hawkes – Eastern city slicker turned Western cattle rancher; distant cousin of suspected outlaw Belle Hawkes.
My dear man, what Hank Henderson-Hawkes wants, Hank Henderson-Hawkes gets. Indeedy.
Sheriff King – sheriff; claims to be honest.
Darlin’, that’s a plumb, darn lie. I’m as honest a Sheriff as ever graced the Star.
Wild Will Wilder – former cowboy, now a small rancher; said to be courting suspected outlaw, Belle Hawkes. Denies being one of the murderous Deadstone Gang.
Thunderation. I’m the fastest draw this side of the canyon. Dare you threaten me?
Optional/Minor Suspects - Gender Neutral
Heath Hawkes – cowboy/cowgirl; works for Hank on the Henderson H range. Has a fearsome reputation.
I ain’t no civilizee like Hank here; I was born with me boots on and a gun in each hand and don’t no one forget it!
Jody "The Kid" Wilder – cowboy/cowgirl; works for cousin Will Wilder and also claims to be fearsome with a gun.
Great smokes! You ain't the fastest draw, Will: I am.
Murder Mystery Dinner Party Game: 8 - 10 Players
Gender of 8 essential players: 4 female, 4 male, 0 neutrals
Gender of 2 optional/minor players: 2 neutrals
Number of suspects: 8 - 10
Essential Female Suspects
Mrs Faith King – new wife of Sheriff King; founder of the DeadStone Creek Moralist Society
A truly formidable campaigner against drink, gambling and saloon women; on a mission to turn the saloon into a children's school.
Drinking and gambling are immoral; immoral, I say. And the Cancan is a scandalous dance; scandalous I say …
Kitty O'Mara – Irish saloon owner who allegedly won her saloon on a game of cards; has convinced the locals to buy shares in the new gold mine.
Oi’m wee Kitty O’Mara from Oireland. The gold mine will make you rich, to be sure it will.
Petticoat Pearl – saloon girl and Cancan dancer from Texas
I’m Petticoat Pearl from good ol’ Texas, sugars – bless their hearts, but men love my coloured petticoats and they love my pearls.
"Lady" Ruby – saloon girl and Cancan dancer from England; gives herself airs and claims to be a lady.
I am Lady Ruby – a genuine lady from England, an English rose no less. You may call me Lady Ruby.
Essential Male Suspects
Craig McCowboy – originally from Scotland, this former cowboy now owns a small ranch.
Och lookee here, pal, I ain't doggone to blame.
Hank Henderson-Hawkes – Eastern city slicker turned Western cattle rancher; distant cousin of suspected outlaw Belle Hawkes.
My dear man, what Hank Henderson-Hawkes wants, Hank Henderson-Hawkes gets. Indeedy.
Sheriff King – sheriff; claims to be honest.
Darlin’, that’s a plumb, darn lie. I’m as honest a Sheriff as ever graced the Star.
Wild Will Wilder – former cowboy, now a small rancher; said to be courting suspected outlaw, Belle Hawkes. Denies being one of the murderous Deadstone Gang.
Thunderation. I’m the fastest draw this side of the canyon. Dare you threaten me?
Optional/Minor Suspects - Gender Neutral
Heath Hawkes – cowboy/cowgirl; works for Hank on the Henderson H range. Has a fearsome reputation.
I ain’t no civilizee like Hank here; I was born with me boots on and a gun in each hand and don’t no one forget it!
Jody "The Kid" Wilder – cowboy/cowgirl; works for cousin Will Wilder and also claims to be fearsome with a gun.
Great smokes! You ain't the fastest draw, Will: I am.
Adrian Balaam –
What a rip-roaring, cattle rustling evening.
Fantastic end to end fun. Great entertainment, great food, brilliant costumes and a fun bunch of people.
Highly recommend evening of murder and intrigue, even if I still haven’t managed to identify the murderer.