Murder mystery events are interactive theatrical affairs that allow guests to participate in solving a murder by discovering clues. Most such murder mysteries include actors and many involve period and/or role costumes, and scripts for the participating guests. While murder mystery parties can be held in private homes, there are venues in southeastern Michigan that specialize in murder mystery events. Venues include dinner theaters, trains and bed and breakfast inns.
The Murder Mystery Players are a professional group that have been doing murder mystery shows since 1987 that include improvisational comedy and audience participation. Dave and Buster's restaurant in Utica, Mich., provides three-course gourmet meals combined with murder mysteries. Mystery dinner theater at Andiamo's Italian Restaurant in Warren provides three-course meals mixed with the fun and laughter the Murder Mystery Players provide as they offer clues to help the audience solve mysteries.
Murder mystery trains in southeastern Michigan provide dinner theater events lasting two to three hours that include dinner and a troupe of actors and actresses that involve guests in solving a murder mystery on a train as it travels down the tracks. The Old Road's Murder Mystery Dinner Trains that operates in Charlotte and Blissfield, Mich., provides fine dining, a cash bar and adult humor as guests become part of the show. A rotating schedule of murder mystery dinners takes place throughout the year, including Saturdays in December and a special New Year's Eve event.
The Southern Michigan Bed and Breakfast Association has inns that provide a variety of travel experiences from romantic spa weekends to murder mystery dinners. The large historic homes that house bed and breakfast inns make an ideal setting for murder mysteries that allow guests to become the stars of the show. Munro House Bed and Breakfast Inn in Jonesville, Mich., has a murder mystery dinner party bed and breakfast package that provides guests with a role, a costume and a five-course dinner during an adult-themed murder mystery game.
