Monday, 16 Mar
19:00
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Times
7:00pm
Running Time 0 hours
Venue The Crescent, Crescent Community Venue
Experience the most inventive, original crime novel of the year in this choose your-own-path story that blends gamebook with murder mystery.
From acclaimed crime novelist and veteran game writer Antony Johnston, this immersive locked-room mystery challenges you to put your detective skills to the ultimate test. In this interactive crime novel, step into the shoes of a detective and investigate the most mysterious crime of your career. There’s been a murder at Elysium, a wellness retreat set in an English country manor. You arrive to find the body of a local businessman on the lawn, with a rose placed in his mouth. It appears he was stabbed with a gardening fork and fell to his death from the balcony above. But that balcony can only be accessed through a locked door, the key is missing, and everyone in Elysium is now a suspect… Gather the evidence and examine the clues. Choose who to interview next, and who to accuse as your prime suspect. But remember that every decision you make has consequences, and some of them will prove fatal… Do you have what it takes? Can YOU solve the murder?
Antony Johnston is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of more than fifty books, graphic novels, and comic series, including the popular Dog Sitter Detective murder mysteries. His graphic novel The Coldest City was made into the multi-million-dollar blockbuster movie. He is also a celebrated video games writer, and is credited with many franchise-defining titles. Johnston is a former vice chair of the Crime Writers’ Association, a member of International Thriller Writers and the Society of Authors, a Shore Scripts screenwriting judge, and sits on the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain’s video games committee. He lives and works in Lancashire.
Please Note: This event is at The Crescent Community Venue, 8 The Crescent, York, YO24 1AW
