A Toast to Murder: The Hollowbrook Vineyard Affair – 1920s Murder Mystery Party

What you get

A complete, fully illustrated printable 1920s murder mystery dinner party for 6–10 players. Ready in minutes: download, print, fold, play.

Harvest night, 1929. Augustin Hollowbrook raises a glass to the best vintage in a decade, goes down to the barrel cellar to fetch the founder's bottle – and is found dead at the foot of the cask with his watch stopped at 9:47. The ford is flooded, the sheriff can't come until morning, and one of the guests is a murderer.

Three rounds of evidence, three red herrings and one solution that is fully deducible from the clues.

What's included

• Read Me First (3 pages): overview, print guide, player-count options, 90-minute schedule and a suspect gallery

• Host Guide (9 pages): setup checklist, invitation text, props, word-for-word round scripts, timeline, clue distribution table, complete solution with a clue-by-clue logic check, scoring and awards

• 8 Character Booklets (2 pages each) plus 2 Guest Investigator sheets for players 9 and 10

• 16 Clue Cards, four per page with cut lines, sorted by round

• Invitations (2 per page) and 12 folding place cards with portraits

• Detective Notes: suspect grid, "who was where at 9:47" table, evidence tracker and Final Accusation slips

• Solution Reveal page to seal in an envelope, plus Best Detective, Best Costume and Best Actor certificates

• 7 PDF files, 53 pages

Highlights

• Original Art Deco artwork: a portrait medallion for each of the 10 characters and an evidence illustration on every clue card

• Written for 8; plays with 6–7 (two optional characters) and 9–10 (two Guest Investigator roles)

• About 90 minutes including dinner; no prior experience needed – the host can play an innocent character

• Ages 14+: one off-page death, no gore; the 1929 setting mentions bootlegging and a speakeasy debt

• Light ivory backgrounds keep ink use low; fonts embedded

Requirements

• Any home printer, colour or black and white; card stock recommended for cards and certificates

• English edition: US Letter with an A4-safe area (print at "Actual size")

• A PDF reader, scissors and an envelope for the solution

Instant digital download – no physical item is shipped.

Choose your language at checkout: English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano.

Please note

• For personal use only; please do not resell or share the files.

• All characters, places, events and artwork are original and fictional.

Digital product: because the files are delivered instantly, all sales are final. If anything is wrong with your files, email us and we'll fix it right away.