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Continuing on our world tour of online escape rooms, our next destination was Regina in Canada. I must admit we knew literally nothing about the games at Mystery Mansion, so this was indeed a mystery to us.
Having managed to not fall asleep during the video, we assembled our team, which once again included Charlie and James from Deadlocked and tuned into our Zoom call at the allotted hour to be greeted by Mitch, our avatar for the night.
Mystery Mansion have combined two technologies to make this experience come to life, Zoom for the video and audio, and Telescape for the inventory. This worked seamlessly for us and we encountered no issues at all.
The good thing about Telescape is that everyone on your team can see what has been unlocked and can choose to look at whichever they choose to. During gameplay, if we found something that warranted a closer look, Mitch would provide us with a code word and that would unlock the close up of the item.
One thing I particularly enjoyed about this game, without giving away any spoilers, is how it seemed to continue even after most escape rooms would normally have finished. This certainly made the end a little bit more fun and set us up nicely for the next instalment.
To be a drama and mystery which is directed by David S. Cass Sr. and the scrift of the film is written by Walter Klenhard with the participation of so many famous actors like Dick Van Dyke, Barry Van Dyke, Shane Van Dyke ,…the film revolves around the story of criminology professor Jonathan Maxwell investigates a murder at a new age retreat where the leader is killed in a locked room surrounded by people in a deep trance.
And there is more. Take for example, one of the first detailed descriptions as we enter the household of Johanus Carver, watch and clock maker of Death Watch. Notably, the staircase. This staircase will be heavily featured, playing vital roles in the tale, and is described by Carr with a beautifully sinister bite:
It was a prim stairway, with heavy banisters, dull-flowered carpet underfoot, and brass stair-rods; it was a symbol of solid English homes, where no violence can come, and did not creek as they mounted it.
Hello friends and followers. You may in your Golden Age Detection obsession have heard about the wonderful Bodies from the Library conference that happens each year at the world-famous British Library in London.
Tickets are still available for the day, and it really is a wonderful conference full of great speakers and most important lots of book! Including many of the British Library Crime Classics series that will be available to you ahead of publishing dates.
This is a precious little collection and a great piece of work from Crippen and Landru. There is so much to love here and to simply enjoy. If you have the same luck I had and find a copy, grab it as quick as you can.
I continue with my current John Dickson Carr (Carter Dickson) binge, and I have come to the conclusion that I officially love being told that a work by Carr is sub standard. Because every time I then seem to love the book!
When myself JJ and Ben did our podcast two-parter on the Ages of John Dickson Carr it opened my eyes to see his work in a totally fresh way. I have stopped trying to look at Carr as a locked room master but as an experimental crime, supernatural and suspense author, who was trying out new things with each work and constantly stretching and challenging the boundaries of his genre.
This threat is made to the young Lady Helen Loring, a fiery, hyper-intelligent woman travelling back from Egypt to England after a 1930s, world famous archeological dig. Helen is told that she will not make it home to her room, and that before she arrives she will dematerialise.
Carr, and many other brilliant writers, use the solution itself as a plotting tool. They pace the solution out to reveal things at just the right moment for the reader, to be the most impactful and meaningful, and they vary these solutions as much as the mysteries they set out at the start.
After this years wonderful Bodies From The Library conference at the British Library, we caught up with Martin to talk about his favourite locked room mysteries, his work on bringing forgotten locked room stories back to life and what he thinks makes a great impossible crime.
Thanks again to Martin for giving his time, and to Abbie and Rob from the publishing team at the British Library for giving us space to record this episode (and staying late to allow us to do so!), and of course for all their work on the whole Crime Classics series, which has done so much to bring golden age Detective stories back into the hands of readers.
Well this has been a long time coming! This little gem has been burning a hole on my bookshelf since I found this gorgeous, beaten up penguin edition in a second hand bookshop at the beginning of the year.
After a night of hearty food, drink and rather preeminent discussions about committing and solving murder, the ever genteel, and ever rich Mary Thurston leaves her house guests to go to bed. A short times passes and screams are heard coming from her bedroom. Everyone in the house darts to her door from different angles. It is double locked on the inside with two sliding bolts, and once a panel of wood is smashed through the bolts are slid back (by a reliable person I may add) and the crowd rush in. They find a hideous sight of deep, blood soaked pillows and bed sheets, Mary lies with her throat slit. One of the crowd runs to the only other opening in the room, the window, and slides it open. No one to be seen. There are no footprints in the flower bead beneath, the other windows are too far away to climb to, and there was no way that anyone could have got out in time without being witnessed by the others.
In all aspects then, an absolutely classic locked room set up, and this is the point. For the book from here on will be a wonderful comedic parody and critique of classic detective story set ups, their characters and their mechanics.
The theme of parody begins the next day when three investigators, seemingly from nowhere, have appeared in the house. Each of these characters is a larger than life version of a famous fictional detective. Characters that would have been hugely popular and known at the time, even as they are now.
Once we have met our investigators things start to get very interesting in terms of form. You are aware that with these three famous detectives on the case that you are going to get three different solutions from them. But of course, you are also aware, with the format of the story, and with the presence of Beef from the off, that they are going to be ultimately wrong. Beef says from the first few pages of his appearance that he has already worked it out, but being non charismatic and of the group of simpletons known as the police force, he is constantly told to be quiet or pushed aside.
At the same time, we are aware that we are actually going to get three different solutions from these eccentric investigators, so we are also trying to work out what on earth will be their perspective. And their perspectives in the end are not some weak or comedic piece of detection, but each solution is strong, believable and high quality, and then comes Beef to blow them all away. What is amazing about this is that Bruce had to come up with four different solutions to a locked room problem in one novel, with multiple murderers, motives and clues, all of which were believable and credible. No small task.
In general, each escape room game scenario has a theme and some have a storyline, sometimes with subplots. There is also a time limit in which the players must escape, otherwise they lose. There are usually hints available in some way and sometimes there are ways to get more time. For some groups, the goal is simply to finish the puzzle room in the allotted time, while for others, the goal is to try to solve the puzzle as quickly as possible to be able to put their name up on the all-time leaderboard for the room.
As the caretaker at the manor for over twenty years, I developed quite a fondness for the brilliant astronomer; an affection I know you share. Recently I made the journey up to the old manor to see if I could persuade Mr. Harrison to let his friends come back and help fix the place up. But when I arrived, the gate was locked, the mail had piled up, but most of all I was alarmed by the strange noises, the unpleasant smell and the steam coming from the observatory.
For this first edition of the series, we had a group of five gamers assembled to play, and we solved the puzzle well under the time limit given in the rules. (Admittedly, our group contained two veteran puzzle solvers who have in fact constructed their own puzzle hunts). Despite our fairly quick solve time, we thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The different puzzles required skills from all four of us, and at least I was surprised at how little time had passed when we checked the stopwatch after the final solution as I had become engrossed in the process of solving the puzzles.
After our first game, I did reset the game and then watched a group of high school aged boys give the game a try. The five of them were also able to solve the entire puzzle, though they were much closer to the overall time limit. In the end, there was only one puzzle which seemed to stump them, and right when I was about to give them a hint (after watching them mentally wrestle with a particularly tough puzzle for about 15 minutes), one of the boys finally made a breakthrough and the group was able to collectively figure out the puzzle afterwards.
Eric Edens: If you are reading this, you should go to an Escape Room. I assume, possibly incorrectly, that you are an avid gamer with lots of experience in solving Euro games various point gathering math strategies. You also may enjoy thematic storytelling in your games. If that is the case, you will be able to solve these puzzles without difficulty and also be bored at the attempted story. This is a fine introduction to Escape Rooms but does not compare to the real thing. You could introduce the idea of Escape Rooms to a non gamer with this but it might sour you on the real thing. Now, to give you a little insight on me. I have, with my wife, completed 14 different Escape Rooms. With various companies, styles, and quality levels, I feel I can speak well to this game in comparison to real life Rooms. It is a poor substitute, but an admirable attempt. It also is way cheaper so this might entice you as a try before you buy(the real room).
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