Dear Trevor - just a quick note of thanks. I am preparing for my daughters 10th party and your site has provided some useful pointers and guides - especially the names of the characters! I think the overall party will be slightly different but I just wanted to say thanks for the inspiration anyway.
Good luck with everything.
Alex Jackson

Trevor,
I found your murder mystery party while searching the internet for ideas for my daughters 10th birthday party. This looks like great fun for the kids and is much simpler than some of the teenage parties that I've come across on other websites. We live in Cairo, Egypt so party options are extremely limited over here and it is not possible to buy things like this in Egyptian shops. We also have lots of problems using credit cards from Egypt to buy downloadable products from the internet.
I wondered if it would be possible for us to copy your party and for you to send me copies of the invitations that you made so that I can edit them with the names of my daughters friends.
I appreciate that you have put in a lot of effort to create this murder mystery party. Let me know if I can send you money as a contribution towards your efforts.
Regards
Gary Humber

Gary,
Good to hear from you. I'd be delighted if you re-used the materials that Tracey (my wife) and I wrote for Sebastian's party a few years ago.
I will send you source materials (powerpoint, excel and word) under separate cover, so you can edit them yourself. The key thing to remember is the master spreadsheet expects an exact number of participants, so you will have to do some work here if you are inviting more (or less) children.
There's no need for payment, but please don't send on material to anyone else. Rather, direct them to my website and email. I'd appreciate it if I could quote your remarks on my own website, too.
Good luck with the party. Kindest regards, Trevor

I am having a murder mystery party based off of your website and the one thing we are having trouble with is the goodybags. This party is for 13/14 year olds and old little plastic bags won't work. We wanted to have mini magnfying glasses mini notepads and mini flashlights and mini pens and a confidental file with all the info they need for the party. We don't know where they can store all this info. We thought at first a old looking messenger bag would do the trick but for a party of 13 people it is very difficult to find large quantities of bags for a low price. Any suggestions of what to store the items in?
Emily

Emily,
Glad to hear that you are hoping to use my material.
As a suggestion about Goody-bags, how about large brown (Manilla) envelopes? Or perhaps those padded bags used for mailing ("Jiffy bags")? You could mark the outside "Top Secret", or some such, and they should be big enough for all the things you might need. (Think "Mission: Impossible")
Good luck with the event. Regards, Trevor.

Thanks for all the info on hosting a mystery party. I plan to host a mystery party for my 10 year old for up to 20 guests. I have tried to open the spreasheet and other links on your web page, but have had no success. Don't suppose you could email them to me?
Thanks Carina

Carina,
Glad to hear that you found the information useful, so far.
The stuff on the website is in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format, so you might try downloading the (free) Acrobat reader from www.adobe.com.
In any case, I could send you the spreadsheet and invites in Excel/Powerpoint format. Would this be useful to you. (I'll need to get to my other computer at home to do this.)
Kindest regards, Trevor.

Searching online for a murder mystery for our Girl Guide Group. Daunting at best... Local group would have cost $200. Thank you for your kindness in sharing.
Wanda Burden
3rd Goulds Girl Guides of Canada