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You've found your way to Idle Clues, a website dedicated to murder mystery media!

My main interest is detective and murder mystery games, but I'm interested in any kind of interactive medium that involves solving things, from fair play detective novels to murder mystery dinner parties. Regular murder mystery stories are finicky enough without the input of a player, so what considerations have to be made to balance a mystery that needs to both surprise the participant, but also make them feel intelligent? Who does it well, and why? And how can we use what we learn to create compelling mysteries?

I hope you can find something valuable in my musings.

PLEASE NOTE! This site is new, and currently under construction! It's still very much early days, so expect to find lots of unfinished pages.

At the moment, the guestbook and Whatever Remains homepage are working.


Case Files

Thoughts, reviews and analysis

A drawing of a case file. When hovered over, papers spill out.

Whatever Remains

A murder mystery personal project

A drawing of a case file. When hovered over, a logo reading Whatever Remains spills out.

Hot Chocolate Studies

Reviews of hot chocolates I've had

A drawing of a case file. When hovered over, a steaming mug spills out.

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