Murder Manor

**Murder Manor** is the first Murder Mystery Game featuring Kate Gray released by Haiku Games and their third game overall.

## Synopsis

Invited to a dinner party at the famous Wickham Manor when her car breaks down outside, Detective Kate Grey is shocked that a murder occurs before even dessert is served.

## Characters

* Detective Kate Gray
* Will
* Mike
* Sarah
* Brady
* Lloyd Parker
* Camilla
* Fontana
* Lord Wickham

## Plot

### Chapter 1: Invited to Dine

When her car has a flat tire at night during a storm, Detective Kate decides to go to a nearby house to borrow their phone and call some help. Outside, she is approached by a woman named Sarah, who asks if Kate is there for the dinner party. With Sarah is her son Brady, who notices that Kate is in fact a detective. Kate asks Sarah if she lives in the house, which Sarah disppointedly denies. She tells Kate that she is just a guest at the estate, which is called Wickham Manor. The three find the gate to the house to be locked, however, and Kate has to figure out how to open it.

In the entrance hall, Sarah and Brady are welcomed by a young man named Will, who appears to be Wickham's butler. He asks Kate who she is and Detective Kate Grey introduces herself for the first time. Sarah asks Will if Kate could use the phone and call for help and Will assures them that he will take care of it. He invites Kate to join the party for dinner first. Kate accepts gratefully, and Will introduces her to the other guests: Mike, a stout old man; Lloyd, an ambitious writer; Fontana, a fortune teller; and Camilla, an impatient lawyer. When Will leads them to the dining room, seven dinner plates are prepared, all with different food on them, but the name cards for each guest aren't set. So Kate has to match each guest to their seat according to their food and seating preferences.

After all the guests are seated for dinner, the lights suddenly go out. Will tells them that the storm must have shorted out the circuits. When the lights go back on, the group finds that Mike is apparently dead! Because there is still a problem with the lights, Kate volunteers to go to the basement to check out the circuits. She must find the key to the basement, figure out how to repair the circuit breaker and restore the lights.

When Kate returns to the dining room, Sarah confirms that Mike is in fact dead, and the guests dicuss what to do. Lloyd suggests calling the police, but Camilla objects that there is no signal and Will informs the group that the house lines are dead as well.

Kate decides to examine the kitchen to try and find a logical solution to the case.

### Chapter 2: A Serving of Murder

Kate examines the kitchen and finds a garbage dumpster outside that seems worth investigating. While searching the dumpster, she discovers a vial of poison and deduces that Mike was in fact murdered!

### Chapter 3: A Host of Trouble

Kate reveals her discovery to Will. She needs to discover the motive of the murderer before they may strike again, so she asks Will why the guests were invited to the dinner party. Will states that he doesn't know as he only invited them as he had the instruction of Lord Wickham, who, according to him, is a very eccentric man. Kate explains that she needs to search the guest's rooms for clues and asks Will for the key to the hallway, but Sarah interrupts them. Will has to go look for Lloyd, who, according to Sarah, has run off to search for the killer. Kate needs to find the key on her own.

### Chapter 4: The Guests

Kate searches the rooms of Camilla, Lloyd, Brady and Fontana. In a locked briefcase in Camilla's room, she finds some documents, one of which shows the Wickham family tree and the house motto ("a house divided is a house fallen ..."). It is revealed that all of the guests are descendants of Lord Wickham. Camilla admits to having started her own investigation after she received the invitation to the dinner party. She explains that someone is after the estate of Lord Wickham and mentions that the Lord is very ill.

Meanwhile, Lloyd still hasn't returned and Kate decides to look for him in the gardens.

### Chapter 5: The Night Garden

Kate is outside looking for Lloyd. In order to get further into the gardens, she needs to figure out how to open the gate.

### Chapter 6: Memories of Remorse

Kate discovers a graveyard with a family crypt. She has to figure out how to open the crypt, only to find that she is too late... Lloyd is already dead!

### Chapter 7: The Wickham Legacy

Back in the house, Will tells Kate that Lord Wickham wants to speak to her.

Kate enters the study and has to figure out how get to Lord Wickham's room, as there is no door in sight. During her search, she finds pieces of an old letter in Lord Wickham's safe. It reveals that Will is actually Lord Wickham's illegitimate son, born to a woman named Mia. Mia had found out that, in order to protect his family's honor, Wickham had their son given up for adoption without telling her and she presumably killed herself because of this.

Behind a bookshelf, Kate finally finds the door to Wickham's room. Inside, she meets Will, who confesses to killing Mike and Lloyd in order to inherit the Wickham estate instead of them. He then sets fire to the room and leaves.

### Chapter 8: A House Divided

Kate has to figure out how to save herself and the bedridden Lord Wickham from the fire set by Will. After is able to stop the fire and saves Lord Wickham's life, he reveals to her that there is an old telephone outside by a windmill that she can use to call for help. Kate exits the house through the garage and takes Lord Wickham's car to get to the windmill.

### Chapter 9: Fallen

At the windmill, Kate needs to fix the switchboard in order to make the telephone work. After she has called 911, Will appears with a knife and threatens to kill her. Kate has to figure out how to take care of the killer and save her own life.

## Gallery

Promo 1 - LloydPromo 2 - KatePromo 3 - FontanaPromo 4 - Camilla