Clue: Candlestick/Issue 1

The first issue of Clue: Candlestick was published in June 2019.

## Plot

Professor Plum wakes up from a strange nightmare of a mysterious woman whistling through his window, when he hears a door bell ringing. The postman, Ollie, brings Plum his usual mail of correspondence, coupons, and a parcel from his old friend Mr Boddy, which intrigues him, due to it being in code. He manages to decode the message, and learns that Boddy feels threatened by someone and wants to offer some of his old friends a part of his prized collection of antique murder weapons.

On the night of August 3rd, Plum heads to Boddy's manor, where he recovers a key for him from a purple colored stone piece and joins the rest of the guests at dinner. There, he meets Miss Scarlett, Colonel Mustard, Mr. Green and Mrs. Peacock, as well as Mr Boddy's chef and housekeeper, Mrs White.

Whilst beginning their meal Boddy refuses to explain his reasons for believing he is due to die soon, and he implies that everyone is likely to die at any moment. This leads to Mustard agreeing, due to his developing a paranoia, following his time in the military, that everyone could be out to get him for his actions during the war, which has led to him not trusting anyone.

Mrs White brings out the trunk of the prized weapons, when he sees the candlestick and freaks out that it has intent of murder within it, when suddenly Mustard is shot by an unseen shooter and dies.

Green is quick to accuse Plum, who was sitting closest to the pistol that was in the trunk, and is now on the table, but no one saw due to the lights going out. Peacock points out that the doors were open, so someone could have shot him from the hallway and ran off.

Accusations start to fly around, whilst White proceeds to phone for the police. The group soon decide that there was probably another person in the house, who shot Mustard and split up into small groups to try and find the killer, or at least some clues. Boddy and Scarlett take Mustard's body to the kitchen to keep it cold in the cooler, whulst Peacock and Green search one side of the house, and Plum and White take the other side.

On their way to the Billiard Room, Plum notices that Boddy has a lot of paintings of Scarlett in various styles, and appears to have an obsession with him, but also asks White about where she got the knife of Jack the Ripper for Boddy's collection. She explains that her former husband proposed to her with the knife and she later gave it to Boddy. However Plum noticed that the knife in the collection wasn't old at all, so she admits that she lied to Boddy about it being Jack the Rippers, but only because she wanted to make him happy, since he was in a depression spiral following his wife's death, and he loves historical weapons.

White suddenly gets an idea, and goes outside alone to check uinder the stone pieces outside, only to find Mrs Peacock's key was never taken, before being approached by someone from behind....

Whilst White is checking the keys Boddy and Scarlett are in the conservatory, when Boddy is struck by someone with the lead pipe, killing him instantly, Scarlett screams, bringing everyone to the room, bar White and they find her with the dead Boddy. They accuse her of the murder, but she says that she didn't kill him, she didn't love him enough to kill him...

## Characters

* Mr. Boddy
* Professor Plum
* Miss Scarlett
* Mrs White
* Mrs Peacock
* Mr Green
* Colonel Mustard

## Notes

* All of the usual murder weapons in the game are revealed here to be gifts from the six usual suspects, and were originally, supposedly, connected to famous deaths and killer:
	+ The Rope authenticated by Professor Plum was used to hang British pirate Calico Jack.
	+ The Lead Pipe gifted by Colonel Mustard was used to kill Roman emperor Gallienus (although he was stabbed in real life).
	+ The Revolver gifted by Mr. Green, a .442 caliber British Bulldog., was the same one used to assassinate U.S. President James Garfield.
	+ The Wrench from Miss Scarlett was used to fix French philosopher Albert Camus' car, who later died in a car crash.
	+ The Knife is supposedly the same one used by Jack the Ripper. It was gifted by Mrs. White.
	+ The Candlestick, gifted from Mrs. Peacock, merely fascinated him, and has no explicated ties with a death...so far.
		- This is a possible reference from "You Gotta Have Art" from *The Picture-Perfect Crime*, where each of the weapons belonged to a famous person: the Wrench belonged to Henry Ford, the Rope to cowboy Dusty Rhodes, the Knife to Lucrezia Borgia, the Lead Pipe to Emperor Nero, the Candlestick to Paul Revere, and the Eevolver to Sam Colt.
* Each of the colored stones outside of the mansion is a reference to the pawns from the original board game.
* Mustard reveals that his force from the military took on code names based on condiments upon returning to civilian lives.
* The floorplan of Boddy's mansion is the same layout of the original gameboard, with the Dining Room being a different shape.