Murder Mystery Game Resources

  Create invitations, flyers, posters, social media posts announcing your mystery dinner. They have thousands of professional templates, images and quality content to choose from and get creative with. The Polaroid frame is perfect for crime scene photo fun!

 We love this site (and yes there is a robust free version). 

 Evite’s Party Planning Ideas + Tools: Evite offers party ideas and party planning tools such as their budget estimator and drink calculator to help you estimate costs. This is a wonderful resource.  We love this site.

Invitations: We include an editable invitation with all our game kits but you can also send your murder mystery dinner invitation via e-mail with Evite. It’s free and easy with simple registration and they have mystery dinner themed invites. You can also search for other themes (like Halloween) on their website.

Name Generators – perfect for creating additional names for your guests:

• Name Generator
• Mafia Nickname Generator

Sound Effects:

• Zapsplat
• Videovo
• Mixkit

 Online mugshot generators:

• Mobile Fish
• Search Amazon for mugshot backgrounds to take photos of your prime suspects
• Mugshot templates on Etsy

Theme Party Supplies and Costume Shops:

• Oriental Trading – We love this site. It has party supplies, decorations and more – and everything is inexpensive!
• Theatre House – This site has so much to offer from prop guns and weapons to wigs to costumes and more. Check it out.

For prop guns

Our best recommendation is to do a search online for ‘cap guns’. Here are some options:

• Tin Toy Arcade – Secret Agent Cap Gun Toy
• Amazon – Jr Detective Holster Set
• Amazon – Old West Toysmith Metal Cap Gun To

Historical information and period costumes

• Women’s Style and Fashion Overview (1860 to 1975)
• Men’s Style and Fashion Overview (1860 to 1975)
• Use Pinterest for period costume ideas: For example, search “1920s+fashion” (for other eras substitute 1920s for another decade).
• The History Channel
• Victorian Lingo and Fun Facts

Any recommendations? Add them to the comments below!