{"product_id":"twelfth-knife-christmas-cold-case-murder-mystery-game","title":"*PRE-ORDER* Twelfth Knife: Christmas Murder Mystery Game – 12-Day Advent Calendar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePre-order. Night One unlocks 13 December.\u003c\/strong\u003e Your access code is emailed before Night One.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlot:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRavenscroft Hall, Christmas 1976.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwelfth Knife is a Christmas cold case told across twelve nights. From 13 December, a new witness account unlocks every evening. Read it, break the lock at the end of it, and carry what you've learned into the next. By Christmas Eve you'll have heard from everyone who was in the house. Then you name the killer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree days before Christmas, Josiah Merritt — master of the house, third generation of Merritt iron money, and feared by everyone under his roof — is found dead on the library floor. The family doctor writes \u003cem\u003emisadventure\u003c\/em\u003e on the certificate. The family lets him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Merritts keep twelve ornamental steel knives, forged at the family ironworks, one brought out of the case each night of the season to carve. By Twelfth Night, three are missing. One for each death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe police closed the file. The house came down in 1991. Nobody who was there ever spoke of that Christmas again — not out loud.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut twelve of them wrote it down. A doctor's letter, never sent. A housekeeper's diary, locked in a drawer for twenty years. A young constable's notebook, kept against orders and found by his granddaughter in 2019. Each one saw a piece of it. Each one left something out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead one account a night. By the end, you'll know Ravenscroft better than the people who lived there — and who took the knives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Victim:\u003c\/strong\u003e Josiah Merritt (1899–1976), master of Ravenscroft. Ran the ironworks for fifty years, buried a wife, and had just had a new will drawn up that nobody at his table was going to like. Found dead on the library floor on 23 December. Certified misadventure. He would not be the last. By Twelfth Night, three knives were missing from the case.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow it plays:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNight One unlocks 13 December. A new night every evening through Christmas Eve, when the finale and the Reckoning open with Night Twelve.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAround 15–20 minutes a night.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne player, or a household playing together. One access code per household.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlays in the browser on any phone, tablet or laptop. Nothing to download. On iPad, add it to your home screen and it plays like an app.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat's included:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYour personal access code, emailed before Night One\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwelve nightly witness accounts, written across four decades\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwelve locked doors — one puzzle at the end of every account\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe finale, The Fourth Knife: you stand where PC Wren stood on the last night\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Christmas Eve Reckoning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Twelve Witnesses:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDr Alistair Fenn\u003c\/b\u003e — Physician to the house. Wrote \u003cem\u003emisadventure\u003c\/em\u003e on the certificate, and spent seven years of two-in-the-morning ceilings regretting it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMrs Agnes Prewitt\u003c\/b\u003e — Housekeeper. Thirty years at Ravenscroft, and the last tray up every night, whoever it was for.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEdmund Merritt\u003c\/b\u003e — The heir. Josiah's nephew, in debt to men who don't send solicitors' letters.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eClara Merritt\u003c\/b\u003e — His wife. Awake when Edmund came back to bed that second night smelling of cold ash.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMr Silas Vane\u003c\/b\u003e — Business partner. Dug into the ironworks accounts, and found out the new will cut him out entirely.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRev. Thomas Aldous\u003c\/b\u003e — Vicar of the parish. Heard something in the vestry weeks before anybody died, and kept it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMiss Iris Bell\u003c\/b\u003e — Nanny. Three feet away when Josiah was cruel to the child, and said nothing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMr Percival Hobbs\u003c\/b\u003e — Butler. Forty-one years' service, a pension missing from the will, and the only one who heard the bells.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMrs Eleanor Voss\u003c\/b\u003e — The returned guest. Jilted by Josiah in 1936; arrived uninvited after forty years' silence.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMr Reginald Thorne\u003c\/b\u003e — Solicitor. Drew the will that was never read, and lost the only signed copy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMr Jasper Quill\u003c\/b\u003e — The stranded traveller. 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