European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Murder most foul and most perplexing Story and photo by Anita Gosch Biff writer ii was to be perfect weekend. Britain s most to oper.1, or in awol was its Lola anniversary and ii products invited More than 100 members of the do Lvi pm t Lub to join hip cast and Crew for iwo fun idled in the luxurious mule in i , North Yorkshire. Lur us Al Mccanl a Chance to Meol our Favorule to Slars. To audition As extras for hit series ind Well i had secretly hoped to find i1 is Well. Rul Ihal was not to be. To i i a reared its ugly head Over the festivities in the form of ii gruesome murder look plan1 before our very eyes. 1 murder happened is we were enjoying a quiet meal evening in Hie impel s spa ious print Annm. I Fust been i Onley plating ii mind acini need Wilh one Nam Pendleton .1 Han isome Vuini a Lor from Liverpool when suddenly .1 shot out Chr Ofifi the Trofim. F Allm Vine the , we found the Vii my Jamie Marin. 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Siniiewfi. disc Runi Eil Young woman the Arru .in1 dirty Eddie .it k Burn in elderly do Tiwi fanatic Debbie Scoll. Die Boody Noody to the mint , fan club , and of Ourse Ihu straightforward inspector Hewett. By Lurn e Lund Oul Kinji we Bobiy Martin had been an item before her Dewih the night Lefoie. King and Pimm hid been an item six months previously. Johnson had wanted to be an Cairn hotel the scene of the crime. Item Wilh Pimm but she had refused whereupon in i Fil of rage had beat her silly. Jones wms j inner who preferred to share his life with heroin and Ihui was in hunger of being written Oul of the script and Blackburn had a Motherly crush on Jones and we need him to remain in the scrip. By dinner saturday evening we still had t the murder mystery weekends take place throughout tha year at various locations in Iha United kingdom. Cost is �110 per person about $165. Which includes two overnights in a its class hotel a Champagne reception All meals from Friday dinner to sunday breakfast plus Almay entertainment for More information Contact Joy Swett Ersoll at murder weekends Ltd., Sarepta 21 collage Road North Blundellsands. Liverpool l23 8ur, England Tel. 051 -924-11z-4l or you can Contact the Quality item atonal hotel group Wowch serves More than so hotels i u countries at duality item atonal 33 Flag enl Street London sw1 � 4mb. England Tel. 01 -439 4955. Duality International can also Send information on Dracula weekends in England. The Cost to �89 per person about 133.50 and includes films and lecture on Bram Stoker and Dracula. Quizzes and a banquet a Day in Whitby obo wino the Dracula Trail and a visit to Scarborough i Moat haunted House along with two overnights and Al meals from Friday evening to sunday Nova a special four Day Christne mutter party wet take place Deo. 24-27 in Southport in Northwestern England. Ther Ali a quizzes game an competitions Lavetah bullets and an ingenious pm we in few Tor the participants to Tolve. The Thrata Ghl stay e220 per duh Alxxia $330 and includes tul boart Al entertainment and presents. Children aged g-1py Only half Price and toddlers aged 2-4 pay 20 about $30. Contact either Joy Swift or Quality or mow Inlo Matlon. Slig Lesl idea Whu Durnil As one american Elaine Lii on. Put it it was never like this on murder she wrote. Angelic la Bury had thai wrapped up in half in hours the Mastermind behind the complicated Pool is of Swift a 30-ye.ir-Oldwho hails from Liverpool. Gift comes up Wilh i i Basic Story line Wilh All its twists and turns Nunci intricacies and the individual actor will develop their characters. But it is Swift alone who receives credit for originating the concept of murder Myslony weekends. She wj4 working in the or department of a Chain of hotels in Britain six years ago when she came up with the idea. I had heard on the radio about a real shooting at the Plaza in new York and i thought of cod would t in be awful if somebody would be shot in our hotel and we would have police and ambulances All Over and the guests would t be allowed to leave it just popped up thai murder could be fun she . There s so much inheres a in murder books anal murder films i thought it would be great if you could actually to dropped into a murder film and take Swift started her own company. Murder weekends Ltd. She has 40 actors throughout the United kingdom who perform in the weekends in their spare time. Slit1 also sell up private murder nights for individual companies and has taken her concept abroad As Well to the United and Scandinavia where she uses local actors. Each plot is performed for one month Abii i four or five limes and then it s discarded. There May be a repeal of a certain Iheme Swift said but the plot will never be the same. Thus if people Panicip. in the weekends on a regular basis which Many do. According to Swift there s Little Chance they la already know the outcome. The actors Are Normal people is non actors in real life who perform in the murder weekends for a variety of reasons. John Pendleton the sales agent for instance does in basically for the extra Cash but also because i can be somebody locally things you would t dare do or say in real life you can do and say on one of these weekends and gel away with still in Musl be extremely difficult i Spei rally for a non actor to maintain the role for an entire weekend while keeping a straight face. The most difficult part is remembering All the facts the names the dates the where a when s. Why s and what s because you re always being questioned said Pendi Clon. But sometimes you get a difficult character. One Lime i was a diabetic curate. That meant i could t drink i could t smoke i could t swear and i could t go near women. In made my whole weekend a hideous bore. Also my Fiancee was killed so i had to be All Cut up about that and i was schizophrenic As Well. And of course i did t know anything about the Bible but fortunately nobody quizzed me on thai so who was the culprit in our Doc ibid e murder cases Elaine Lisbon the american who by the Way has now been on her fifth murder weekend can Tell you. 5 was one of Only three participants who correctly named the murderer and the motive and was also Able to Lisl the clue thai led Herlo the right answer. I never thought it was Len Johnson at All. He May occasionally bunt into flu of temper but did l really Hava a motive. Marilyn Pimm might have done it being the jealous sex Lover but she did l strike me As being Able to Rig a car. So i put Down " Mike Jones the drug addict director Sam King the Lover himself Mona Blackburn the dockside fanatic or was it Debbie Scott the obnoxious fan club Secretary Well never Tell. 8 it Pitt Maga int october 30, 19b&
