Murder à la carte: The Brie, the Bullet & the Black Cat

You have been invited to dinner at the Official Residence of the Deputy Mayor of Casablanca. The guest of honor was to have been France's greatest ever living mime artist - but he fails to appear...you've guessed it, he's been murdered...

Everyone is a suspect, but who is the murderer?

So who stars in this great adventure, obviously you, but you don't play yourself you take on the role of one of the following characters:

Hughes Le Grandebutte - Deputy Mayor of Casablanca The epitome of solid respectability
Edith Le Grandebutte - his wife, former dancer Married to Hughes - but not altogether happy - still yearn for your former life as a dancer
Nicole Le Grandbutte - their daughter 18 yr old daughter of above - would rather be in Paris than Casablanca - does not approve of her father working with the Germans
Otto Von Pinkelwurst - a Gestapo Officer, fanatical and possible mad Doesn't understand why he is in Africa rather than a senior staff post in Berlin
Kirk Ransom III - an American who runs Kirk's African Cafe in downtown Casablanca late 30's, doomed romantic hero nursing a broken heart and a bottle of whiskey. Suave, elegant and slightly battered.
Countess Bogov - an exiled Russian aristocrat, glamorous and mysterious. Passionate anti-communist; sympathetic with Germans
Monsieur Oily-Carte - booking agent for the Moulin Bleu nightclub in Paris Educated in England, sophisticated with impeccable manners
Pierre Payanski - 24-year-old half-Russian poet. Anti-fascist with a bad leg
Cherie Boot - French cabaret singer in mid 20's Husky voice, sultry, decadent & exotic, almost androgynous
Ingrid Pith - Danish art dealer - finds paintings all over Europe. Busty and flirtatious

Optional Guests for 11-12 player game :
Seamus O'Hack - a dissolute Irish journalist more interested in drinking than writing
Pia Fedora - Spanish cabaret star and love of the Black Cat. Fiery, passionate and bereaved