£100K MURDER MYSTERY GAME!
£25,000 reward must be won each week — just solve the clues to find WHODUNNIT!
LaST Saturday, in Weekend magazine, we launched the second part of our Murder Mystery game, inviting you to play detective and solve the case for your chance to win a £25,000 reward. See right for a recap of the story so far, with the five suspects identified. you will also find some new insight from Inspector Morris to help you crack the case.
HOW TO PLAY
WE Have printed a new clue each day since Saturday, revealing a celebrated film and some of the cast. your final clue is here (see right) and be sure to read the Inspector’s additional advice in the recap. you can enter the competition today only — just follow the instructions (far right).
MURDER ON THE FILM SET
It’s April 1958. Inspector Morris and constable briggs are investigating the suspicious death of actress bette starr. she was killed while shooting a scene for her new film — stabbed by her costar and secret lover, gregory holliday. He believed he was using a prop dagger with a retractable blade. but someone had swapped the fake dagger for a real one. did gregory know? or is the culprit someone else? perhaps it was bette’s cuckolded husband, Oscar J. Humphreys III, or her jealous twin sister, Judy Starr? or could it be screenwriter gene Romano, aggrieved by changes bette made to his script? the fifth suspect is eve Audrey ‘Holly’ Wood, who says she was bette’s biggest fan, but who had been sending poison-pen letters in green ink. Morris and briggs have been left five clues already. When a sixth photo turns up, stuffed into the exhaust pipe of the inspector’s car, the penny finally drops. ‘I’ve cracked the code!’ he tells briggs. ‘Alec guinness and david lean have just been all over the papers winning some very famous movie awards in los Angeles for the bridge on the river Kwai. ‘What do you mean, sir?’ ‘consider, briggs, we’ve had a string of clues from our anonymous tipster in which each of the suspects’ names have appeared, often more than once. but there’s only one person whose name applies to all of them. Also, there was a further clue at the crime scene. there was a curiously out-of-place, but familiar-looking, statuette on the left hand side of the mantelpiece. remember I told you to look closely because the devil is in the detail. so yes, I think we have our golden prize!’
HOW TO ENTER
Once you have connected the clues and revealed the identity of this week’s murderer (either Gregory, Oscar, Judy, Gene or Eve), follow these instructions to enter the prize draw for your chance to win £25k cash. you may enter by phone or text as many times as you wish, but only once by email. Entries accepted between 6am and 10pm today — Friday, December 1 —
ONLY. you must also have retained four front pages of this week’s Mail to qualify to enter.
BY PHONE: Call 0901 293 6202 and leave your name, answer and contact phone number. Calls cost £1 plus your network charge.
BY TEXT: Text 65700 with the word Mystery followed by your name, the answer and a second phone number if you wish (e.g. Mystery Sue Smith Gregory 01111 123456). Texts cost £1 plus standard network charge. BY EMAIL: Enter for free by emailing
solve@dmail.entries.co.uk with the subject line Murder Mystery Entry. Include your full name, answer and phone number. you may send only one email entry.
you MUST answer your phone if we call you tomorrow between 12pm and 2pm or you forfeit the prize. We will try three times.