Having been ushered away from the filming site the Maven opted to review the information they had gathered.
There had a number of clues but the problem was fitting them into a coherent narrative. Rosemary and Margaret both came up with theories.
Rosemary' slightly outlandish theory was that the whole situation was a set-up by Sheriff Dalrymple, who was fed up with the Mavens showing him up all the time. He had gar as far as ensuring that all four of them had made it to the final of the show (which had admittedly been somewhat unlikely) and faking two murders and an attempted killing. Unfortunately, this theory did not explain why the trained medic Laura had not noticed that Paul Riviera was not dead.
The group were left with Margaret's more prosaic theory that Donna Riviera had plotted the entire thing to get rid of Paul, his ex-lovers (Scott and Melanie, the two contestants) and also to get a presenter job on the revamped show by getting Buck to shoot Timothy. Scott had been saved by Daisy noticing the deliberately frayed cable leading to his oven and Laura had saved Melanie.
With the benefit of hindsight, this theory was not much less outlandish than Rosemary's. Nonetheless, Margaret went off to she the sheriff. He was unsure and reminded her of a case 120 years ago, when a local man had somehow escaped justice for murdering a dozen people despite the overwhelming evidence that he was guilty.
Eventually, he was persuaded and the suspects were gathered. Buck crumbled first, blaming Donna and it was fair to say that their affair was probably over. Donna was unable to run due to her stilettos but Buck tried to flee. However, he tripped over another stray cabled and they were both taken into custody. Luckily, the filming was in America rather than the UK, or else the HSE would have had a field day.
And thus, another mystery was solved.
GM Notes:
I think this mystery went better than the first case I ran as everyone had a better idea what the game was about. We could have started a new Mystery but I thought we probably needed a bit of a break to recharge our batteries.
I we do continue at some point, then the Mavens will be invited to an event at the local museum.
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