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The Art of Party Hosting

Welcome to The Art of Party Hosting, where over two decades of party and event hosting experience come together in how-to articles, tips and tricks for throwing parties of any size, inspiration and more!

Welcome to The Art of Party Hosting, where over two decades of party and event hosting experience come together in how-to articles, tips and tricks for throwing parties of any size, inspiration and more!

How to Host a Virtual Murder Mystery using Zoom

In the time of COVID-19, Zoom has become a verb as well as an online video conferencing tool! If you haven’t jumped on the bandwagon yet, we suggest heading to zoom.us to get acquainted with their app. We decided to focus on Zoom for our virtual murder mystery parties because they have a free [...]

There Have Been Multiple Murders

Not all Shot In The Dark Mysteries are created equally. If you’ve already investigated some single murders, it may be time to bring in more bodies! Investigating a multiple homicide means getting deep into layers of intrigue. Who had the motive to take out each of the victims? Who had the means to kill [...]

9 Tips for Designing your Speakeasy

How To Set Up A Speakeasy In Your Home Sometimes we offer links to help you with decor and inspiration ideas for bringing your mystery party to life. These links may or may not give us a commission. There's just something about the Roaring Twenties that makes us want to gather our friends, [...]

Murder at the Bourbon Club

Welcome to the SHOT blog! Today we are going to slide back in time a little bit, and reminisce about a past event. As you’re probably aware, Shot in the Dark Mysteries can be thrown anywhere, by anyone. That is the beauty of our easy, interactive format. Occasionally however, we have the opportunity to be [...]

How to Campaign for the Guests You Want

Shot in the Dark Creative Director, Leigh, sat down with her marketing team from C+P Digital to talk about how to hype up your party. You can listen to their full conversation here. As the marketers they are, their answer is to essentially create a campaign. Which means, just like a campaign, your target audience [...]

A Murder Mystery Party Event in Copenhagen, Denmark!

In 2017, Shot in the Dark Mysteries premiered A Gangster Murder at a 1920s Speakeasy in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was a wild ride to get there! SHOT Creative Director Leigh had her on-the-ground point of contact, Lisbeth Damkjaer They plotted and planned from half a world apart to ensure a party to remember. To hear Leigh’s [...]

Top Christmas and Holiday Murder Mystery Party Recommendations

Merry Christmas! We are coming at you this week on the blog with a discussion about Christmas parties, specifically Christmas murder mystery parties, and our creative director Leigh’s top recommendations for your Christmas and holiday murder mystery parties from our holiday catalogue – AND some that really AREN’T from our holiday [...]

How To Party Like Gatsby

How to Party Like Gatsby The New Roaring 20s are just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate 100 years of this transformational era than to throw a Roaring Twenties party? Murder mystery parties are a great excuse to get all “dolled” up and dance the Charleston, and we have plenty of 20s [...]

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