"The Christmas Cracker Crime Caper" My Christmas themed murder mystery approaches... I can't wait!

This weekend, I spent a fair few hours drawing my new characters for the impending murder mystery event, ‘The Christmas Cracker Crime Caper’

It’s Christmas 1962 and the villagers of Cheetham Lacey are preparing for a yuletide feast at the home of Doctor Ambrose Hamilton. Oh, deary me, tell me it’s not true, can the BBC radio weather forecast be correct? Is the whole of Cheetham Lacey to be blanketed by thick snow? Might the village be cut off by snow drifts? Again… Alas, tragedy has struck, odious literary critic and all-round society bore, Kingsley du Fosse has been murdered. Here we go again - the villagers are horror-struck, the police are perplexed, everyone is confused and they’re all cut off! It’s ANOTHER murder in a quaint English village and this time there is no escape…

The suspects are:

1. Jerry Snodgrass – murder mystery novelist and a bit of a hack. Kingsley du Fosse always gave his novels terrible, scathing reviews. Jerry said he’d get his revenge one day…

2. Nanette Snodgrass – wife to Jerry and his utterly incompetent secretary and executive personal assistant. She always avoided Kingsley.

3. Professor Olsen Witterstaetter – Dutch professor, here for the literary crime festival – apparently. He was seen arguing and gesticulating wildly at Kingsley du Fosse.

4. Sabine du Fosse – widow of the deceased, Kingsley du Fosse. Sabine longed to return to the city and away from the confines of the tiresome little village.

5. Clementine du Fosse – daughter of the deceased and Sabine du Fosse, usually away at the Belvedere School for ‘Wayward Girls,’ home for the holidays.

6. Griselda du Fosse – daughter of the deceased and his first wife, Emerald. Griselda rarely ventures out of her bedroom, preferring solitude and seclusion. She loathed her father with a passion.

7. Marissa Goldsworthy – famous crime novelist. Kingsley du Fosse always gave her rave reviews, even when other critics found her work, tired, boring and old hat.

8. Roger Eddlington – Marissa’s chauffeur, they’re ever so close, some would say ‘too close.’ But then surely society heiress Marissa would never be caught dead in flagrante with her chauffeur... Eddlington knew Kingsley from his time in London…

9. Blodwyn Pugh – housekeeper to Doctor Ambrose and ruddy sick of all these murders. She cleaned Kingsley’s home and office. ‘A bloody nightmare that man. I could never do right for wrong.’

10. Taffy du Bonet – novelist and raconteur, Taffy loathed Kingsley du Fosse as they were rival critics, Taffy wrote for The Cheetham Herald, du Fosse for The Cheetham Times.

And of course, there is our host, the one and only fez wearing:

11. Doctor Ambrose Hamilton – now a murder mystery novelist, the host for the Christmas murder literary festival and aghast at yet another murder on his doorstep. Ambrose just wanted a nice, pleasant evening and instead he has to contend with a murder in his beloved village.

The game is afoot, Kingsley du Fosse is dead, now it’s just a case of – whodunit!?