Murder Mystery

Test your skills and see if you can work out who committed the crime.

This events theme is: The Perilous Phlogisticon

Setting the scene:

This murder mystery is set in a steampunk world – where the technology and aesthetic designs are inspired by 19th-century steam-powered machinery. Our story is based on the real, but long since discredited, theory of phlogiston. This theory postulated the existence of an element called phlogiston; which was believed to have negative weight because after it was released due to burning of a substance, the substance gained weight. We have taken this idea and imagined that some scientists are planning to use phlogiston in the construction of a flying machine, the Phlogisticon.

In the town of Oxbridge, three Guilds have come together to design and build a flying machine, which they call the Phlogisticon. These Guilds are:

• the Librarians – keepers of all knowledge,