A club owner, two crooners, a dancer and a bodybuilder.
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Murder at the Kit Kat Klub
One last chance to save the club. One star too many.
The Pocono Mountains, 1963
The headliner has come home.
Nobody is ready to share the spotlight.The Mystery
A comeback engagement with a lethal encore.
In 1963, the Kit Kat Klub is the self-proclaimed Caesar’s Palace of the Poconos. Owner Sid Geaser has a taste for booze, a weakness for bad bets and a nightclub sliding toward foreclosure. His permanent headliner, Newt Diamond, is not helping attendance.
Then successful crooner Johnny Rival returns to the club that launched him. Dancer Misty Storm sees possibilities. Bodybuilder Claude Hammer sees competition. Newt sees a rival who already has everything he wants.
The songs keep coming, the drinks keep flowing, and the club’s comeback becomes a murder investigation. The audience gets a front-row seat—and a chance to question everyone left standing.
At a Glance
Built for a room full of suspects.
Rivalries, nightclub entertainment and the investigation.
Guests become groupies, relatives and members of the floor show’s audience.
A struggling mountaintop nightclub.
The Audience Has a Role
Your dinner table is already in the nightclub.
Johnny’s groupies, Newt’s relatives and Misty’s admirers come from the audience. The performers draw these guests into brief exchanges as the nightclub show unfolds around them.
When the entertainment takes a fatal turn, the room questions the surviving suspects before the final act reveals who turned a return engagement into a farewell performance.
Meet the Characters
Five performers.
A roomful of motives.
Sid Geaser
The club’s owner, running out of money and good decisions.
Newt Diamond
The permanent headliner, whose best days were never quite that good.
Misty Storm
Sid’s niece and featured dancer, caught between competing admirers.
Johnny Rival
A successful crooner returning to the room that launched his career.
Claude Hammer
A former weakling turned bodybuilder, still devoted to Misty.
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