NCLA 2013 Presentation. Interactive murder mysteries are a fun and creative way to bring patrons into your library. Learn how to present a mystery night program from start to finish and how to best tailor it to your library. We’ll cover writing a script, choosing your victim, staging the scene, casting your suspects and more.
2. Why should you listen
to us?
Becky Peterson, Alamance County Public
Libraries
Rebekah Scott, Alamance County Public
Libraries increasingly successful original mystery
years of
5
night
programs
2012 – 60 tickets were gone within
3
hours.
2013 – doubled the number of performances to increase
tickets from
60 to 120 (we still sold out)
3. How did we get here?
2007 – Purchased a good script
2008 – Purchased a terrible
script
2009 – We can do this!