Travelers Are Dying to Solve a Murder Mystery on Vacation

The evening’s fete has become the scene of an unthinkable crime. Our hosts, a gossip columnist and a prominent socialite, were just organizing the flowers when the lights flickered off and on to reveal that one guest had been murdered — stabbed, her body still warm in the other room.

The rest of the party starts looking around at one another. One buffoonish novelist and his intoxicated, womanizing brother would like to have a word with everybody on the premises, including me.

Part improv comedy, part avant-garde rumpus, Ms. Maxwell Presents: The Murder Game feels perfectly at home in this ...