Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Girl Genius - Phil & Kaja Foglio

The setting is the Farnsworth Manor in Yorkshire in the Autumn of 1886. A country weekend party at the behest of Lady Kaye Carter goes horribly wrong when the the Sunday afternoon following the seance of the previous night, she's found dead.

It's a dark and stormy night, the phone line is down but a servant has been sent to fetch the local constabulary. Can the facts of the murder be discovered before they arrive, or must everyone keep a watchful eye and be denied the chance to leave the manor? What of the rumours of the change in Lady Kaye's will?

• Evelyn Abercrombie the youthful ward and companion to Lady Kaye. She indulges in perhaps a bit too much poetry and dancing amongst the wildflowers. She is affianced to Lionel.
  • Evelyn sleeps in the Laquer guest room.
• Lionel "Ducky" Bigglesworth, a serious man of middle years with his own manor and grounds.
  • Lionel sleeps in the guest room closest to Aleister's bedroom.
• Then there is the plucky granddaughter, Ortensia Edwards. Unfortunately orphaned, but very keen on not letting that get in the way of setting things to rights.
  • Ortensia sleeps in the Apricot guest room.
• The late Lady's younger brother, Uncle Victor Farnsworth, a nice, avuncular man of academia.
  • Victor has made his abode in the Portico guest suite.
• The youngest child, Aleister Paul Carter a gentleman of leisure and his older sister-
• Melancolia Q. Carter the rather morbid.
• Cain Dolour farmhand and gardener.
  • Cain sleeps in the servant's wing closest to the Dining room.
• Sister Gwyneth Mallorie from the local Nunnery - the Order of the Bleeding Heart.
  • Sister Gwyneth is staying in the Blue guest room
• and of course Jeeves the butler.
  • Jeeves sleeps in the servant's wing closest to the East Belvedere.
• Other Characters in the game

• What actually happened
• The Will
• Other Clues

Whitemarsh Hall on which Farnsworth Manor is a derivative work.