The Golden & Roaring Twenties Era

Aug. 28, 2012 - PRLog -- Other momentous events that took place during the 1920s included prohibition in America which was a national ban on the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol.  It started in 1920 and was not lifted until 1933.   Enforcing the alcohol ban was very difficult and led to widespread flouting of the law. The ban also resulted in the growth of many criminal gangs and organisation such as the modern American mafia.

Unfortunately the economic boom came to an end in 1929 with Black Tuesday with a massive stock market crash.  Many people were ruined overnight and this led to the Great Depression of the 1930s, which become the biggest financial crisis of the 20th century.

Back in the UK, after a long battle, women were at last allowed to vote in 1918, this contributed the following decade becoming more liberated for women, with many going out to work for the first time and earning money.

Flappers were such young woman who wore shorter skirts, had the latest fashionable bob hairstyle and danced to the modern jazz music.  Although many saw them as brash for driving automobiles, their excessive drinking and generally flouting social rules.

It is truly an era to be remembered and is immortalised in many ways, but a fun and different way to experience a little of the 1920s is through a murder mystery event (http://www.murder-mystery-events.com/index.html) flapper style.  

Picture the scene, it’s 1928 and the height of the Flapper era. Laird McTavish, miserly millionaire, is celebrating his 100th Birthday and you’re on the guest list, along with the close family and a few surprise guests!

Clunge the Butler welcomes you to the event accompanied by Fanny the parlour maid, both unusual characters and then there’s McTavish’s son the whiter than white Curate Robert and the rather saucy Nurse Golightly. Such characters can only mean you’re in for a great night of entertainment.

Soon you’ll be stunned by a hideous murder, and discover the identity of the first victim. But why were they killed, and how was the second murder committed and why? Just a few of the questions you have to discover as amateur sleuth you question the suspects and work out the dastardly villain whodunit!

The McTavish Mystery (http://www.murder-mystery-events.com/plots.html) is just one of the many fun evenings of murder mystery mayhem (http://www.murder-mystery-events.com/packages_available.html), ideal to celebrate any occasion.