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We’d just done a gardening weekend. It went very well and we thought we needed to do more specialist themed weekends, because at that time in the 1980s, it wasn’t really a thing.

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I had so much interest from around the world, which proves that the murder mystery weekend idea was new. No-one else had heard of them.

Then I thought how interesting it would be for the people staying there. A bit scary, but they wouldn’t be able to leave – they would have to give evidence.

I was driving to work one morning and I heard about a shooting at The Plaza in New York. I thought about how awful it would be if someone was shot in our hotel.

Now, there’s so many interactive things like escape rooms – I was doing interactive 38 years before it became commonplace, so I think I was always an innovator.

But I discussed it with the chairman of the firm and told him I thought we would get a lot of publicity, and he said yes.

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