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Red Horse by David Burke at Bernards Inn to Host Live, Interactive Professional Murder Mystery Dinner

Published by New Jersey Stage

originally published: 06/25/2024

(BERNARDSVILLE, NJ) -- Test your problem-solving skills while enjoying a three-course dinner at a live Murder Mystery Dinner with a professional cast at Red Horse by David Burke at Bernards Inn, on Friday July 12, 2024 from 7:00pm-10:00pm. This is not dinner theater! It is three full hours of fun, food and laughter as you and your table mates try to solve a murder. It is an interactive, challenging, fun and social night with a delicious dinner created by Chef David Burke!

Enjoy a champagne greeting and a three-course dinner while trying to solve a crime through a series of clues and interactions with the professional cast members. A professional host, along with a detective and cast members will guide you through the event filled with intrigue, murder, mystery, twists, unexpected turns and ultimately a surprise ending.

Tickets are $110++ per person. To purchase are available for purchase online.  Red Horse by David Burke at Bernards Inn is located at 27 Minebrook Road in Bernardsville, New Jersey.

Keith O’Leary and Margo Morrison are the creators behind the Murder Mystery USA. They are award winning writers, producers, and directors with extensive backgrounds in motion picture, television, and theatrical production. Since 1985 they have been responsible for over 7000 live and virtual mystery productions worldwide and have been featured in the print and television media in over 35 different countries.

“We do not do any of those done to death, clichéd, over the top, cheesy characters and plots” promised O’Leary. “We do a very present-day Law and Order or CSI approach with a lot of humor. You will not see any feather boas, cigarette holders, or French Maids in our productions. If you want to decorate, or wear costumes, go crazy. Our shows will work anywhere, with any motif.”




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Labeled as “The Masterminds of the genre” by the media, their Murder Mystery Weekends and Murder Mystery Events have been co-hosted by such luminaries as Mary Higgins Clark, Peter Falk, and Dr. Henry Lee, and have been featured on Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous as well as all major television networks.

With offices on both the East and West Coast they still travel extensively, producing weekends, dinners, private parties, a unique CSI team-building experience, as well as corporate events for virtually the entire Fortune 500. The couple has been married since they started the business, have 3 grown children and after living for decades in Los Angeles now reside in a “Cabot Cove” setting on the coast of Maine.




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