Was it Miss Scarlett in the kitchen with the frying pan?

no silly…there is no frying pan but a gun and a knife rather than a revolver and a dagger, which took some time to get used to whilst playing an american vintage find of a game…

from JellyfishJunk vintage site, San Francisco.

yes clue (if you’ve seen the film you’ll know) but on a video game.  I love the vintage illustrations on the box of everyone marvelling over the sight of the vhs player (so compact) didn’t anyone tell them you don’t have to sit that close to the screen or the vhs for it to work.  Anyway it has complete farcical actors and acting. it also has a funny red 3d card that you decipher the mysteries’ solutions with! (so no cheating by taking a quick peek). Obviously there’s the usual femme fatale of miss scarlett with some great dress gloves and cigarette holders.  there is also miss peach who is young and supposedly french and does wear a rather nice fifties cocktail dress, unfortuately her whole ensemble is just a little what is that word? hmm peach! Anyway I love it and over champagne in vintage babycham glasses, lots of cheese and truffles it is vintage whodunnit paradise and I actually got to be miss scarlett and won if only once…hands off…this one is mine, but you can find another one on etsy at retroclassics.

the treasury in question…

who dunnit? by pinkmilkvintage.

who dunnit?

for my love of all things murderous:  mystery, detective, film noir, hitchcock, the queen of crime (you know who), sherlock holmes, midsomer murders, cluedo. especially the recurrent theme of everyone stranded in a house…alone…cut off…you know the drill classic Christie ‘And there there were none’ , also hilarious ‘clue’ and the star-studded cast of ‘murder by death’. Recently just read Jonathan Coe’s novel ‘What a carve up’ in which there was a witty play on these classics…. I grew up with murder and remember playing a now vintage sherlock holmes game with my parents, which I thought was very grown up at the time. i remember being particulary haunted by the dark victorian style illustraions on the board, especially of the park, where in one story a young girl gets kidnapped. probably explains the origin of fear for things lurking in park bushes. fortunately I share this passion for who dunnit with my husband too who was indoctrinated with miss marple by his italian granny when he was little: he remembers it nostalgically as an english winter, his grandfather’s big leather chesterfield armchair and an open fire, all he needed was a thunder storm. so these are a few of my favourite things from pinkmilkvintage‘s new treasury:

vintage 1972 clue game by sydg

doesn’t everyone always want  be miss scarlett?

classic trench coat by amyhartranft

vintage khaki dress by thevintagecloset

pulp fiction novel by stilettogirl
keep quiet…no one can hear you….

dial what for murder?

talking over coffees in the park today about  film noir and our love of hitchcock,

by kitschlandia

…murder and all things mystery I couldn’t for the life of me remember the name of the classic film I adore: dial m for murder. temporary lapse  due to the intense august heat here in crete I hope.   also still need to get that perfect vertigo film print by new yorker Saul Bass for the new apartment. 

just bought this one…

fabulous vintage film posters by thebabykitties

until then after a bit more browsing on etsy for all things murder and mystery anorakgirl found…

by  sargeguy

also need  vintage dial m for murder style phone for desk like this gorgeous one…   I also love the art work on vintage gum shoe style paperbacks, pulp fiction and the graphics of the queen of crime…

by 47thStreetSupplyCo

by stilettogirl

so who do you say dunnit?