Interactive murder mystery show by Highly Suspect in which the audience helps solve the case alongside Sherlock Holmes.
Highly Suspect are back at the Mitchell Arts Centre on Saturday 28 November with The Death of the Great Detective, an immersive murder mystery that puts Sherlock Holmes at the centre of the case. It's not a show you just sit and watch: the whole room helps solve the crime, so you'll be doing the detective work alongside Holmes rather than just watching from the stalls.
It's a return to the MAC for the troupe, who played the venue in 2025 with The Murder on the Disorient Express. That one was a hit, and this is the follow-up. If you've seen their work before, you'll know the format: a murder mystery where the audience gets involved in the investigation. The company bills itself as Cumbria's premiere murder mystery troupe, and they describe their productions as nights of fun, frivolity and fatalities.
They've built their reputation on multiple sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and on staging shows at venues like Durham Cathedral, Blackpool Winter Gardens and the film set of Kenneth Brannagh's 2017 Murder on the Orient Express. Beyond the stage, they work with corporate clients including the NHS and Cumbria County Council, and they produce an online murder mystery, The Social Media Murderer, and a web series, The Unreliable Narrator.
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The Death of the Great Detective runs at the Mitchell Arts Centre on Broad Street, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 4HG, on Saturday 28 November, starting at 7:30pm.
