Historical Characters Murder Mystery Party

It is July of 1945, at a conference in Potsdam. Roosevelt is now dead and Truman is present, Churchill represents Britain until 28 July when he is voted out of office and his successor replaces him for the last few days of the conference. Stalin is there from USSR. Truman receives word while there of the successful Trinity test of the atom bomb, clearing the way for his decision to use it on the Japanese a month later. He hints of it to Stalin without disclosing it. Stalin likely knew something about the project from his own spies - how much we can't be certain. Secrets are in the air.

On Saturday afternoon, a maid was murdered, clutching shredded and fire-scorched documents in her hand. As we assemble for dinner at the hotel, knowledge of this atrocious deed casts a pall over all of us. Only the murderer knows for sure what the documents contained. Everyone is potentially a suspect. There will be prizes for correct unraveling of other characters' secondary tasks and the murderer.