Alibit

The Widow of Atlanta

about 4 h 15 min · 4–7 players

Atlanta, Georgia, March 1912. Ambrose Kern, a cotton merchant, was shot in his bedroom at night and died of the wound a week later. His wife Lyla Kern was accused of drugging him and shooting him for the insurance money, but was acquitted on August 3, 1912, and the file was closed without a verdict. Now the folder is on the table again: the docket number is still on the cover, and two old papers still bear a signature no one will own up to. Three witnesses were deposed and died: the cook in the house, the stableman at the club, and the seamstress. The cook's son weighs cotton in the firm's warehouse, the coachman's son drives the firm's wagon, and the telegram that seemed to come from Macon has a sender. One sentence in black ink on a right cuff appears in three acts, and whoever follows the household's trail straight ahead ends up in the kitchen while the answer lies in the firm's two ledgers.

The Widow of Atlanta – a murder case in Alibit. Up to eight people work the same case in the browser, with no game master.