Mystery Bucket List

Solve the murder mystery through deduction

Watch the classic 1986 film Blue Velvet directed by David Lynch

Delve into the mystery of an urban legend by researching its origins, visiting the location where it supposedly occurred, and interviewing locals who may have firsthand knowledge. Choose a famous legend like the Mothman in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, or the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland, and separate fact from fiction through documents, eyewitness accounts, and on-site exploration.

A banker's birthday present is a game he cannot opt out of; Michael Douglas in freefall.

Fifteen years locked in a room, five days to find out why; and one corridor fight.

Two detectives, seven deadly sins and the ending nobody forgets.

A book with something real hidden behind it - Kit Williams buried a golden hare and painted the directions into Masquerade; people are still digging for later ones.

An escape room you can do at the kitchen table: riddles that unlock the next page, and an answer key you are not supposed to open. Journal 29 and the EXIT books are the usual way in.

A rabbit cop and a fox con man in a city of animals, with a plot about prejudice.

A linguist learns an alien language and it rearranges her sense of time.

Eight strangers, one snowbound stagecoach stop, and nobody telling the truth.

Rashomon. four witnesses, four irreconcilable accounts of the same killing.

The unsolved San Francisco case, told through the people it consumed.

A marshal investigates a disappearance at an asylum on a storm-cut island.

A man with no short-term memory hunts his wife's killer, told backwards.

A dead man possesses objects to rewind deaths; Shu Takumi's puzzle mystery.

Clifftop Transylvanian castle marketed as Dracula’s — worth it either way.

Deep Highland loch with a ruined castle shore and a famous resident legend.

One murder, a grid of suspects, weapons and locations, and just enough clues to eliminate everything but the answer. There are hundreds, in books and one a day online.

Benoit Blanc on a Greek island with a tech billionaire and five people who owe him everything.

Guy Ritchie’s bare-knuckle Holmes, with the fight choreography narrated before it happens.

A standalone case six years after the series ended, with a psychic ex-priest and bodies under the West Virginia snow.

A Klingon moon explodes and the original crew escort peace talks they do not believe in; their last film together.

Judy and Nick are partners now and disagree about everything; a pit viper turns up in a city that has had no snakes for a century.

Made between seasons five and six: a bomb in Dallas, a corn field full of domes and a ship under the Antarctic ice.

A shooting in the DMZ investigated from both sides; the film that made Park's name in Korea.

Ichabod Crane investigates the Headless Horseman in a fog-bound 1799 New York.