# The Great Brindlewood Bay Bake Off
Complexity: 7
The most popular television program in the world, The Jolly Good Baking Show, has come to Brindlewood Bay to find the town’s best baker. After several qualifying rounds, our Murder Mavens have made it to the final, televised portion of the show. There, they’ll meet the charming presenters and have their confections judged by the notoriously strict Paul and Jane.
##### The Victim
[[Paul Riveria]] was found in his trailer dusted with flour and his hands bound with rope that had expertly tied plaits.
![[Paul Riveria dead.png|400]]
##### Locations
- [[Bake Off Production Location]]
- [[Judge's Tent]]
- [[Timothy's Trailer]]
##### Suspects
- [[Cameraman Buck]]
![[Cameraman Buck square.jpg|150]]
- [[Donna Riveria]]
![[Donna Riveria.png|150]]
- [[Heath Hendricks]]
![[Heath Hendricks.png|150]]
- [[Jane Leaf]]
![[Jane Leaf square.jpg|150]]
- [[Melanie Blair]]
![[Melanie Blair square.jpg|150]]
- [[Scott Lamb]]
![[Scott Lamb square.jpg|150]]
- [[Sue Mellon]]
![[Sue Mellon square.jpg|150]]
- [[Timothy Boosh]]
![[Timothy Boosh square.jpg|150]]
##### Clues
- Broken Britty Award
![[Broken Britty Award.png|250]]
- Cake with Hateful Message
![[Cake with Message.png|250]]
- An unreasonable contractual demand
![[Contract Demands.jpg|250]]
- A cookbook authored by Jane Leaf and Paul Riviera, but with one of Paul’s recipes torn out.
![[Recipe Book with Torn Page.png|250]]
- A dressing-down from the head of the BBC
![[Dressing Down by the BBC.png|250]]
- Diamond Loaf Earrings
![[Diamond Loaf Earrings.png|250]]
- A plea for financial help - a hand written letter
- Heated argument about British politics between Jane and Paul
- Buckingham Palace invite—one name missing
- Love letters from the Prime Minister
- Baking sheet dusted with rat poison
- Rolling Pin covered in a red material
![[Rolling Pin with Jam.png|250]]
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##### Void Clues
* The shadow of something unnatural crawling atop the baking tent. It looks like two human sillouttes joined at the torso pushing against the canvas.
![[Shadows Crawling Inside the Tent.png|350]]
* A tray of gingerbread men engaged in lurid acts, like on a Greek vase.
![[GingerBread Cookies.jpg|350]]
* People standing at the edge of the forest in white stone masks
* An oven that seems impossibly vast and dark
##### Theorize
Jane is on a downward slide on the show because of her politics
* Love letter from far-right PM to Jane
- Paul got the BBC call because the show is suffering from Jane's politics
- Heated argument about politics
- Jane got un-invited from the Buckingham Palace party
- Britty award was from last season
- Jane made the cake as message to Paul - it was laced with
- Rat poison
Paul is gonna bring in Donna
* A cookbook authored by Jane Leaf and Paul Riviera, but with one of Paul’s recipes torn out.
- Diamond earrings because she wrote a great recipe for the book
Jane brought Scott Lamb to kill Paul
- A plea for financial help from Scott
- Contract with an unreasonable demand - assassination contract
- Scott hit Paul with the rolling pin covered in red substance
Buck is a member of the royal family and is a cameraman for fun