There is a CD included with this game.

Everyone's a suspect when murder is on the menu. And with Murder a la Carte you have everything you need to serve up the perfect murder dinner party. First the invites, you choose which of your friends play which devious suspect and invite them to come along as that character. Then the shopping list, menu suggestions and recipes. Plus of course...a really tasty murder to solve. It will be drop dead fun, and by the end of the evening, one (or more) of the suspects, your 'friends', will be caught out as the murderer!

It’s September 1946 and, following a wartime break, the Venice Film Festival is once again being staged, attracting the biggest stars of world cinema to Northern Italy and bringing a touch of glamour back to this most romantic of European cities.

Romeo Bechini, the young head of an old wealthy Venetian family, his invited a mixed group to dinner. Unfortunately one of his house-guests, Leonardo di Capulet, the bright new hope of Hollywood, has just been found dead in his bath. When it turns out that he didn’t die of natural causes, only one conclusion can be drawn: one or more of the guests has killed him. Your task is to find out who.