Freeform Games
A company called Freeform Games seems to have hit the nail on the head. They produce murder mystery style interactive games and distribute them as PDFs. Their scenarios seem to dispense with the (frankly) stupid spoon-feeding approach you find in Decipher's How to Host a Murder series, and they're really leveraging the strengths of the PDF format with this kind of product — there's no reason at all you need a box or book to host a party/game. Furthermore, this is exactly the way to take all that crap you learned writing RPGs and aim it squarely at the mass market.
Although $42 USD is pricey (it's a British company, so that's a rough conversion from pounds), I also like that they're charging an amount commensurate with the cost of good writing and design. (Is it good writing? Good design? That's unknown to me. The free introductory materials pass a sniff test, but I'm curious to hear from anyone who's read or played one of these. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?)
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