Suspects: Claire Harper, Eternal Investigator

About this board game

Suspects: Claire Harper, Eternal Investigator is a mystery game for 1–6 players, designed for a 90-minute play time and released in 2022. Take on the role of detective Claire Harper as her investigations unfold across different stages of her extraordinary life.

Claire Harper was born in 1910. An avid reader of Agatha Christie, a world traveller, and unmistakably British, she follows in her father’s footsteps and studies criminal law after Oxford University admits her under its quotas for female students in 1927.

This second chapter in the Suspects line takes Claire from her school days to tranquil Swiss lakes and the first post-war Olympic Games. Each setting brings a new mystery for her brilliant mind to observe, investigate, and unravel.

Progress through each case by reading Clue cards like the pages of a book. Discuss what you discover, reason together, and form hypotheses before deciding how the evidence fits together.

• Read Clue cards to advance the plot.
• Discuss observations and develop hypotheses.
• Answer questions about the case to score points.
• Aim to solve the mystery after drawing and reading as few Clue cards as possible.

Your final score depends not only on answering the case questions, but also on how quickly you reach your conclusions. The fewer Clue cards you draw and read, the more points you can earn, creating a balance between careful investigation and efficient deduction.

With its book-like structure and focus on observation, discussion, and reasoning, Suspects: Claire Harper, Eternal Investigator invites players to follow one of fiction’s finest detectives through cases no ordinary investigator could easily crack.