🔎 Getaway with Murder on Mother's Day Weekend with an immersive Murder Mystery at The Wilburton resort in Manchester Vermont!
🌷More fun than flowers, more delicious than chocolates, treat your mother, wife, or bestie to a Mystery in the Mountains for Mother’s Day. It's a weekend to die for.
🎥 Set in 1938, The Dangerous Divorcee whisks you back in time to the romantic era when RKO Pictures owned The Wilburton Resort as an exclusive hideaway for entertainment executives and movie stars.
🏡 Up a winding driveway, perched on the crest of a hill, The 1902 Wilburton mansion transports you to a country manor straight out of an Agatha Christie novel or game of Clue. It's the perfect setting for a whodunnit...
☎️ Call 802-362-2500 for info or to reserve.
Mother's Day Mystery Weekend Package Includes:
🔎 Friday 6-7:30pm "Meet the Suspects" welcome party.
🍓Saturday 6:30-10:00pm Murder Mystery Dinner Party
🍹 Cash bar with speciality theme cocktails.
🍳 Bountiful country inn breakfasts Saturday and Sunday 8:30-10:00am
🍹Free Mom-osa's for moms
📸 Professional photos at the Mystery!
🏡 Lodging in mansion guest rooms or 🐶 dog friendly suites.
Bring a group and stay in spacious vacation homes.
🎨 Guided tour of the Wilburton estate’s sculpture gardens Saturday 10 - 11am.
Lodging from $245/night plus $150/per person for catering & entertainment
Read about the theatrical fun in Broadway World, AARP and The Boston Globe!
Pack your sense of adventure for a getaway with murder at the musical mystery weekend at The Wilburton in Manchester Vermont.
It is 1938, and the new owners of RKO Studios (famous for King Kong, Citizen Kane, screwball comedies and the Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers movie musicals) are holding a secret board meeting at The Wilburton to choose the team for one last movie.
In a clash of ambition and revenge, the stars and executives compete to make one last RKO studio production. Everyone is dying to be a part of it! Will this swanky soiree include getting away – with murder?
Guests are invited to:
🌟 Join the scheming stars
💃 Dance in top hats and tails and ‘put on the Ritz’,
🎬 Take a screen test
🔎 Compare clues to try to solve the mystery of THE DANGEROUS DIVORCEE.
👗 Dress in festive cocktail attire, Hollywood glamour, or as your favorite RKO movie character to follow the action through the grand salon, the library and the Billiard Room of the Wilburton mansion.
🥗 Mystery dinner includes a 3-course dinner,
🍷 Cash bar with themed specialty cocktails.
📸 A professional photographer will capture portraits as a souvenir of this unique Vermont experience.
Read about the theatrical fun in Broadway World, AARP and The Boston Globe!
The Wilburton’s latest original, history-inspired murder mystery is an elegant, interactive weekend of music, mayhem – and murder!
Follow the action through the grand salon, the library and the Billiard Room of The Wilburton mansion.
TO BOOK
• Click here to pick your favorite lodging starting at $245/night.
• Click here to add $150 per person + tax and service for the package.
☎️ Call 802-362-2500 for questions or help with your reservation.
Optional splurges:
• Pamper yourself with in room massages $125/hour • Champagne & Chocolates in your room $60. •. Save 50% for a 3rd night stay.
For more information see WILBURTON.COM or call 802-362-2500
At the Friday welcome party, meet the characters and learn more about the real history of RKO Pictures who once owned The Wilburton. Saturday, after a bountiful country breakfast, take a guided tour through through Manchester Village. Sunday morning, salute mom with a Mother’s Day mom-osa mimosa cocktail at breakfast while dining with sweeping mountain views in the solarium or outdoors on the terrace.
SYNOPSIS of THE DANGEROUS DIVORCEE:
It is 1938, and the new owners of RKO Studios (famous for King Kong, Citizen Kane, screwball comedies and the Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers movie musicals) are holding a secret board meeting at The Wilburton to choose the team for one last movie. In a clash of ambition and revenge, the stars and executives compete to make one last RKO studio production. Everyone is dying to be a part of it! Will this swanky soiree include getting away – with murder?
Guests are invited to join the scheming stars, dance in top hats and tails, ‘put on the Ritz’, take a screen test, and compare clues to try to solve the mystery of THE DANGEROUS DIVORCEE. Dress in festive cocktail attire, Hollywood glamour, or as your favorite RKO movie character to follow the action through the grand salon, the library and the Billiard Room of the Wilburton mansion. The mystery dinner party extravaganza includes a three-course dinner, and a cash bar with themed specialty cocktails.
Bring your fur-baby and include your 4-legged family too.
Pick your favorite guest room in the 1902 Clue like Mansion
The tradition of mystery weekends at The Wilburton began 30 years ago when innkeeper Georgette Wasserstein Levis wrote a murder mystery homage, The Brothers Rosenblood, to her sister, Wendy Wasserstein’s Broadway hit, The Sisters Rosensweig. Since 2013, Tajlei Levis, known for writing vintage literary musicals, like Edith Wharton’s Glimpses of the Moon, has created new mystery events each year, inspired by Wilburton and local Vermont history.
Save the date for the Fall Mystery Weekend: November 13 - 15, 2026.
Prior Murder Mystery Weekends Include:
Recent mysteries include THE MURDER AT WIT’S END. It is 1924, and Alexander Woollcott - New York Times drama critic and literary influencer- has invited select guests to join his famous friends - Harpo Marx, Irving Berlin, Dorothy Parker and other witty members of the Algonquin Round Table- as members of an exclusive Vermont island club for the coming season. A rave review from Woollcott could make any book a bestseller, any play a hit, so Broadway producers, authors and stars are competing for favor in battles of wits, songs, and parlor games. Prospective members will have to play Woollcott’s favorite game of croquet (and he cheats) and solve The Murder Game. Some are vying to win. Others are dying to get in.
