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n. A party game, played in a darkened room, in which a designated "murderer" eliminates other players, who must try to identify which player is the murderer.
Wikipedia
Murder in the Dark is a collection of short fiction by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1983. Some of the pieces were previously published. The 27 pieces range over a variety of styles, including fictionalized autobiography, parables, travel stories, satires and prose poems. The pieces hold together through their major themes of loss, menace and terror, and men's abuse of power.
The book was republished in 1994, in combined with another Atwood work called Good Bones, as part of the expanded collection Good Bones and Simple Murders.
Usage examples of "murder in the dark".
Instead of joviality there had been murder in the dark, and the escape of the guilty, and now only the hope of retribu.
Inside the house, the only thing lacking to make the situation a perfect one for murder in the dark, was the lack of darkness.