Death on the Cards

Death on the Cards (an obvious play on the "Death on the Nile" mystery by Agatha Christie) is a good game of trying to catch a murderer with a deck of cards.  Each player has a few Secret cards which they keep face down, and one player starts with the Secret that says they are the murderer.  Now, with just two players it's a bit anticlimactic since we always know who the killer is, but the card play is interesting enough to make up for this, and we can picture how it would play with more people.

Anyway, the players all try to get the murderer to turn over the Secret card which exposes them, while the murderer tries to stay in the game until the last card is drawn because, cleverly, the very last card in the deck says Murderer Escapes.  There are some action cards to move cards from the deck to the discard pile (to get closer to the bottom) or from the discard pile back onto the deck (Delay the Murderer's Escape).  Otherwise, you mostly play sets of investigator cards and each set exposes one Secret card of the player of your choice.  Various investigator combinations have slight variants.

There are a few other event cards, with the usual card swaps and other actions.  And there are a bunch of cards that say Not So Fast, so if someone plays cards against you, you get to slap those down and say "Not So Fast!" in your best cartoon police voice.  To which they can counter with their own Not So Fast cards, and it can get pretty funny.

Also, each investigator and secret card has a cute quotation from Christie's characters and books, so it is well worth taking the time to read those out.  I think we have half the secret cards memorized by now.

There isn't much strategy I can think of.  It's just a fun balance of one player trying to burn through the deck while the others try to expose them.