The Game's Afoot Analysis

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The Game’s Afoot Review The Game’s Afoot is a comedic whodunit set in the holiday season of 1936. Theater star William Gillette (played by Edzel Ochoa) survives being shot following a performance as Sherlock Holmes, and, as he is recovering, invites his fellow cast members to spend Christmas with him and his mother (Antara Baruah). The guests – William’s best friend Felix (Rohan Arora), Felix’s wife Madge (Devin Hill), and the freshly married Simon (Mingyu Wu) and Aggie (Anaelle Dumatol) – are unaware that William has brought them together not just to celebrate, but also to flush out the culprit of his attempted murder. Much to his guests’ chagrin, William has also invited the conniving, narcissistic

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