On TV, criminal investigators are slick and relentless, which explains why most kids want to grow up to be cops, actors, or a pair of sunglasses. Shine like a snooping star with today’s Groupon to The Mystery Shop. Choose between the following options:

• For $195, you get a Prime Suspect mystery game for up to 20 audience members (a $390 value).
• For $210, you get a Prime Suspect mystery game for up to 40 audience members (a $490 value).<p>

The mysterious team will travel to crime scenes up to 50 miles from zip code 60188.

The Mystery Shop’s cast of killers descends on homes and schools to lead interactive murder-mystery games for detectives both junior and senior. Hosts choose between two 90-minute Prime Suspect stories, during which a pair of actors releases a steady trickle of clues about a murder while simultaneously leading the audience in an auction with Mystery Shop money, which, like real money, holds its value only as long as everyone believes in it. During Killer Comics, attendees fling their fun bucks to bid on comic books and the chance to play one of the characters⎯be it the hero, the villain, or the unaligned superperson, Neutrality Man. Hollywood Homicide, on the other hand, casts the audience as directors and actors trying to make a movie while sleuthing out the murderer in their midst.

Though Prime Suspect is classified as an adult show, its content is also appropriate for junior detectives as young as age 12. Hosts must schedule the bloodshed by phone and tender a credit card for a $78 deposit.

Though The Mystery Shop offers a coupon on its website, this Groupon represents the best possible discount.