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Joy Swift MBE is a businesswoman and writer from Liverpool, who invented the concept of the murder mystery weekend in 1981.

In 1989, Michael Aspel hosted a televised murder mystery set at a wedding called Murder Weekend, devised and written by Swift , which invited viewers to solve a whodunnit at the same time as celebrities in the studio. The five episodes were entitled Dream Of Monks A-Coughing: A Funeral's In The Offing, Dream Of Gulls A-Screeching: Heed The Parson's Preaching, Dream Of Toms A-Snarling: A Quarrel With Your Darling, Dream Of Vipers Hissing: Your Favourite Dog's Gone Missing and Dream Of Yaks A-Mooing: Sign Of Your Undoing and were broadcast over three nights from August 18 to 20. The cast included and David Delve, Eric Allen, John Hudson and Jason Salkey.

In 2001, Swift was awarded an MBE for services to tourism for creating the murder mystery weekend.