[4] The Holloway family arrives at the "Wild Moose Lodge", which they have recently purchased, in the Adirondack Mountains, and they become trapped due to a storm.

They pass the time playing a murder mystery game along with other people at the lodge: failed entertainers called Snooks and Howie and Nurse Dagmar, who cares for patriarch Sidney Holloway.

"[8] In an end-of-season review, he described Moose Murders as "the season's most stupefying flop—a show so preposterous that it made minor celebrities out of everyone who witnessed it, whether from on stage or in the audience.

"[12] Associated Press drama critic Jay Sharbutt described the play as comprising "a lot of labored skulduggery, frantic slapstick, dashes upstairs, downstairs and sideways, assorted gunshots and half the population of this caper dispatched to a better world, if not better play" and declined to identify the cast "pending notification of [next of] kin".

described the show as "the 'Moose Murders' of sitcoms—it won't be here past Halloween, but the recollection of its awfulness will give you untold delight for years to come.

"[17] In the 2014 Broadway revival of Terrence McNally's It's Only a Play, the Moose Murders' failure is inevitably brought up during the post-premiere hand-wringing.

[19] New York City's Beautiful Soup Theater Collective revived the play in January 2013 for a two-week run at the Connelly Theatre.