Why is a board game created by the Milton Bradley Company and released in 1958.

Based on the television show Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the game is no longer produced.

The four gamepiece characters are each humorous allusions to detectives of popular media fiction: Sergeant Monday (Sergeant Friday), Dick Crazy (Dick Tracy), Charlie Clam (Charlie Chan), and Shylock Bones (Sherlock Holmes).

The six "ghosts" in the game are each based on actual historical figures: Daniel Boone, Pocahontas, Napoleon, Nero, Cleopatra and Henry the Eighth.

The motive cards include the "Jealousy," "Lover's Quarrel," "Self Defense."

The object of the game is to capture one ghost, one weapon, and one motive card.

The player with the highest roll begins and play proceeds to the left.

[citation needed] Also players may complete and lay down more than one Ghost to increase their Rewards.

Now players add up their Rewards, counting their cards on the table and in their hands.

$200.00 is deducting for each part of Alfred a player has at the end of the game or the "It's A Mystery to Me" card.

With these additional rules, each player receiving the largest reward wins the game.