WizKids | £44.99 | Deduction | 2-4 players | 45 minutes | Age: 14+ | wizkids.com
From the pulp magazine cover of its box down, Deadline is in love with noir. Its detectives are thinly-veiled homages to iconic hardboiled writers such as Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, its cards feature literal symbols of the genre – cigarettes, whiskey, bundles of cash, revolvers and fedoras – and its ‘plot twist’ events play off of classic crime-fiction tropes, with skeletons in the closet, threatening phone calls and being tailed all part of the drama hindering players in their efforts to solve each of 12 unique cases.