Fantastic idea, and very funny implementation of it! The newspaper articles were too good, and I won’t spoil anything for other players, but the game title drop caught me by surprise xD
I wasn’t able to figure out what caused the game to end. One of the times I played, I had set up 3 clues to frame the wife, but the game ended before they found the last one. It sort of felt like there was just a set number of turns, but that wasn’t indicated anywhere. The only other suggestion I have is that it would have been nice if the zoomed out view also included the modifications you had made to individual rooms. There were a few times that I clicked into a room because I was like “oh no the roller skates!” and they were actually already taken care of (by me like 2 turns ago).
Overall, fantastic job! It really felt like a professional point and click adventure but with one of funniest premises I have seen.