Beds & Booze: We Discuss Roarke's Mansion

In this episode of the show, AJ and Tara discuss what we know so far about Roarke’s Mansion! There are a TON of rooms in this house, and how many and what kind of rooms can be a bit confusing. It’s a bit like the Winchester Mystery House. Is it going to be an endless construction project until the day Roarke dies? We may never know.

Anyway… we chose to discuss a specific topic due to a recent conversation on our Facebook page. The discussion was about whether Roarke would build a Media Room similar to the one he saw in Roundtree’s house in “Celebrity in Death.” The discussion continued in the most recent book, “Random in Death.” Additionally, we debated whether Eve would even want a large media room. Interestingly, according to the Wiki page about Roarke’s Mansion, he already has a “Video Room” (mentioned in “Loyalty in Death”), a “Family Media Room,” a “Main Media Room” (mentioned in “Imitation in Death”), and a “Game Room” with several video screens. This is where Mavis and Nixie watched Mavis’ new video.

We start out discussing exactly where it would be located, and how that area, which at the moment contains apartments and a parking garage, would suddenly become one property for one man. Our theory, as with a lot of things in this series, is: Urban Wars. There are several floors in this house, so using the Wiki as a guide, we go floor by floor and discuss all the rooms on each. One thing we learned, or just decided was cannon, is that practically every room has a hidden bar somewhere, and a terrace. This includes the “Gift Room,” where we have decided, there is also a “Tasting Room,” in case you want to taste any of the liquors available as gifts before you give it.

There are so many more details on the Wiki page, and we go over most of them in this episode.