I am hoping to find out where this effect is published. I know I've read it in a book / lecture note / magazine in my library, but now I cannot find it. I think someone might have included this in a recent set of lecture notes, because I think I saw it performed live at a lecture within the last 2 or 3 years. I think by a relatively young but experienced performer, like Kostya Kimlat, Lee Asher, Jason England, etc.

As I recall, it is a self working effect. I think it is mostly a story, about how the suicide king is not really a suicide but rather a murder victim. Through some process of elimination, the murderer is revealed to be one of the other cards. I forget how this is done, but I think the playing card face designs come into it somehow.

Any help?

That is a Kimlat effect and was published in Genii...or Magic magazine.

Thanks.

I found it in Magic, October 2009.

Kostya Kimlat - A Curious Case of Murder, in the Talk About Tricks column.