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Sherlock Holmes 1

~Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective - Volume 1

A complete case-by-case solution - By Simon Burrows


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~`                The Mummy's Curse
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This case is an interesting one because of the amount of
uproar it caused in the public.  Because of the work of a
local reporter, Phillip Travis  (the Times),  most people
believe the killer to be a 4000 year old, Egyptian mummy.
However, as you will see, this is entirely fiction!!

The case we are investigating is that of the murder of
three archeologists previously digging in the Egyptian,
Katebet tomb: Andrew Weatherby; Ebenizer Turnbull; and
James Windibank.  What makes this case so interesting is
that all three men were killed after all doing that same
excavating job, but, they were all killed in different
surroundings!!  Andrew Weatherby was killed on the
journey home from Egypt on the good ship Eastern Empress.
Ebenizer Turnbull was killed, strangled, in the tomb
itself. And, James Widibank was found dead in the
buildings of the British Museum, in London!!

Firstly, what must be known, is that there is no point
worrying about talk of the mummy killing the three men.
This game isn't some weird RPG, nor is it a fantasy
adventure.  It is a true adventure game with realistic
plots  etc.  etc.  So, what we must do is find some
realistic, believable solution to these three murders.

The first thing to do is to visit the one scene of the
murder that is easy to get to, that of James Widibank, in
the British Museum, London.  There you must speak to the
museum's curator who, although he speaks a whole lot of
useless junk, will give you one very important clue.  He
tells you that looking at the mummy, it is immediately
obvious that the three pieces of ancient bandage found on
the three dead-bodies did not come from it.  This is
because it's bandages are completely untouched and
intact.

Now you've got that sorted out, there must be some other
explanation of the bandages mysteriously appearing on the
bodies.  But enough of that for now.  What we should do
next is to look back at the three murders and their
locations.  If you think about it, the three murders are
all in different places so whoever the murderer is, must
have visited those three places with the excavators.
What is more interesting is that because one of the
murders was on a confined area, ie. a boat, whoever
murdered that particular man, must have been on that
crossing and close to others at the same time!!  Because
of this, it's probably best to get a passenger list of
that particular crossing.  To get this, send the Baker
Street Irregulars down to Jardine Shipping Co. to get the
full list.

Now you have the list, it's time to check out another
document to give you more information.  Locate the March
5th edition of the London Times and read the article
about the murder of Turnbull.  Next, look at the back
pages of the paper to find out the path the Eastern
Empress took.  Looking down the list of 'ports of call'
you will notice that the ship in question was docked at
Calcutta at the time when Turnbull was murdered.
Obviously this eliminates any crew members from the
investigation.

Next take a look at the March 12th issue of the same
paper.  Here you will notice an article about the murder
of Weatherby which will include the names of two people
that are investigating the crime.  Unfortunately only one
of these is of any use to you, that is Luther Tenny, the
person who found the body.  Captain Ramsey is also
mentioned but will give you nothing of any use.

Now you should visit the aforementioned Luther Tenny who
will give you an account of the murder from how he saw
it. From this, and some other information, you will now
be able to begin to work through the passenger list
eliminating passengers as you find evidence to show that
they are not involved in the case.

Firstly you can rule out the Arabs completely as they
seem to have no links with the case whatsoever.  Next you
can also rule out Louise Fenwick.  You might think she is
a possibility because she had an argument with Windibank
but this was just to do with them having the same pet
dogs as each other and Louise not liking Windibank
'vivisecting' his dog!!  As you can see, this is hardly
an excuse for murder.

From this you will see that there are only really two
main suspects to the case: Clarissa Weatherby and Phillip
Travis.  Now all we need to do is rule out one of these
and we might just have our man.

To do this you must go and visit Jasper Meek who will
tell you a little about the kind of person who could have
strangled these three men.  It seems, from what he says,
that anybody who could have strangled the three men must
have had extremely strong hands to do so, in order to
crush their necks!!

You must also visit HR Murry at the criminal science lab.
He will tell you a little about the scenes of the crimes.
Firstly he will confirm that it certainly wasn't the
bandages that were used to strangle the three victims.
Interestingly, he will also tell you that there were
traces of monkey hairs on each of the three bodies. Hmmm,
weird!!!

Now it's time to rule out one of the two suspects,
Clarissa.  A visit to her will quickly show you that it
certainly couldn't of been her.  For one, she only had a
motive for killing one of the three men.  And secondly,
the deciding factor is that, when she tries to open a
toffee tin in your presence, she can't even do that.
This shows that she could never have had strong enough
hands to strangle three fully-grown men!

We are now left with only one viable suspect so obviously
it is now time to pay a visit to him, Phillip Travis.
When you arrive at his abode you immediately see many
things that point him to all three murders.  Firstly, he
is completely mad.  He keeps on waffling on about the
Egyptian curses  (as he did in his newspaper reports)
and generally tries to put you off the trail and onto
some fantasy exploration.  Anyway, you will also notice
that in his room there is a mummified monkey.  This
immediately reminds one of the monkey hairs found on each
of the three dead bodies.

Finally you just need to check on the motives.  A quick
conversation with a professor at London University points
to the fact that Phillip first had an argument with
Windibank then took it extremely personally when
Weatherby was chosen to go on the Katebet Tomb excavation
instead of him.  We can tell that Travis was at each
location because:  For the first one, he was the reporter
and tried to stir up the public into thinking it was some
sort of cursed mummy who did the dreadful deed; At the
second murder, on the boat, we know he was there from the
list and we also know he had an argument with Windibank;
and, finally, for the third murder, we know he had
definite access to the museum where the last body was
found.

Well, that's it then.  All the evidence that you need is
in so it's time to make the judgement :-

■ Who killed Ebinezer Turnbull?: Phillip Travis
■ Why?: Turnbull publicly lambasted Travis after his
  criticisms of the Ketebet excavation.
■ Who killed Andrew Weatherby?: Phillip Travis
■ Why?: Travis was getting revenge after Weatherby was
  chosen to go on the Katebet excavation instead of him.
■ Who killed James Windibank?: Phillip Travis
■ Why?: Because the professor didn't choose Travis to go on
  the Katebet expedition.


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~`              The Mystified Murderess
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I'm afraid that this case is again set around a murder,
and again deals with the inefficiency of Scotland Yard to
complete the case properly.  What's interesting is that,
in a way, you are taking on the job of saving one
convicted person just as much as trying to convict
another!

The case is set around the death of Guy Clarendon who
happens to be the son of an incredibly rich banker known
only for his way with women and the huge gambling debts
he can rack up very quickly!  What really happened is as
yet a mystery but what was found at the scene of the
crime gave what Scotland Yard thought was an abrupt end
to the enquiry.  What the primary officers on the scene
saw was an unconscious woman lying still on the floor
with a gun in her hand.  Later, the woman was found to be
Guy's alleged fiancee, Frances Nolan.  On speaking to
close witnesses they found that the woman entered the
room just moments before the shooting and immediately
decided that she was the murderer.  The case was closed.

First of all you must go and visit the convicted Frances
Nolan, in her prison cell.  To arrange this meeting, talk
to the barrister Edward Hall.  When you talk to her, she
tells you that she can remember absolutely nothing from
the time of the shooting, obviously because she blacked
out.  To find out more about these black-outs you should
talk to her physician, Dr Mason.  You should also talk to
another of the medical profession, the one now looking
after Frances' sister, Loretta, Dr. Trevellian.  This
particular doctor was in fact with Frances on the evening
before the murder.

When you have spoken to both of those men, choose Frances
Nolan from the directory to see the maid.  She will begin
to tell you about the movements of Frances on the night
of the murder.  Apparently Frances left her house at
7:30am.  This, of course, coincides with her arrival at
the Halliday Hotel where she was found unconscious with
the gun.

You should also speak to Frances' solicitor who will be
able to tell you about the inheritances both sisters got.
From what he says, Loretta has managed to spend nearly
all of hers, whereas Frances has been more prudent with
her money and still has a large sum of it left.

Next you need to visit Langdale Pike who will be able to
tell you about Frances' and Guy's relationship.  It
seems, in fact, that Guy was not really in love with
Frances at all, and was just sticking with her for the
money!  You will also find out another suspicious fact,
and that is that Frances also blacked out in Hiram's
office once, with Loretta.

If you now go and talk to Inspector Lestrade at Scotland
Yard you will find a little about the murder weapon.  He
tells you, very certainly, that Frances must have been
the murderer because her name was given at the time of
buying the gun.  However, we can contradict this claim by
going to the place where the weapon in question was
bought, S Goff's Gun Shop.  There, the person who sold
the gun gives you a good description of the one posing as
Frances to be someone quite opposite in looks to her.  Of
course this immediately points the finger to an impostor
trying to stitch Frances up!

Time, now, I think, to pay a visit to the infamous
Loretta.  When you arrive at her house you will
immediately find out that she is a complete flirt with
anybody, including consulting detectives!!!  This, so
says her doctor, is because she has an mental aberration,
she thinks she's a princess.  Anyway, that is
inconsequential to the case (at least for now).  The
first thing that comes to mind when you see Loretta is
that she matches the description given by the assistant
in the gun shop.  She also seems to care little for the
situation that her sister is in, locked away on suspicion
of murder.  All these factors point to the fact that she
may well be Frances' impostor!

Now it is time to find out a little about the murdered
Guy Clarendon.  If you visit Sir Charles Clarendon he
will confirm to you the fact that Guy was recently cut-
off from any money with a final payment of 5000 pounds.
You can also find out an interesting fact from Guy's
butler.  He tells you that one night Guy came home having
been in some sort of fight it looked like he had lost.
However, he wouldn't say who was his attacker.

Next you should visit ex con and publican, Porky
Shinwell.  He tells you that Guy owed a man called
Killgore  (the owner of a local betting parlour)  7000
pounds.  This immediately arouses suspicion because we
know Guy didn't have this much money.  As Shinwell
continues, we find that Killgore uses a local ruffian to
make sure he does get all the cash he is owed.  From this
it seems that it was he who beat-up Guy that night.  As
Porky continues, he tells you another very interesting
fact.  Apparently, days later, Clarendon and Killgore
suddenly got back on speaking terms again, pointing to
the fact that Guy must have quickly found some way of
paying off his debt.  Things get even more interesting
when Porky tells you that a thief who is known for paying
half the price to people, in return for their stolen
goods, Calvin Leech apparently got on the scene as well.

Now it seems that Guy got out of his debts by selling
stolen goods to Calvin Leech, we need to find out where
he got the stolen goods from.  To do this, take a look at
the July 4th, 1888 issue, of the London Times.  This will
tell you of the Society robbery  (mentioned by Watson at
the very beginning of the case)  and what was stolen.

We are now getting very near to a solution to this case,
but first we need to look at a couple of other points.
Firstly I think we need to investigate the scene of the
crime, at the Halliday Hotel.  There you will have a long
conversation with the hotel porter, then take a long time
making a search of the hotel room.  From the conversation
you will learn that Guy moved into suite 205 of the hotel
on the 29th of May.  Later that day it seems that Guy was
halted by a man by the name of Bullock.  Now, one can
suspect is the time that Guy paid off 5000 pounds of his
debt with the money he got paid earlier.  After this, Guy
asked to be moved from his room at the front of the hotel
to one at the back of the hotel.  One last fact you can
find out from the porter is that, at some time before the
murder, Guy was visited by Loretta.

From the search of the room you find out a couple of
important things.  One is that Guy left his bank-balance
in his room and that this matches up to the list of
Society burglaries made earlier.  In other words,
entrances to the balance were made to the exact values of
the items listed in the Society burglaries run-down, on
the exact dates that the items were stolen.  This
obviously shows that Guy was using his Society contacts
to steal from his friends in order to sell the goods to
Leech and slowly pay off the rest of his debts, another
2000 pounds.  You will also see in the room that there
are a lot of blood and wine stains, although for now,
these are of no consequence.

Now we have the solution to the case but no motive.  It
seems that it couldn't have been Killgore who murdered
Guy because we know from his fast stealing tactics, he
would have enough money to pay off his debts anyway.  So,
we now look back to the possibility of it being Loretta.
It seems, as we've already discovered, that Loretta
believes to have royal blood in her, so would obviously
want something very expensive to somehow prove this to
someone, maybe herself.

So, when Loretta discovered that Guy had stolen the
Diamond Tiarra  (the last Society burglary)  she was
quick to pounce.  She got into Guy's room and shot him at
very close range so as to deaden the sound from the shot.
She then got the tiarra before going back out of the room
(as the hotel porter said) off to find her sister,
Frances. When she found her, she practised her art of
hypnotising her until she managed to make Frances take
the gun, walk into Guy's room, then fire it into the
ceiling.  This would have alerted anybody around who
would immediately think that the final shot, the one they
heard, would have been the killing blow.  Easy!!

Well, that's it then.  All the evdence that you need is
in so it's time to make the judgement :-

■ Who murdered Guy Clarendon?: Loretta Nolan
■ Why?: She was greedy and wanted the Cleopatra Tiarra
■ How did she do it?: By hypnotising her sister into taking
  the blame for her!
■ Who did the Society Burglaries?: Guy Clarendon
■ Why?: Because his father had cut off all money to him


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~`                 The Tin Soldier
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This case is supposed to be the hardest of the three and
I suppose it is really.  What makes it so hard is not the
complicated plot: it's because of the amount of red-
herrings you are given to keep you off the track of the
real story.

The story is set around the murder of General Armstead
but another case is intertwined, (the search for the
Polar Star Diamond).  I'm not going to go into the latter
of these two for one obvious reason:  you are not
assigned to find out about it.  All you need to do is
worry about the murder and basically ignore anything you
learn about the diamond.

First of all you need to get some background information
about the case and of the murdered General Armstead.  To
do this, visit David Sennet, Armstead's butler.  He will
tell you several important facts and will be your first
clue to the solution of this case.

The first is a very weird one.  He will show you, on the
war model in the room where Armstead was murdered, that
the figure of Napoleon himself is facing the wrong way.
This must mean something although right now, we don't
know what!

He also tells you another weird thing.  The murderer is
described as old and with a walking cane, but Sennet
tells you that he was seen quickly escaping the scene
which involved climbing a high fence.  One can presume
from this that the murderer was in fact younger than one
might expect.

Thirdly, he tells you about the sword Armstead used to
defend himself before he was murdered.  This, says
Sennet, was always hanging up over the mantel-piece, and
not easy to just grab in the heat of the moment.  This
means that it is more than likely that Armstead's
murderer challenged Armstead to some sort of duel  (thus
allowing him to get the sword) rather than killing
Armstead in a straight, callous murder. (Where Armstead
would obviously have no chance to reach up for it).

Lastly, you will see how the envelope, delivered before
Armstead's murder, was yellowed with age and was
addressed with his old, war name on it,  (Captain
Armstead).  This seems to show that the murder may have
something to do with an old war matter.  (Which ties in
with the description of the murderer, though not his
athleticism).

To find out more about this last clue, continue talking
to Sennet who will tell you about the visit of an old war
friend of Armstead, Jean-Paul Gerrad, to London, from
France.  He reveals that the two were going to meet up at
the French Embassy some time after the time of the
murder.

Now we know this, sending the Baker Street Irregulars to
speak to this Gerrad chappy may reveal some more clues.
They will find out that apparently Armstead had an affair
with a French girl, in France, and in the end, the French
girl, called Arneau, bore his child.

The name Arneau also pops up in another place earlier in
this case, so we can now check out that source.  If you
read the London Times, June 10th issue, you will find out
that the Princess Theatre are holding a performance
sometime soon with an actor  (described as brilliant)  by
the name of Phillip Arneau.

Next we should find out a little more about this Arneau
character.  By going to the Princess theatre and talking
to the proprietor there, you will find out that Arneau
played the part as Napoleon and that he made an amazing
change from an old man to a young man  (this fits with
the description of the murderer, from Sennet).  He also
tells you that Arneau was very recently told about the
death of his mother Fleurette, and that Arneau suffered
other devastating deaths in his family like the suicide
of his then young sister.  The plot thickens when the
proprietor tells you of an old army officer being
involved in this same suicide!!  Both these deaths had
devastated Arneau.

Lastly, all you need to do is get a little more proof
that Arneau was the murderer.  To do this, go to Arneau's
hotel room where you will find: a cane enclosing a sword;
a weird letter explaining that because of Armstead,
Arneau's mother had been taken to an asylum and his
sister had committed suicide; and a bag containing
Arneau's disguise.

Well, that's it then.  All the evidence that you need is
in so it's time to make the judgement :-

■ Who killed General Armstead?: Phillip Arneau
■ Why?: To avenge the honour of Arneau's sister, Fleurette
■ Why was Napolean's figure reversed?: Armstead reversed
  it as he was dying to help inspectors guess that Arneau
  killed him.
■ And lastly, I can't remember the question but: Horseface