This ingenious follow-up to The Case of the Golden Idol requires all your powers of observation, deduction and reasoning
is set 300 years later, in the 1970s, and features a series of cases involving cold war anxieties, dubious sects, bribe-riddled cops and that same ancient, spooked artefact. It’s another deeply satisfying sleuth puzzler in which you investigate a series of tableaux – usually, although not always, scenes of recent murder where the body can be seen, still stiffening – and work to identify the characters and what might have occurred in the moments that preceded the crime.
Once again, your powers of observation, deduction and reasoning are exercised by collecting nouns and phrases from within the scene. Everything from name badges and scrawled notes to work schedules can be clicked on to fill a pool of words from which, eventually, you must compose your report. When ready, you must select your chosen words and fill in the blanks in a pre-written verdict that, if slotted correctly, explains precisely what occurred. This suspect. That murder weapon. This motive.
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