Become Sherlock Holmes as you embark on a remarkable adventure. Investigate the mysterious case of a missing archaeologist and a valuable Egyptian mummy, in turn-of-the-century England. What begins as a simple case quickly becomes a web of intrigue, robbery, priceless artefacts, and murder.
Your skills as an investigative sleuth will be tested as you attempt to uncover the truth behind the mystery, exploring the many rooms of a large Victorian mansion, solving the many puzzles and riddles that you will encounter. Uncertain leads, an illusive saboteur, the disappearance of an ancient mummy, a strange murder &. The plot thickens
Application Details:
| Version: | NA |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | |
| Votes: | 0 |
| Latest Rating: | Silver |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.7.48 |
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What works
Installation, desktop shortcut, , launch, intro cut-scene video (but audio garbled), menu system, in-game graphics and audio, movement, puzzles, (insofar as testable - see below)
What does not
Audio garbled on intro video cut-scene.
Game difficult to play due to excessive mouse movement: the slightest touch of the mouse on any of the screen edges (which should cause the scene to smoothly pan left/right or up/down) causes the room scenes to spin quickly. [tested on a 5 year old laptop]
This was also tested on a more powerful two year old desktop PC, and the effect was even more extreme: touching any edge causes the room to spin wildly, inducing a sense of dizziness, and making it almost impossible to stop the rotation while facing in the desired direction.
Perhaps this is due to the original game design relying on the limited performance of PCs of the time it was originally published (2002) to rate limit the panning speed of the game due to the computational load of processing the rotation and pseudo 3D distortion of the fixed 360 degree graphic image of each location in the game?
Workarounds
What was not tested
Rest of the game (too dizzy)
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Slackware64 14.1 | Aug 08 2015 | 1.7.48 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Simone Giustetti | |
| Current | Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jan 29 2013 | 1.4.1 | Yes | Yes | No | Bronze | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 03 2009 | 1.1.20 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | emdo | |
| Show | Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jun 13 2008 | 1.0-rc4 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | an anonymous user | |
| Show | openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 | Sep 02 2007 | 0.9.44. | Yes | Yes | No | Garbage | Stuart Middleton |
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