writ­ten 10/28/2024, updat­ed 2/17/2025

• Pub­lished: Frog­wares
• Plat­form Played: Nin­ten­do Switch
• Price: MSRP: $24.99
• Rat­ed: M (Mature)
• Genre: Adven­ture, Puz­zle, Oth­er
• Date Released: March 9, 2023

First Run: 22:52

This is a detailed walk­through with pic­tures of puz­zles and (most) of the solu­tions. There are oth­er walk­throughs out there since the game has been released for a while on oth­er plat­forms, but it seems that the Nin­ten­do Switch ver­sion is slight­ly dif­fer­ent from oth­er iter­a­tions.

Warn­ing: Spoil­ers Ahead!!

This is a detailed walk­through. For a sim­pli­fied ver­sion CLICK HERE

Game Start

Tutorial: Necklace at the Marquis of Conyngham’s Mansion

Watch the cutscene in the mod­ern times with the kids

Watch the cutscene and lis­ten to Wat­son explain the locked door crime.

Fol­low the prompts:

Inspect any oth­er blue mag­ni­fy­ing glass­es or hands in the room (Door, aquar­i­um, can­dle on floor, papers on the table, draught screen [a screen to block drafts. Draught is British spelling], floor behind screen, objects on man­tle, bell pull, fire­place, sooty foot­prints, cab­i­net) until Inspec­tor Baynes comes through the door.

Lis­ten to Holmes’ bril­liant deduc­tion of the mon­key being the cul­prit and drop­ping the jew­els in the aquar­i­um. The Mar­quis him­self comes in to pos­i­tive­ly ID the neck­lace. Holmes puts it away in the cor­ner cab­i­net, then retires to Bak­er Street.

221B Baker Street — 1

Wat­son insists that Holmes reads the out­ra­geous news­pa­per arti­cle by an incens­ing reporter that enjoys flam­ing Holmes and spin­ning his case solv­ing by paint­ing him a crook. Feel free to inspect things around the apart­ment and then read the arti­cle (or not). Holmes does­n’t care and invites Inspec­tor Baynes who is out­side the door in. They dis­cuss the prob­lem with the fake neck­lace. Ask about the Slan­der, the Neck­lace, and the Mar­chioness. Holmes is itch­ing to go see Pere­grine Mait­land, the Bish­op of Knights­bridge, but acqui­esces to exam­in­ing the neck­lace.

Look at it on the table which will launch a sim­ple mini puz­zle. Sim­ply move the right cur­sor over all the blue mag­ni­fy­ing glass­es (the 3 weird beads) and exam­ine them.

As Wat­son, go get the map on the desk and press the Dio­cese of Knight­bridge to go there

Diocese of Knightsbridge — Bishop Maitland’s Murder

Watch the cutscene with the stub­born Rev­erend

Exam­ine the body (this game is prov­ing to be pret­ty grue­some). Get the piece of rope from next to his thigh. Get the fin­ger from the ground

Exam­ine the bro­ken bot­tle of whisky, the bot­tle of whisky, the bloody paper­weight, the stove, get the bro­ken phial from the rug.

Exam­ine the pic­ture, open the cab­i­net door to get a met­al rod from the cil­ice (in ancient times, it was an under­gar­ment made from coarse fur, or a sack­cloth, pur­pose­ful­ly uncom­fort­able for the imple­men­ta­tion of penance. In more mod­ern times it is often seen as a band with small spikes in it, hence the in-game Bish­op’s spiky belt and con­sis­tent bel­ly holes), check out the chest on the shelf which can­not be solved yet and the Rev­erend refus­es to give the prop­er ele­ments to open it.

Get the scalpel from the small table. Try the veran­da door. Open the door to the small bed­room. Exam­ine the bed and the win­dow.

Exam­ine the foot­prints on the ground in front of the entry door for a small puz­zle.

It’s now time for the Deduc­tion Board

Go through the prompts and fig­ure it out

After com­plet­ing the 2 deduc­tions, Holmes asks again for help open­ing the chest, but the Rev­erend con­tin­ues to refuse. He then tells Wat­son to go with the Rev­erend to the police sta­tion and to only speak to Inspec­tion Baynes.

Alone now to do what he wants, Holmes con­tin­ues the inves­ti­ga­tion.

Use the met­al rod on the veran­da door lock to start a puz­zle. It’s a sim­ple one where you have to bend the met­al to shape above. “It is sim­plic­i­ty itself”

Exam­ine both sides of the rug, the inkwell on the desk, then the rug again. Grab the horse’s head from the ground near the win­dow, read the love note, and then use the head on the uncov­ered floor.

Puz­zle time!

When you solve it, use the pock­et-knife on the last piece to uncov­er a sheaf of love let­ters between none oth­er than the good Rev­erend and his mis­tress who has borne his chil­dren and wants him to com­mit to their rela­tion­ship and fam­i­ly.

Walk back into the room to start a cutscene where Holmes indi­cates that he knows about the let­ters. He asks again for the imple­ments for the chest. The rev­erend again refus­es, so you get to choose which method you’d like to employ (cor­rup­tion, black­mail, or threat). If you choose black­mail, the rev­erend will refuse to com­ply, so you’re off to find the pins for the chest lock your­self (shelf, edge of the bed, plant in the veran­da, and desk in the veran­da). I chose cor­rup­tion and threat the first time, and the rev­erend gave me the pins.

Chest Puz­zle!

You open what is sup­posed to be unopen­able except by the Bish­op. The rev­erend can’t stand it any­more and runs away. Wat­son can’t catch him. Turns out noth­ing was impor­tant in the chest worth steal­ing. Head home to Bak­er Street before the cops show up.

221B Baker Street — 2

Now it’s time to ana­lyze the clues found at the crime scene.

Use the bro­ken phial on the right side of the desk to start the chem­i­cal ana­lyz­er. Press A to place the sub­stance into the “?” tube, then rotate each col­or chem­i­cal and count how many col­ored bleps show up on the bot­tom thing. Input the num­bers into note­book (If you’re too lazy to actu­al­ly do it, just input the num­bers the solu­tion below)

Grab the note from the writ­ing desk and give it to Holmes.

Use one of the remain­ing items on the left por­tion of the lab desk to start ana­lyz­ing them.

• Fin­ger: exam­ine the teeth marks on the bot­tom, use the scalpel on the nail to scrape out dirt, use the pin­cers on the dirt
• Scalpel: Use water, then the brush
• Rope: Use the pin­cers twice on the rope and then on the dirt. Exam­ine the rope.
• Stone Frag­ment: Use acid, use brush
• Dirt Sam­ples: Put both dirt sam­ples under the lens, add water, use scalpel

Go to the book­shelf and get the mid­dle book (no, not the female anato­my book, lol), then place it on the work­table in front of Holmes.

Deduc­tion Board!

Then in the book, choose the appro­pri­ate loca­tion

Back to the Deduc­tion Board about the Bish­op of Knights­bridge

Solve it.

Watch the cutscene where Holmes had already hired some urchins to fer­ret out infor­ma­tion for him and forces Wat­son to pay, as usu­al. They go to sleep.

Cutscene back to the kids in the present time who think the sto­ry is super inter­est­ing (isn’t this kind of inap­pro­pri­ate for lit­tle kids…?)

The next morn­ing arrives and now, you get to choose 3 loca­tions and which order to inves­ti­gate the prob­lem from: West­gate Jail, Kens­ing­ton Gar­dens, or Whitechapel Street. Order does not mat­ter.

Investigation A: Westgate Jail

Watch the cutscene where Holmes rude­ly dis­miss­es a fan of his. Go straight down the hall behind the entry guard and to the left, last door on the right. The recep­tion­ist nod­ded off and they deduce that she’s preg­nant. Inspect the blue mag­ni­fy­ing glass­es and Holmes deduces that the direc­tor and the recep­tion­ist are relat­ed. He gives you a Pass. Talk about “Fam­i­ly Ties” with the recep­tion­ist.

Go back towards the entrance and, armed with the Pass, take a left into the open room. Go straight and start a cutscene. Ask about “The Great Detec­tive,” “Inmates,” “Infor­ma­tion,” and “Guard Index Cards.”

Head down through the gates into the prison. Let’s go meet the famous Hans Schiel­man. Talk to him and press him on “Infor­ma­tion” and “Pen.” Head back and talk to the Chief War­den about “The Pris­on­er’s Things” and “Key.”

Go back and talk to Ms. Pat­ter­son the recep­tion­ist and the Direc­tor. As it turns out, the rea­son why she has­n’t put up the duty list is because she lost the key to her lock­er. Great. Anoth­er mys­tery to solve. For now, head back to the Chief War­den where you’ll find that it is now of utmost impor­tance to get the duty list up. Then head back to the door in front of the Direc­tor’s office, and use the Keys on it. Check out Schiel­man’s lock­er to find…

A Puz­zle Box!

Yay! You get Han­s’s Pen. OKAY. now that we have the pen, the new prob­lem is how to get in there. To do that we have to solve Ms. Pat­ter­son­’s dilem­ma.

Head to entrance to the jail and talk to the guard Brighton, who com­plains that the dry clean­ers deliv­ered his cer­e­mo­ni­al uni­form while he’s on duty, but he can’t leave his post. Holmes vol­un­teers to do it for him. Get Key for Brighton’s Lock­er and Brighton’s Suit. Head to the room next to the Direc­tor’s office and across from the Pris­on­er’s Belong­ings and open it. Use the key to open it. Move the bicar­bon­ate of soda aside and open the book to find Key “Jen­ny Pat­ter­son.” Ah HAH. Now we know what’s hap­pen­ing. Scan­dal! Place the Suit in the lock­er and use the Key on Ms. Pat­ter­son­’s lock­er right across from it.

Anoth­er Puz­zle Box!

Get Brighton’s Lock­et, Let­ter from Brighton, and Guard Duty List.

Talk to Ms. Pat­ter­son, then head into the war­den’s room. Talk through every­thing, and then vis­it Mr. Schiel­man to give him his Pen. He cack­les and alludes to an escape attempt. Head towards the Direc­tor posthaste and inter­rupt him berat­ing his daugh­ter about her bas­tard child. They con­duct a search of his cell, but find noth­ing, and then some unfor­tu­nate events begin to unfold that Sher­lock Holmes seems whol­ly unsur­prised about.

Con­trol­ling Wat­son now, try to sound the alarm on the wall in front of you, and then talk to the Chief War­den through the grates. Take the Keys as instruct­ed, then run out the door and to the left. Talk to War­den O’Sul­li­van (sounds kin­da fun­ny, don’t he?) through the gate and use the Keys on the door to get to him. It does­n’t work, so the war­den tells you to throw the Keys down. Do it.

All of the sud­den, Holmes shows up and tell you to repair the alarm. Mini game!

It’s sim­ple, real­ly. You just move the lit­tle blue tri­an­gle to the mid­dle with­out hit­ting any­thing.

Watch the cutscene. Go down to the cell and find that it’s not Schiel­man in the cell, it’s O’Sul­li­van sleep­ing on the cot!! He’s escaped! Crap! Go find a com­plete­ly non­plussed Sher­lock Holmes and leave the jail. Walk up the path a bit to find… Schiel­man? Sedate and obe­di­ent?

Read Holmes’s expla­na­tion if you’d like. Holmes real­ly is a clever dev­il, isn’t he? Able to pre­dict and pre-empt every­one. Inves­ti­ga­tion over!

Investigation B: Kensington Gardens

Head for­ward and talk to the land­la­dy. She won’t let you in, so poke around in the gar­den. Turn all the blue mag­ni­fy­ing glass­es green. Get the Spade (which is real­ly a hoe), Rake, and Clothes Pegs. Use the Spade on the fence next to the clothes­line. Pick up the News­pa­per “The Strand” and inves­ti­gate the oth­er mag­ni­fy­ing glass­es. Use the Rake on the tree next to the shed to get Tat­tered Clothes.

Go back and talk to the land­la­dy who changes her tune and lets you in.

Grab the Scarf from the ground in the room, then exam­ine the points of inter­est. Pick up the Torn-up pieces of paper from the trash­can, then put them on the desk.

Puz­zle!

Wat­son com­plains that it’s blank, but as we’ve already deduced, it’s like­ly invis­i­ble ink. Use the Clothes Pegs you swiped ear­li­er on the bit of rope on the table, and light the can­dle with the Match­es. Move the can­dle behind the paper and press A to uncov­er some words. If they’re not in the right order, you have to fix it.

Now, exam­ine the space near the win­dow and use the Spade. Oh no. Anoth­er puz­zle box. And this one proves to be tough. Turn the box around and inspect all the ciphers until Wat­son has jot­ted it all down.

You find that the Colt Pater­son is gone from the box. Here’s anoth­er puz­zle. You need to fig­ure out what arti­cles are miss­ing that should not have been.

Holmes deduces that the Bish­op’s nephew suf­fers from a mild case of autism. Giv­en that the shov­el, the vio­lin case, and the pow­er­ful Colt pis­tol is miss­ing, he’s wor­ried that the volatile man is going to do some­thing bad. It’s time to head down to the wharf and to enlist the help of an old friend.

TOBY! THE DOGGY!!!

You are con­trol­ling Toby. Use the old pup’s nose up past the stairs. Fol­low the con­ve­nient path­way of wood­en ramps and go until you find the sec­ond set of foot­prints. Head down to the grass and open the door. Foot­prints lead to a stuck lever, so head out the back to the lit yard and find anoth­er set of prints. If you head to the right side, Holmes will pick up some Grease. Go back towards the lever which can now be used with the help of the Grease.

This is a mini-game of sorts, try­ing to decide how to guide Toby across the pil­lars.

Low­er the bridge for Holmes, then press for­ward to the next set of foot­prints. Try to open the door. It’s locked. Welp. Head over to the side of the large door and undo the rope. Holmes will raise you up to get in through the win­dow.

Go down the stairs, unlock the door for Holmes, then pick up the Iron Bar from the ground. Find the next set of foot­steps. Use the Iron Bar on the big doors and Holmes will open it.

To the left of that, some ice picks are miss­ing from the wall. Turn around and find the next set of prints that seems to lead to nowhere. Smell the wall above the crates and Holmes will com­ment that the man used the icepicks to climb the wall.

Straight ahead out­side the big door and to the left, you can inspect to see that he cut a piece of fire hose. Turn and head right of the big door. There’s a locked gate. To the left of it is a bro­ken part of the rail. Head up to it to start a cutscene.

Turn around and hit the lever on the wall. Holmes will swing you across. Remove the chocks on the cart to cre­ate a bridge for Holmes. If you fol­low the foot­prints, there is yet anoth­er door locked from the inside. Exam­ine the car­riage tracks on the ground and then fol­low them up a con­ve­nient ramp.

You find an open win­dow, but Holmes tells you not to jump in, so head back down the ramp and on the oth­er side of that are a bunch of sacks on the ground. Remove them and head inside.

Pull the rope pul­ley in the cor­ner so that Holmes can get in. Oh wow. This place is full of tight cor­ners and con­ve­nient ramps for lit­tle short-legged pup­pies. Fol­low the foot­steps and take a left then go up some crate ramps until you get to a set of con­crete stair­cas­es. Go up them. You know you’re in the right place when you get a cutscene of Toby chas­ing a cat.

Now you’re back as Sher­lock Holmes. Go through the door ahead and come out… in a lava room? Head down until you find your tar­get. Watch an unfor­tu­nate cutscene where Toby foils your plans, and the man suf­fers a rather swel­ter­ing end.

Investigation C: Whitechapel Street

Lis­ten to their ban­ter then move for­ward down the street. Explore and talk to peo­ple if you’d like but keep going down the street until Wat­son points out the pub­lic dis­pen­sary. Head inside and talk to the doc­tor who turns out to be an old col­league of Wat­son’s. Talk to him about the scalpel and he’ll con­firm that it comes from that loca­tion. Noth­ing left to do, so leave and head across the way to the church. Go to the right and open the gate to the ceme­tery.

Go in and towards the first shed before the gate. Pick up the fly­er for the soup kitchen, then exam­ine the rope hang­ing next to the shed’s door. This will start a mini inves­ti­ga­tion. Sim­ply pick up the mag­ni­fi­er and iden­ti­fy that both the piece of rope and the hang­ing rope are the same. Sim­i­lar­ly, when you ven­ture past the bent gate and towards the oth­er shed, exam­in­ing the tomb­stone on the side will launch anoth­er mini inves­ti­ga­tion. Pick up the mag­ni­fi­er again and high­light the gran­ite then the black paint (just use any dark area).

Armed with the clue from the fly­er, leave the ceme­tery and go talk to the guy run­ning the mobile soup kitchen in front of the church. Press him on “Grape Ape” but he does­n’t want to spill, so check out the mon­ey game next to the cart, then talk to him again. Ask about “Mon­ey Game” and then pre­pare to play a game (hav­ing just bet Wat­son’s price­less watch). Not to be defeat­ed, the leg­endary Sher­lock Holmes inevitably shall win.

I don’t real­ly have any hints here. I kind of just hit but­tons until I won. The game’s pret­ty self-explana­to­ry

Press him on the “win” and he’ll spill the beans. Ask about the “morgue” and he’ll point you back to the dis­pen­sary. Go there.

Talk to the doc­tor and ask about the “morgue.” He gives you per­mis­sion to poke around. Do so. Snag a list of the recent dead, then go into the morgue itself. Head over to the chair and check out the jack­et.

Back out and grab the Scis­sors off the work­table (Wat­son will exclaim at how dis­gust­ing the work­space is). Take the scis­sors and cut at 3 places:

1. Sleeve: get Met­al Core
2. Pock­et: get Keys
3. Name Tag: get Plan

Time to head back to the ceme­tery. Go to the first shed where you found the soup kitchen fly­er, and try to open the lock. Puz­zle time!

Take the Note from the Ceme­tery from the wall and then pick up the axe and use it on the box on the ground. Remove the rocks from with­in and use your pock­et-knife to uncov­er a hid­den stash. Take the Note from the Ceme­tery Ban­dits.

Go through the bent gates and inspect the lover’s tree. Point to Sal­ly + John

Go find the sym­bol on the grave­stone at the back wall. Head back to the side of the first shed and take the shov­el, then come back and make Wat­son dig. PUZZLE BOX.

Take the Key and the Ham­mer which is cov­ered in blood. This sparks move­ment. Head over to the gravedig­ger’s shed and watch the cutscene. Make a deci­sion on how to pro­ceed (Care, Medi­a­tion, Afraid).

1. Care — does­n’t result in much. He gives them an ulti­ma­tum. Infor­ma­tion or no treat­ment. In the end you get to choose between Medi­a­tion and Afraid.
2. Medi­a­tion — Holmes says that he’ll make Wat­son pay for the dam­age to Mr. Fletcher’s shop and they give up the ghost.
3. Afraid — Holmes says he’ll call the police and the kid fess­es up.

You get Kurtz’s Address for your trou­ble. Turns out Holmes knows the butch­er and he’s not an unfair man and Holmes stretched the truth to get infor­ma­tion from the kids. Leave the ceme­tery to get a cutscene of Prince Woodville.

You need to find Bat­ty Street now. Head left from the cemetery/church and run down until you see the street blocked by bar­rels. Bat­ty Street is right across from that. Head down the alley to the last door on the right. Go in using the key.

Mur­der scene! Yo! Inves­ti­gate every mag­ni­fy­ing glass until they turn green. Pick up Kurtz’s Let­ter. Once all the inves­tiga­tive icons are green, turn to your deduc­tion board to fig­ure it out.

Unfor­tu­nate­ly, infor­ma­tion is miss­ing. So, you con­trol Dr. Wat­son who needs to con­vince the doc­tor at the dis­pen­sary to let you exam­ine the body. Head to the morgue to talk to your old col­league. The dis­cus­sion turns heat­ed, but you get what you want.

Back with Holmes, uncov­er the body and move to exam­ine it.

1. Use the cot­ton to clean the area
2. Use the scalpel to cut the 2 lined spots
3. Use the sep­a­ra­tor, then the scis­sors, then the tweez­ers on the stom­ach cut to get a Kurtz’s Map
4. Take the sep­a­ra­tor, use it on the lung cut, then the scalpel, then the pipette to get a Full Pipette

Go over to the desk and just like with the lab at home, fig­ure out the con­tents of the pipette… Or just input these num­bers I’ve pro­vid­ed below

Now we can fin­ish the deduc­tion board!

A pow­er­ful poi­son mixed in the opi­um! Now to find the source. Using the map, head left of the dis­pen­sary, then take your first right. Run all the way down the alley and take anoth­er right straight to the opi­um den. Head inside.

Explore the opi­um den. When you’ve inves­ti­gat­ed enough, it will trig­ger a cutscene. You need to sneak into the back room. Pick up Ash­es, Tea, and Dirty Water. Com­bine all 3 in your bag to cre­ate Lousy Booze. Give it to the only patron who’s still awake. This will dis­tract the host. Run up to the front and snag the cor­rect key to the door (there was a sign above the door to tell you which one)

Wat­son returns the key. Go inside. Pick up the Stick and the Bill­hook. Check out the small win­dow across from the door to start a cutscene. Then pick up the Bar­bi­turic Acid, the Syringe, and the Tea­spoon with Opi­um Beads. Walk over to the cart near the oth­er win­dow.

Place the Tea­spoon with Opi­um Beads onto the burn­er on the left and swing it into place. Use your Match­es to light it up. You get Liq­uid Opi­um.

The host locks the door sud­den­ly. First, com­bine the Liq­uid Opi­um, Bar­bi­turic Acid, and the Syringe to get Syringe with Soporif­ic. Then remove the cloth from the win­dow next to the door. Now, use the Bill­hook on to open it, and the Stick to prop it up.

This part is hit or miss. Arm your­self with the Syringe with Soporif­ic, then start the mini game.

Put your cur­sor about where I have it and as soon as the icon changes to a green syringe, press A. It’s okay if you fail, you get to keep try­ing.

No that the lug is down, go up the stairs for a cutscene.

221B Baker Street — 3

Talk to Wat­son and he’ll tell you find Far­ley’s Office. Open your menu and click on Far­ley’s Office

Farley’s Office

You’re now in the office of the man who con­tin­ues to slan­der you in the papers!! Now to con­front him.

Look around the foy­er. Check out the pock­et of the coat next to the door and get a Cig­a­rette Case. Inspect the lapel and look inside the pock­et there for con­fir­ma­tion that it is indeed Osmond Far­ley’s coat. Try the door to his office and you are greet­ed with a rude and hasty exit by the sloven­ly pig. Holmes now wish­es to inspect his office.

Try the door again, and you will come up with a plan to sab­o­tage the elec­tric­i­ty and force the sec­re­tary out of the office. Snag the Hang­er from where Far­ley took his coat and use it to open the elec­tri­cal box near the exit.

Puz­zle!

With the sec­re­tary out of the way, open the office door and head straight to the desk ahead. Read and get Mes­sage from Far­ley’s Writ­ing Desk from the pad with torn paper, inspect the type­writer, and pick up the Brush from the make­up case. Then, check out the pad of paper on the upper left por­tion of the desk. If you try to use the mag­ni­fy­ing glass, you can see imprints on the paper. Leave and come back for now.

Head into the adjoin­ing room and pick up the Burnt Paper from the fire­place. Check out the mag­ni­fy­ing glass­es to turn them all green. Get the Bunch of Keys from next to the tele­phone and then dial the num­ber from the paper next to it. 1313? That’s Scot­land Yard!

Con­tin­ue your inves­ti­ga­tion. Get the Pho­to of the Prince Woodville, Note from Far­ley, and News­pa­per Arti­cle from the bul­letin board. Check out the ash­tray on the desk in front of the 2 chairs and get Ash­es. MAKE SURE to check out the ash-end of the expen­sive cig­ar there as it is sep­a­rate from the whole cig­ar itself. This will unlock a deduc­tion puz­zle!

How­ev­er. First, head back to the desk in the adjoin­ing room. Armed now with the ash­es, uncov­er the secrets of the notepad to get Note from Far­ley’s Writ­ing Desk.

Now with this infor­ma­tion, turn your atten­tion back to the fil­ing cab­i­nets in the cor­ner in the oth­er room. Open the draw­er labeled “DF.” Go through the papers until you see one with a blue ink stain in the cor­ner. BINGO! Get the Index Card from Far­ley’s Sec­re­tary.

Back to the deduc­tion puz­zle! (HINT: Make sure that all of the mag­ni­fy­ing glass­es in the area are green before start­ing this)

Head over to the book­shelf and inspect it. Holmes will knock the books onto the floor uncov­er­ing a mech­a­nism hid­den behind.

Well, I’ll be: a door right where you could­n’t inves­ti­gate any­thing.

Go through and look inside, but you won’t be able to ful­ly enter. Pick up the Hat from the floor. BACK TO BAKER STREET!

221B Baker Street — 4

Why don’t we run some tests now. Wat­son will leave.

Place the Hat on the table and inspect it.

• Check out the label inside — cus­tom made local­ly
• Check the gray hair on the back and/or inside — Man in his 50s and uses cam­phor in his hair
• Check the red rib­bon the side — Man is mar­ried
• Check under the brim’s side (both) — scratch marks from glass­es
• Check under the brim’s front — heat marks from tobac­co. Con­firms Far­ley’s vis­i­tor

Con­clu­sion: The man is a judge

Get the File from the book­shelf on the side near the bed­room and place it on the table.

Wat­son returns when you fig­ure it out.

Judge Beckett

Go ring the door­bell. Oh good­ie, no one’s home. You can talk to the florist, but Holmes will be rude about it. Go to the right side of the place and enter the unlocked gate. Inves­ti­gate the win­dow and Holmes wants Wat­son to find a pin.

Now you con­trol Wat­son. Run down the street and talk to Miss Lucy the florist. She knows exact­ly what you’re up to (giv­en how loud Wat­son was exclaim­ing at the front door, it’s no real sur­prise) and gives you a Hair­pin. Bring it back to Holmes.

Back as Holmes, use it on the win­dow and, BOOM. A puz­zle!

You enter into the kitchen. Go straight ahead and check out the floor. Get an Oar­lock. Check out the cook­ing oil and then head through the door to the class­room. Where to start?

Around the edge of the room, get the School Book, and check out the jack­et belong­ing to young James and the can­dy wrap­pers under­neath it. Inspect the cup­board with­out han­dles. Check out the Greek book and the can­dy box, and Holmes will deduce that young James has been steal­ing can­dy, so if you find his desk, you’ll find the han­dles to the door. Let’s do that now. Head back to the wall chart next to the coat rack that if you’d inspect­ed ear­li­er would have been deemed use­less by Holmes. Now, it’s a puz­zle!

Armed with this knowl­edge, go find James’ desk and take the Door Han­dles. Use it on the cup­board to get the Greek Book. Next to James’ desk is anoth­er PUZZLE

Get the 2nd Oar­lock for your trou­ble.

Con­tin­u­ing on, try the sides of the chalk­board to find that the screw is stuck. The chalk­board itself is a les­son on ancient Greek cul­ture. On the podi­um, take the Let­ter from Lord Bena­gard. Head back into the kitchen. Take the Cook­ing Oil and use it on both sides of the chalk­board. Flip it around and Holmes will make Wat­son write down the Greek let­ters.

On the desk, take the Let­ter from Judge Beck­ett out of the draw­er, the Judge’s Wed­ding Pho­to and the Pho­to of the Judge and His Wife, from the top, and now turn your atten­tion to the box. It’s a puz­zle box.

You get a Key! Hmm… I won­der what that’s for…?

That exhausts every­thing in the room, so head out the dou­ble doors near the coat rack. Take Lord Beck­et­t’s Note from the side table, the Warn­ing from the small bul­letin board, and inves­ti­gate Lord Beck­et­t’s door. Use the Key on the door.

*sigh* All this sneak­ing around like a com­mon crim­i­nal. Real­ly, Holmes!

Start inves­ti­gat­ing: pick up a 3rd Oar­lock from the small table next to the door, the 4 pic­ture frames above it, get the Pho­to of a Sym­bol, the cakes, the cig­ar, the papers, the tro­phies, the big met­al doors.

Ah. There’s the puz­zle!

Inside the can of worms are detailed reports of ALL of Holmes’ inves­ti­ga­tions!! Wat­son’s incred­u­lous­ness is as loud as usu­al. The atten­tion real­ly needs to be on the locked safe, though, which is Holmes’ aim from the get-go.

Holmes gets what he wants, and Wat­son accus­es him to hid­ing pos­si­bly com­pro­mis­ing infor­ma­tion. Holmes is vague as usu­al and orders Wat­son to cov­er up their tracks while he takes care of some­thing else.

Now you con­trol Wat­son. Attempt to take the oar­locks out like Holmes want­ed, but he tells you to escape right away. Wat­son tries to ask again, guilty about feel­ing and being a crim­i­nal, but Holmes again tells him they must leave with­out delay. Wat­son sees Judge Beck­ett and wants to talk to him, but Holmes orders him to stop. Wat­son dis­obeys and walks over…

…Only to be knocked flat by the bomb Holmes’ had plant­ed. This also takes out Miss Lucy the flower lady. Wat­son asks Holmes for help, but he refus­es and runs away.

221B Baker Street — 5

Watch the cutscene where Wat­son talks through the tragedy that just unfold­ed where every­thing that stood in Holmes’ way just got oblit­er­at­ed.

Take a look at every­thing there is to look at and lis­ten to Wat­son’s thoughts. Pick up and read Reporter — The Sher­lock Holmes Affair. Head into your room and go to sleep. You expe­ri­ence some seri­ous night­mares and then awak­en to the police bang­ing on the door. You’re tak­en to the sta­tion for inter­ro­ga­tion and then return to a ran­sacked apart­ment.

Start inves­ti­gat­ing. Thank good­ness Toby is okay. In the main room you find all man­ner of dis­guis­es uti­lized by Holmes. Then head into his bed­room. Look at the tweed suit on the man­nequin on the floor and then start pick­ing up all the dis­guis­es strewn about. Check out the draw­er next to his bed and click on the tobac­co box. It moves aside and you can see a hole indi­cat­ing there’s a false bot­tom. All of the sud­den, there’s a nail in the draw­er, so pick up the Nail, and use it to uncov­er a stash of let­ters addressed to Holmes’ alter­nate iden­ti­ties.

Pick up all the arti­cles of cloth­ing from the main room, and once you’ve got­ten them all, head to the wardrobe next to the exit and solve the puz­zle

Before you leave, go back to your room and get some mon­ey… Except. Holmes stole your cash. Like a scoundrel.

Holmes’ Hideout — Whitechapel, 6 Buck’s Row

Head down the only street open (there was a nasty riot where they stole the police horse to eat it). Click on the door and you are faced with… the big woman from the last vis­it to Whitechapel. Try to worm your way in using the options laid out for you.

I used the paint­ing a por­trait route: “I am one of your fans” > “To give you immor­tal­i­ty” > “The light­ing”

She gives me access to a room that is with­out doubt Holmes’ giv­en the messi­ness. Inves­ti­ga­tion START!

Begin next to the door: tobac­co, blot­ting paper, crim­i­nal­i­ty books. Move to the table: micro­scope, ana­lyz­ing mate­r­i­al, liq­uid reagents, a smok­ing pipe. Across from that: Holmes coat and hat, dirty water, crys­tal glass­es. Up in the sit­ting area is an out of tune vio­lin, sheets of music, an emp­ty pot, a nice plant, a half-packed suit­case, and an armored brief­case hand­cuffed to the sofa, locked with a code and a key.

Go back to the table where Holmes’ Pipe is. Pick it up, and also the Musi­cal News­pa­per. Turn around and use Holmes’ Pipe on the crys­tal glass­es. Wat­son will play Beethoven’s 5th on them with the pipe. Go to the sheaf of sheet music and Wat­son will pick up the cor­re­spond­ing Musi­cal Score. Bring it over to the micro­scope and click on it. Pick up the React­ing Agent and use it on the micro­scope. It’s too strong, so bring it over and use it on the water basin to dilute it. After­wards, inspect the basin to find chunks of earth inside. On the table next to the door, pick up the Blot­ting Paper, and return to the micro­scope. Use the reagent until you trig­ger dia­logue, then the blot­ting paper, to uncov­er a num­ber… Clear­ly the com­bi­na­tion code to the lock!

Now where is the key…? Wait… earth in the water basin… Ah hah! Check out the plant pot and, yep, there’s the Key.

Now armed with all you need for the lock, go ahead and open it

You find a train tick­et to Lon­don for that evening. All of the sud­den peo­ple come in and Wat­son accus­es the man of being in dis­guise. A hunched old lady tells him not to… because that’s Holmes. Wat­son loud­ly con­fronts him (as usu­al) and demands to come-with to Lon­don despite Holmes warn­ing him that the trip like­ly will be fatal for one of them.

London Countryside

Oooo! We’re reach­ing the end, I can feel it!

You walk through what sounds like hard beach sand, and Wat­son loud­ly asks ques­tions again. Holmes tells him that there are 3 men that would kill them if they could and orders Wat­son to use his revolver to keep them on the ground floor while he does some­thing upstairs.

You con­trol Wat­son. If you try to go up after Holmes, he tells you to go down to the ground floor door. Brave Wat­son, does.

Pick up the Vod­ka, check out the Lon­don Times, and try to talk to the 3 for­eign­ers. One if deaf, one is mute, the oth­er is blind.

Using the game’s instruc­tions, swap to Holmes.

Pick up the Rope, then check out the lamp fuel, and the lamps.

Look at the chest on the floor and look through the magi­cian’s coat for hand­cuffs (front hip pock­et), Fer­gus­son’s Diary (from back tail) and a Mas­ter’s Key, a coin (front chest pock­et), magi­cian’s equip­ment (wrist on both sleeve), and a skele­ton of a bird (oth­er hip pock­et).

Look at the rest of con­tents in the chest, then the jack­ets in the wardrobe, trap­door on the ground, the mill­stone, blood on the mill arm, sacks of moldy flour, a cog, creaky boards, hasti­ly repaired boards, old bags, the non-brick wall, the hol­low wall.

Go back to the 2 moldy flour sacks and use your Knife to open both of them up. Exam­ine them and get Safe Con­duct Pass­es and Infor­ma­tion Card. Pick up the Cog, too, and place it on the left side of the mill axle.

If you use your Knife on the repaired floor­boards, you’ll break it.

Head out the door and exam­ine the out­side of the wall there. If you look through the small win­dow, Wat­son is doing well. Head over to the extra build­ing and use the Mas­ter Keys on it. A tool shed! The first thing you see if a spade of a shov­el, but you can’t do any­thing with it, yet. Pick up the Screw­driv­er in the tool­box. Use it on the broom next to the stairs, then use the Wood­en Han­dle on the spade. Dri­ve in the 2 screws with the Screw­driv­er and get the Shov­el.

Head back into the attic and use the Shov­el on the wall (the ani­ma­tion is less than con­vinc­ing…). Attach the Rope to the iron bars behind the plas­ter, then turn around and use the Shov­el on the hasti­ly repaired floor to uncov­er an arse­nal of weapons! Exclaim over the dif­fer­ent weapons, then take the Chain.

Attach it to the mill­stone, then the oth­er end to the rope. You need a sec­ond cog.

Swap to Wat­son.

Look at the instru­ment on the wall, the med­i­cine cab­i­net and then take the Paint­brush from under the cloth on the bench. Look at the mill mech­a­nism next to the door and pick up the Gear from the ground to the left of that. Use it on the mill mech­a­nism.

Turn your atten­tion back to the locked chest now that you’re armed with the Paint­brush.

Inside are bomb-mak­ing com­po­nents. These peo­ple are ter­ror­ists! Wat­son puts two and two togeth­er to deter­mine that these ter­ror­ists were the ones that blew up the Judge’s house! Not Holmes after all? Well… the man says they made the bomb, but the one who det­o­nat­ed it placed it there, not them. He won’t speak any­more, because his broth­er’s wound is grave. Wat­son agrees to help, so the man gives him a Key. Use it on the med­i­cine cab­i­net which is sore­ly lack­ing. Take the Hydro­gen Per­ox­ide and the Ban­dages. Com­bine the Hydro­gen Per­ox­ide, Vod­ka, and Ban­dages in the inven­to­ry for Ban­dages with Dis­in­fec­tant. Use it on the man hold­ing his ear.

So, as it turns out, they made the bomb, it was placed and det­o­nat­ed at the Judge’s House, and they were tor­tured so that they won’t give up any infor­ma­tion. They won’t give up the name.

Swap back to Holmes.

Call down through the trap­door to Wat­son about the miss­ing cog (you might have been able to do this ear­li­er)

Swap to Wat­son. Ask the stand­ing thug if he knows about any cogs, and he directs you to a wood pile next to the fire­place. Go pick the Gear up and give it up through the hatch to Holmes.

Swap back to Holmes and install it on the end of the mill axle.

Go check out the new­ly demol­ished wall.

Ewww. The magi­cian’s body. If you look at the wall above the body, there’s an iron bar that holds it in place. Take the piece of paper from the body’s hand. Holmes now wants to destroy the place. Go pick up the Petrol next to the door.

This kicks off a cutscene where the thugs run away at the men­tion of Holmes’ name and the police show up. Whoops. Now there’s a new body and the mill is burn­ing down.

221B Baker Street — 6

There was hope in Wat­son that per­haps his good friend was­n’t involved after all but faced with the new­ly killed inspec­tor and Holmes on the run yet again, Wat­son is back to feel­ing manip­u­lat­ed and con­trolled by the crazy detec­tive.

Your flat shows some sem­blance of order again. Check out Holmes’ bro­ken pipe and pick up the Dai­ly Report News­pa­per. Holmes is now top sus­pect in the mur­der of both Inspec­tor Baynes and Judge Beck­ett. How hor­rid. Wat­son pens his con­cerns and thoughts on his good friend Sher­lock Holmes. He is dis­turbed by a noise from his apart­ment.

Leave the room and attempt to enter Holmes’ room. He does­n’t want to open the door, so Wat­son yells at him through the door. The events tran­spire sim­i­lar­ly to Wat­son’s night­mare from before. He draws his gun and enters only to see Holmes aim­ing a gun at him. Wat­son tries to fire, but he some­how has none in the cham­ber. The police start bang­ing on the door, and shock­ing­ly, Holmes turns the gun on him­self and blasts his own brains out.

A cutscene unfolds of Holmes’ bur­ial and Wat­son’s solo jour­ney to find answers.

The Sewers

Go back­wards until you see a rope in the water. Pull it sev­er­al times to find a body weighed down by an anchor. Pull up one final time to get a Hook and Rope.

Head for­ward and inspect the cig­a­rette on the ground. It’s still dry despite the damp sur­round­ings. Con­tin­ue on and inspect the rusty lad­der. Get the Lad­der Rung (Wat­son is insane­ly brave to even be in this God­for­sak­en place). Next, pick up the Rusty Met­al Bar. Keep mov­ing on down the way and pick up the length of Wire.

Look across the water and use the Hook and Rope on the boat there. Now, look at the ground and click on the hand that appears at the water’s edge to pull up a ser­vice door. Inside your inven­to­ry, com­bine all 3 of your remain­ing items. Lad­der Rung + Rusty Met­al Bar + Wire = Long Iron Bar. Use your new item on the ser­vice door.

Walk onto the boat and pick up both an Old Scarf and a Piece of Iron. Con­tin­ue onto the oth­er side of the sew­ers and look at the recent foot­prints on the ground. Run down the path until Wat­son auto­mat­i­cal­ly stops. Look at the grate on the ground.

Puz­zle time!

Check out the grate.

Anoth­er shock­ing twist!! WHAT????

Ugh. And those darn kids again. Seri­ous­ly. This sto­ry is NOT appro­pri­ate for chil­dren of those ages, WTH. Omg. What. The kids are Holmes’ and Wat­son­s’s grand­kids? What?? Any­ways, on with the sto­ry.

Holmes explains how he faked his own death (“Curare, hem­lock, a few Indi­an plants and sheep­’s blood to cre­ate the impres­sion of death… A pathol­o­gist who owed me a favour, for the death cer­tifi­cate”) to con­tin­ue the inves­ti­ga­tion unno­ticed, and how he can’t pos­si­bly be the leader of the thugs because, damn it, would thugs beat up their own boss? He’s in a bad way and can’t even walk on his own. They head back to Bak­er Street. Good thing Wat­son is a doc­tor (even if he nev­er seems to be work­ing much in that capac­i­ty)!

221B Baker Street — 7

Turns out Wat­son could­n’t stay in his own apart­ment after it all went down because it was too awful. Holmes tells him to have a seat, because here comes the truth!

Truth

• Pro­fes­sor Mori­ar­ty from the Swiss Asy­lum dur­ing the Case of the Awak­ened. He’s the bad guy.
• Respon­si­ble for the Bish­op’s mur­der. The Bish­op had some­thing that would be instru­men­tal in com­pro­mis­ing Mori­ar­ty’s grand plan. The day before they found the bish­op’s body, his trust­ed nephew (the autis­tic kid) brought him some­thing that explained Mori­ar­ty’s plan. The two of them argued about telling Holmes. Mori­ar­ty learned that the bish­op knew, and they went to tor­ture him, but they could­n’t open the safe to retrieve it. Turns out the doc­u­ment impli­cat­ed the Prince of Woodville. The nephew worked in the Roy­al Archives and was able to snag it.
• Mori­ar­ty’s Plan: Over­throw the Queen of Eng­land and place the Prince on the throne.
• They had to do it stealth­ily, so they start­ed by pro­vok­ing a famine so that the Prince’s soup kitchens would put him in the peo­ple’s good graces while they decried the Queen
• When Sher­lock Holmes start­ed sniff­ing about, Mori­ar­ty knew he was the only one capa­ble of mess­ing up the whole oper­a­tion, so he cre­at­ed a plan to dis­cred­it and false­ly incrim­i­nate Holmes of crimes. Holmes played along on pur­pose
• Wat­son asks why Holmes did­n’t alert Scot­land Yard. Holmes replies that Inspec­tor Lestrade was gone for many weeks and replaced by Inspec­tor Baynes who was work­ing for Mori­ar­ty.
• Baynes had access to all the police doc­u­ments and was able to mess with all the doc­u­ments regard­ing Judge Beck­et­t’s house and also the theft of Samoan Neck­lace was done by him.
• Judge Beck­ett went to Far­ley’s office to obtain all the false infor­ma­tion where they both real­ized they were only instru­ments in Mori­ar­ty’s schemes.
• Judge Beck­ett was shipped a mas­sive load of papers regard­ing all the “charges” against Holmes, while Far­ley could not resist, as a jour­nal­ist, mak­ing head­lines even with the fake infor­ma­tion.
• The rea­son Judge Beck­ett was killed was because he was get­ting ready to find out that the infor­ma­tion Far­ley had (as pro­vid­ed by and doc­tored by Inspec­tor Baynes) were all false.
• About the poi­son: When applied to the bish­op, it was exper­i­men­tal and too potent to be use­ful. By the time Kurtz was involved, it had been improved by no longer being fatal. Before Kurtz, it had been “test­ed” by Mori­ar­ty on many inno­cent vic­tims (e.g. the con­vent, the orphan­age, etc.). No one’s sure yet of what result Mori­ar­ty want­ed with the poi­son, but every­one it was applied to died.
• Holmes released Hans Schiel­man because Mori­ar­ty need­ed him to per­fect the poi­son. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, Mori­ar­ty’s thugs got to him first. Holmes knew that they would­n’t take him to their hide­out. Using Holmes’ “Secret Police (aka. street urchins)” he was able to fol­low the trail of the 3 Russ­ian broth­ers to their place at the water­mill.
• The answer to Mori­ar­ty’s hide­out would be in the attic of the water­mill, but Inspec­tor Baynes turned up. Holmes killed Baynes which worked out as he had just mur­dered a Scot­land Yard Inspec­tor, mak­ing him Lon­don’s most-want­ed man. Fak­ing his own death allowed him to inves­ti­gate under the radar.

Tl;dr — Pro­fes­sor Mori­ar­ty is the bad guy who was respon­si­ble for the mur­ders, the famine, the poi­son, and Holmes’ defama­tion and false charges, with thugs every­where, even in high-rank­ing posi­tions in Scot­land Yard. His goal is to depose the Queen and put Prince Woodville as ruler. End Goal: Take over Europe and the World

Mori­ar­ty’s Hide­out? In an aban­doned fun-fair on the out­skirts of Lon­don. Both Schiel­man and the Prince of Woodville ought to be there, too.

Abandoned Fun-Fair

Run down the path (noth­ing to be done back­wards) until you reach the fire in the bar­rel. Pick up the Iron Bar. Keep going up to the cable car. Inspect the motor and remove cap for both tanks. Looks like you’ll need both oil and petrol. Of course. Inspect the square hole between the 2 tanks and Holmes will prompt that the motor needs a crank.

Take the Pli­ers from the tool­box on the ground and inspect both the stuck lad­der and the stuck lever. Walk onto the car. Use your Knife on the roped box to get a Bot­tle of Oil. On the side of the car next to the lever, use the Iron Bar on the locked box to get a Crank.

Keep going down the path and pick up the Vod­ka from the next fire bar­rel. If you try to go for­ward, Holmes will turn around to not arouse the atten­tion of the guards (despite the insane­ly loud sound when you run. Guards must be deaf). Return to the cable car. Use the Vod­ka in the petrol/gas tank, the Bot­tle of Oil on the oil tank, and the Crank in the hole.

You’re split­ting up!

Now you’re play­ing Wat­son. Looks like you’re stronger than Holmes. That lever was no issue. Watch your­self slow­ly move over to the rooftop, then move for­ward.

Pick up Piece of Rope x3 from the sack on the ground next to the water tank, next to the fire bar­rel, and next to the cir­cu­lar hole from which you see a line of horse drawn soup carts. Head up the lad­der, pick up the Dry Duster and check out the door on the side of the water tank. Go back down.

Head across to the met­al stairs and descend. You can walk around if you’d like, but there’s noth­ing to do and you’re unable to con­tin­ue with the guard around the cor­ner. Pick up the Emp­ty Bot­tle from the ground next to the win­dow. Try to look through the win­dow. It’s too dirty. Try your Dry Duster. Wat­son com­plains that the rag is too dry. Go on back up to the water tank. Inside your bag, com­bine the 3 Pieces of Rope to get a Tied Rope. Attach that to the Emp­ty Bot­tle and use the new­ly com­bined Attached Emp­ty Bot­tle on the water tank. Com­bine your Water Bot­tle with the Dry Duster for a Wet Duster. Woo. Head back down and use your new item on the fac­to­ry win­dow.

Wait. You have to do it man­u­al­ly? Fine.

Ooooo! Some­how no one sees you peep­ing through the new­ly cleaned win­dow, and you deduce that they’ve added Hans Schiel­man’s poi­son into the soup carts des­tined for Lon­don! The curs!

Swap play­ers! You play Holmes now.

Look at the fence ahead of you and then the box on the ground. Not large enough! Head back and pick up the Iron Lad­der that was under the cable car ear­li­er. Set it up hap­haz­ard­ly on the crate, and climb up. Use the Pli­ers on the barbed wire where some­one had, clear­ly, once gone through it and get inside.

First, go straight for­ward and pick up the Giraffe-Shaped Tar­get from the ground. Then, inspect the tele­phone line in the back right cor­ner of the area. Next, head into the tent. Inspect the bed. Inspect the account book. Press the book to close it and use the avail­able knife towards the spine.

Get the Secret Accounts which record some illic­it deal­ings and also some text about a gazelle and a lion. Next up, pick up the Lion-Shaped Tar­get from atop the wardrobe. Go through to the oth­er side. Inspect and add the 2 Tar­gets to the mini game. Look at the poster below and use your Knife on it. Turn around and read the Note in Pen­cil. Clear­ly, it’s anoth­er poem for the Tar­get puz­zle behind you, so you need to find the last tar­get. Where is it? Check out the cash reg­is­ter there. Well, well… Place the Mon­key-Shaped Tar­get on the game for the PUZZLE!

You get Wads of Ban­knotes for your trou­ble.

Head out of the tent. Holmes wants to dis­creet­ly take the guard out of com­mis­sion (Note: if you go too far, the guard will see you and you restart in the tent). Instead of going right, head left next to the fence and open the door there into the ser­vice pas­sage of the menagerie. Head to the left. You can’t do any­thing with the first-aid box yet, so check out each room in turn, not­ing that the guard can be seen and heard as you inspect. The very last door opens into a cage that is ful­ly blocked from the view of any­one out­side the bars. Check out the large syringe, old ban­dages, then pick up the Key from the ground. Go use it on the first-aid box at the end of the hall and pick up the Bot­tle of Ether. Again, Holmes states that he wants to dis­creet­ly take out the guard to not attract oth­ers’ atten­tion.

If you head back to the last room, you will see 2 places to put some bait for the guard. What bet­ter bait than… MONEY. Place Ban­knotes on all 5 of the high­light­ed areas inside and out­side the build­ing. Watch the thug fol­low the mon­ey trail, then wan­der down the hall and close the door. Use the Bot­tle of Ether on the lit­tle win­dow to knock out the very dumb guard.

Head down the new path and pick up the Rope. You’ll encounter anoth­er guard which you need to trap again. Go into the door that’s in front of you and start inves­ti­gat­ing: the beard­ed lady, the box­es of bot­tles, the aquar­i­um, the Mer­maid, the occu­pied cage, the man in the cage who’s been poi­soned, the oth­er cage. Pick up the Part of a Crank from the chair next to the crates of bot­tles and turn around to check out the pole. Use the Crank on the mech­a­nism and then oper­ate it. Use the Rope to con­nect the hook to the top of the cage. Using the con­ve­nient­ly crates, walk up onto the stage and check out the table there.

You’ll find chem­istry mate­r­i­al and Hans’ Diary on top (a hor­rif­ic, yet enlight­en­ing, read), and a Note from the Fun­fair’s Direc­tor (H Fer­gus­son? Things are tying togeth­er, here!) in the draw­er. You find a clue that the beard­ed lady held the keys! Go check out her poster near the door. The Key is in her shoul­der.

Armed with this, may­haps it’s time to attract the guard? Turn around and knock over the box­es with the bot­tles.

You’re now out­side. Head over to the door and lock it with the Key. Head left to the win­dow behind the caged man. Unleash the zom­bie and rest assured (or dis­ap­point­ed?) that there was no imme­di­ate car­nage. Run down the new­ly opened path for a cutscene.

Wat­son! They dis­cuss the prob­lem (Mori­ar­ty plan­ning to unleash a horde of bonafide zom­bies into Lon­don to wreak hav­oc for 48 hours so that he can take over the throne and result­ing in mass casu­al­ties) and a solu­tion (blow­ing up the water tank so that it takes out the fac­to­ry). Then Holmes mar­vels over the… Mer­ry-Go-Round (I think the anten­na on it is what fas­ci­nates him, but the game is so dark, I can’t be sure)?

Head­ing towards the car­a­vans, go into the wash­room and inves­ti­gate the vod­ka. Check out the car­riage next door to the wash­room. It’s locked, but there’s a lad­der on the side, and you can walk on the beams to look in the win­dow. Those anar­chist Russ­ian broth­ers! The next car­a­van is emp­ty and locked, but the last one is not. Go into the unoc­cu­pied one to get a Met­al Plate and Pro­pa­gan­da Tract. Check out the want­ed poster with the broth­ers on it. Con­tin­ue onto the rest of the path and go into the the­ater.

There you see Woodville prac­tic­ing his coro­na­tion speech. As he does­n’t know them, Holmes imme­di­ate­ly fakes his iden­ti­ty. Woodville slips that there will be bombs det­o­nat­ed dur­ing the coup d’é­tat.

Talk to him and talk about “Anar­chists.” (Note: If you did­n’t peep in on the 3 Russ­ian Broth­ers, this will not trig­ger until you do). He tells you that the Russ­ian broth­ers cre­at­ed the bombs set all over Lon­don. Woodville is very much against the idea, but Mori­ar­ty want­ed it.

“Bomb in the The­atre” option is not cor­rect. “Mori­ar­ty Betrayed you” and “Let’s Warn Mori­ar­ty” will trig­ger the prince to point a gun at Wat­son and Holmes will try to save him. Head towards the door and the red rope now can be removed. Con­ve­nient­ly, Woodville’s vision is cut off from your move­ments. Check out the bun­dle of ropes on the stage for a PUZZLE!

When you fin­ish, the cur­tain falls on Woodville and he… pass­es out…? Pull the lever to keep him silenced after he wakes up.

Run back to the stage and take the Dia­mond Ring, then turn to the right and take the Magi­cian’s Belt from the red dum­my.

Head back to the car­a­van with the broth­ers in it. In your inven­to­ry, use the Knife on the Magi­cian’s Belt to split it up into Magi­cian’s Pow­der and Leather Belt. Use the Magi­cian’s Pow­der on the bro­ken pipe out­side the win­dow, then top it with the Met­al Plate. Close the door on the broth­ers, then remove the Met­al Plate. You can go in now! Check out the dic­tio­nary, the lit­tle hang­man, and dyna­mite shells. Pick up the Saw, the Let­ter to the Anar­chists, and the Wire. Now, check out the dic­tio­nary next to the door and… PUZZLE

Armed with the plan, first grab the Lad­ders x2 from the near­by car­a­vans using the Saw. go back to the carousel and down the stairs towards it. Check out the con­trol pan­el on the carousel itself. Look at the door to the big build­ing there. If you go around the rights side, you can check out the tele­phone cable that attach­es to the box near the entrance to the place, but you can’t go in. Instead, head to the left. In your inven­to­ry, com­bine the 2 Lad­ders then use the Wire on them to make a Large Lad­der. Set it up aaaaaand minor puz­zle.

Ugh. This lev­el is so LONG. It must be the last lev­el… They’re always like this.

Min­i­mal does it. Cut the right places on the win­dow bars and then use the dia­mond ring in the right place.

Now you con­trol Wat­son.

Some­how the lad­der is bro­ken. Head back to the car­riages. Go into the one the 3 broth­ers were in and check out the lard and the over­heat­ing stove. Take the Rag and the Key behind it. Use the Rag to open the stove. Turn around and take the Water­ing Can put out the fire.

NOTE: If you want to learn the 3 broth­ers’ names, leave and look at the side of the car­riage for the name “Alexan­der.” Check the side of the next car­riage to find the name “Alex­ei,” then repeat on the last car­riage for the name “Aleko.”

Now, use the Key on the 2nd car­riage. Look inside the Russ­ian dolls for anoth­er Key. Check the whit­tling on the desk, then turn your atten­tion to the chest under the bed. Pull it out and open the lock with the new Key. Take the Bag of Mar­bles, the Let­ter in Russ­ian, and a Clock­’s Hand. Look at the tops.

Go to the striped build­ing at the end of the way and look at the lock.

Walk inside. Take the Crow­bar from the wardrobe and use it on the box next to it to find sticks of dyna­mite. You can’t do any­thing with it yet. Look at the table and click on the paper for a puz­zle!

Now to assem­ble the bomb!

Look around the shed for any take­able items, then come back to the work­table and assem­ble!

Instruc­tions: dyna­mite > base plate > rod > radio > watch > wires > bot­tle > crank

When you’re done, turn the crank. Whoops! Take the bomb, then go to the carousel, and use it on the con­trols there for… a par­tic­u­lar­ly obnox­ious and unfor­giv­ing mem­o­ry puz­zle. Just do your best

Now, run to the right of the haunt­ed house and use the Bag of Mar­bles on the win­dow there.

Now you play as Holmes.

Turn­ing left, look at the paint­ings, the book, and take the Key from the small table. Look at the chest on the ground and open it for Act of Trans­fer and a Met­al Core from the dol­l’s head. Open the wardrobe and take out Bed­sheet x2. Turn your atten­tion to the glass cab­i­net with the rifle inside. Holmes wants to force the lock by using the Met­al Core.

Inspect the rifle, then take the Oil­can. Go out the door and watch the cutscene… So… it seems that Mori­ar­ty isn’t the mas­ter­mind after all, but a hired thug? Take the Planks x5 from the book­shelf and head down the hall. If you inspect the rail­ing (check the book­shelf if you want to), there are 2 places to tie a rope to go down into the haunt­ed house maze and one place to put one of the Planks. In the inven­to­ry, com­bine the Bed­sheets for a Cloth Rope. Attach it to one of the 2 rope points (it does­n’t mat­ter which) and go down. Use the Oil­can on the gears next to the wood­en pan­el and push it for­ward.

Climb back up the rope, and now you can add the 2nd Plank.

Con­tin­ue for­ward, plac­ing Planks until you reach the oth­er side. You will have to turn around and remove one to place the last board in the last spot

Note: I apol­o­gize: I’m not sure if you have to move any oth­er pan­els aside from the first one because I moved all kinds of stuff before I did it. If you do, then go down into the maze and change the pan­els around. It’s not ter­ri­bly dif­fi­cult, even for some­one spa­tial­ly chal­lenged like me.

Head down the hall to the only door (your des­ti­na­tion!) and use the Key to open it. Head in and check the shut­ter if you wish but pick up the phone. You’ll talk to Inspec­tor Lestrade who is under­stand­ably wary of you. After the cutscene, open the shut­ters.

Back on the ground now and with a sol­id plan, head over to the carousel con­trol pan­el. Use the Tele­phone on the tele­phone box, then turn your atten­tion to the con­trol pan­el.

Suc­cess!! Wait. The bomb. We still have to get to the fac­to­ry to stop those infer­nal soup carts! And to make it worse, Mori­ar­ty him­self is going to go to the fac­to­ry, too!

Head to the big wood­en doors. Remove the bar and open it. Thank­ful­ly, the guards are gone. Head to the cable car and get in. Oh boy. We’re too late… Mori­ar­ty and his thugs have beat­en us there and we’re still hang­ing in the mid­dle of nowhere.

Back in con­trol, take the Buck­et from the ground. The lever is stuck again. In the inven­to­ry, com­bine the Buck­et with the Bomb for a Bomb in a Buck­et, and add the Leather Belt to that for a Bomb Ready! Attach it to the rope above the cable car to send slow­ly it over towards the water tow­er. The thug runs away, but Mori­ar­ty tries to mess with it instead of throw­ing it over­board (though, per­haps he’s too weak because Wat­son who seems extra strong did say it’s real­ly heavy) but runs off even­tu­al­ly.

Use the Knife on the cor­ner tog­gle hold­ing the wood­en pan­el in place, then pull the emer­gency lever.

Watch the fire­works across the way. You’re both con­vinced that the lack­lus­ter dis­play killed every­one.

Go back through the wood­en doors to the haunt­ed house. Head left and try to enter the door except… Mori­ar­ty is still alive and rag­ing at you with a gun.

Holmes asks him one ques­tion: “Is Schiel­man immune to his own poi­son?” which stuns Mori­ar­ty long enough for…

Cutscene! You watch as zom­bie Schiel­man attacks Mori­ar­ty’s throat, though he man­ages to shoot the mon­ster. In his dying breath, he begs Holmes to take the mys­te­ri­ous “her/she.”

Well. Let’s find out who this is!! Go through the door.

It’s… a kid…?

Watch the end­ing.

After that creepy way Holmes car­ries and looks at the girl out of the haunt­ed house, he appar­ent­ly raised her as a father. Those kids are sup­posed to be her chil­dren.

GAME OVER!

CONGRATULATIONS!

Overall Thoughts

As a whole, I quite liked that game. I’d think about it on occa­sion when I was­n’t play­ing (it took me how long? Octo­ber to Feb­ru­ary to fin­ish it?) which is usu­al­ly a good sign. The graph­ics are good, and the voice act­ing is top notch for the main char­ac­ters. It has intrigue and plot twists that real­ly make you hang on. The cre­ators did an amaz­ing job with Sher­lock Holmes him­self, per­fect­ly cap­tur­ing his per­son­al­i­ty and quirks. Not too far into the game, I real­ized that he’s high­ly like­ly on the autism spec­trum. Asperg­er’s for sure. How­ev­er, I found the game to be rather grue­some which, while it lines up with the M rat­ing, is rather… inap­pro­pri­ate…? when you real­ize that super young kids aged 5ish to 12ish are read­ing the sto­ry. Hope­ful­ly the account did­n’t have pic­tures or dia­grams because that would be enough to scar young chil­dren. Per­haps they’re made of tougher stuff than I think, but daaang. Tor­ture? Muti­la­tion? Can­ni­bal­is­tic zom­bies? Drug use? Sui­cide by shot to head?? Anarchy/terrorism! The puz­zles were cre­ative. I’ve played many puz­zle games and after a while puz­zles get kind of repet­i­tive through dif­fer­ent games. There were some very inter­est­ing ones here. Even though I took ill (since I was writ­ing this while I played, some of the words and phras­es I end­ed up uti­liz­ing were direct­ly inspired by the British dia­logue) after the dog at the docks part, which put me off of play­ing for sev­er­al weeks, I made it! The only oth­er gripe I have is the dark col­or­ing of the game. Why are things so dim? I’m excit­ed to play the oth­er 2 games in the bun­dle I got, so stay tuned for more game guides!