Anyone remember this? It was a 1988 a mystery adventure game based on an Agatha Christie novel in which you play a London reporter investigating a local murder.
It was almost like an early version of The Last Express or Gabriel Knight 3. It was set entirely in real time, with all of the characters / suspects constantly moving around the world over the course of a few days. They'd go to work, go home, sneak off to secret rendezvous, etc.
Besides your typical adventure game actions you could also tail characters to discover new locations and find new characters. Also whenever two characters were in the same location and talking you could eavesdrop and potentially learn valuable clues or perhaps overhear their plans to meet later at a certain location.
The game was EXTREMELY hard to beat, probably impossible on your first try without a walkthrough, because there were so many necessary events that you'd have to be in the right place at the right time for. But even if you missed some and wouldn't be able to win in your playthrough there was still a lot of story to go through, and you'd learn things that'd help you out in the future, such as learning which storylines would lead to dead ends so you'd know not to waste your time following a certain suspect in the next game.
The amount of freedom though was just incredible, and it made the game so much fun. There was a rival reporter that was investigating the murders too, and you could learn a lot just by tailing him around the London area every day and listen to him question the suspects that you should be questioning. And the story and characters were written well enough that I always enjoyed reading the conversations, even if it had nothing to do with the main case. Discovering new subplots was a big part of the fun, and every playthrough felt different because there were always new story elements to uncover.
I played this a lot as a kid, and had a blast with it. Anyone else have fond (or not so fond) memories of this game?
