Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective

by Bruce Shelley

This is a story, hints, and solutions book, to the Personal Computer (PC) Windows and Macintosh versions of the video games, "Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective" Volumes I, II and III. It has a fictional narrative of each of the 9 stories from the three volumes of the game, as told by Sherlock Holmes himself. It also has a text version of each cases opening video scenes, tell where and how the clues can be found by the player, including those in newspaper that came packaged with the games. Then comes a simplified solution with the minimal steps needed to solve each case, answers to the various questions, and things the player needs to do to successfully bring the case to trial. This book also tells the player the connection between the events in the game and the final solution, and any inconsistencies in the game. There is also a section that details how to set up the game onto your computer and the most common errors the player might encounter. It has many gray-scale screenshots, m