You play as reporter for a big city newspaper. Recently, a rival reporter was found stabbed to death in a phone booth. Your job is to travel around the city following suspects, listening in on conversations, and even searching in their homes when they're away. Based on an Agatha Christie novella.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and cool.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the game
- Platforms
- DOS, Apple II
- Developer
- Telarium
- Publisher
- Telarium, Spinnaker Software
- Released
- December 31, 1986
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Side view
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