At Horsham, PC Gibson: 'While I'm waiting for someone from the Yard to get here, I'll have an initial look around.' #sherlockholmes #beheadedsmuggler
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At Horsham: As we ventured up the path, Holmes opened the grand front door and beckoned us inside. #sherlockholmes #beheadedsmuggler
At Horsham, Watson: 'Well, we know the cause of death is beheading, obviously...' #sherlockholmes #beheadedsmuggler
At Horsham, Victor Wathley: 'My God! Who could have done such a thing?' #sherlockholmes #beheadedsmuggler
At 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes: 'Watson, I hope you will be free to accompany me?' #sherlockholmes #beheadedsmuggler
The note: "REMEMBER JOHNSON - YOU WILL GET THE SAME" - signed with the initials F.O.S. #sherlockholmes #beheadedsmuggler
At 221B Baker Street, Victor Wathley: 'Such goods as alcohol, tobacco, diamonds, opium and others' #sherlockholmes #beheadedsmuggler
At 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes: 'If you are wondering, Watson, this is Mr Victor Wathley' #sherlockholmes #beheadedsmuggler
For book 2, The Tower Bridge Mystery, I'm currently researching Thames tides info for around Tower Bridge, Easter 1899 - Gemini and Perplexity proving very useful research tools #sherlockholmes #towerbridgemystery #research www.patwalsh.co.uk/mystery/
Back at 221B Baker Street: 'Anyhow, it turned out that George Wathley, Nathaniel Johnson and I were all members of the Fellowship of Swords.' #sherlockholmes #beheadedsmuggler
At Limehouse: With a further stretch of our legs, and a small piece of fortune, we then managed to locate the opium den that Holmes had been told about. #sherlockholmes #beheadedsmuggler
Back at 221B Baker Street: We three were sat in chairs close enough to the fireplace for it to warm us, and Holmes started the conversation. #sherlockholmes #beheadedsmuggler
On the train back to Victoria station, Watson: 'I know he's the victim here, but this George Wathley fellow seems to have been a certain order of cad, Holmes!' #sherlockholmes #beheadedsmuggler #sherlockholmes
In the cellar, at Horsham: Holmes carefully removed the ledger from the desk and moved it nearer to the oil lamp, so that we could see its contents. #sherlockholmes #beheadedsmuggler
From Wathley's diary: 22 January 1899. I'm beginning to feel that the F.O.S may be getting suspicious of my dealings with them... #sherlockholmes #beheadedsmuggler
At 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes: 'Come now, we had best waste no more time, as I fear Mr George Wathley is in deep danger.' #sherlockholmes #beheadedsmuggler
If you fancy playing the original text adventure Sherlock Holmes in The Case of the Beheaded Smuggler via a ZX Spectrum emulator in the browser - more info is on patwalsh.co.uk/case/ #sherlockholmes #adventure
What had turned the snow-covered path a sickening shade of crimson? Find out at www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G6XRN7M3 #sherlockholmes #adventure
And this is the Ebook/Kindle version on Amazon amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G7348P2R #sherlockholmes #adventure
Sherlock Holmes in The Case of the Beheaded Smuggler book cover
I recently published the story based on my text adventure Sherlock Holmes in The Case of the Beheaded Smuggler on Amazon, this is the paperback version amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G6XRN7M3 #SherlockHolmes #adventure
And there's a nicely comprehensive page for the text adventure at spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/6962/Z... #sherlockholmes #adventure
The text adventure got a good write-up on this page cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/th... #sherlockholmes #adventure
Many years ago, I wrote a text adventure for the ZX Spectrum using PAWS. This was Sherlock Holmes in the Case of the Beheaded Smuggler. It's still out there and is featured on some pages such as this one worldofspectrum.net/item/0006962/ #sherlockholmes #adventure