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Shadowfox*
Shadowfox*

Jul-12-2005 02:12

well the sleuth has these 4 cities
newyork is a strong city for sleuth purpose.so do london.what what made the ppl to select shangai and delhi.I dont know what's special with these cities....?


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jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Jul-14-2005 06:27

LOL river. How can there be a crime, if everything is legal?

River D
River D
Well-Connected

Jul-14-2005 06:59

Well, unless im considerably behind the times I dont think they got around to decriminalising murder did they? Otherwise people wont be quite so eager to go on a relaxing holiday to Amsterdam with their other half who they have been rowing with for the past 6 months :s.

John Hale
John Hale
Yarn Weaver

Jul-14-2005 08:39

My recommendations have been Cairo, Kyoto, Pretoria (name backdated to relevant period) and Budapest.

Rabat, by the way, is the capital of Morocco. I think perhaps you were thinking of Casablanca, Madame TBird, which is also in Morocco.

jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Jul-14-2005 10:53

In Casablanca and Rabat there are plenty of crimes to solve. I didn't know how fast I wanted to LEAVE both cities.

Murder is not illegal. But you get out after a couple of years. :)

Greyling
Greyling

Jul-14-2005 13:58

Oooo yes, I've been thinking about Cairo and Casablanca too - as well as Paris, Havana, Buenos Aires and Chicago - and Istanbul like Micky Sticks also mentioned somewhere in another thread - *lol* - poor Ben, he's done so much already and we keep wanting more :D

Lt. Frank Columbo
Lt. Frank Columbo

Jul-14-2005 15:03

What do you think about Vienna and Belgrade?

Sleuth Admin
Sleuth Admin
Tale Spinner

Jul-14-2005 15:19

I was originally planning on Shanghai and Cairo.

Shanghai was literally an international city at the time, austensibly under the influence various European nations, but not really a colony. Much of the real power lay in the hands of a small number of merchant families called The Hongs, many of whom had close connections to the Triads.

As I said, I was leaning towards Cairo as the fourth city. It's a fascinating city with plenty of political and underworld intriqgue to work with. I also wanted to have a good geographic spread between cities. I started to run into problems finding period photos that could work for Cairo though. I just didn't find enough useful images on the internet.

At the time, Sunny had just read a book called The Game, by Laurie King (great book by the way, for all you Holmes fans). It was set in Colonial India and she suggested that we use Bombay (Mumbai) as the fourth city. I started gathering images, and had plenty to use, but I couldn't find a good map of Bombay that was similar enough in style to the maps we've used for the other cities. I did, however, find a nice abstract map of Dehli to use. So, that's how we ended up with Dehli.

jstkdn
jstkdn
Well-Connected

Jul-14-2005 15:40

Yes, but can't I get any good take out chinese food in Shang hai? :) :) :)

Interesting to read Ben, how you got to all these choices. I figured it had something to do with maps and images. It didn't occur to me that they'd be good sleuth type cities. (because I am dumb that way.)

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