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Sep-11-2005 06:50

For the cheerfully pessimistic detective!

1. Your client did it.

2. Buying Advanced Thread Analysis means that all threads immediately disappear from the crime scene.

3. The question you need answered most is the one the witness clams up on.

I'm sure more experienced players can add to the list. Care to have a go?

Aug-20-2007 16:30

You play an IH favor, and are miraculously able to deduce who each of the 4 PE belongs to without even trying - two of them are matched by your contact, and the rest literally match themselves, due to specializations.

The catch? Out of the 8 suspects, you practically have no alibis to validate - you have 1 eliminated by Research, and 2 that claim the barber as their alibi (who happens to be the one who asked you to solve the case). One of those two match a PE, but has a real alibi. Everyone else has clammed.

It's times like this that make it abundantly clear that I need to make lockpicking my next skill.

Aug-20-2007 18:37

I spend a long time trying to get a double breasted jacket. Seriously, I pretty much stopped playing after it wound me up so. I come back and get it.....but then remember that Im not in an agency any more, and the only way to get the jacket it to sell my treasured island blue :(

Sep-4-2008 03:52

Interesting post

Mar-15-2009 18:56

You go to your Client's house and get to pick the lock and you get motives, not an alibi....every time...

Mar-16-2009 12:51

Yon need just the barber favor to finish the treasure hunt grom hell. You are ecstatic when you finaaly track good old Octavia down. Then you open the case and there are 4 hairs at the crimes scene. 5 people have Octavia for an alibi and she want's $350 before she will answer the first question.

Apr-4-2009 09:55

You snatch some precious time to do some cases, and an electrical storm starts. :-/

Jun-17-2011 09:43

9. If it takes you over half an hour to gather loads of dubious evidence for one particular suspect, they die as you arrive at their house.

Jun-17-2011 22:39

You have all the evidence that points to a particular suspect with no motive, every suspect has clamped up, and no hint to a possibly new suspect from the witnesses.

Jun-18-2011 12:25

You spend ten days from hell working on a treasure hunt, finally reaching the last favor needed (a Barber, of course), go to open the favor, find four threads, and you're a shoe contact. (Wait, it gets better! :-) You spend the better part of a week's wages on bribes and payoffs working on this last needed favor, and wouldn't you know it, you actually SOLVE the darned thing!! *BLINK!!* You go to solve it, double-check yourself five times over 'cause you're so worried bout this case, hit the button....

Nothing happens.

Turns out, the rival agency solved the hunt literally three seconds before you solved your favor.

O.o

*Gets out the straitjacket...*

Dave

Jun-23-2011 01:09

^
''Turns out, the rival agency solved the hunt literally three seconds before you solved your favor''

I totally agree...has happened to me too...quite a disapointment indeed!