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Tom Darling
Tom Darling

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?

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Vampiric Smile
Vampiric Smile
Safety Officer

Sep-4-2008 03:52

Interesting post

nicnic
nicnic
Battered Shoe

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...

ctown28
ctown28
Huntsman

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.

Anikka
Anikka
Babelfish

Apr-4-2009 09:55

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

Sir William Weine
Sir William Weine
Lucky Stiff

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.

Shawn Savage
Shawn Savage
Well-Connected

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.

David Adams
David Adams
Red-Nosed

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

Vampiric Smile
Vampiric Smile
Safety Officer

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!

TheChickenFox
TheChickenFox

Jul-8-2011 22:19

Only need one more skill point for safecracking. Get 8 cases in a row where everyone clams and I cannot solve. Finally solve a case. Don't get a skill point. Out of money to go back to NYC where my contact is. Totally useless!

Majysticus
Majysticus
Well-Connected

Jul-28-2011 11:34

When you think Rule Bending or Intimidation will save your life with multiple evidence from one witness,you end up reading the following:

Huan Yue decided to be more cooperative and answer more questions.

At that, he clammed up quick.
He'd had enough of my questions, unless there was something I could do to convince him to be more cooperative.

And you know that bribe is a one-shot deal...

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