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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?

Oct-19-2005 11:18

You need one more case to get to your next favor, and you have one case left for the day, but you click the top featured mystery by mistake...

You only were able to find two suspects when things dried up. your client, who only named one other, and that one who died when you went away to change into tough gear. So you charm all the townies but the only ones who know anything about the case implicate your client, and the dead suspect!

Oct-19-2005 18:50

you have two suspects to start off with. One clams up on your most important question, and the other one dies. you have no more people and nothing to go on

Oct-19-2005 20:23

Jack, in that situation you can ask townspeople if they have heard anything and you might get more suspects on your list.

Oct-21-2005 12:44

You move the agency to a new town because you've done everything in your old town and are fed up with not knowing what gender your suspects are from their names, and then your four directors work tirelessly to get the four contacts and it takes THREE MONTHS to get the last one!!!! and that goes for everyone in the agency! If you ever want to live in London, make friends with the barber, as he has a never ending supply of expensive hats, but will keep your secrets for ever...

Nov-7-2005 16:10

Just when I have figured out who the killer is, he disappears and everyone has clammed up on me and no one will tell me where he is!

Feb-10-2006 17:36

I haven't had this happen to me, but I thought of this nightmare:
First, you talk to the suspects. Most of them are apparently bivalves, because they clam up tight. Neither Interrogation or Sweet Talking work, and you have no money to bribe them with. Two of them bring up who they suspect and their alibis. You go to investigate the alibis and physical evidence. One person's alibi doesn't check out, the evidence is theirs, and both suspects suspected them. You go to their house and they're dead! Eventually everyone except your client (who has a valid alibi) is dead, and they're the Monarch of Mollusks (i.e. they've clammed up) I doubt even Holmes (the fictional one, not the member) could solve this!

Feb-10-2006 17:58

Mostly all of the suspects will go to the townie who's just clammed up and wasn't persuaded by Rule Bending or Intimidation.

You do all that asking and analysing on a particular suspect when... ARGH... she's been murdered.

A suspect clams up and wasn't persuaded by Sweet Talking or Interrogation. You were going to ask for his alibi. You got to the Barber, and -what do you know- the hair belongs to the uncooperative suspect. You go and accuse Mr. X and it turns out that he had a valid alibi (the Barber as it turns out) and he wasn't the killer.

Rarely any suspect goes to your non-PE contact (as it so happens with me).

Running away isn't a good sign -- especially if the suspect doesn't know anything.

Feb-10-2006 22:44

You log on to sleuth ready to solve cases and find the server is down. You go to sleuthchat looking for sympathy and the place is empty. You cry to yourself and don't come back to check for the rest of the day. Five minutes later sleuthadmin brings the site back up with a new featured mystery and decides not to give everyone an extra day. You check the next day and someone blurts out the name of the guilty party for the new featured mystery in sleuthchat before you have a chance to play the case.

Feb-11-2006 02:59

Whomever you find to be innocent through research WILL die.
I'm beginning to believe it is intended this way, as this has been the case for me 95% of the time, and usually I find out he dies right after researching his innocence.

Feb-11-2006 04:20

Chelsea........that's sooooooo bad!!!!