Sherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring – by Frogwares
Bromsby Cementworks
Click on Bromsby
cementworks on the map.
Click on ladder left of
Holmes. Click on top of ladder to climb up the wall.
Marty and the dog,
first time: SAVE GAME HERE! Increase the brightness
of your monitor. Do this puzzle only if you have free time.
The object here is to
get to Grimble’s office building without being caught by Marty and the dog.
Double clicking makes
Holmes run. You have to place Holmes at exactly the right spot so that he
won’t be seen. You have to move Holmes exactly at the right time when Marty
and the dog won’t see him.1. Follow Marty by
clicking on bottom of screen.2. The view is now
looking down at the compound.3. Move Holmes to follow Marty at a discreet
distance until Holmes is behind the cart-wheelbarrow right of the long shed –
workers cloakroom.3. Place the feet
cursor just in front of the office building door.4. Wait for the dog to
pass the right lamp post and click to get Holmes to walk or run to the office
door.5. Take the gold key
found on the office floor by map wall earlier and use it on door.
Marty is at top left.
Sherlock Holmes is at middle behind the wheelbarrow. Dog is at top right
by lamp post.Holmes is shown on
enlarged picture on right. Screenshots are lightened for easy (truly)
viewing.
Office building:
Climb the stairs. Turn around and enter the double doors. Go to bottom screen.
Pull the trunk of Ganeesh. Take the figurine. Exit the office. Place figurine on
bridge reproduction. Pick up the key off the floor. Go back to the office. Click
on drawer of desk. Use the key on drawer. Take the new paper – Cabinet Lloyd,
Lloyd & Masterson and the warehouse key. Go down and exit the
building. Go to the warehouse.
Marty and the dogs,
take two:
This time, Holmes has to go to the
Fairfax theater now used as warehouse. The warehouse is situated at left of
screen. Double clicking makes Holmes run.1. Go out of the office building.
2. Take the bottom of the screen exit and see Holmes standing right of the
lamp post.3. This part requires very precise positioning. Click to get Holmes above and
little to the right of the covered wagon at the bottom of the screen. See
graphics. The spot he stands on is below a dark area on the ground.4. Take the time to open your inventory and move the warehouse key to be
easily accessible.5. Wait until Marty turns the
corner and just about even to the covered wagon’s tongue (woods); the dog pass
the lamp post at top of screen, then run down and cross to the left and up to the
door of the Fairfax theatre on the left of the screen. Be fast here.6. Go close to the door and
immediately – use the warehouse key on the lower part of the door.
Marty is at bottom left.
Sherlock Holmes is at right. Dog is at top. Fairfax theater door is on
the left.Holmes is shown on
enlarged picture on right. Screenshots are lightened (really) for easy
viewing.
Fairfax Theater
Theatre entrance: Watson joins Holmes inside the Warehouse.
Use the matchbox to light the lamp at right of the
exposed bricks on the wall.
Go to right hall. Use the measuring tape on the
footprints on the ground – damp, wet footsteps.
Set room: Go forward and click on the door. Use the knife
on the door. Use the matchbox to light the hanging lamp a bit to the right from center of the
screen.
Look at rugs on basket that has traces of blood and hair. Black
hair is in inventory. Go forward and take the set of keys left of the
door.
Small room: Go to the back of the theater, use the
set of keys on the door and enter the door. Go to the white spot at bottom of
screen. Use the magnifying glass on the white powder. Quicklime! Go through the
door on the right.
Quicklime room: Go to the left of the room and use the
knife to cut the rope on the third from right ring. More quicklime – need a mask
to protect Holmes. Go back to the set room.
Set room: Take the white dusters (gauze?) from floor
left of the double doors. To make a mask, use the knife on the white dusters to
get a mask. Use mask. Go back to the quicklime room.
Quicklime room: Go left and click on the hand. Holmes needs
something to remove the body. Go back to the door and take the shovel
left of the door. Use the shovel on the body – need something else. Go
back to the set room.
Set room: Take the pole left of the door going to the
small room. Go back to the body in the quicklime room. Use the pole on the
hand. Holmes takes a passport of Johanssen and Richmond’s Abbey liquor.
Holmes calls Watson.
Homes and Watson leaves the area and was confronted by 3 Oriental men. OOOPS!!! Watson!
Quiz
1. Does Hermann Grimble
own the only set of keys to the Fairfax theatre? Answer: Yes.Justify:
Goblet dialogue at Bromsby factory.2. Does Captain Lowrie
have anything in common with Bromsby Enterprises? Answer: Yes.Justify:
Sir Bromsby in front of the Kalidassa Abyss and About Captain Lowrie… in
documents.3. Can we say that Wyatt
Collins, the nephew is an honest person? Answer: No.Justify:
Mary dialogue and Audience text in documents.4. Can Herman Grimble be
Bromsby’s heir despite missing of an official will? Answer :
Yes.Justify:
Cabinet Lloyd, Lloyd & Masterson document.5. Was the man found at
the old Fairfax Theater from abroad? Answer: Yes.Justify:
Passport found on the body from quicklime.
Click on notebook when
done with the list.
It simplicity itself.
We have answered all the questions.
Day
4: 17th of October, 1897
Listen to Watson,
Lestrade and Holmes.
As Doctor Watson:
Open the document page in the notebook and read about the swindle, Wung Jei and
Lt. Herrington. Grimble and Fowlett are quite similar in appearance…
Hunter’s House
Click on the map to go
to Hunter’s house. Read about Hunter’s murder at the document page in the
notebook. Hunter is the bartender at the Bromsby party, remember. Enter the door on the left. 29 Strokes Alley. Talk to Appleby.
Room:
Look close at the blood. Check the paintings in the cabinet. Note the brand new
rolls. Go to the window and use the measuring tape on the footprint on the
window sill – larger than size 8 and smaller than 12.
Greenhouse:
Go to the garden. Go down the path and enter the greenhouse from the bottom of
the screen. Look close at potting table on the right. Check the 2 small pots of
some plants not from England. Go to the other potting table by the long wall.
Move the plant in front of the plant with flowers. Pick up the small flowered
plant. Take and read the pawn ticket for a golden exotic jewel in the
notebook. Time to go back to Baker St. while Watson picks up the pawned item.
Baker Street
Click on Richmond’s Abbey
Liquor in inventory. Click on bookcase. Read the Encyclopedia in the notebook.
Click on the door left of the fireplace. Wow, Holmes surely is well disguised.
Click on the map to go to Richmond’s Abbey.
Richmond’s Abbey
Abbey gate:
Approach the gates of the Abbey. Click on the small window. Talk to the Brother
about James Little and learn about the ruins.
Go to Ruins:
Take the path to the left.
Go forward until the first
crossroad.Take the path to the right (ahead
depending on the screen view).
Go one screen pass the pond
on the left and turn left. What can it be?
Turn right at the next crossroad.
Is it near there? Turn middle left
at next crossroad.
See a pail at left by the road.
Take the small path going up at the
next crossroad.
Go forward and smell smoke. Save
game here!Before going ahead,
practice going back to the pond from this spot.Go back to pond and back to
fire:Go forward, see the entrance to ruins is burning
and evidence will be destroyed.Timed puzzle starts!
Turn around and forward to the
crossroad.Turn right.
Take the pail.
Take the left path.
Take the right path.
Turn left.
Click pail on pond.
Go back and take first left.
Turn right.
Turn to middle left path.
Take the small path at top of
screen.Forward and use bucket with water
on fire.Enter the shelter.
Shelter in ruins:
Use matchbox on candle at right. Use magnifying glass on red area on the ground
– it is ink, not English that fell on the ground not more than 3 days ago. Check
the bottles of liqueur from the Richmond’s Abbey. Check the mattress. Check the
burned papers on the left.
Go to bottom screen. Use the
measuring tape on the footsteps on the ground – size 10.
Go forward to the end arched wall and
look at the different brick on the wall. Use knife on the darker brick on the
wall. Take the letter and read it. Check the evidence and the documents
in the notebook. It is the same writing as the threatening WC letters in
Grimble’s office. Go back to the abbey and use the map to go to Baker St. and
then to Sherringford Hall.
Sherringford Hall
Grimble tells Watson to inform
Lestrade that he renounces his succession to Bromsby Enterprises. Holmes arrives
and informs Lestrade about a letter from Mycroft Holmes. Read the Kalidassa abyss
letter in the notebook.
Ladies’ powder room:
Enter the top left door from the ballroom and go to the powder room. Go close to the mirror and
see Herrington and Lavinia. Talk to Lavinia. After Herrington leaves the room,
reveal one of the hints. Show Lavinia the photo of pretty young girl. Holmes
asks Lavinia to be silent about the conversation concerning Miss Davenport.
Baker Street
Listen to Watson. Watson shows the
Silver Earring that he redeemed from the pawn shop.
Quiz
1. Was the leader of the thugs who
attacked Holmes directly related to the case? Answer: Yes.Justify: Wung Jei
document.2. Can we say that the person who
killed Simon Hunter is skilled with weapons? Answer: Yes.Justify: Appleby
dialogue at Hunter’s House.3. Are the ruins near Richmond’s
Abbey a common haunt for wanderers? Answer: Yes.Justify: Brother
at Richmond’s Abbey dialogue.4. Can the handwriting on the
message found in the ruins be the same as that on a previous document? Answer:
Yes.Justify: Threat W
and Threat WC documents.5. Is it easy for a retired English
officer to find work as prison warden aboard? answer: Yes.Justify:
Kalidassa abyss letter.
Click on notebook when
done with the list.
It simplicity itself.
We have answered all the questions.
Day
5: 18th of October 1897
Listen to Holmes, Watson and
Lestrade. Richards, the author of the threatening letter to Grimble is the
director of the new production at Aston theater.
Aston Theater
Read the poster on the left. Enter
the building.
Audience hall: Talk
to Philotomy Kirby sweeping the floor. Learn about the troupe and Richards.
Richards, Miss Davenport and Jeffries owned the former Fairfax theater.
Talk to Bruce Ashton, young man by the
door swooning about Miss Carolyn Small on stage.
Talk to Raleigh Wilcox, the man in
blue and learn more about the tragedy. Guacamole! Hahahahah!
Talk to Miss Sullivan in purple gown.
The policeman is a redhead. Hmmm… She lost her red head wig.
Talk to Miss Carolyn Small on stage.
Interesting dialogue about the earring.
Dressing room: Enter the door to the left
and behind Aston. Talk to drunken Doris. Exit the door right of the
mirror.
Hallway: Go
to bottom screen and knock on door
at end of the hallway. Talk to Richards. Reveal one of your hints by taking the
silver earring from inventory and clicking it on Richards. Learn more about the
tragedy. There’s another set of keys to Fairfax theater.
Go down the hallway and enter the far
door on the left.
As Doctor Watson:
Office-Costume room:
Take a page from a book, Guacayamo from the table. Read it in the
notebook and learn about piranhas. Take the Costumes’ Inventory – there
are 30 listed. Click on the open book on the table. Click on the closet and
learn that the artillery uniform is missing.
Backstage: Go back
to Doris’ dressing room. Exit through the other door. At backstage, talk to Adam Poole, the workman about
the tragedy. The missing troupe members didn’t take their things. Learn about
the locked room. Go back through the door and exit from Doris’ dressing room to
the audience hall.
Audience hall: Talk
to young Bruce Aston and be given the keys to the theatre. Go back to
the backstage.
Backstage: Go down
the hallway and at the other end use the Aston’s keys on the door at top of
stairs.
Locked room: Take
the 2 items in front of the box on the floor. Take the silver
earring from inventory and click it on left silver wave. Ah, you need the 2 other earrings.
Doris’ dressing room:
Click on Doris and Holmes says – I cannot take her earring.
Audience hall:
Show one of your hints, the silver earring to Miss Carolyn. She gives her silver
earring and Doris’ silver earring to Holmes. Go back to the locked room.
Veronica’s locked box:
Use the magnifying glass on the
wood box with gold boat and silver waves lock.The box lock uses a mechanism of the
box that needs keys inserted on the slit between the silver wave and the box.Insert
the pawned earring on the left, the curved earring at center and the shell
earring on the right side of the silver design of the lock.Take the photo of the old Fairfax with Richards, Davenport and another
man. Take the note beside it.
Outside Aston theatre, talk to Lestrade and Holmes advised that Richards be
held as soon as possible.
Baker Street
There are 2 things Holmes wants
Watson to answer: The table of shoe size and the other one is does Fowlett sleep
with a cushion. The last clue from Mycroft arrives via Wiggins.
Read the clue, Raymond Waters
in the notebook. Read the desperate message and all suspects’ foot sizes.
Quiz
1. Are there several sets of keys from the Aston theater? Answer:
Yes.Justify: Bruce Aston dialogue.
2. Did one of the actresses lose a red haired wig? Answer:
Yes.Justify: Miss Sullivan at Aston theater.
3. Could the discovery in the dressing room be connected to the case?
Answer: Yes.Justify:
Sherringford hall evidence in the kitchen, near the dustbin, a fake artillery
uniform button is found and Aston dressing
room evidence showed one missing costume out of 30.4. Could the writing on the message to Veronica Davenport be found
elsewhere? Answer: Yes.Justify: French visit
card and Antiques dealer document.
Click on notebook when
done with the list.
It simplicity itself.
We have answered all the questions.
Optional Quiz:
Highlight the space after the questions to see the answers. You can continue to
the end movie even if you don’t answer the optional quiz.
1. Who killed Sir
Bromsby? Lt. Herrington.2. Who killed Horace
Fowlett? Wyatt Collins.3. Who killed
Johanssen? Jeffries.4. Who killed Veronica
Davenport? Jeffries.5. Who killed
Jeffries? Nobody.6. Who killed Hunter?
Herrington.
Watch the ending
movie.
It simplicity itself.
We have answered all the questions.
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