Noir: A Shadowy Thriller – walkthrough
walkthrough

Note: According to the manual, you would be able to solve all
six cases in
random order. This is not completely true. Some cases can be solved at
once but some cases
can only be solved when a certain progression is made in another case. If
you follow the order
of solving cases written down in this walkthrough, you won’t get stuck.
If you are solving
cases in another order, you might look for the case you got stuck with.
If necessary, I
mentioned the progress you should have made in another case. If this
doesn’t work, I suggest
you play the game from the beginning in the order in this
walkthrough.
Index:
Starting investigations
Case 1 – The Death Of
Pegasus
Case 2 – The Chinese
Connection
Case 3 – The Case Of Max’ Rare
Book
Case 4 – A Breach Of
Security
Case 5 – The Mystery Of Wo-Tan The
Wonderdog
Case 6 – The Case Of The Missing
Heiress
To whom it may concern,
Let’s start by not tellin’ my name. To stay alive you should work on a
need-to-know basis.
And you don’t need to know! When you’re reading this you will be caught
in the mystery
concerning Jack’s disappearance. Well… let’s not beat around the bush;
he’s probably dead.
Probably I am as well by the time you read this… That should explain me
being careful!
Anyway, I just thought it might be a good idea to write down the things
I’ve discovered, so
someone else could take over the investigation when I might follow
Slayton sooner then me
and the Lord himself might have had in mind.
Jack’s Office
It’s probably best when you start where I started; in Jack Slayton’s
office. During your search
through Jack’s desk, Marjorie, his secretary, will probably call you.
Turn around and switch on
the intercom with the left button. Also listen to the radio, which is
left of the intercom, and
hear about Wo-Tan, the missing dog of former movie star Agnes
Simon.
Sit behind his desk and search the drawers. In the upper left drawer
you’ll find a key marked
with the name of Joan, Jack’s girl at the time, and a key with a label,
number “135”. In the
lower left drawer you’ll find a journal which keeps track of your actions
and you inventory.
Check it now and then. In the drawers on your right hand you’ll find a
small key which will
unlock the rolodex on the desk. There’s also a flashlight in the second
drawer. Now check the
large drawer in the middle of the desk. You’ll find a magnifier there and
a wallet with some
useful coins for payphones. Also don’t forget to look in the dark
matchbox on the left, it’s one
from Sheherazade’s and has some writing on the inside: “knock twice,
knock once”.
Now check Jack’s desktop. You can start by reading the newspaper but the
news isn’t that
what the word says it is, anymore. As said before, there’s a rolodex with
telephone-numbers.
As you have the small key you can open it. Use the wheel on the left to
turn the cards. It
contains five cards with numbers. One of ’em is from an informant. Call
your informant here.
To call someone, select his or her card by clicking on it till the phone
appears. It’ll call
automatically the number you wanted when you click on the phone.
On the desk is also some papers to your right. Check out one of them.
It’s a leaflet from the
Americans For Freedom In Europe, some anti Nazi group.
Sitting behind the desk, I reached for the slide out drawer, which is a
small rim just above the
upper right drawer, and pulled it twice. It showed me a note with the
combination of Jack’s
safe. After that I looked behind the painting with the vase and the five
apples. I knew he hid his
safe there! With the combination the safe opened and revealed a lot of
stuff. There was a
package of dollars in there that wasn’t some amount you would expect Jack
to own. You’d
better take it with you, like I did. Also take the gun with ammo, the
security badge for Jack
which had been given to him by Williams (I think it may be useful to get
into Williams’ offices).
Leave the other stuff in the safe for now.
case 5
THE MYSTERY OF WO-TAN THE WONDERDOG
a.k.a. the Agnes Simon Case
I rushed back to the office to read the Agnes Simon file and listen to
Jack’s tape recording of
her. After all, radio told me Wo-Tan was her little doggie and this
barking movie star became
more interesting by the minute!
Agnes Simon’s House
I left for Simon’s house and after a firm knock on the door, the bold
butler let me in, wanted to
throw me out at the same speed before Agnes cried happily as I was to be
most likely be a
admiring fan visiting the great star. Well, although it’s below my
standards of being a detective,
I played along with the charade and ignored the butler’s request not to
look around and
followed Agnes’ advice; please do look around. After some time I found a
picture of this
famous dog and Agnes grabbed this moment to tell me all about it.
Interesting fact was her
story of Niles, her butler who got killed in some swimming accident. She
showed me a picture
of this valet Niles which I snatched away as being some major piece of
evidence. Just as Agnes
told me she didn’t trust her butler, Kurt von Munheim, he threw me out on
the pavement.
Note: You can’t proceed until Myer kicks you out of the Secret
Room in
Sheherazades of if you saw Wo-Tan steal the code book from Watkins’
office.
Jack’s Office
After that I went back to Jack’s office. My informant called me to get my
ass to the Bradbury
Building a.s.a.p. So there I went again…
Bradbury Building
I got to Brandbury Building again, because this wonderdog started to
interest me, and entered
Watkins room again. I waited for the phone to ring. My informant told me
someone was
coming to the Bradbury Building so I turned of the light and hid in the
closet. Looking into the
room I saw Wo-Tan climb down the skylight onto the table and the chair
and grabbing some
red book. The German masters called him and successfully sneaked away
with the third code
book. I left the closet and turned the light back on. Again, my informant
called to tell me I had
to find the way to the well locked passage to Watkins laboratory. For
that, I needed a three
figure vault combination…
Jack’s Office
I went back to Jack’s office. I took Max’ book from the vault and
examined it. There was a
strange drawing on the inside of the cover… It showed a Roman figure I
and some curl
pointing towards the letter L.
Then I decided to go to Mannie’s Used Book Shop. Everything seemed to be
happen just
because of this book so I wanted to know a little bit more about it. It’s
easy to get at the book
shop. When you’re outside the office building, you should turn right,
take five steps forward
and turn right again.
Mannie’s Used Book Shop
Inside the shop I met Mannie who was very excited about me coming there
(okay, he was
more excited ’bout Max’ book). He also had 2 books like Max’ and he
showed them to me. I
examined the covers very carefully and noticed two drawings like the one
I saw in Max’s book.
Now the curls pointed toward other letters: the curl in the book with the
Roman figure II
pointed towards the M and the curl in the book with the Roman figure III
pointed towards the
letter R. There’s also pictures of these in Jack’s journal.
When Manny saw me examine the books he got a little shaky. He offered me
a lot of money
for the book because together they were really special, he mumbled. As I
didn’t got attached to
the book and Max was dead, I accepted the amount of money. But not
before I had a good
look at both books!
After selling the book he let me walk around his shop. I found a door
with a message
“employees only” on it but as I happen to suffer some severe eye problems
now and then, I did
not notice it and went in. Behind that door I found some kind of storage
room. There was a
switch and I just had to pull it! Nothing happened but when I looked
around I saw some
bookshelves that could be moved. I pushed it and the wall opened to
reveal a secret room.
The Secret Nazi Map Room
It’s hard to describe what I saw when you haven’t been there yourself,
but it looked like some
Nazi map room, with swastika’s and Adolf’s ugly face looking down from
the wall… On the
table in this room were blueprints for the Bradbury Building and they’ve
got Watkins
Cryptography marked like it’s their target! They also had been tracking
troop movements in the
war in Europe with a short-wave radio which was on the table there. You
should not touch this
radio ’cause it’ll alarm the Nazi’s! Besides that there was a press to
make leaflets like the one I
found in Jack’s office, the one supposedly made by the Americans For
Freedom In Europe.
Although it was some other fake organization, the one I found at
Winthrop’s, the Refugee
Rescue Fund, look very much the same! This anti Nazi movement and the
book shop are just a
front to get money for those fascists!
Probably most important was the telegram I found on the table. It was in
German but,
translated, it said: “Message concerning the search for the American
decoding device. Priority:
urgent. Colonel P. Hansen”. Last but not least there was a drawing of a
V-1 rocket. They
wouldn’t be building those for some time as I sunk the ship with the
necessary uranium!
I also found Agnes Simon’s dog Wo-Tan over there. Funny place for that
dog but as it would
have been strange taking that dog out through the door, I left it there.
Would alarm the Nazi’s
also!
Jack’s Office
Back at the office, my informant called again. I had to go to Bradbury
Building immediately!
As I arrived in Watkins office, I went to the vault door and clicked on
the three combination
buttons. After that I turned the wheel and entered the secret lab behind
the vault. I turned left
and examined the stuff on my left hand. there was a paperclip and I
picked it up. Then I looked
around, examining all strange equipment.
Then suddenly the phone rang. I picked it up and my informant told me the
Nazi’s were on
their way!
I turned towards the vault door and clicked on the cogs. Then I put the
paperclip between the
cogs. Just in time! I heard the Nazi’s fighting because they weren’t able
to open the vault door.
Hey, I just stopped that Herrenvolk by only a small paperclip!
Anyway, I solved both Max’ case as Watkins’ case.
– the end –
Copyright August 1997 Fugazi – Last update: April 25, 1998

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