From: marshall@NEBULA.SSD.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM (Bob Marshall)
Subject: Laura Bow Solution? [spoilers]
Reply-To: marshall@NEBULA.SSD.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 01:20:13 GMT

[...Lots of spoilers follow, so don't read this unless you've 
    finished the game...]















I've "finished" Laura Bow, Dagger of Amon Ra, but I got shot full of holes
at the end for being such a lousy detective. At the inquest, when I was
asked a lot of questions, I either got no response from the inquisitor,
or he said "Your assumptions are correct". But after all the questions,
I was told that I missed key evidence, I failed to questions all suspects,
and I disturbed key evidence. I even went back and replayed the whole game
and looked again for evidence, and I asked everybody everything I could
think of.

Did anyone actually pass the inquest?

I was unsure of most of this stuff :

1. Who killed Pippin Carter?
   The ankh belonged to "Tut" Smith, and the bloody footprint belonged to
   Yvette. Tut obviously had a motive (since Carter took the dagger from
   Egypt), but I'm not sure what Yvette's motive was. Also, there was a
   secret passage that led from the mammalogy lab to the room where Carter
   was discovered. Ernie Leach knew about the passage, and Yvette probably
   did, too (since she knew Ernie well).

2. Who killed Ziggy?
   He was decapitated. The paper cutter had blood on it (or maybe it was
   red ink?). Also, the pteradactyl was on top of him, because the wires
   holding it had been cut through with a sharp device. The sword on the
   wall in Wolf's office was very sharp and appeared to have been 
   recently used. So that would point to Wolf. But what would his motive
   had been? Also, the paper cutter was in Yvette's office, so she was
   a suspect, but what would her motive be?

3. Who killed Watney Little?
   Watney was impersonating Carrington. Wolf had a secret entrance in his
   office that led to Carrington's office, so he is a suspect. Also,
   Yvette had aspirations of becoming president of the museum someday,
   so she is a suspect. And the countess was an obvious suspect since
   she was after his money. But what did the "C.P." written in blood on
   the desk mean? My only thought was that he was trying to write "C.P.A.",
   which would point to Ramses, the accountant. But what would his motive
   have been?

4. Who killed Ernie?
   He smelled like alcohol, like the stuff in the vats. Also, it appeared
   that maybe his neck had been broken. He also had black animal hairs
   on his body. I'm stumped here.

5. Who killed Yvette?
   She was suffocated with plaster after a struggle. There was a sack of
   plaster in the mammalogy lab, but I couldn't do anything with it. Also,
   Yvette had bifocals in her left hand (they looked like Carrington/Little's
   glasses, but Little was dead by then). And she had red hair in her left
   hand. Since she was last seen with Steve Dorian (who has red hair, and
   who was interested in sculpting), he is a suspect.

6. Who killed the Countess?
   She supposedly died of a snake bite. The snake was owned by Olympia, so
   she is a suspect. However, a bunch of grapes were found by the body,
   and O'Riley had a habit of eating grapes all the time. Also, the countess'
   last word was "O'Riley".

7. Who stole the dagger?
   The dagger was in the display case in the gift shoppe at the beginning
   of the game, and then was missing after Wolf came in the gift shoppe
   and told Laura the gift shoppe was closing. The dagger was found in
   the vats that Ernie maintains. I suspected Wolf of stealing it, but
   I'm not sure.


Anybody have any thoughts on these questions?

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