The leader of the guild is kidnapped by an evil demon must be rescued. Dave Lebling completed the Enchanter trilogy with a final Manichean conflict in Spellbreaker . Marc Blank's next project was a unique mystery. A wealthy industrialist appears to have committed suicide within his locked library but his attorney suspects murder. The player is the Chief of Detectives asked to investigate the case and there are only twelve hours in which to solve the case.
Every command takes at least one minute.
The player has a Deadline . Another Infocom detective mystery with a twelve-hour deadline was Stu Galley 's Witness . Galley is another MIT graduate and founder of Infocom. In Witness the player must find the killers of Bob Lundstrom, who had sought police protection after receiving phoned death threats. Dave Lebling also wrote a third deadlined murder mystery game but he had the police as supporting characters.