Timeline (novels)

The following dates are mentioned in the Under a Killing Moon novelization, The Pandora Directive: A Tex Murphy Novel and Tex Murphy and the Tesla Effect. They may contradict the timeline established in their game counterparts, therefore given separately.

1604
Basilius creates a lithograph of a painting displaying an allegorical path to enlightenment, filled with symbols: black raven, peacock, swan, pelican, lion, and eagle.
1920s
Interpol comes into existence as a records clearing house
c 1970
Margaret Leonard is born.
1990s
Interpol rides the wave of the World Wide Web and becomes the international enforcer of Internet law
c 1980
Charles Johansson is born.
2004

March 4th
Tex Murphy is born
c. 2007
McCovey is born
2010
Tex Murphy remembers himself and the babysitter watching *The Maltese Falcon*.
2011
Charles Johansson was diagnosed with ALS.
2012
Great-aunt Gertie passes away.
2013
Charles Johansson is put in a cryochamber, assumed dead.
June 19
Chelsee Bando]] is born.
c. 2017
Birth of Alaynah Moore.
c. 2020
Techno-rap music rages.
2025
Tex enter Roy O'Brien's agency
2027
Tex is kicked out by O'Brien
Strike of '27. Murphy tries out for the Giants and finds himself up against overwhelming odds.
2030
Tex dates Deborah Moore
2034
Alaynah stops wearing braces.
First experiments with reanimating dead bodies.
2037
Martian Memorandum case.
## 2040s

2041
Paul DuBois joins CAPRICORN
2042
Under a Killing Moon case
July
Eva Schanzee pretends to support the eugenics movement.
August 14
Eva is approached by Murray, a project supervisor at GRS and a member of the Brotherhood of Purity. She learns that there are at least two cult members. She is invited to an initiation meeting next week.
August 17
Eva meets one of Marcus Tucker's assistants. She learns that Tucker doesn't trust most of his staff and has the project groups working separately. She tries to reach a work position to find out more.
August 20
Eva, Camden Leander and other 15 people (8 of them GRS eployees) visit Tucker's home for the ceremony.
September
Louie Lamintz starts running Tex a tab for the following 3 months.
November
Tex and Sylvia Linsky are divorced. Tex undergoes the worst period of his life
Tex is hired by Countess Renier
November 9
At the cult meeting, Eva learns that every non-cult member involved in the project must be eliminated.
November 19
Eva understands that the cult project is almost completed and plans on notifying the Colonel.
November 22
418 occupants are recorded in Maximum Security Zone 10 of the lunar penal colony.
November 23
Phoenix attends a cult meeting wearing a mask. He tells Eva that he hase a special place for he in the "new order". Eva decides to hold off on the delivery until she knows more.
December 1
Franco Franco gives to Tex the name of Eddie Ching
The Colonel is assaulted in his office and abducted
December 3
Tex approaches Alfonso and investigates Ching's building
Eva learns that the Winter Chip was not delivered last night and is afraid for the Colonel.
December 5
Tex steals the statuette from Ching's apartment. He makes a rest at the Post-Nuclear Café but he is assaulted and the statuette is stolen from him
Eva learns that the GRS phase is completed and the cultists are moving in two days for the Moon Child.
December 6
The City Bay Mirror publishes the Colonel's coded message
December 6-7?
Tex recovers 2 days later in Brownsville Regional Hospital
December 7
Tex visits the Countess' mansion, visits Lowell Percival Enterprises and has a failed date with Alaynah.
After a dinner at Brew & Stew he learns that the Colonel is dead and he is the suspect.
He breaks into the Colonel's office to find leads but is arrested.
He proves to Lt. Armon Drysdale that the Colonel was abducted by two strangers and is released.
GRS building is evacuated
December 8
Tex visits Melahn Tode to interrogate about the Colonel.
Tex visits the Gaslight Lounge
December 9
Tex visits Louie for a breakfast.
He watches The Big Sleep and The Maltese Falcon at the Bijou.
At 4:35 he leaves for LPE and Ally arranges a meeting for 3:00
Malden phones Tex saying that, strangely, nothing is found in the Countess' mansion, and that Interpol investigates the Colonel's disappearance.
Tex goes to Land Mine and meets Paul DuBois. Chaos erupts and DuBois is abducted. Returning home, he is interrogated by Agents Andrews and McCovey.
December 10
Tex wakes up after 11. Before 1:00 he visits Dr. Benjamin Perriman
He goes to his 3:00 appointment with Lowell Percival. As he leaves, the building is blown.
At 7:10 agents McCovey and Andews visit Tex and interrogate about the explosion
Tode calls Murphy showing him a personal ad directed to the Colonel
Tex goes to the San Francisco Public Library to research more on the coded messages.
December 11
Tex contacts Lemmer Kimbell to get leads for the GRS. He is redirected to the Department of Commerce and then to the Dun & Bradstreet reference publication. There, Tex finds a connection to the LPE.
Tex breaks into the GRS and finds the data chip left by Eva for the Colonel.
Eddie Ching with Lou and Felippe assaults Tex in his office. After talking about the cult they decide to join teams.
With Rook's help, Tex interprets the blue card and finds the watch and the Colonel's message to him.
December 12
Tex meets Ching at the New San Francisco Interplanetary Spaceport.
By 5 AM Karl Voorman flies them off the Earth.
2046
The cure for ALS was discovered.
## 2050s

March 2050
Tesla Effect case
1. ↑ Is stated to be 10 years older than Charles Johansson. (Tesla Effect novel)
2. ↑ Stated to be 33 years when he *died* in 2013. (Tesla Effect novel)
3. ↑ Tesla Effect, chapter 7
4. ↑ Note: In UAKM-novel Tex's birth year is 2005?
5. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 UAKM book
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Tesla Effect book