text: [Themes: Mystery, Historical, Literary, London, mystery, detective, Sherlock Holmes]
  
  Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels
  Copyright 1987 Infocom, Inc.
  
  221-B Baker Street
  
  You are standing in the spill of a gas streetlight outside Holmes's house. The street disappears into the fog to the north and south. The door to the house is to the west.
  
  You have come in response to an urgent summons from your old landlady, Mrs Hudson. As the fog swirls around you, you huddle into your coat and shiver in the predawn chill.
  
  [Author's Note: Moriarty has set a deadly trap for Sherlock Holmes. And only you can stop him... Travel back in time to Victorian London, where the city is bustling with preparations for Her Majesty's Golden Jubilee. Crowds of sightseers and souvenir vendors fill the streets in eager anticipation of the Jubilee Week events. Newspapers detail the gala array of festivities. Sumptuous receptions for foreign dignitaries. Special services at Westminster Abbey. A Royal Procession through the streets of London. And the Queen reigning over all, resplendent in the Crown Jewels. At least, that's the official plan. Unbeknownst to the celebrants thronging the cit, a crisis has arisen: the Crown Jewels have been stolen from the Tower of London. If they're not recovered before the festivities begin, the theft will be exposed and the government will fall into international disgrace. Only 48 hours remain to solve the crime. With Scotland Yard failing to make headway, the Prime Minister calls on Sherlock Holmes, the famous consulting detective. But riddles left at the scene of the crime include a direct challenge to Holmes, who suspects a deadly trap. To throw the scoundrel off his guard, Holmes turns the investigation over to you, his trusted cohort, Dr. Watson. With Holmes by your side, you use your wits, intuition, and a myriad of clues to solve the riddles and piece together the mystery. Your search for the jewels and the villain leads you all over London, from the most popular tourist attractions to the seediest back alleys. As Big Ben strikes each successive hour and dangerous complications impede your progress, you realize you're facing that most dastardly of foes, Holmes's archnemesis... the vile Professor Moriarty. And now, come, Watson! The game is afoot...]
  
  > Inventory
  You are wearing:
  your hat.
  your coat.
  a whistle.
  Your pocket contains:
  a pound note.
  You are holding:
  a black bag.
  
  > remove the hat
  You take off your hat. Inside you see a stethoscope.
  
  > take the stethoscope
  You take the stethoscope out of your hat.
  
  [Your score just went up by 1 point. The total is now 1 out of
  100.]
  
  > examine the coat
  It's a wool greatcoat.
  
  > open the bag
  You open the black bag.
  Inside you see a brown bottle and a blue bottle.
  
  > examine the brown bottle
  The label on the bottle reads: "Belladonna. For bradycardia and other decelerated arrhythmias."
  
  > examine blue bottle
  The label on the bottle reads: "Digitalis leaf. For tachycardia and other accelerated arrhythmias."
  
  > knock on the door
  You hear a bolt sliding back and the door opens to reveal a worried Mrs Hudson.
  
  "Oh Doctor Watson, I'm so glad to see you. It's Mr Holmes, sir. Three days have come and gone since he's been out of his rooms. He won't eat and I know he hasn't slept. Now there's a visitor who says he's here about some important government business. I tried to send him away, but he insisted on waiting in the parlour. That's when I sent for you. Thank God you've come."
  
  You step inside and Mrs Hudson closes the door behind you. The entry hall is just as you remember it - small, underheated, and lit by a feeble gas light. The door to the parlour is to the north, and a flight of well-worn stairs leads up to the first floor.
  
  > ask Mrs Hudson about the sherlock
  "He doesn't eat. He doesn't drink. He doesn't read the newspaper. I'm very worried about him."
  
  > ask Mrs Hudson about whistle
  Mrs Hudson wrings her hands and looks at you anxiously. "I'm too worried to think, Doctor. Won't you see what you can do for Mr Holmes?"
  
  > Go north
  Mrs Hudson apologetically stands in front of the closed door. "I'm terribly worried about Mr Holmes, Doctor. Won't you please attend to him right away?"
  
  > Up
  You climb the stairs and pause outside the door to Holmes's study, nervous about what you might find inside.
  
  Holmes's study is to the north.
  
  > Go north
  You step back through time to your bachelor days, when you shared these cluttered digs with the world's only consulting detective. Despite the mess, you can see that the room is unchanged. The fireplace to the north has a pile of letters transfixed to its mantelpiece by a jackknife. Next to them lies Holmes's six-shot revolver, the tobacco slipper, and Holmes's favorite pipe. The violin has been carelessly tossed onto a stack of obviously unread newspapers.
  
  Holmes is slouched on the sofa, lost in a black mood of despair. He is pale and emaciated, and his sharp eyes burn with fever. He is staring at a phial that he holds in one hand. His free hand rests near a hypodermic syringe in a neat morocco case at his side. You realize that he is fighting a depression brought on by what he calls "the dull routine of existence."
  
  The bedroom door to the west is closed. The only other exit is the door to the south.
  
  > examine the pipe
  It is an old and oily black clay pipe, the companion of Holmes's deepest meditations.
  
  > look at the slipper
  In the persian slipper you see some tobacco.
  
  > take the tobacco
  You take the tobacco out of the persian slipper.
  
  [Your score just went up by 1 point. The total is now 2 out of
  100.]
  
  > take the pipe
  You take the pipe off of the mantelpiece.
  
  [Your score just went up by 1 point. The total is now 3 out of
  100.]
  
  > look at the violin
  It is a Stradivarius violin of exceptional quality.
  
  > get the violin
  You take the violin.
  
  > take the slipper
  You take the persian slipper off of the mantelpiece.
  
  > drop slipper
  You drop the persian slipper.
  
  > put the tobacco in the pipe
  You put the tobacco in the pipe.
  
  > take the newspapers
  You take the newspaper.
  
  [Your score just went up by 1 point. The total is now 4 out of
  100.]
  
  > look at the mantle
  On the mantelpiece can be seen a knife, some mail and a pistol.
  
  > get the gun
  You take the pistol off of the mantelpiece.
  
  > read the newspaper
  It's the newspaper that came in your game package.
  
  > show the paper to Holmes
  Holmes glances at the paper and his eye falls on the notice about the Tower of London. He immediately leaps to his feet and hurls the phial and the case into the fireplace. The phial and the syringe shatter, and the liquid evaporates instantly, but the detective does not even notice. "They've closed the Tower?" he exclaims. "Most singular."
  
  [Your score just went up by 5 points. The total is now 9 out of
  100.]
  
  Holmes strides to the door and calls down to Mrs Hudson to bring up a tray of food. Then he plops back down on the sofa, makes a steeple of his fingertips and focuses his intense gaze upon you.
  
  > ask Holmes about Tower
  "The Tower is the safest stronghold in the nation. Our adversary must be formidable indeed."
  
  > ask Holmes about Watson
  "Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. I am honoured that you have become my biographer."
  
  > ask Holmes about Mrs Hudson
  "A splendid housekeeper, Watson, although she worries about me too much."
  
  Mrs Hudson appears at the door, accompanied by a worried-looking gentleman.
  
  Holmes jumps up and ushers the gentleman to the armchair, dismissing Mrs Hudson at the same time. "Watson," he says, "I am sure you recognize our distinguished visitor. I presume, sir, that you have come about the Jewels."
  
  The visitor half rises from his chair in protest and sputters, "But...but, how...?"
  
  Holmes calms him with a glance. "Come, sir. What else could it be? The Tower is suddenly closed, and within hours I receive a call from the highest official of Her Majesty's government. A simple deduction. Now then, tell me about the theft."
  
  The visitor settles back into his chair and says, "We know very little. Only that the Crown Jewels were stolen from the Tower sometime Thursday night. The theft was discovered Friday morning, and we immediately closed and searched the Tower. All we found was this verse which was left behind in the empty jewel case."
  
  The visitor removes a folded piece of paper from his pocket and gives it to Holmes, who glances at it and passes it on to you.
  
  > read the note
  [taking the pound note out of your pocket first].
  There's nothing written on it.
  
  > read paper
  Which paper do you mean, the clue paper or the newspaper?
  
  > read the clue paper
  Mortality, behold and fear!
  What a change of flesh is here!
  Think how many royal bones
  Sleep within this heap of stones:
  Here they lie, had realms and lands,
  Who now want strength
  to stir their hands.
  
  For two-score years I reigned alone,
  A virgin queen on England's throne.
  My navy caused Armada's shame,
  And with me died the Tudor name.
  
  The apple sorely tempted Eve,
  And Tell another aimed to cleave.
  But when one fell, it showed to me,
  The mighty pull of gravity.
  
  My father, it was said, would die,
  Beneath the Holy City's sky.
  Jerusalem his body claimed,
  And it is after him I'm named.
  
  O stately Holmes of England,
  In Baker Street abide.
  For even you must surely fail,
  To save your country's pride.
  
  > ask Holmes about the note
  "You must draw your own inferences, Watson."
  
  The visitor looks at his pocket watch and stands up. "Thank you, gentlemen. I must go now. Remember, this calamity can only be hidden from the public until Monday morning at nine o'clock. If the Regalia is not at Buckingham Palace in time for the Coronation Day festivities, then all is lost."
  
  The gentleman leaves, and Holmes unlocks the door to the bedroom, goes in, and reappears moments later wearing his Inverness cape and deerstalker hat.
  
  "Come when you're ready, Watson. I'll wait for you outside."
  
  > take the knife
  You take the knife off of the mantelpiece.
  
  > look
  The study is in its usual disarray.
  
  The bedroom door to the west is open. The only other exit is the door to the south.
  
  You see a persian slipper. You see some mail on the mantelpiece.
  
  > go to the south
  You leave the study and pause outside the door. You are on a landing at the top of the stairs.
  
  Holmes's study is to the north.
  
  > Down
  You descend the stairs into the entry hall. The parlour door is to the north. The front door is closed.
  
  > go to the north
  You walk into a dreary, late Victorian Era parlour.
  
  You see a matchbook.
  
  > get matchbook
  You take the matchbook.
  
  [Your score just went up by 1 point. The total is now 10 out of
  100.]
  
  > look at the matchbook
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  > go south
  You walk out into the entry hall. The front door is closed.
  
  > open the door
  [The front door]
  
  You open the front door.
  
  > leave
  You emerge from the house into Baker Street.
  
  You are standing in the spill of a gas streetlight outside Holmes's house. The street disappears into the fog to the north and south. The door to the house is to the west.
  
  Holmes says, "Ah, there you are Watson. While you were inside I gave our little problem some thought. Obviously the person who stole the Crown Jewels wanted the authorities to turn to me for help, and it is equally obvious that the thief has laid down a trail for me to follow, in hopes of somehow entrapping me.
  
  "So let's play his game, Doctor. But let's play it by our rules. The thief will have tried to anticipate the sequence of my actions, and I'm sure he has laid his trap accordingly. But if you were to
  guide the course of our investigations, he will certainly be thrown off the scent.
  
  "Therefore, let us take surprise onto our side and rely on your instincts as the man of action I know you to be - despite your frequent modest assertions to the contrary." He steps to one side and says, "Lead on, good Doctor. I will follow." Holmes gestures for you to lead the way.
  
  > Blow whistle
  Tweeeeeeeeee!
  
  > Blow whistle
  Tweeeeeeeeee!
  
  A hansom cab pulls up beside you.
  
  [Your score just went up by 5 points. The total is now 15 out of
  100.]
  
  > enter the cab
  You and Holmes get into the cab.
  
  "Where to, guv'nor?"
  
  > Tower of London
  "Right-o."
  
  The cab speeds through the streets, whizzing past famous landmarks. Only a few minutes later, you arrive at your destination.
  
  You are in a cab outside the entrance to the Tower of London. Next to the entrance there is a sign.
  
  In the distance, you hear Big Ben strike the hour.
  [Press any key to continue.]
  
  > Exit
  You and Holmes get out of the cab. After you get out, it drives off.
  
  > Inventory
  You are wearing:
  your coat.
  a whistle.
  You are holding:
  a matchbook.
  a knife.
  a pound note.
  a clue paper.
  a pistol.
  a newspaper.
  a violin.
  a pipe.
  a stethoscope.
  your hat.
  a black bag.
  In the pipe you see:
  some tobacco
  In the black bag you see:
  a brown bottle
  a blue bottle
  
  > Blow whistle
  Tweeeeeeeeee!
  
  A hansom cab pulls up beside you.
  
  > Westminster abbey
  "Right-o."
  
  The cab speeds through the streets, whizzing past famous landmarks. Only a few minutes later, you arrive at your destination.
  
  You are in a cab in front of the west door of Westminster Abbey. The towers of the Abbey loom in the fog above you, and you marvel at this perfect example of Gothic architecture, as generations have done before you.
  
  The Abbey door is closed.
  
  On the wall next to the door is a small, discreet sign.
  
  Visibility increases in the gathering light of the new day. Tourists are beginning to crowd into the streets.
  [Press any key to continue.]
  
  > put the gun in the bag
  You put the pistol in the black bag.
  
  > put the knife in the bag
  You put the knife in the black bag.
  
  > Close bag
  You close the black bag.
  
  > Inventory
  You are wearing:
  your coat.
  a whistle.
  You are holding:
  a matchbook.
  a pound note.
  a clue paper.
  a newspaper.
  a violin.
  a pipe.
  a stethoscope.
  your hat.
  a black bag.
  In the pipe you see:
  some tobacco
  
  > play the violin
  Holmes grimaces in pain and glares at you.
  
  > look
  You are standing in the midst of a crowd of tourists in front of the west door of Westminster Abbey. The towers of the Abbey soar high above you, and you marvel at this perfect example of Gothic architecture, as generations have done before you.
  
  The Abbey door is closed.
  
  On the wall next to the door is a small, discreet sign.
  
  Your friend is staring at the sky, as if he might find a clue there.
  
  > wait
  Time passes...
  
  > Go west
  In the distance, you hear Big Ben strike the hour.
  
  The sun comes up, as much as it ever comes up in England.
  
  A verger appears, unlocks the huge door, and pushes it open.
  
  You enter Victoria Street, which runs east and west between Victoria Square and Broad Sanctuary.
  
  You see a sign outside one of the shops.
  
  The detective walks alongside you.
  
  > Go east
  You are standing in the midst of a crowd of tourists in front of the west door of Westminster Abbey. The towers of the Abbey soar high above you, and you marvel at this perfect example of Gothic architecture, as generations have done before you.
  
  The Abbey door is open.
  
  On the wall next to the door is a small, discreet sign.
  
  Your companion trails along after you.
  
  > go to the east
  You enter the Abbey and pause in the Nave, struck by the sheer magnificence of the building. Massive Purbeck columns march the length of the Nave, and they rise in perfect proportion to meet each other in a series of pointed arches that are the hallmark of the Gothic style.
  
  The interior of the Abbey is dark, cold, and gloomy - but after a few moments your eyes adjust and you can make out a tomb at the far end of the room.
  
  Holmes trails along after you.
  
  > examine tomb
  It's a white marble sarcophagus with "ISAACVS NEWTON   Eques Auratus" written on the front. Above it is a marble statue of Newton, and a carving of two cherubs who are holding a diagram of the solar system.
  
  > ask Holmes about Newton
  [Newton's tomb]
  
  "You must draw your own inferences, Watson."
  
  > take the diagram
  Your friend looks at you grimly and says, "I thought you had more sense than that, Watson."
  
  > search the tomb
  You would have to open it first.
  
  > go east
  You walk into the Sanctuary. This is where the actual Coronation Ceremony takes place whenever a new monarch is crowned. A modest tomb is near the south wall.
  
  The detective walks into the room alongside you.
  
  > look at the tomb
  It's a simple tomb, with a brief inscription written on it.
  
  > read the inscription
  The inscription is written in Latin, but you can make out the name "Anne of Cleves."