Agatha Christie: Evil under the Sun
by
AWE Games
Walkthrough by
MaGtRo October 2007
Gameplay:
This is a third person point and click game.
The main menu has play (new game), load game, options,
credits and exit. The options menu has the music volume, effects volume,
brightness, text captions, 3D shadows, animated effects, fog-haze-clouds
effects, particle effects and antialiasing selections.
Move the cursor to the top of the screen to access the
taskbar. The taskbar has access to in game menu (Inn) at left, character
picture, briefcase (inventory) and notebook (documents, suspects...).
The in game menu is also accessed also by ESC key or
Inn button left
of the taskbar. It has resume game, save game, load game, options and main menu.
To save game, click on a blank square and type in a
label for that saved game; then click OK button. The saves can also be
overwritten by clicking on a picture of the old saved game.
The inventory menu is accessed by right mouse click or
click on the inventory icon (briefcase) at top of the screen. There are scroll
arrows at top corners to see all the items. Right click of mouse also returns
items picked up from the inventory frame.
Double click an item in inventory will show a close up
of that item with a description. A magnifying lens when clicked on will provide
additional information.
The dialogues can be hastened by left mouse click.
Double click on the legs icon at end of frames hastens transition to next
screen.
This walkthrough is
just one way of gameplay. The game is non-linear and can be played in different
sequences of events.
Act 1
London September 7, 1940
Poirot's Office - Present time:
Hercule Poirot is in his office with black curtains drawn due to World War II
blackout in England. Arthur Hastings listens to Poirot while he recounts
his summer vacation that involved a murder at Smuggler's Rest Hotel in Seadrift
Island; the case
that he solved in a day. Poirot will guide Hastings through the investigation.
Hastings (the gamer) will be Poirot and investigate the murder.
Finger of Suspicion
- Poirot shows Hastings the Finger of Suspicion given by a Wizard from Manchester. You can use it to
select any of the suspects and get hints.
Poirot also challenges
Hastings to solve the mystery of the Finger of Suspicion. He will give 7 clues
throughout the evening and then will see the true genius behind the Finger of
Suspicion.
The first clue is Power.
Seadrift Island South
Devon 1703: A Ghost beckons a drunken man to enter the
Pub. The ghost throws a dart to a board and goes down the stairs. The footprints
go
through the wall in the basement with an etched dartboard.
Near Brixham South Devon
1940: A young schoolgirl runs through the forest chased
and then strangled by a cloaked person.
Near Brixham South Devon
Spring 1940: A ritual is performed by 4 cloaked persons on a
straw doll. A man in bed cries in pain.
Explore the office to
get necessary items to use during your investigation.
Take the notepad
on Poirot's desk. This will be placed in the taskbar at top of page. The
notebook will reference Poirot's instructions, suspects, documents and stopwatch
timing.
Turn right and go forward to the cabinet and look
close at the Sorcerer's Apprentice book signed by Bill Nicholls.
Go right and look at the map of Seadrift Island. There
are colored pushpins at bottom right that signify different character in the
story.
Take
the briefcase left of the door and this will be the inventory in the
taskbar. There are coins (pocket money) already there.
Turn right and take the stopwatch from the side
table. This will be at right of the taskbar. Look in the mirror.
The door is another way to exit the game.
Turn right and look close at the case file boxes on
the shelves.
Take the case files on Corrigan, Parsons, Drugs and shipwreck.
Read the information in the notebook.
Alice Corrigan's body was found strangled
at the downs in Totnes.
Milly Parsons, a student at Miss Porter's School was
also strangled.
A drug smuggling ring was apprehended on the beach
below Carey Spit.
The shipwreck news refers to the case in 'And Then
There were None'.
Take the
picture of Poirot and Hastings on the wall. This will be the way to move from-to
the story at Seadrift Island back-to Poirot's office.
August 24, Morning
Smuggler's Rest Hotel at Seadrift Island
Click on Hastings' picture at the taskbar to be at the
Smuggler's Rest Hotel. You will be Hastings that guides Poirot during this
investigation.
Check the hotel and the suspects:
Poirot's Room: Look around.
Outside is the veranda that can access the other rooms. Enter and check the
bathroom at right screen. Exit the room through the main door.
Hotel rooms at top floor:
Look around and see that the hallway on the left will lead to a lookout tower at top
of stairs. We will check that later.
Talk to Gladys Narracot, the maid dusting at bottom
right from Poirot's room.
She is upset with Will Jenks. Talk to her completely.
Learn about Tom Cutter's ghost that haunts the pub.
Go down to right screen, down the hall and click on
the spiral stairs at far end.
Reception desk: Go to bottom
screen.
Talk to Mrs. Hilary Castle, the hotel manager completely.
Take a
Seadrift Island brochure from the reception desk. Double click the brochure
in inventory to learn about the history of Seadrift Island.
Hotel office: Go behind the reception desk and enter through the
door to the Hotel Office.
Talk to Mrs. Castle again. Learn about the missing
wire recorder. It disappeared on evening of August 19th. That was the day Arlena
Stuart arrived.
Click on items on the desk that needs to be inspected
when Mrs. Castle is not around. Exit the office.
Hotel foyer: Go left of
reception desk, left of the door and see the main entrance.
Look close at the Guest Registry on the stand by left
post. There will now be 'suspects' in the notebook. Read the data about the
guests.
Go to top screen and take the motor magazine on the chair.
Double click the magazine in inventory to get a close look and then use
the magnifying lens to see a procedure on how to clean points.
Suntrap bar:
Enter the door at top of the screen.
Talk to Henry Bailey, the bartender completely.
Go to bottom screen. Check the piano. Look at the trash can right of
the main door. Take the empty bottle of grenadine.
Exit through the big doors and then
enter the door on the left.
Dining room: Go down the hallway
and enter the double doors on the left.
Take an empty drinking glass from
the pushcart left of the door. The cart contains coffee flasks.
Go down the screen and talk to Rosamund
Darnley, the famous dressmaker completely. Learn about her missing typewriter.
It was missing August 20.
Exit the dining room.
Go through the door on top of screen. Go forward twice and exit through the main hotel door.
Go forward on the paved road. Go down the road twice.
Smugglers End Pub:
Talk to John North, the bearded man with the binocular
standing in front of the pub.
Follow North by clicking the shadow cursor on North.
Sea Tractor Landing: Click on right screen and Poirot
refuses to wade.
At the landing, look close at the tractor ferry board.
See the note that states to use the phone to call the sea tractor.
Go back to the hotel and on the way check the locked
door of the pub.
Rocky Beach: At the main hotel door, take the path at top of
screen.
Go around the hotel and pick up the rock outside the door that
goes to the reception desk and is left of the stairs.
Continue to the right and
talk to Emily Brewster, ballet teacher. Take another rock right of Emily.
Go back to front of hotel.
Lounge chairs:
Take the path at bottom right of game screen and
behind the wall.
Talk to Christine Redfern sitting on a lounge chair overlooking the sea and in
front of the deck of the Bathing beach.
See a
red sailboat steered by Howard Blatt. Patrick, her husband is swimming.
Bathing beach: Go down the stairs
to the beach.
Talk to Major Montague Barry, the women observer
completely. He shows dogs.
Talk to George Strumm, the groundskeeper. He saw the
ghost by the pub.
Go left to the sea edge. Pick up the cord buried in sand at
left. Click on the water.
Go up the stairs and then go right at the path.
Ledges:
Eavesdrop on the couple at the picturesque lookout
point by clicking the ear icon on them.
Talk to the Gardeners (Carrie and Oakley). After
leaving the lookout, eavesdrop again on the Gardeners.
Cutter's Cove: Continue to the right of the screen
and see another deck.
Look at the broken
ladder to the beach. Pick up the 2 posts left of the deck.
Island Summit: Go right and up
the hill to an empty clearing. Look around and then go back down the path.
Go right and then up to the tennis court.
Tennis court: See Kenneth
Marshall and his wife Arlena.
Kenneth states that Arlena Stuart Marshall
received 2 threatening notes already. Talk to Kenneth completely. The
first one came August 20th. He left to type letters. Read the 2 threatening
letters in documents in the notebook.
Look at the tennis court and see a low spot near the
net. See a rake on the wire basket close to the wired fence.
Go back down the path. Go left and then go left again
close to the cliff edge.
Monastery ruins: Go up to the
ruined monastery. Look around.
Talk to Stephen Lane, the former vicar completely.
There's an oar at the center of a stone ring. He gives chicken feathers
with blood
taken from the edge of the stone ring. Learn about the Bacchus temple.
Look close at the Monk's door left of the arched
entrance covered by ivies. Move the ivies away from the door and try the door. The door looks
like it's been used recently.
Look close at the circular stone at top wall. There's
an entrance to a tunnel down there.
Click on the oar at center of the stone ring. Exit the
monastery.
Continue on the path close to the cliff edge.
Sanctuary Cove:
Go down the stairs right of the lounge chairs.
Talk to Linda Marshall completely. She wants a
guillemot blind.
Blind: Use the 2 stones, the 2
posts and the cord on the brush Linda was working on.
Bathing beach: Go back to
bathing beach at other end of the cliff side path.
See a couple on a wooden float in the water. Click on
the wooden float. Arlena Marshall and Patrick Redfern are seen by Christine
Redfern.
Act
2
Poirot's Office - Present time: Automatically be back at Poirot's office.
Poirot expresses his opinion on how to
continue the investigation. He advises Hastings to know
the residents of Leathercombe Bay.
Finger of Suspicion
- The second clue is Lamp.
Click on Hastings icon
on the taskbar.
August 24th,
Afternoon
Seadrift Island
Examine the rooms in the hotel:
Poirot's room: Automatically
be back
in Poirot's room. Gladys, the maid is still upset.
Go to the bathroom and take fresh towels from the rack.
Cleaning cart -
Exit the room and look close at the maid's cleaning cart.
Take the scissors,
brush and detergent.
Go back inside Poirot's
room. Exit through the balcony door and be at the veranda.
*Stephen Lane's room:
Go to the left and enter the door left of Poirot's room.
Read the bible on the
table that is opened to Revelation 2:20.
Go to the bathroom and
look inside the medicine cabinet above the sink. Take the mineral oil
bottle and 2 tablets from the bottle at lower shelf.
Exit through the balcony
door.
Major Montague Barry's room:
Enter the door right of Poirot's room.
*Check the betting
receipts on the side table.
Look close at the
suitcase on top of the bed. Use the scissors on the leather strap. Check
the pillows.
Exit through main door.
Mrs. Hilary Castle at
Lookout tower: Climb the stairs to the lookout tower at top.
Talk to Mrs. Castle completely. Major Barry will be at the Monk's Hood at Leathercombe
Bay. She checks for U-boats. Albert Bagley runs the pub. Colonel
Weston is in town.
She wants a book - Love's Captive to be returned to
the library. She gives the binoculars.
The book errand is added to Poirot's Instructions.
*Turn right twice and use
the binoculars. See Major Barry on his red sailed sailboat. The boat looks like it's
named Parsimony. Turn right and use the
binoculars again and see a periscope of a submarine.
Go down the stairs and
forward to the hallway at other side of the inner balcony. Before the spiral staircase, use the right
door to get to the veranda.
The Marshall's room:
Go to the second to the left door and try the door.
Eavesdrop on the conversation between
Kenneth and Arlena. They talk about the threatening notes. Hear about Patrick Redfern.
Rosamund
Darnley's room: Go left and enter the second to the left door
from the Marshall's.
Check the suitcase on top of the bed. It has RD
on it. Open and take blank typing paper.
Exit through the main door. Go down to the spiral staircase.
Mrs. Castle's office:
Go through the door behind the reception desk.
*Look at the calendar on the desk and see August 2, 11,
17 and 21 have U marks for U-boat sightings.
Move the
frame on the right and take the silver key. Move the frame back.
Look close at the green
felt under the bust on the desk. Click again and see that the felt is a bit
torn. Click on the felt to see a plate with a keyhole. Use the silver key on the
keyhole. Take the gold key.
Open the top drawer and
take the hotel floor plan. Look close at the floor plan in inventory.
Close the top drawer.
*Go to the safe at the corner and use the gold key on
the keyhole. See an oil lantern, code book and German 2-way radio. Check the
documents in the notebook to learn the codes. Exit the office.
Patio: Enter the door left of
the reception desk. Go forward pass the dining room door and exit out to the
patio.
Eavesdrop on Kenneth
Marshall and Rosamund Darnley. Hear Rosa ask Kenneth why he doesn't divorce
Arlena.
Island Summit: Go down the path
at bottom screen and then up the hill to the Island
Summit.
See Oakley Gardener checking the ground. Talk to him completely.
Today
August 24th is their anniversary. Poirot will look for a present for Carrie.
This is added to Poirot's Instructions.
Sanctuary Cove:
Go down the path and continue to take the path by the cliff side.
Go down the stairs and talk to Linda Marshall about
the guillemots.
The guillemot is oil covered and Linda needs help
catching it. A task is added to the to do list.
Cutter's Cove:
Go back to the cliff side path and forward until seeing the Redferns.
Eavesdrop on Christine and Patrick Redfern. Hear the discussion about Arlena.
Talk to Patrick
completely. He knows the area when he was a boy. There's a Cutter's cave at the
cove.
Ledges:
Continue down the path.
Talk to Carrie Gardener knitting a shawl. Oakley had
financial problems with a major movie star that took the money.
Poirot will look
for a gift for Oakley and another instruction added.
Bathing beach:
Continue down the path and go down to the beach at next deck.
Shed - Open the
shed and take the oar, boat varnish and swimming float.
Beach - Go close
to the water's edge. *Use the binoculars on the swimming float. Something is
caught on the float. Life ring buoy?
Cutter's Cove:
Go up to the path.
Go back to Patrick Redfern at the deck above Cutter's Cove.
Talk to Patrick about the thing caught on the swimming float. His goggles are
broken. He gives the broken goggles to be repaired. This gets added to
Poirot's to do list - Instructions.
Goggles - In
inventory, combine broken goggles with leather strap to get goggles with
strap.
Go to the hotel bar.
Pick up ice
pick at end of the bar.
In inventory, combine
goggles with strap with ice pick to get goggles.
Go back to Patrick at
Cutter's Cove and talk to him. Automatically give the goggles.
He goes and swims to the
Bathing beach and retrieves the ruined life ring.
Look at ruined
life ring in inventory and read that the word Parsimony is on the side.
Monastery ruins:
Go left to the cliff side path and go to the Monastery ruins.
Tunnel - Look
close at the round ornate stone on the wall. Use the oar on the round stone. The
stone wheel is moved to reveal an entrance to the tunnel.
Enter the tunnel and
look around. Look at the Roman stones by the wall.
Go forward until the big area. Take the
gold coin - 1689 Guinea from the ground.
The other paths can not
be checked yet. We need something to show proper direction.
Exit the tunnel and the
ruins.
Go down the path, turn
right at the junction and forward back to the hotel. Enter and go to the hotel
rooms at top floor.
Carrie Gardener:
Go forward from the spiral stairs and right to the room at the corner - room 3.
Use the
door and automatically give Carrie the gold coin. She gives the shawl.
One to be done task crossed off in the Poirot's list.
Exit the hotel.
Sanctuary Cove: Go
back to Sanctuary Cove and the oil covered guillemot.
Use the shawl on the guillemot. Linda takes the bird.
Another task added to the to-do list.
Rocky cove: Go back to the
hotel. Go to the path towards Rocky Cove.
See Major Barry standing with eyes popping out of his
head.
Go forward and talk to
Arlena Marshall. She got another threatening letter.
Sea Tractor Landing:
Go to front of hotel and down the paved path to the landing. Use the telephone
to call for a sea tractor.
Leathercombe Bay
Sea crossing:
Will Jenks will talk about people and the island during the crossing.
Will Jenks Garage:
See the sea tractor call phone right of the building.
Enter the
building and talk to Will Jenks completely.
Poirot says that he will talk
to Linda to clear up the situation between Linda and Gladys. Another task added
to the to-do list.
Check the table and see
that you can not pick up the 3 tools on the table.
Exit the building and go
to the village at the end of the path.
Chemist-Library-Post
Office: Enter the first door on the right.
Chemist - Talk to
Adelaide Hughes. She is missing letters.
Take the spatula. Try to touch
the test tubes on the shelf behind Adelaide.
Click on and get the cough syrup
(red bottle)
at second shelf. Check it in inventory and see that it has pomegranate juice.
Lending Library -
Go to the right counter.
Talk to Adelaide. Ask about the wild birds book first
and then borrow it for 50 pence.
The knitting book costs one pound and 6
shillings. Poirot needs money.
Post Office - Go to the left counter.
Talk to Adelaide. Click on the paper on the counter
and select the bank address (Fagin and Sons, New Commerce Bank).
Click on Chloe, the cat.
See
and click on envelope behind the cabinet and Chloe.
*Take a St. Patrick
brochure right of the exit door. Exit the store.
Monk's Hood Pub: Go forward
down the road and enter the door on the left.
See a Great Dane sitting under the life ring buoy.
Colonel Weston -
Go to right screen and talk to Col. Weston completely.
Learn that the sightings
of the U-boats do not match Hilary's sightings.
Weston loaned the Smugglers End
Pub key and the stethoscope to Poirot.
Horace Blatt -
Talk to the sitting man. Hairdresser!
Albert Bagley - Go to the bar and talk to
Albert.
Learn about Baskerville, the dog and that Tom Cutter
is a good dart player. Tonight is the anniversary of Tom Cutter's death. There's
a painting that has a clue about Tom Cutter's treasure; a copy is on the wall of
the chemist. (I didn't find this painting). He is seen standing at the Island Summit looking north.
Garage:
Go back to Will Jenks's garage to go back to Seadrift Island.
Seadrift Island
Poirot's room:
Go back to the hotel and to Poirot's room.
Go to the bathroom and see that Linda has the bird in
the tub. Click on Linda or the faucet. Need instructions on cleaning the bird.
*Clean the oil covered
bird
In inventory, double click the Birding on Devon Shores book. Use the
magnifying lens to read the book. Now that Poirot knows the procedure, he can
start the process.
In inventory, combine the
brush and the oil to get brush with oil. Use the brush with oil on the
tub or Linda.
In inventory, combine the
brush and detergent to get brush with detergent. Use the brush with
detergent on the tub or Linda.
Use the faucet and then
give the towels to Linda. One task crossed off on the to do list.
Smugglers End Pub:
Exit the hotel and go down the paved path.
Use the key loaned by
Col. Weston on the door.
Look close at the
dartboard and note the N on 20 N, N on 19 and E on 15 notations.
Go down the stairs. Look at the dartboard on the brick
wall. There are 3 holes under 20.
There's an active spot
on the barrels at left. Exit the pub.
Landing:
Call for the sea tractor. Listen to clues given by Will during these crossings.
Leathercombe Bay
Chemist-Post Office-Library:
Enter the shop.
Linda - Startle Linda. She has lots of candles.
Talk to Linda about Will
and Gladys. One more task crossed off the to do list.
Post Office - Talk
to Adelaide about telegram. Get bank funds.
Library - Talk to Adelaide. Get the knitting book.
*Buy the sketchpad
that is on display on the counter.
Will Jenks garage:
Go to Will and cross the bay.
Seadrift Island
Go back to the hotel. Take the path on the left before
the hotel door.
Oakley Gardener - Talk to Gardener and automatically give him
the knitting book.
Act 3
Poirot's Office - Present time:
Automatically be back at Poirot's office.
Poirot expresses his opinion on how to
continue the investigation. He advises Hastings to remove the red
herrings in the case and to not forget about the murder of the young girl and
the ritual shown.
Finger of Suspicion
- The third clue is Desk.
Click on Hastings icon
on the taskbar.
August 24, 1940 Evening
Seadrift Island
Poirot's room:
A knock is heard.
Open the door and talk to Kenneth Marshall. A photograph of Arlena was stolen from his room. His balcony door was left opened.
Exit through the balcony
door.
Montague Barry's
room: Enter the door on the right of Poirot's.
Go to the bed and look
close at the pillow. Move the pillow and *take Arlena's picture. Look close
at it in inventory.
Barry comes in. Talk to
him completely. Poirot discusses the training of the dog at Leathercombe Bay.
Exit through the main
door.
Linda Marshall's
room: Check the first door left of the hallway, Linda
Marshall's room.
Use the stethoscope on
door after Poirot says to listen closer.
Hear Linda say some
ritual French words. I beat you, I break you, I curse you.
The Gardener's room:
Check room 3 at right corner of the inner balcony.
Use the stethoscope on
door after Poirot says to listen closer. Hear the Gardeners' talk about their
problem.
Go down the hallway and
exit through the balcony door right of the spiral staircase.
Kenneth Marshall's
room: Enter the second door on the balcony.
Typewriter - Go
forward and check the typewriter on the desk.
Place a blank paper
taken from Rosamund Darnley's room on the typewriter.
Click on keys of
typewriter to get a sample. Take the typed paper and see that it does not match
the threatening letters.
Exit the room through
the balcony door.
The Redfern's room:
See Patrick on the balcony. Talk to Patrick. After Poirot's advice, Patrick
leaves.
Enter the last room at
the balcony.
Typewriter - Go
forward and check the typewriter under the bed.
Place a blank paper on the typewriter.
Click on keys of
typewriter to get a sample. Take the typed paper and see that it does not match
the threatening letters.
*Automatically take
Darnley's typewriter.
Exit the room through
the main door.
Go down to the main
level. Go left of the reception area and go through the door.
Dining room: Enter the door on the
left.
Talk to the Gardener's. Exit the Dining room.
Exit the hotel through
the front door of the hotel.
Smuggler's Inn Pub:
Go down the paved road to the Inn.
*See Tom Cutter's ghost.
Use the shadow icon on it.
Enter the pub and go
down the stairs.
Look close at the wet
footprints on the cellar floor. Look at the dart target on the brick wall.
Exit the pub and go back
to the hotel.
Kenneth Marshall:
Take the path left of the paved road going to the cliff side.
Save game here.
Talk to Kenneth Marshall about the picture.
When time to ask a
specific question as a reward for finding the photograph, select wisely. If not
correct question, go back to saved game or look for him later and ask the
correct one.
The correct question is
about daughter's difficulty at school.
Ledges:
Continue down the cliff side path.
See Arlena and Patrick at the Ledges.
Eavesdrop on them.
Island Summit: Continue to the left of
the cliff side path. Take the shovel at the path's crossroad.
Monastery ruins:
Enter the ruins and talk to Emily Brewster.
She asked Poirot to solve the murder
of Millie Parsons.
Learn all about the rector under suspicion, Miss Porter's
School, voodoo ritual and the teacher that left.
Christine Redfern at
the patio: Go back towards the hotel. Take the path
at right and go pass the tennis court.
Talk to Christine. The
sketchpad is given as gift.
Act 4
Poirot's Office - Present time:
Automatically be back at Poirot's office.
Poirot summarizes the progress in the
investigation.
Finger of Suspicion
- The fourth clue is Drawer.
Click on Hastings icon
on the taskbar.
August 25, 1940
Morning
Seadrift Island
Poirot's room:
Exit the room through the main door.
Stephen Lane:
Meet Lane outside his room.
Talk to Lane. Lane wants to go to St. Patrick and was happy with the brochure
given by Poirot.
Learn about the murders,
the murderer and his state of mind.
Linda Marshall:
Go to her room at first left in the hallway at left.
Talk to Linda
completely. Learn about Gideon Fell, voodoo and the movie Curse of the Island.
The Lookout tower:
Go up the stairs.
*Use the binoculars and see that Blatt's boat now has white
sail. Turn right and use the binoculars and see the periscope again.
Bathing beach:
Exit through the front door and go to the bathing beach.
Go down the stairs and
close to the water's edge.
Talk to Arlena. She knows the writer of the
threatening letters. She used the float given by Poirot to a rendezvous.
Climb up the stairs. Meet
Kenneth and then Patrick.
North:
Go back to the front of the hotel and down the path.
Saved game here. *See
North and follow him.
There will be several choices of action given by Poirot.
Select 'Ask Mrs. Redfern to make a sketch of him".
Smuggler's Inn Pub:
Enter the pub.
Look close at the
dartboard. This is a map of Tom Cutter's treasure. Exit the pub.
Hotel foyer:
Go back to hotel.
Talk to Christine sitting at right. She will make a sketch of North for Poirot.
Talk to Rosamund that
arrives after Christine leaves. Poirot gives the stolen typewriter.
Treasure Hunt 1:
Enter the bar and exit through the outside door.
Go forward until the
crossroad and climb up to Island Summit. This is the highest point in the
island.
*Watch Poirot pace the
area. At the tennis court, dig, dig, dig... Hahahahah!
Pick up the tennis
ball left of path.
Stopwatch timing
(can be done anytime):
Go to a place stated by Poirot to be the best place to
do the timing. Use the stop
watch. Get the time to reach Cutter's Cove.
Tennis court - 20
minutes; Monastery ruins - 12 minutes, Sanctuary Cove by base of ladder - 15
minutes, Ledges entrance - 6 minutes; Bathing beach by base of ladder - 18
minutes and entrance of hotel - 25 minutes.
Landing:
Call for the sea tractor. Listen to clues given by Will during these crossings.
Leathercombe Bay
Monk's Hood Pub:
After having the tennis court fiasco, talk to the
bartender. Learn the original place of the island high point. The grassy path in
front of the hotel was the highest point then.
Go to the
bottom screen and take an old corned beef sandwich from the table.
Go back by the
door and talk to Barry about Baskerville, the Great Dane.
Proceed! See
how Baskerville is trained. Ah, he doesn't want to enter the store.
Enter the
store and automatically place the sandwich on the floor. Watch Baskerville and
Chloe interact.
Store:
Post Office - Click on the mail behind the mail cabinet twice.
Pick up the missing mails. Give the missing mails to Adelaide.
When asked for
a choice - Ask to use the testing equipment.
Chemist:
Click on the book behind Adelaide. *Open the book.
Place the
tablets taken from Lane's medicine cabinet in a test tube.
Take the test
tube with tablets and click it on the 'drugs' word in the Table of Contents of
the opened book.
Automatically,
the test is done by Poirot. It is Trional.
Exit the
store.
Police station -
Home Guard: Go down and to the end of the road. Enter the door
by the fountain.
Talk to
Colonel Weston about everything.
Typewriter -
After talk about Arlena, test the typewriter.
Place a blank paper on the typewriter.
Click on keys of
typewriter to get a sample. *Take the typed paper and see that it does match
the threatening letters.
Answer 'Was it Linda
Marshall' to the question.
Talk to
Colonel Weston about Mrs. Castle and the 2 murder cases.
The answer
after reading the report of the Milly Parson's case:
1. The film
and the time (3rd).
2. Then the
title of the movie.
Exit the
village and go back to the garage.
Jenk's
Garage: Go inside the garage and talk to Will.
Will wants
Barry's points cleaned.
Clean the car's engine points
Read the
magazine in inventory and learn automatically how to clean points.
Go to the work
bench and take the screwdriver, spanner (wrench) and flat file.
Spanner-Wrench - Poirot gets stabbed by a
magnetic fragment when he picked up the spanner-wrench.
In inventory, look close at spanner-wrench.
Automatically a magnetic fragment is in inventory.
Go to Barry's
car at left. See the engine of the car.
Open the
distributor cap - the big middle pan at center.
Look close and
see the ignition system.
Use the
spanner on the bolt holding one contact point at bottom of the system. This gets
the dull point.
Use the
screwdriver on the screw holding the other contact point close to center. This
gets the other dull point.
In inventory,
use the flat file on one dull point to get shiny point. Do the other dull point.
*Place the 2
shiny points in their original places. Well done, old man!
Exit the
garage and meet Will. Go back to Seadrift Island.
Seadrift Island:
Original high point of the Island: Go back to
hotel.
Go to path going to the cliff side. *At the lounge
chairs, automatically start pacing to the different directions.
The Gardeners are close by.
Dig, Poirot,
dig. The treasure is found at side of the hotel where the spiral stairs are
located and on the path going to Rocky beach.
*Get 3 gold darts.
Smuggler's Inn Pub: Go down the road and enter the pub.
Go down the cellar and look close at the dart target
on the brick wall. Place the gold darts in the 3 holes under the top 20, thus
getting a ton-eighty.
Enter the
tunnel and look at the footprints on the ground. *Take the luminescent coat
left of the entrance.
Go forward until the intersection. Poirot refuses to go ahead.
Exit the
tunnel and then the pub. Go back to the hotel.
Rocky
beach: Take the path on the right side of the hotel.
Go forward
and talk to Emily Brewster. Something was thrown at her.
Gardeners:
Talk to the Gardeners at the lounge chair area close to the wall in front of
the hotel.
Patrick
Redfern is not in a good mood.
Sanctuary
Cove: Go to Sanctuary Cove.
Talk to Christine Redfern
sitting on the deck. *She gives the sketch of North.
Talk to her
again and see that she too is not in a good mood. Look at the sketch of North
in inventory.
Kenneth
Marshall: Go back to the hotel and up to the rooms.
Check the
inner door of Kenneth Marshall's room. Use the stethoscope on the door and
hear typing.
Landing:
Use the phone to call for the sea tractor.
Leathercombe Bay
Police -
Home Guard: Go down and to the end of the road. Enter the door
by the fountain.
Talk to
Colonel Weston about North's sketch.
Seadrift Island:
Automatically, be back at the side of the
hotel on the path going to Rocky beach.
Hear the pipes on the wall making gurgling noise. Somebody is having a bath.
Act 5
Poirot's Office - Present time:
Automatically be back at Poirot's office.
Poirot shows the map that will point
where the suspects were last seen. It will be updated as the suspects are
questioned.
Finger of Suspicion
- The fifth clue is Magnet.
Click on Hastings icon
on the taskbar.
August 25, 1940
Late Morning
Seadrift Island
Watch as Patrick and Emily row to Cutter's Cove at
11:40 AM and find Arlena's body.
Hotel office: Exit Poirot's
room.
Go down to the office behind the reception counter.
Talk to Hilary Castle. Find out that Arlena has been
murdered. The police have been here for an hour.
Exit the office and go to the hotel foyer.
Hotel foyer: See and try to
talk to Gladys.
Go outside and take the path going to the cliff side
and beaches.
See the Gardeners by the lounge chairs. Carrie is too
distraught to talk.
Bathing beach: Go down to the
Bathing beach and close to the water's edge.
Talk to Emily. She will row Poirot to Cutter's Cove.
Cutter's Cove:
Colonel Weston: Talk to
Colonel Weston. Poirot will lead the investigation.
The time of the murder was somewhere between a quarter
to eleven and twenty of twelve.
The cause of death was strangulation.
Arlena's body: *Look at
the body.
Pick up the coffee flask. Click on her and
Poirot states that she died of strangulation by a very strong pair of hands.
Look at the coffee spill on the sand. Look at the hat's
ribbon.
Patrick Redfern: Talk to
Patrick. He remembered hearing a clatter from rocks near the ladder.
Rocks by ladder: Go towards
the ladder. Pick up a broken pipe on the sand.
Cave: Go to the right of the
ladder.
Pick up a *torn piece of fabric from the rocks.
Go inside the cave. Pick up *smashed perfume bottle
on the ground at right.
*See something mud covered on the wall. Look close and
use spatula or tennis ball or brush to remove the clay covering a 6 side metal receptacle used to hold a
mast winch handle. (Thanks, Lee!)
Arlena's body: Go back to
Arlena.
Look at the
ribbon on Arlena's hat. Use scissors on ribbon to get cut piece of fabric.
Emily Brewster: Talk to
Emily.
She corroborated the rowing time and incident. They turned to the cove at
11:40 and arrived at the cove at 11:45. 11:30 was the time they started to row
out of the island.
Now that everything is investigated, talk to her
again. Poirot asks to be rowed back to Bathing beach.
Gardener's: Climb up the
ladder and go to the Gardener's at the lounge chair patio.
Talk to Gardeners. Check the time line. He left Carrie
around 11 to get the thread and was gone for 15 or 20 minutes.
Hilary Castle:
Go to the reception desk inside the hotel
Talk to Hilary. She
gives the hotel's master key.
She was making sure that
the dining room was cleared after quarter to eleven until noon.
The only request for
coffee flask was by Lane going hiking and Arlena. They are put out no later
than half past nine.
If you did not get a
floor plan of the hotel earlier in her office, ask her for one now.
Hotel Rooms:
Climb upstairs and open the door. No need to use key.
Arlena's room:
Enter the first door on the left side of the inner balcony and look around.
Go to the bottom screen
and take the *JN letter. Read it in documents.
Take the *3 Redfern
letters by the curtains at left. Read it in documents.
Bathroom - Go to the bathroom left of the bed.
Open the cabinet above
the toilet.
Take the *perfume
bottle and the *unmarked bottle.
Go to the left and take
the bath salt bottle. Poirot cannot open the bottle.
Take the hairbrush
from the table on the right. Look close at the hairbrush in inventory and get
*sample of hairs.
Exit the room.
Kenneth Marshall's
room: Enter the next room.
A shadow is seen in the balcony.
Talk to Kenneth. From
twenty to eleven until twelve, he was in his room.
Barkett and Applegood
are Arlena's solicitors.
Linda Marshall's
room: Enter the next door on the left.
See a box on the dresser
with zodiac signs in rings lock.
Look close at the hat on
the bed. Take the *fancy stickpin on the ribbon band.
Go to the fireplace and
take the *burnt piece of fabric on the logs and *burnt hair on the right side.
Take *Linda's watch
on the fireplace mantle.
Rosamund Darnley's
room: Go to the next room.
Go to bottom screen and
talk to Rosamund. She is a childhood friend of Kenneth Marshall.
She was at the Ledges from 25 past ten to ten minutes
to twelve. At around eleven, she went back to the hotel to get her sun hat.
On the choice of
favors to ask, select to compare some pieces of fabric.
The cut piece from
Arlena's hat is fine silk. The torn one from the rock is rayon and inexpertly
dyed. The burnt piece from the fireplace is from the same rayon as the torn
fabric.
The Redfern's room:
Enter the last room on the left hallway.
Open the suitcase on the
dresser. See a *photograph of the Redferns.
Go to bottom screen and
check the bag on the floor beside the table - sketching supplies.
Go outside to the
balcony and talk to Christine Redfern.
She was at Sanctuary Cove at half past ten and left at
quarter to twelve. She was playing tennis at twelve.
Go back inside through
the door at the other end of the balcony.
Emily Brewster's
room: Enter the room that is first on the right side of
the balcony.
Take and read the
*Millie Parson's letter on the top of the dresser.
The Gardener's room:
Enter the next room.
Look in the trash can
right of the dresser.
Letter of regret
puzzle: Take the pieces of paper and put them
together.
Click on a piece and
then click on the other piece that you want to replace.
*Read the merged letter of regret in
documents.
Take the *handbill
from the desk. Read it in documents.
Exit the room.
Horace Blatt's room:
Enter the next room.
Open the suitcase on top
of the bed. Take clothes off and see an oily spot.
Use the spatula on the
oily spot on the suitcase and get *oil sample.
Gladys Narracot:
See Gladys at the balcony. Talk to Gladys.
If you have not checked
Montague Barry's and Stephen Lane's rooms earlier, do so. Take the *bottle of
pills from the medicine cabinet of Lane's bathroom.
Exit the hotel.
Tennis Court: See George
Strumm rake the tennis court. Wonder why he's doing that? <wink> Poirot says
don't bother him.
Linda Marshall:
Go to Sanctuary Cove.
Talk to Linda. She got Trional prescription earlier.
George Strumm - Go to Bathing
beach.
Talk to George. Ask him
to dive down and get what was thrown to Emily at the Rocky bath. He needs liquid
courage.
Liquid Courage:
Go to the hotel bar.
Talk to Henry Bailey, the bartender. Order Planters Punch, George's favorite.
They run out of rum and
grenadine. Poirot gives the cough syrup taken from the chemist. Look at the bottle of cough syrup in inventory and see that it is
made from pomegranate.
In inventory, combine
the cough syrup with the empty bottle of grenadine taken earlier from the trash
can by the door of the bar to get a full bottle of grenadine.
Go to Smuggler's Inn
Pub. Go down the cellar. Use the glass taken from the Dining room on the tap of
the barrel left of the opened secret brick wall to get a glass of rum.
Go back to the hotel's
bar. Give the glass of rum and full bottle of grenadine to Henry to get Planters
Punch.
Dive:
Go back to the bathing
beach. Talk to George.
See George dive in Rocky
beach twice. He gives an *empty bottle to Poirot.
Landing:
Go to the Landing. Use the phone to call the sea tractor.
Leathercombe Bay
Will's Garage:
Talk to Will. Lane came across at about eight.
Barry took his car before 10. Blatt came not too long ago.
Learn about North's movements.
Poirot asks about a
handle for a sail winch.
Store:
Talk to Adelaide. Barry needed a private phone. Linda filled a prescription just
a little while ago.
*Test various
substances that may relate to the murder: Click open the
book on the chemist's counter behind Adelaide.
Empty bottle -
Click empty bottle on test tube. Click filled test tube on cosmetics on book. It
contained artificial suntan.
Arlena's coffee flask
- Click coffee flask on test tube. Click filled test tube on drugs on book. It
contained trional, a sedative.
Blatt's oil sample:
Click oil sample on test tube. Click filled test tube on oil and waxes on book.
It came from oil used to protect a gun.
Smashed bottle from
cave - Click smashed bottle on test tube. Click filled test tube on
cosmetics on book. It is perfume.
Unmarked bottle from
Arlena's bathroom - Click unmarked bottle on test tube. Click filled
test tube on drugs on book. It contained hair coloring.
Chicken feathers
- Click chicken feathers on test tube. Click filled test tube on blood on
book. The blood came from a chicken.
Stick pin from
Linda's hat - Click stick pin on test tube. Click filled test tube on
oil and waxes on book. It contained candle wax.
Microscope:
*Use Arlena's hair on microscope; then click burnt hair on microscope. See that
the hairs are similar.
Post Office:
*Click on paper on
the counter and send a telegram to Miss Porter School for Young Ladies.
*Click on paper on
the counter and send a telegram to Barkett and Applegood, Solicitors.
Monk's Head Pub:
Horace Blatt:
Talk to Blatt at lower screen. He was out from about nine until after one. He
said he lost his life ring buoy during a storm.
Play dart to win life
ring buoy: Go to the dart buoy. Click on board and play
for the Life Ring Buoy.
Automatically, do the
dart game and win. The life buoy is in inventory.
Give life ring buoy to
Blatt. When asked for favor, borrow his compass. Get a *compass in
inventory.
Hastings and Poirot
discuss the possibility of a woman strangler. The women in the island should be
put to a test.
Police Station:
Talk to Colonel Anthony Weston.
*Learn about John North.
Read the report in documents later.
*Get the report on Alice
Corrigan case. Read the report in documents later.
*Poirot asks Weston to
check on the JN of the letters and the Redfern photographer, Jimmy Nash.
Will's Garage:
Go back to Will and then go back to the island.
Seadrift Island
Gladys Narracot: Find
Gladys at hotel balcony by the rooms.
*Women strength test:
Talk to Gladys to help with the test to determine
if any woman has the strength to strangle. Hahahahah Phobia!
Use the baths salt bottle or the boat varnish
bottle for the test. (Thanks, Lee!) Select Miss Brewster on the list. Walk around a bit
and then go back outside Poirot's room. I go outside the left
balcony exit (by the spiral stairs), down the stairs, to the Rocky beach and
back to inner balcony by Poirot's room.
Talk to Gladys. She tested all the women in the
island. Emily Brewster opened the jar easily.
Act 6
Poirot's Office - Present time:
Automatically be back at Poirot's office.
Poirot discusses the mystery.
Select each of the choices and Poirot will explain.
Listen well to what Poirot says. Eliminate the other suspects.
Finger of Suspicion
- The sixth clue is Telephone.
Click on Hastings icon
on the taskbar.
August 25, 1940
Afternoon
Seadrift Island
Hotel Office:
Go to the hotel office behind the reception desk.
Look close at safe. Use
the safe key to open safe.
See that the signal
lantern is gone. *Take the radio and code book.
Gladys Narracot:
Go back to the second floor inner balcony.
Talk to Gladys cleaning
close to Kenneth Marshall's room.
She saw Kenneth Marshall
during the time he stated to be in the hotel.
The Linda Marshall's
fireplace was clean when she cleaned the room this morning.
She also heard someone
take a bath around noon.
Kenneth Marshall's
room: Enter the room.
Take the papers left of the typewriter on the desk.
*Read the Letter to
Kenneth Marshall and Kenneth's response in the documents.
Horace Blatt's room:
Go across the balcony and enter Blatt's room.
Check the suitcase and
take the clothes on the right.
See and take a revolver.
Blatt comes in and the revolver is returned. Exit the room.
Patrick Redfern:
Go down to the foyer and enter the hotel bar.
Talk to Patrick about
everything. Learn about Jimmy Nash.
Henry Bailey:
Talk to Henry.
Stephen Lane:
Go down to the Landing by the phone to call the Sea Tractor.
Meet Stephen Lane. Talk
to this sick man.
Call the Sea tractor.
Hahahaha. Phobia talk!
Leathercombe Bay
Will's Garage:
Montague Barry:
Talk to Barry.
Will Jenks: *Will gives the winch handle he found.
Store:
Enter the store and go to the Post Office.
*Get the Letter from Barkett and
Applegood. Read it in documents.
Arlena took out ten
thousand pounds last week.
Police Station:
Go forward to the end of the road and enter the police station.
Talk to Col. Weston. *Get
the background checks on the suspects. Read it in documents.
*Also get a packet
from Miss Porter. Look close to open the packet in inventory. Get 4 index
cards.
Read Miss
Porter's letter in documents. Learn what the 4 students did to cause
expulsion.
Go back to the Island.
Seadrift Island
Bathing beach:
Go down to the bathing beach and ask Emily Brewster to row you to Cutter's Cove.
Cutter's Cove Cave:
Go to the cave.
See seaweed on the
left. *Take the sandwich tin. Open and see that it is loaded with packets
of white powder.
Look close at tin in
inventory and *get a packet of powder.
*Use the winch handle on
the metal thing on the wall.
See an entrance open.
Now that you have the compass, enter the tunnel.
Monastery ruins:
At the intersection, take the right passage.
*Just before the exit to
the monastery ruins, do stopwatch timing.
Turn around and go back
to the intersection in the cave.
Smugglers End Pub:
Take the bottom passage.
Go forward until the
entrance to the cellar. *Do the stopwatch timing from here.
Go forward to the
cellar. *Pick up the broken compass from the floor in front of the open
secret door.
Go up the Pub and exit
to the road. No problem leaving Emily, she'll be back at Bathing beach.
Linda Marshall's
room: Go up to and enter Linda's room at the hotel.
Zodiac puzzle box:
Look close at the puzzle box.
Use the 4 index cards
sent by Miss Porter as clues.
Linda Marshall - born
November 28, 1927. She is a Sagittarius.
Doris Chapman - born
December 13, 1927. She is a Sagittarius.
Virginia Price-Waverly -
born January 3, 1928. She is a Capricorn.
Estella Haversham - born
April 15, 1928. She is an Aries.
Arrange the zodiac signs
above the arrow based on the oldest girl on outer ring to the youngest girl in
the inner ring.
*The box opens.
Automatically get the Voodoo book and the key.
Monastery ruins:
Exit the hotel and go to the monastery ruins.
Use the key just taken
on the monk's door left of the arch.
*Take the wire
recorder that was taken from the hotel office.
Go to Leathercombe Bay.
Leathercombe Bay
Store-Chemist:
Click open the book on the chemist's counter behind
Adelaide.
*Click packet of powder on test tube. Click filled test
tube on drugs on book. It is heroin.
Watch Kenneth Marshall
call and tries to wake up Linda. She took Trional.
Act 7
Poirot's Office - Present time:
Automatically be back at Poirot's office. Poirot discusses Linda and gave advice
on how
and what to do.
The smugglers have to be apprehended and taken out of the way.
Q & A:
The smugglers are North and Blatt.
The clues to their plan: color of Blatt's sails. White tells North the heroin is
ready to be picked up.
The means to stop them is the compass. Throw it off with the sliver of magnet
found in the garage.
Finger of Suspicion
- The sixth clue is Telephone.
Q & A:
Power - the thing is
powered by electricity.
Lamp - The finger of
suspicion is powered by the same circuit as the lamp.
Desk - the wires from
the lamp to the Finger of Suspicion are in the desk.
Drawer - You close the
drawer every time you operate the Finger of Suspicion.
Magnet - The finger is
controlled by a magnet you hold.
Telephone - The telephone is disconnected.
Code - Enter the code on
the telephone.
Click on Hastings icon
on the taskbar.
August 25, 1940
Late Afternoon
Seadrift Island
Linda Marshall:
Go to her room. Talk to Linda.
Set the trap:
Compass - If you have not done it yet, look close at the
spanner in inventory to get magnetic fragment.
*Combine the magnetic
fragment with the working compass to make a disabled compass.
Horace Blatt - Go to hotel's bar.
Talk to Blatt at the piano in order to give him the
disabled compass.
Cutter's Cove cave - Go to Cutter's Cove via the tunnels entering through the Monastery ruins or the
Smuggler's End pub or ask Emily Brewster to go there.
*Place the sandwich tin
back on the shelf in front of the cave. Automatically, it gets covered in
seaweed.
Landing:
Call for the Sea Tractor.
Leathercombe Bay
Garage:
Talk to Will. Learn that a guest at the hotel is paying him to help him play a
joke on someone.
Will is to see a signal
from the tower and he will pick the guest up from Cutter's Cove and take him to
Thurlestone.
The signal is 3 short
flashes (pickup required high tide).
Select a code to answer:
3 long (fire on this position).
Police Station:
Go to the Police station.
Talk to Colonel Weston.
Learn about Mrs. Castle and Fell.
Seadrift Island
Bathing beach:
Go down and talk to Emily to row you to Cutter's Cove.
Cutter's Cove cave:
Go to the cave.
The heroin is gone.
Enter the cave.
Talk to Blatt and North.
Select sails in the multiple choice question. Learn about the ghost. Someone stole Blatt's gun.
Act 8
Poirot's Office - Present time: Poirot
knows who is the murderer and will reveal it.
Seadrift Island
I recommend that you do this by yourself and not
look at the walkthrough from here on.
Dining room:
Poirot faces the suspects.
You are given the chance to have help from Poirot or
do the summation on your own.
2 bottles: Perfume bottles.
Next comparison: 3 pieces of
fabric.
Thrown bottle: Artificial suntan.
Content of Mrs. Marshall's flask:
Trional.
Reason for perfume, suntan and hat:
Impersonate Arlena.
Sound clue: Sound of running water.
Reason for bath: Remove artificial
suntan.
Reason for impersonation: Provide an
alibi for the murderer.
Connected murder: Murderer of Alice
Corrigan.
Clue that demolishes the perfect alibi:
Linda's watch keeps perfect time.
The liar is: Christine Redfern
True motive lies in 2 documents:
Arlena's solicitor and Letter of JN.
Kind of person Arlena was: Arlena
was taken advantage of by men she was attracted to.
Tower:
Follow the murderer to the tower.
Select: I told Jenks the lie.
Poirot's Office - Present time: Select
the code that unlocks the Finger of Suspicion.
The clue is from the dedication of Bill Nicholls in
the book The Sorcerer's Apprentice that is on top of the bookshelf.
Dial: 4 3 6 4 8 7 - GENIUS.
The End
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