Secret Service 42/SSERVCD_42.bin/cd/holme2so.txt

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 This   walkthru    describes   one
possible way to  solve the mystery,
but since  the game is  not linear,
the investigation may branch off at
one of several  places in the game.
Although  you may  deviate from  my
approach,   you   nonetheless  must
visit  all the  locations and solve
all   the  puzzles   in  order   to
complete the game.  Also, there are
numerous   artifacts   and  objects
which I have  not mentioned in this
walkthru.   These   items   may  be
manipulated  but are  not essential
to the solution of this game.

 Begin on Baker Street. Go to Alley
behind  Regency  Theater.  See  the
cigarette  butt,   which  had  been
smoked by  a man in  boots. Pick up
playbill,  and  pick  up  iron bar.
Inspect  corpse of  Sarah Carroway;
she  was  killed  by  a neck wound.
Note   that   the   murderer   used
a serrated   blade  and   took  the
victim's jewelry. Take  a sample of
white  powder  found  on  abdominal
wound. Talk to Inspector, who tells
you about a  witness to the murder;
he  also gives  you the  address of
Sarah Carroway's flat.

 Go into Sarah's  dressing room. On
top of  a locked chest  of drawers,
there are some  flowers with a note
from  a secret  admirer. Take  note
and  take  a   flower.  Pickup  the
bottle of Eau de Seine perfume with
ribbon on it.  Talk to Watson about
a sedative  to calm  Sheila Parker,
the   witness.  Give   sedative  to
Sheila, and question her.

 She  talks  about  a  man  wearing
a cloak  fleeing the  scene of  the
crime.  She  says  that  Sarah  had
received a pendant  from her sister
Anna. Ask about  secret admirer and
discover  that Sarah  did not  know
him.  Sheila says  that the perfume
was a gift to  Sarah from a special
friend,  whom Sarah  kept a secret.
Show Sheila the  playbill you found
in  the  alley,  and  she  says  it
belongs to her.

 Note  stain  of  Macassar  oil and
black hair on top  of door. Talk to
Carruthers;       he       mentions
a suspicious   lad  who   had  been
hanging  around in  the alley.  The
boy, about 17  years old, had asked
him  for Sarah's  address, but when
Carruthers  refused, the  boy asked
him  to  leave  a  message  at  the
"Moongate".        In       further
conversation,  discover   that  the
murderer had  apparently forced the
door, searched the room, and waited
outside for Sarah. Pick up a spring
under the  wardrobe and give  it to
Carruthers;  he  repairs  the lock.
Open   door   and   go   to   Sarah
Carroway's flat.  Open umbrella and
take   tiny   brass   key.  Inspect
laundry; a  sweater from Kensington
Rugby Club has evidence of Macassar
oil and black hair.

 Go   to  Baker   Street  and   use
powdered specimen and flower on lab
table. Do the  experiments and find
out  that the  flower is  dyed with
iodine  base  and  that  the  white
powder is arsenic  mixed with soap.
Go  outside, talk  to Wiggins,  and
give  him  flower,  and  ask him to
locate  vendor. Go  back to  Alley;
the  body  has  been  taken  to the
morgue,  and the  backstage door is
now locked.

 Go  to  Morgue;  Coroner  lets you
examine,  but   not  take,  Sarah's
personal  effects. Note  large key.
Talk to Gregson about authorization
to  get Sarah's  effects. He refers
you  to Lestrade  at Scotland Yard,
which  now appears  on the  map. Go
there; use the name of Gregson, but
the  constable does  not admit you.
Go  back  to  the  morgue, and this
time Gregson escorts  you and gains
you admittance to  the Yard. Go in;
talk  to desk  sergeant Duncan, but
he does not help you.

 Go out, talk  to "apparently blind
vendor", and threaten to expose his
fraudulent practices.  He tells you
that the desk  sergeant is a sucker
for  a  compliment.  Compliment the
sergeant   and   he   will   summon
Inspector Lestrade,  who authorizes
permission  to  remove  items  from
morgue.   Get    pass   from   desk
sergeant.

 Go to morgue  and talk to coroner;
give him pass, then take large key.
Ask Coroner for  analysis sample of
white powder, which turns out to be
a preservative.  Go  to  Alley, use
large key on stage door, and enter.
Use  tiny  brass  key  on  chest of
drawers  and  take  opera  tickets.
Carruthers  tells  you  address  of
Opera  House,  where  Anna Carroway
performs.

 Go  to  Chancery  Opera  House and
talk to manager.  He says that Anna
Carroway  has  been   ill,  and  he
refuses to allow  admittance to her
dressing room. Show tickets to both
ushers   and   go   upstairs.  Show
tickets  to  Mrs.  Worthington, and
she  talks about  pendant and about
Sara's  young man,  James. She also
writes    a     note    authorizing
admittance to Anna's dressing room.
Give  note to  manager, and  try to
examine  room.   When  the  manager
interferes, leave room  and talk to
Watson.   Reenter  room   and  have
Watson distract  manager. Then open
drawers  and pick  up ring  of keys
from middle drawer.

 Now go to  Belle's Parfumerie; ask
Belle  about  the   young  man  who
purchased  Eau  de  Seine  perfume.
Describe  him as  tall, black  hair
with  copious  amounts  of Macassar
oil,  and Belle  identifies him  as
a rugby  player. Ask  Belle for  La
Cote D'Azur perfume.  When she goes
in  back,  talk  to  cleaning  girl
about the young man, and learn that
he     smokes     Senior    Service
cigarettes.

 Go  to South  Kensington Field and
talk to coach.  If you describe the
young  man  by  name  of James, who
smokes  Senior  Service,  the coach
calls Sanders  to answer questions.
Sanders denies  knowing Sarah until
you  show  him  the  Eau  de  Seine
perfume.  He  then  tells  you  the
location  of  Eaton  Dormitory.  Go
there,  tell Sanders  that Sarah is
dead.  He doesn't  believe you, and
he   wants  proof,   like  a  death
certificate.

 Go to morgue, but the coroner does
not  release death  certificate. Go
to  Baker  Street;  ask  Jonas, the
newsstand  operator,   for  a  back
issue of newspaper describing death
of  Sarah. Jonas  doesn't have one,
but  Wiggins does.  Talk to Wiggins
and  take  newspaper.  Ask  Wiggins
about  the  flower  vendor,  and he
says  her  name  is  Leslie, at the
Covent  Garden.  Go  back  to Eaton
Dorm and give newspaper to Sanders.
Although he doesn't know their flat
addresses,  he   tells  about  Anna
Carroway  at  Opera  House  and her
fiancee,   Antonio    Caruso,   who
frequents the  St. Bernards Snooker
Academy.  Sanders also  talks about
a spot,  near Priory  School, where
they  all  picnic  and  Anna  would
occasionally  talk   to  a  curious
young boy.

 Go   to  St.   Bernards;  pay  the
snooker  players   for  information
about  Caruso.   Jack  Mahoney,  in
yellow and wearing  a wedding band,
knows the flat address but will not
cooperate. Ask  the bartender about
Mahoney's   marital    status   and
confront    Mahoney     with    the
information.    He    now   reveals
Caruso's address.

 Go to  Caruso's flat. Look  at the
photo  on  the  back  table. Caruso
talks  of Anna's  disappearance and
gives you her address. He tells you
to  knock loudly  and long,  as the
housekeeper  is   deaf.  Ask  about
picnics  and learn  of the  strange
boy  who  wanted  Anna  to  buy him
a gyroscope.  Go   to  Wiggins,  on
Baker    Street,   and    get   the
gyroscope.

 Travel  to  picnic  site  and  use
gyroscope on solitary boy. He tells
you that his name is Paul, that his
father  is  influential,  and  that
Anna was his  nanny. Give gyroscope
to  boy  and  pick  up  cap when he
leaves.  Look  at  cap,  then go to
Eddington Equestrian. Ask about the
purchaser of cap, but he refuses to
reveal  this. Talk  to Watson about
a strategy,   then   look   at  the
fraudulent  coat of  arms. When all
of   his   customers   leave,   the
proprietor  tells   you  that  Lord
Brumwell  bought  the  cap  for his
son, Paul.

 Go  to Brumwell  Mansion, but Lord
Brumwell will  not see you  at this
time. Speak to  Lady Brumwell about
Paul and  Anna; she says  that Anna
was dismissed and that she does not
know her whereabouts. Find out that
one  of Lord  Brumwell's guests had
left a smelly cigarette butt in the
foyer. Leave; there is nothing more
to do here until the endgame.

 Go  to  Covent   Garden.  Go  into
Madame Rosa's shop, but she neither
helps you nor  allows you to search
the premises. Leave and buy violets
from Leslie. Ask  her about the man
who  bought  pink  carnations,  and
show  her   the  hand-written  note
attached  to the  flowers you found
in Sarah's dressing  room. She will
acknowledge having written the note
for  a man  who insisted  on having
a drink  her at  the pub.  When she
refused, he became  mean and tossed
his  cigarette into  her barrel. He
also lost something from his sleeve
in the barrel.

 Pick up the  flowers from the wire
basket, and use  the wire basket on
the barrel to  obtain the cuff link
with  the initials  "G.B.". Go into
the   Moongate  Pub   and  talk  to
Publican,  who identifies  the cuff
link as belonging to Mr. Blackwood,
a taxidermist.   A    specimen   of
Blackwood's work, says Publican, is
on  display  at  Bradley's  Tobacco
Shop.

 Now   look    around   the   room,
specifically  at the  two pictures.
Ask Publican  for information about
the  young  man  looking  for Sarah
Carroway's  address. There  are two
ways   to  get   this  information.
First, you may  play darts with the
three drunks and  the Publican, but
you must  beat all of  them. Or, if
you prefer, ask  Publican about his
disgraceful  military  record,  and
allude   to   the   photo   of  the
pachyderm  and  the  photo  of  his
mother.   In   either   case,   the
Publican  will  tell  you  that the
young man delivers  for the chemist
on  Hattington  Street.  On  to the
chemist, and if  you buy something,
he  will let  you talk  to Richard,
the   stockboy.   On   questioning,
Richard  admits  to  being lovesick
over  Sarah  Carroway,  but without
any involvement whatsoever.

 Go to Bradley's  Tobacco Shop. Try
to move  a cigar crate,  but Alfred
does not  allow it. Talk  to Alfred
and he  changes his mind.  Move all
three crates in  front of the moose
head, and then  move the last crate
again; Holmes puts it on top of the
other two. Climb  up, pick up moose
head,  and  gain   the  address  of
Oxford Taxidermy.

 At the Taxidermy, look at serrated
knife and bloody smock and ask Lars
about them.  He tells you  that the
smock  is Mr.  Blackwood's. He will
describe Blackwood as medium build,
with   gray  hair,   top  hat   and
monocle.   He  says   he  overheard
Blackwood making  an appointment to
meet someone at the Surrey Docks.

 Talk  to Watson  about the  Docks,
and he  will suggest Toby,  the dog
at  Old Sherman's,  to pick  up the
scent. Pick up the  smock and go to
Old Sherman's. Talk  to Sherman and
get a  leash. Use either  the leash
or  smock  on   Toby  and  you  are
automatically  taken to  the Docks.
Toby  seems very  interested in the
warehouse, but the door won't open.
Move the  barrel in front  of door,
climb up, and get pail.

 Look at  the window; it  is opaque
with  dirt.  Move  barrel  back and
pick up dirty rag.  Use the pail on
the Thames, and use  the rag on the
pail.  Finally use  the rag  on the
window and  look in. There  are two
men;   one    matches   Blackwood's
description,  the   other  examines
a large  pendant. There  is a plank
up against the door. Talk to Watson
about  a strategy,  then open  shed
door  and  take   hammer.  Use  the
hammer  on the  warehouse door  and
enter the  warehouse. Holmes chases
and  apprehends Blackwood,  but the
other  man escapes.  You are  taken
back to Baker  Street, where Holmes
and  Watson  discuss  Blackwood. It
seems   that  Blackwood   is  being
detained at Bow Street Police Court
and charged only with possession of
Sarah's stolen jewelry.

 Go  to Bow  Court, but  guard will
not  admit  you.  Go  to  Yard  and
obtain pass from the desk sergeant.
Back to Bow Street and give pass to
guard.  Talk to  Blackwood. He says
he was hired by an unknown old gent
to  find  a   letter  possessed  by
Carroway.  He had  searched Sarah's
dressing  room, found  nothing, and
waited  outside in  the alley. When
he held her up, Sarah panicked, and
he  killed her,  "by accident"  and
took her pendant.  But then the old
gent  told him  that Sarah  was the
wrong  Carroway,  and  that  it was
Anna  Carroway who  had the letter.
Ask Blackwood  to whom he  had sold
the pendant, but he clams up.

 Now  go to  Anna Carroway's house.
Remembering  what  Caruso  had said
about the  deaf housekeeper, expect
to knock loudly  and long. Move the
door  knocker  and  the  bell  pull
several  times and  wait, then  use
the  ring of  keys on  the door. If
Watson tells you  that there may be
someone inside,  repeat the process
until  Watson says  you have waited
long enough. You  will then be able
to enter.

 Pick  up both  calling cards. Move
plant and spill  dirt. Go upstairs,
but cleaning woman does not let you
touch anything. Tell  her about the
spilled  dirt and  she leaves. Move
statue and take book. Read book; it
is Anna Carroway's  diary. It seems
that  she had  hired detectives  to
investigate  the  burglary  of  the
pendant  upon  her  sister's death.
She thought that the murderer would
pawn  the jewelry.  The pendant was
concealing  an  extremely  valuable
letter,  which  if  not  recovered,
would  leave  Anna   alone  in  the
world,  her  sister  dead  and  her
child lost to her forever.

 Read  the  calling  cards;  one is
from  Caruso  and  the  other  from
a Jacob  Farthington,  Barrister of
Grey  Inn.  Go  to  Farthington; he
says  he  was   hired  by  Anna  to
research  and  prove  her  claim to
parentage.  She  had  a  son out of
wedlock but was  forced to give him
up  to his  father, Lord  Brumwell.
She now had evidence to reunite her
with  her  son,  but  the  evidence
would   greatly   anger   Brumwell.
Farthington is  disturbed by Anna's
disappearance and  solicits Holmes'
help to find her.

 Go   back  to   Bow  Street;  tell
Blackwood that the  pendant he sold
had  secretly  concealed  the  very
letter   he  was   hired  to  find.
Blackwood       now      volunteers
information about Jameison, to whom
he   sold   the   pendant.   Go  to
Jameison; tell him  that because he
received stolen property, he may be
accessory  to the  murder of  Sarah
Calloway. He tells you that he sold
the pendant to  a private detective
Moorehead, but that  a rather rough
customer of his,  Robert Hunt, also
knows this information.

 Go   to   Moorehead   and  Gardner
Detective  Agency. Ask  to speak to
Moorehead,  but  he  is  out.  Give
calling  card to  receptionist. She
says that Gardner is also out, that
he was summoned by a client to meet
at the Regent  Park Zoo at midnight
to  deliver  the  pendant.  Look at
framed  photo of  Gardner. You  can
neither pick up  the typewriter nor
break into the inner office at this
time.

 Go  to   the  Zoo,  talk   to  the
constable   and  enter.   There  is
a small shiny object  in the lion's
cage.      Walk      toward     the
Administrative Offices. Examine the
corpse of Gardner; he has a crushed
skull, mud on his clothes, evidence
of  claw  marks,  and  a broken leg
from  a  fall.  He  was  apparently
killed  elsewhere  and  dragged  to
present location.

 Talk to  Gregson, but he  is of no
help. Enter the  office and talk to
Hollingston.  He tells  you address
of  Simon Kingsley,  a staff worker
who  is a  special friend  of Felix
the  lion. Go  to Kingsley's  flat,
and look  at boots and  at picture.
Ask  Kingsley  about  his  favorite
animal,  and  he   admits  that  he
removed   Gardner  from   the  cage
because he thought Felix had killed
the man. Kingsley agrees to meet at
the lion cage.

 Go  to lion  cage, where  Kingsley
occupies Felix, and  pick the shiny
object, a closed pocket watch. Open
watch and discover that it belonged
to  Gardner. There  is an  attached
piece  of paper  with numbers, like
a combination to a safe.

 Go  back to  Detective Agency, ask
about  Moorehead, and  find out  he
just  left. Receptionist  says that
after    a   boy    had   delivered
a message, Moorehead had apparently
opened his  safe and ran  out. Tell
Watson  that Moorehead  is in grave
danger, that he did not know of his
partner's  death and  now is called
away        under        mysterious
circumstances.

 Decide to break  into office. Pick
up  typewriter  and  an  enjoy  the
animated  interlude.  Holmes breaks
in  and  finds  a  message  telling
Moorehead  to come  alone with  the
pendant   to   the   St.   Pancreas
station,  if  he  wants  to see his
partner and client  alive again. At
the  subway  station,  Mr.  Hunt is
holding  Moorehead at  gunpoint and
Moorehead   has  not   brought  the
pendant.

 As Holmes and Watson arrive on the
scene,  Moorehead wrestles  the gun
away, but Hunt  pushes him in front
of an oncoming  train. Watson holds
gun,  while Holmes  tells Hunt that
he  intends  to  connect  him  with
Moorehead's     death,    Gardner's
murder,  and  Anna's disappearance.
Hunt  tells  Holmes  that  he  will
never  see Anna  alive and promises
to exact  his revenge on  Holmes at
some point.  Go back to  Bow Street
and  talk  to  Hunt.  Accuse him of
working for someone else, of having
accomplices, but Hunt won't talk.

 Go  back to  Detective Agency.  Go
into office, move chair, move false
front  of books,  and use  piece of
paper  with  numbers  on  the safe.
Remove  the  pendant  and  open it.
Remove  the document  and read  it.
The  letter  was   written  by  the
deceased doctor of Brumwell family,
a Theodore  Smithson. Close  to his
death, he  wanted to atone  to Anna
for  a  cover  up.  Anna  bore Paul
while   she   was   a   servant  of
Brumwell.    The    father,    Lord
Brumwell,  made  people  think that
Paul  was  the  child  of childless
Lady  Brumwell, while  Anna was the
nanny. Anna was  dismissed when the
child grew attached to her. She was
threatened  with the  wrath of  the
powerful  Brumwells   if  she  ever
revealed the truth.

 Now move the chair  back and go to
the  Brumwell Mansion.  Show letter
to Lady  and she admits  you to the
study.  On seeing  the letter, Lord
Brumwell   admits  that   he  hired
Blackwood  and Hunt  to obtain  the
pendant,  but that  he should  have
done  the job  himself. In response
to question  about Anna's location,
Brumwell   tells  of   location  of
Hunt's  flat. He  then leaves,  "to
turn himself in."

 Holmes and  Watson find themselves
locked  in  the  study.  To escape,
move  left sword,  and look  at the
picture; a catch has been released.
Open  painting   and  see  unlocked
safe.  Open  safe  and  take  small
brass key. Use key to open door, go
out  and watch  Lord Brumwell  jump
off a bridge to his death.

 ENDGAME

 Go to  Hunt flat. Open  book; read
about  Hunt's dealings  with Madame
Rosa   and   Lord   Brumwell.  Take
bookmark,  which is  a claim ticket
for an item at Jaimeson's. Go there
and  give ticket  to Jaimeson.  Get
Tarot  cards and  small ornate key.
Go to  Madame Rosa's salon;  she is
not there. Move the left candle and
bookcase  opens, exposing  a strong
box. Use ornate key on desk drawer,
take the  silver key and  use it on
the strong box.

 Take  the parchment,  a receipt of
rental  property at  the Savoy  St.
Pier.  There  is  an  attached note
from  Hunt,  asking  Rosa  to  keep
document safe.  Go to the  pier and
look  in  window.  See  a  woman in
a chair, bound and gagged. There is
a keg  of  black  powder  overhead,
with a  fuse nearby, and  a burning
candle below. The  fuse is attached
to the  door knob, so  that opening
the  door would  cause the  fuse to
raise  into the  candle flame. Also
the fuse would  light if the candle
burns low enough.

 Look  in inventory,  and use  that
long-forgotten  iron   bar  on  the
door, then  sit back and  watch the
happy ending.  Note Holmes' promise
of a sequel with a "master criminal
who thinks he  is already more than
a match for me."

 A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

 I obtained the information in this
walkthru  by playing  the game only
and without  the benefit of  a hint
book,  which was  not available. If
I am  not  100%  accurate  or  have
missed  some  important situations,
I apologize,  but I  trust that the
walkthru will add to your enjoyment
of  the  game.  As  it  is my first
attempt,    I    would   appreciate
comments, positive or negative, and
I welcome questions.