Suspect

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	Salvaged Copy The source files and a precompiled ZMachine storyfile of this adventure were recovered from a salvaged "Infocom hard drive", and made publicly available on GitHub in an effort to preserve them.
	Eaten by a Grue, episode 31, Suspect.

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Suspect
by Dave Lebling

Mystery
1984

About the Story

You're guilty until proven innocent.

You have walked into a hotbed of deceit and trickery. And now they're accusing you of something you couldn't have done. But they have proof that you did it. "You're a killer," they say. And until you can prove them wrong, you're guilty as charged - murder.

Among society's upper crust, murder is the kind of nastiness that must be cleared up quickly. So isn't it convenient that you, a struggling journalist looking for a good time and a good story, end up the scapegoat? The evidence is stacked against you, and you're being forced to prove your own innocence. And someone else's guilt. But no one wants to help you. You're an outsider. And only an outsider could be so rude as to accept an invitation to the social event of the season. Then spoil it all.

Difficulty: Advanced

Game Details

Language: English (en)
Current Version: Unknown
License: Commercial
Development System: ZIL

IFIDs:	ZCODE-14-841005
	ZCODE-18-850222

TUID: tdbss1ekrp4ua7h4

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SPAG

The puzzles are generally well done, but it suffers from a lack of vividness, and a lack of feeling that you're really there. [...] All in all though, Suspect remains a very solid effort, and well worth a play through.
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SynTax
This type of Infocom can be really frustrating and I know a number of players who get bored with the gameplay. The reason is that it is tempting to ask characters about others and to try to follow suspects about and this approach gets nowhere. If you follow Veronica your path is blocked until the murder has taken place, so you need a different strategy. [...] This is an old style Infocom which is text-only with no hint facility, but I wish they still made them this way.
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	v.6: 27-Sep-2021 09:40 - Petter Sjölund (Current Version) - Edit Page - Normal View Changed IFIDs
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	v.2: 11-Dec-2010 15:40 - Michael Roberts
	v.1: 19-Feb-2008 20:53 - Emily Short Created page