You are not, in fact, Sherlock Holmes in this game, but you are pretty similar.
In this game, you read several paragraphs of text, then make a deduction based off of it. You have to read carefully, and may require occasional google searches, but most of the choices are deducible through logic. Some, though, just seem like guesswork, which I suppose increases the replay value of the game.
You are investigating the murder of a man after being pulled off of a big bombing investigation.
I played online, and it became slower and slower until it crashed near the end.