Uptown by John H Doolittle Episode 2 of the Andrea trilogy Crime, Treasure hunt 1990

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About the Story

Bear with me, because this is a little strange. Your uncle, Gustav (call me Gus) Braenover, the famous police inspector, has had one of his fits and is in the police sanitarium for a few days. He'll be okay, but in the interim, it will be up to you, and your good friend Andrea the android, to crack the three major cases he was working on. If you are unable to gather enough evidence to press charges, the perpetrators will walk free. Fortunately, Uncle Gus left some notes to himself as he walked around his uptown mansion, Braenover Hall. Read these notes and treat them as true statements in reaching your conclusions. Andrea the android, although maddeningly absent-minded and fastidious, gives good advice that you've come to rely on.

Briefly, the cases boil down to this: Three suspects, named Ash, Baker and Carr, are currently being held on three separate charges of murder, jewel theft and blackmail. The bad news is that only Uncle Gus knows who should be charged with which crime, and he can't talk right now. Your task is to assemble sufficient clues, including the incriminating letters, the murder weapon and the stolen jewels, before it's too late.

This game was written by John H Doolittle in Turbo BASIC for PCs circa 1990 and used in his 'Scientific Thinking in Psychology' classes when he was a professor of psychology at California State University, Sacramento.

It was intended for a commercial release in 1992, but this didn't happen.

The author continued to update the game until 1996 and released the Turbo BASIC source code in 2023.

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