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The Mystery of the Mummy

Description

The Mystery of the Mummy was inspired by The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The player is Sherlock Holmes in this point-and-click first-person adventure game.

Lord Montcalfe, a well-known Egyptologist, is missing and is believed by the police to have committed suicide. His daughter, Elisabeth, insists that he is still alive and calls upon her fiancé's cousin, Sherlock Holmes, to prove her theories. Arriving at the manor, Holmes finds that Lord Montcalfe was suffering from a deep paranoia. It seems he had made a terrible mistake and triggered what he believed to be a mummy's curse. Trying to shield himself and others from that curse, he had booby trapped his own home with elaborate locks, some of which were designed to kill anyone who tried to tamper with them.

Holmes investigates mostly in solitary fashion without the aid of his normal sidekick, Watson. Other people in the game appear only in the cut-scenes. Puzzles become more difficult as the story progresses. Find illusive inventory objects and read many documents for clues as you search the secret passages and elaborately decorated rooms of the Montcalfe Manor.

Alternate Titles

• "木乃伊的秘密" -- Chinese title (simplified)
• "Шерлок Холмс: 5 египетских статуэток" -- Russian spelling
• "Sherlock Holmes: Tajemnica Mumii" -- Polish title
• "Sherlock Holmes: Le mystère de la momie" -- French title
• "Sherlock Holmes: Il Mistero della Mummia" -- Italian title
• "Sherlock Holmes: el misterio de la momia" -- Spanish title
• "Sherlock Holmes: Das Geheimnis der Mumie" -- German title
• "Sherlock Holmes: Curse of the Mummy" -- Working title

Part of the Following Groups

• Literature-inspired games
• Sherlock Holmes Games

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The Press Says

Tap-Repeatedly/Four Fat Chicks	Jan, 2003		80
Adventure Lantern	Mar, 2006	71 out of 100	71
Quandary	Nov, 2002		70
Adventurearchiv	Dec 27, 2002	69 out of 100	69
Just Adventure	Jan 27, 2003	B-	67
IGN	Feb 12, 2003	6.5 out of 10	65
Adventure Zone	Sep 11, 2008	6 out of 10	60
GameZone	Mar 05, 2003	6 out of 10	60
Adventure Corner	Jan 08, 2004	58 out of 100	58
Jeuxvideo.com	Dec 09, 2002	9 out of 20	45

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Trivia

The Nonogram puzzle (grid puzzle off the library) in Act V is an anachronism. This type of puzzle was created in 1987 by Non Ishida. The puzzle sprang from a graphics contest, where designers had to create a picture by having lights on or off in a skyscraper. This puzzle is also called a Gridder and is very popular in England. Many people use computers to solve these algorithmically.