The Witness is a text adventure in which the player takes control of a police detective working near Los Angeles. The year is 1938, and on this stormy February night a wealthy but frightened man has asked the detective for protection. In spite of his best efforts, a death occurs, and the hero has twelve hours to solve the mystery and try to arrest the killer. If the player thinks there is enough evidence against one or more suspects to convince a jury of their guilt, he can arrest them and conclude the case.

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Alternate Titles

"The Witness: Somebody's going to take the Deep Six!" -- Tag-lined title
"The Witness - An INTERLOGIC Mystery" -- Tag-lined title
"Invitation To Murder" -- Working title

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Setting: Interwar

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An excellent concept, but suffers from a limited scope	DOS	Ingold (125)
The stuff that dreams are made of.	DOS	Terrence Bosky (5238)
Nice 40's feel	DOS	Tony Van (2692)

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Macintosh

1998

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Trivia

Like most Infocom games, the package for this one contains some fun goodies relating to the game:

A Detective Gazette magazine.

A suicide note.

A Western Union telegram.

A booklet of matches from The Brass Lantern.

The Register newspaper.

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