GUMSHOE
            A Text Adventure Game on Syntax Disk: 
                992 (PC), 1087 (ST), 953 (Am)

             Solution submitted by: Tom Lorimer

When you're fit and ready, let's start by going E E N to the dirty
street corner. Examine Roderick, Vincent and Morty and listen to
their story. Once you know how much money you are in arrears, you
can then return to your office. Examine Marge and her desk, and
when she goes to close the door, search her desk for a camera. Go
E into your office and examine your own desk.  Examine the papers
then read the note, the bill and the envelope. Open the drawer and
take the handkerchief. Wait until around 11.15 am when Sandra
McBride will arrive. When she enters your office, tell her to sit
in the small chair. To stop her crying, give her the handkerchief.
Once she has told you her story, say that you will help her. Once
she has left your office, collect your hat and go outside and hail
a cab.

Tell the cabbie to take you to the Logitech building. Enter the
building and show your license to the receptionist. Show her the
snapshot and she will tell you that he has left with his secretary
to a restaurant called Giuseppe.

Leave the Logitech building and hail a cab and ask the cabbie to
take you to Giuseppe. Exit the cab then take a photograph of the
couple. Hang around until a sedan arrives and Boggs has gone
inside to buy coffee. Examine his tires and let the air out of one
of them.  When the couple get up and hail a cab, do the same
yourself and ask the cabbie to follow their cab.

When the cab stops, get out and take another photograph of the
couple embracing.  Read the Times, especially the sports section.
After the couple have left, show the sports section to the guard.
Go SW into the electronics shop and wait around until after 2.30
pm.  You will then be able to tune the television to the baseball
channel. Exit the shop, and while the guard is engrossed in the
game, enter the building and pick up the matchbook.  If you read
the matchbook, you will find out which bar John McBride frequents.

Go outside and hail a cab and ask the cabbie to take you to the
Alibi bar.  Enter the bar and buy yourself a beer. Show the
incriminating photograph to the bartender. He will tell you that
Billy knows more about it than him. Once Billy has entered the
bar, give him a beer and ask him about Lydia. He will tell you
that she lives at the corner of Lincoln.

Leave the bar and hail a cab, telling the cabbie to take you to
Lincoln. Exit the cab and examine the wooden gate to the south.
Untie the rope from the gate and the fence and take the rope. Open
the gate and go south into the deserted house.  Search the wood
and place the crate under the balcony. Drop everything but the
camera and rope, then stand on the crate.  Put the camera on the
balcony then climb the rope. Pick up the camera and go east into
the bedroom and clean the window. Look through the window, but if
it isn't after 7 pm, then the curtains will be closed. Once the
light goes on and the couple come into view, take a photograph and
put it in your pocket.  Drop the camera and make your way back to
the ground floor.  Pick up all your possessions and exit the
property to the north. Hail a cab and ask the cabbie to take you
to Mcmurtry, where your office is situated.  Pick up the phone and
dial 653-2720, telling Sandra McBride about the photographs. When
she tells you her address, go outside and hail a cab telling the
cabbie to take you to Highland Park. Leave the cab and knock on
the door.  Remove the naughty photograph from your pocket and give
it to Sandra, and in return she will give you ten 100 dollar
bills.

Return to your office and put 500 dollars in the envelope then
seal it. Return to the street and put money in the stamp machine.
When the bill comes back out, flatten it and put it back in the
machine again. Lick the stamp then stick it to the envelope and
post it in the box.  Go north to the dirty street corner and give
500 dollars to Roderick.

Well done, you've solved your first case with 23 out of 24 points.
To achieve full marks, you must throw a bulls eye while playing
darts in the Alibi bar.
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