Games Like The Scarlet Thread

"…the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life." — A. Conan Doyle One thread of red in a world of ink. Thornecliff Hall, on a fictional northern coast, in the age of gaslight. Thirty years ago a colonel carried home a relic he should never have touched: the Scarlet Skein, a braided thread of impossible red. For thirty years it has slept under cord, wax and lock. To-night, at the heir's coming of age, the casket is to be opened at last. A fair-play mystery in the old tradition. Told in the manner of the great Victorian sensation novels: narrator by narrator, document by document. Read the butler's honest journal, cross-check testimony, pin your suspicions to a deduction board and tie them together with red string — clue, after all, once meant a ball of thread. Puzzles that belong to their century. No bolted-on minigames. Every puzzle is a thing a Victorian parlour actually held, and every one exists in the story for a reason: verse riddles over dinner, the precedence of a seating plan, a tavern ring-puzzle guarding a dead man's casket, the winding and unwinding of the thread itself. Features