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The most popular detective, mystery games

A murder to solve! A criminal to apprehend! Detective and mistery games have the recipe for a perfect crime story. Police investigations, finding clues, mysterious killings, a noir atmosphere are all ingredients that makes a good detective / mystery game worth playing. The Police Quest series, the Tex Murphy series, games based on Sherlock Holmes are just some of the most popular detective games ever published in the last century.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos

DOS19864/5 Magicom Multimedia
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Murder Club

DOSWindows XP/98/9519914.1/5 Riverhill Soft
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Ballyhoo

DOS19863.5/5 Infocom
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The Clue!

DOS1994freeware4/5 neo Software Produktions
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Igor Objective Uuklaonia

DOS19953.5/5 Péndulo Studios
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Magnetic Scrolls Collection

DOS19914.1/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Magnetic Scrolls was one of the finest developer companies dedicated to Interactive Fiction. The Magnetic Scrolls Collection is a trilogy of Magnenic Scrolls adventures remade using the Wonderland engine: Fish!, Corruption, The Guild of Thieves. The new window-based interface made text-adventuring easy even for gamers not used to a text-only interf...
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Earthly delights

DOS19843.6/5 Datamost
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The Witness

DOS19834/5 Infocom
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Suspect

DOS19844.2/5 Infocom
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Scapeghost

DOS19893.7/5 Level 9 Computing
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Murder on the Zinderneuf

DOS19843.3/5 Free Fall Associates
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Fish!

DOS19883.8/5 Magnetic Scrolls
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The President is Missing

DOS1988protected3.3/5 Cosmi Corporation
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Legends of Murder: Volume 1 - Stonedale Castle

DOS1989protected3.5/5 Softdisk Publishing
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Murder by the Dozen

DOS19832.7/5 BrainBank
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The Scoop

DOS19893.8/5 Telarium
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Murder in the Atlantic

DOS19883.2/5 CobraSoft
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Mystery of the Mummy

DOS19883.6/5 Time Warp Software
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The Third Courier

DOS19893.9/5 Manley Associates
The Third Courier is an abandoned (atypical) adventure / role playing game set in Berlin during the cold war era and, of course, it's a spy game. The Third Courier was developed by Manley Associates and released by Accolade in 1989 for DOS, but it was also published for Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST platforms.
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Gumboots Australia

DOS19904/5 Reckon Software