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What am I supposed to be doing here?

  • 1 of 4: The basic set-up here is that you're a detective who has taken a number of mysterious cases in England at the request of the queen (who signed her first note to you "Queenie"). They have all been ghostly, sometimes ghastly, and have all taken place in Victorian-style mansions that are inexplicably filled with garbage. (Aren't they all?) You can find these games -- the first one is "Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst" -- at BigFishGames.com, if you're interested.
  • 2 of 4: In this case, gameplay consists of a combination of wandering around looking for evidence of the people who abandoned the car, solving puzzles, and processing "hidden object" scenes. The first puzzle is opening the trunk of the car just up the road --
  • 3 of 4: -- and the first hidden object scene is inside that trunk, once you get it open.
  • 4 of 4: When you've gotten everything you can out of the car, go left up past the chain with the "closed" sign. The mystery awaits!