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Sherlock Holmes: Silver Earring Hints

Saving, Loading, Exiting

  • Pressing your ESCape keyboard key gets you back to the Main Menu.  From there you can Save, Load, Resume or Exit the game as well as change game options and view the credits.

    You can also quit the game by pressing the keyboard keys ALT and Q at the same time.

    To save a game, click on a blank frame.  Click the jewel in the middle to go back to the Main Menu.  To load a game, click on the picture of a saved game.