Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper has an integrated ‘hint’ system: Pressing the space bar reveals all the closest hotspots. This must be used at all times. Pressing the mouse wheel, or the ‘R’ key, changes the perspective from first to third person and vice versa. Left clicking skips the dialogues and the ESC button the cutscenes. By using the map you can go directly to the location you want. Underlined locations can be found on the map and items in bold can either be collected or found in your inventory.
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1 September 1888
Read The Star’s newspaper clipping. Walk across the room and look at the map of London on the desk, left of the door. Once you have opened the map, choose Whitechapel and Police Station.
Enter the police station and talk to Humphries.
How to find the boarding house from the police station: Walk down the street until you reach Commercial Street. In third person perspective, go east and take the first left in the tunnel. Go north and west into the alley. Talk to Finley.
Read the East London Advertiser article. Go to the police station.
Enter the police station and talk to Humphries.
How to find Lucy from the police station: Walk to Commercial Street, go east in third person perspective and keep going straight ahead until Holmes notices her on the left side of the street. Press space bar to find the dialogue hotspot and talk to Lucy.
Walk across the street and talk to the boy on the right side of the street. Look at the street name; Batty Street. Walk all the way down Batty Street and notice a man lying on the ground. Talk to him. Go to the Clinic.
Enter the clinic and talk to Doctor Gibbons; he gives you the medicine. Go to the Dead End (of Batty Street). In the inventory, select the medicine, right click to close the inventory and talk to Watson. Go to the Boarding House.
Talk to Finley; you get the police bag. Go to the Police Station.
Enter the police station. Select the police bag in the inventory and talk to Humphries.
How to open Humphries’ bag: Press space bar to find the bag’s hotspot on the desk and click on it. From top to bottom and from left to right, the combination is 1,2,3,4,5,6 (see image below).
Talk to Humphries about the reports. Read the Preliminary Reports in the Death of Polly Nichols. Go to the Scene of Polly Nichols’ Murder.
Continue straight ahead; it is too crowded.
Buck’s Row 10:00 PM
Look at the body. Press space bar and click on the hotspot of the ground, left of the body. Look at the victim’s head. Select the magnifying glass and examine:
- The pool of blood
- The slit throat
- The bruise on the right side of the jaw
- The bruise on the left cheek
- The tongue
Zoom out. Look at the victim’s stomach and left hand. Look at the wall above the body. Close the screen. Walk down the street and look at the kissing couple. Go to the other side of the street and look at the hotspot close to the lamppost.
How to re-enact Jack the Ripper’s actions: You have to choose the position of the victim when she was murdered, the murder weapon, the hand, whether the cause of death was neck or stomach related, and Jack’s position during the assault. Each circle has two icons; the icon on top is the one you have chosen. You can play the sequence to check on your progress.
The choices based on the evidence are:
- Lying down
- Knife
- Left hand
- Neck
- Facing the victim
Click Play
Try something different now:
- Standing up
- Hands
- Right hand
- Neck
- Facing the victim
Click Play
Murder of Polly Nichols – Buck’s Row – Deduction Board
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Put all the available clues in the boxes (they will be placed automatically in their correct box)
A black bonnet near the left hand
Poorly-lit street
The prostitutes only go down this street to “exercise”
The victim was holding her bonnet in her hand at the time of the murder
The victim wasn’t afraid
àNichols had her bonnet in her hand and was ready to “exercise”
No traces of blood on the walls
The victim had her throat slit
The victim didn’t have her throat slit while standing
A little pool of blood
The blood didn’t flow in strong spurts
Dirty and damp ground
He could not have had relations on the ground
Nichols was dead before being stretched cut and having her throat slit
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The corpse was still warm
No footsteps on the ground
The murderer cut open Polly Nichol’s throat
The victim wasn’t dragged
Nichols’ murder took place on the premises
The tongue was bloated
Nichols was strangled
The victim has a bruise on the right jawbone
The bruise was caused by hard pressure with the fingers
The murderer was standing in front of the victim to strangle her
The killer’s left hand prevented the victim from screaming
The killer strangled the victim with his right hand
Is Nichols’ murderer right-handed or left-handed?
Nichols’ killer is a strong man
Baker Street September 2nd
What could have been the possible motive(s) of the crime?
Revenge: Yes à Resentment can lead to irreparable acts.
Love: No à The victim was an “occasional” prostitute, without family or ties.
Theft: No à The victim lived in misery.
Madness: Yes à The victim suffered horrible mutilations.
Black magic: Yes à Credible motive, even if it’s a field that Sherlock doesn’t know!
Read The Star’s article, Thursday, 6 September 1888. Go to the Police Station.
Enter the police station and talk to Humphries. Go to the Boarding House.
Talk to Finley. Climb up the stairs, press the space bar to find the hotspot and take the glass shards; you automatically talk with Finley again. Go to Lucy’s Lodgings.
Talk to Lucy (she’s looking out the window of the upper floor). You are automatically outside the brothel.
Enter the brothel through the gate. Talk to Bella. Talk to the girl scrubbing the rug; Mary. Look at the footprint on the rug. Talk to the man on the chair; Sickert. Go to the Clinic.
Enter the clinic and talk to Doctor Gibbons. Look at the footprints on the floor. Talk to the Doctor, again, about the footprints. Click on the cabinet on the wall, across the entrance. Press space bar to find the cane and click on it.
How to assemble the cane: Based on Sickert’s description, the stick is ebony, about 35 inches long. The round knob is made from chiseled silver with a ring around the middle of the same workmanship – just like the tip. Therefore, from left to right, select each item and place it on the empty slot by the ruler on the right side of the screen:
- The third stick
- The fourth knob
- The eighth ring
- The fourth tip
(See image below for final result)
Automatically talk to Doctor Gibbons. Exit the clinic and walk across the street. In third person perspective, go east, south and east, to the corner with the lamppost. Press space bar to find the hotspot on the door (Solomonovitch’s cobbler’s shop). Enter the shop. Look at/take the table at the end of the room to take the harness. Isaac enters. Go to the Police Station.
Enter the police station and talk to Humphries.
Go to 29 Hanbury Street (Map of London).
Hanbury Street, September 8th
Talk to the policeman. Click on the door to enter the building. Continue to the back to exit to the courtyard to find the body. Press the space bar to reveal all the hotspots. Look at the wall above the victim’s head. Look at the ground by the victim’s right leg. Look at the piece of coarse muslin and the two combs by the victim’s feet. Look at the blood on the right wall. Take the piece of envelope found at 29 Hanbury Street from the bottom of the blanket. Click on the blanket to examine the victim.
Click on the victim to zoom in. Click on the victim’s head and examine the following with the magnifying glass:
- A bruise on the left cheek
- A bruise on the right side of the jaw
- The slit throat
- The swollen tongue
Zoom out. Look at the victim’s left hand. Examine the mark on the middle finger with the magnifying glass. Zoom out. Look at the stomach.
Murder of Annie Chapman – Hanbury Street – Deduction board
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Place every available clue on the board.
Neither footsteps nor streaks of blood on the ground
The victim wasn’t dragged
The blood on the fence is a dozen inches off the ground
Some blood spurted on the wall near the stairs
The victim had her throat slit while lying down and still alive
A. Chapman’s murder took place on the premises
The victim has bruises under the right jawbone and beneath the left cheek.
The murderer held the victim’s chin with his left hand
The murderer slit the victim’s throat with his right hand
A. Chapman’s killer must be right-handed
The tongue is bloated
The victim was strangled
A. Chapman was partially strangled and then had her throat slit
An envelope is near the victim’s head
An envelope was brought out by the victim
A. Chapman was holding an envelope in her hand
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The items at the victim’s feet are very orderly
These items belong to the victim
The murderer searched A. Chapman
A. Chapman’s murderer is unfeeling and organized
The body is cold at the extremities and rigor mortis has barely started
The crime was committed barely two hours ago
The murder of A. Chapman was committed before 4:30 a.m.
Recent, large scrape on the first phalanx of the middle finger
The victim must have worn one or more rings
The murderer stole A. Chapman’s rings
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There is an incision from the right to the left, going around the neck…
There is an incision on the neck from the right side, stopping in the middle of the throat
The wound around the neck is jerky and not all in one piece
The murderer used a very sharp blade
Organs are missing: the uterus was removed by the hands of an expert
A. Chapman’s killer used a weapon of great size
A. Chapman’s killer wanted to decapitate her
A. Chapman’s uterus was removed and taken
A. Chapman’s killer has a knowledge of anatomy
Baker Street, September 11th
Click on Holmes’ lab on the desk. Go to the Cobbler.
Enter the shop and talk to Isaac; he gives you the harness for prosthesis. Read the Daily News’s article about the Whitechapel murders. Go to the Clinic.
Enter the clinic and talk to the Doctor. Open the inventory, select the harness for prosthesis and talk to the Doctor again; he gives you the walking stick. Also, select A. Chapman’s White Pill and talk to the Doctor. Go to the Brothel.
Enter the brothel and talk to Bella. In the inventory, select the walking stick and talk to her again. Go to the Wasp’s Nest.
Enter the pub. Talk to Sickest, Bulling and the barman. Try to open the door on the other side. Talk to the barman about the closed door. Stand outside the closed door and press the space bar to reveal a hotspot behind the bar. Click on it to take the red ink. Select the red ink in the inventory and talk to Bulling. Talk to the barman again. Click on the closed door. Go to the Police Station.
Enter the police station. Talk to the witness and Humphries. Press the space bar to reveal the hotspot on the waste bin, on the floor left of Humphries. Click on the bin to take the Old Police Report Concerning Certain Arrests and the ripped statements.
The statements consist of two different pages. You select each piece with the left mouse button and rotate it with the right mouse button. The final result can be seen in the image below.
Read the Testimony of E. Long and the Testimony A. Cadosch. Go to the Boarding House.
Talk to Finley and return to the Police Station.
Enter the police station and talk to Humphries. Go to 221B Baker Street.
Baker Street, September 12th
What did the two women have in common: They had the same profession.
How to determine Annie Chapman’s time of murder: Click on the timetable on the wall, left of the lab on the desk. You must select the correct documents and dialogues in order to determine Annie Chapman’s time of murder. Click on a document icon and select the Testimony of A. Cadosch (don’t forget to select ‘use this document as proof’ at the bottom right of the document’s page). Also, select the Testimony of E. Long and use as proof. Go to the Dialogues option to choose Police Station, Night of September 11th/12th, 1888, Richardson’s testimony and use as proof. Right click to return to the timetable screen.
Now, you have to place each icon on the timetable. Where to place the icons:
- Estimate of the time of death according to Drs. Watson and Phillips: 4:30
- Richardson arrives at his mother’s at 29 Hanbury Street: 4:45
- Richardson leaves his mother’s place: 4:50
- Cadosch is in his garden for a few minutes then goes back in. He hears voices: 5:20
- Cadosch hears a fall against his garden fence a few minutes after going back up: 5:24
- Miss Long sees a woman speaking to a man near 29 Hanbury Street: 5:30
- Cadosch leaves his place to get to work: 5:32
- Sherlock and Watson arrive at the crime scene: 6:20
Changes after Holmes’ comments:
- Move Miss Long’s statement to 5:28.
- Move Cadosch leaves his place to get to work to 5:31
- Move Cadosch hears a fall to 5:29
- Time of death: 5:30
Look at the motives board, left of the door.
What could have been the possible motiv(s) of the crime?
Specimen for the sole purpose of study: No à In the medical university environment, students easily have access to a number of specimens.
Black magic? : No à No indication would suggest any type of ritual.
Cannibalism? : Yes à Dementia can push men to commit incredibly vile acts.
Trophy? : No à For this motive, it would have been very easy to quickly remove something from the Buck’s Row victim, Polly Nichols.
Money? : Yes à To supply human organ trafficking?
Baker Street, September 12
Open the Map of London and go to London Hospital.
Examine the table on the right and open the toolbox to take the surgical instrument. Look at the diagram. Click on the cart’s wheel; it won’t move. Use the surgical instrument on the wheel to get an Old Prescription from London Hospital (you may have to switch to first person view to do this). Look at the diagram of the human heart. Go to the other side and click on the skull by the sink to read an extract of the Encyclopedia of Anatomy. Click on the heart in a jar on the shelves.
How to solve the heart & clock puzzle: As proof, use the documents Old Prescription from London Hospital and Encyclopedia of Anatomy. Each number marked on the heart at the top left corresponds to a part of the heart shown at the top right. Four of these parts are shown in paper at the bottom left of the screen. Your goal is to find these four numbers and set them in the clock. Therefore:
Vena Cava Superior: 1 = set the blue arrow at I
Valva Aortae: 5= set the red arrow at V
Click on the piece of paper (Heart’s Message) to take it.
Atrium Sinistrum: 8= set the blue arrow at VIII
Truncus Pulmonalis: 2 = set the red arrow at II
Take the magnet.
Go to the lecture desks and click on desk number 6. Use the magnet on the open desk.
How to solve the magnet puzzle: Your goal is to move the bottom right magnet to the upper left corner. Notice that as you move the right magnet the left magnet moves as well. Neither magnet should touch any of the bars, but can touch the walls and each other. Move the right magnet as shown in the image below.
Once the right magnet is at the top left corner you can pick it up (hook). Click on the desk again. Select the hook in the inventory and click on the desk to use it. Click on the desk to take the coded message.
Enter the bedroom and take the disguise from the foot of the bed. Go to Wasp’s Nest.
Enter the pub and take the old tong from the counter. Click on the floorboard in front of the closed door. Use the old tong on the floorboard.
How to pick up the jewel: You have to make space for the jewel to move through to the other side. This is a trial and error puzzle.
Click on the door and talk to Bluto. Leave the pub. In third person perspective go east down Burner Street and look at the Club for Socialist Jews on the left side of the street. Go to the Boarding House.
Talk to Finley. In first person, go left of Finley and click on the barrel hotspot. Take the perfume puffer, the elbow pipe and the hammerhead. Go under the stairs and take the rags and nails from the bench. Take the two sticks and the wooden pole behind the bench. Pick up the nozzle from a perfume atomizer from the ground across the bench, under the stairs. Also, pick up the little stick, two lead pipes from a gas system, the small plank, and the rusted iron dishes.
In the inventory, combine the hammerhead with the little stick to get a fixed hammer. Also, combine the two sticks together to get a wooden pole. Combine the two wooden poles together to get two wooden poles. Combine the two wooden poles with the small plank to get an assembled ladder. Combine the assembled ladder with the nails and the fixed hammer to finally get a ladder.
Use the rags on the barrel full of water next to Finley to get wet rags. Walk across Finley’s spot and use the ladder on the top window. Click on the ladder to climb up.
Examine the two hotspots on the table. Pick up the blowtorch from the floor by the windows. Look at the panel and the dead rat underneath it. Walk further into the room and pick up the iron bar from the floor. Use the iron bar on the panel to unlock it. Click on the satchel inside the panel.
How to make a more efficient mask to stop the gas leak: Climb down the ladder and talk to Finley. Go to the Cobbler.
Enter the shop and talk to Isaac. Select the jewel in your inventory and talk to him again. Exit the shop.
How to find the pet shop from the cobbler’s: In third person perspective, press the space bar to find the pet shop’s hotspot, just down the street from the cobbler’s shop. Click on the door to enter.
Talk to Abraham. Take the piece of hook for snake and the cage with a loose mesh from the right shelves. Take the cage with a tight mesh and the cage with a loose mesh from the left of the door. Go to the Cobbler.
Enter the shop and talk to Isaac. Take the tongs from the counter in front of Isaac. Pick up the metal shank from the floor, left of the door. Take the iron thread from the chair. In the inventory, combine the piece of hook for snake with the metal shank, the iron thread and the tongs to get a snake pole. Go to the Pet Shop.
Enter the shop and use the cage with a tight mesh on the snake’s cage. Click on the cage to open it. Use the snake pole on the snake (easier to do in first person perspective). Pick up the tanner’s mask from inside the snake’s cage. Go to the Boarding house.
Use the ladder to climb up. Stand in front of the panel and save the game (there is a bug where even if you stop the gas leak the game freezes and you have to load your latest saved game). Click on the satchel to start the puzzle.
How to stop the gas leak: Place the pipes in the empty pipe slots (use the image below for reference).
Right click on the upper wheel once, to set the pressure of the initial gauge position to 0. Put the gauge in hole number 1. Left click on the wheel above it to set the pressure to 50. Put the gauge in hole number 2 and right click on it once to set the pressure to 0. Put the gauge in hole number 3 to set the pressure to 100. Use the blowtorch on A and move the mouse pointer over the newly fitted pipes to weld them. Click on the left side of the screen to release the blowtorch. Place the gauge in hole B. Left click once on wheel number 4, to set the pressure to 50. Right click on wheel 5 to turn on the pilot light.
Click on the satchel to get Bluto’s bag. In the inventory, combine the rusted iron dishes with Bluto’s bag to get the stolen jewels. Go to the window and pick up the kitten. Go to the Wasp’s Nest.
Enter the pub. Select the bag full of dishes in the inventory and click on the door to talk with Bluto. Go to the Pet Shop.
Enter the shop with Pounce. Talk to Abraham. Take the page of Animals – Spartaca Encyclopedia from the left shelves, left of the door. Talk to Abraham again to give him the book. Go to the Police Station.
Try to enter the police station; you need a plan. Walk down towards Commercial Street to meet Danny. Go to the Brothel.
Enter the brothel and talk to Lucy and Bella. Take the case of perfumes from the counter. In inventory, combine the perfume puffer with the nozzle from a perfume atomizer to get a perfume atomizer. Open the Map of London and go to Barnes’ Bookstore.
Talk to Barnes; he gives you a Note from the Old Bookstore.
How to arrange the signs in the bookstore: Take the four numbered signs from the counter. Based on the Note from the Old Bookstore and the most valuable piece of information being that the ending numbers must be different, the signs must be placed as follows:
- Place the 1870 sign under the dates 1868 and 1876.
- Place the 1866 sign above the 1884 sign.
- Place the 1882 sign under the 1878 sign.
- Place the 1888 sign under the 1872 sign.
Go to the 1882 section and take the book about Plants and Spices – Spartaca Encyclopedia. Go to 221B Baker Street.
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