Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures cover
2016BGG rank #552

Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures

by Suzanne Goldberg, Gary Grady, Jérôme Ropert · Space Cowboys

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Players1–8
Time90m
ComplexityMedium-Light
Age12+

About the game

What is Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures?

Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Jack the Ripper & West End Adventures is a standalone expansion to Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective with updated graphics that features ten more cases to be solved in Sherlock Holmes' Victorian-era London, England. A "London Directory", map, and newspaper archives are included with the cases. Included are six independent "West End Adventures" cases (redesigned and updated from the 1995 expansion), and a series of four new cases based on the Jack the Ripper murders. Jack the Ripper Cases: Mary Ann Nichols Annie Chapman Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes Mary Jane Kelly West End Adventures: The Strange Case of Dr. Goldfire The Murder of Sherlock Holmes A Case of Identity The Death of a Transylvanian Count A Royal Huggermugger at the Savage Club A Simple Case of Murder

How it plays

Mechanics

Cooperative GameNarrative Choice / ParagraphSolo / Solitaire GameStorytelling

On the shelf

Categories

DeductionMurder / MysteryNovel-basedPost-NapoleonicPuzzleSpies / Secret Agents

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