Murder in a Wheel Walkthrough

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Murder in a Wheel is a short but enjoyable AGS murder mystery game made by Renzo Thönen in 2007. You can download it at http://www.mediafire.com/?82ikmzlzixi.

• When Lord Blackwin asks you “how you call yourself”, you can choose anything.
• Choose anything when Lord Blackwin asks you if you'll take the case. (The game funnels you into taking it eventually.)
• Pick up fan (on desk).
• Go to door. (Exit to hallway.)
• Pick up violin.
• Walk left. Look at cat basket.
• Pick up cat hair (inside cat basket).
• Go downstairs.
• Open storage closet.
• Look at storage closet to get pliers.
• Use pliers with coat hook (at base of staircase on wall).
• Click on kitchen door to enter kitchen.
• Open middle drawer in left lower cabinet.
• Look at drawer to get scissors.
• Go back upstairs.
• Open door at the top of the stairs. Click on door opening to go in.
• Use scissors with string on bedside table.
• Pick up coat hanger on bed.
• Use string with coat hanger.
• Use scissors on string to get another piece of string.
• Use string with hook to get hook-on-a-string.
• Exit to hallway and open laundry chute.
• Use hook-on-a-string with laundry chute to get handkerchief.
• Go back to kitchen, and use violin. Enjoy the worst rendering of Beethoven's 9th you're likely to hear. :D
• Look at Mrs. Winterbottom's milk bowl.
• Pick up “thing in the milkbowl”. A little bell goes in inventory.
• Exit the kitchen to the hallway. Open the lounge door. Click on the opening to enter the lounge.
• Use fan with the power outlet at the extreme right of the screen.
• Use fan to turn it on.
• Use cat hair with fan.
• Pick up slip of paper.
• Look at article.
• Give the little bell to Lord Blackwin.
• Go into the kitchen and talk to Elsa.
• Ask Elsa to borrow her (feather) duster. Choose “I'm trying to prove Mrs. Winterbottom's innocence” as the reason.
• Use feather duster with opened grating in kitchen.
  • Alternatively, you could go up to Lord Blackwin's study, open the grating, and use the feather duster on it.
• Go back to the lounge.
• Give Lord Blackwin the dirty duster.
• Go to the kitchen and talk to Elsa. Choose “I can't help but get the impression you know more about this case than I do.”
• Go upstairs to the bedroom.
• Open the painting.
• Open the safe.
• Look at the opened safe. A hamster goes into inventory.
• Use little bell with hamster.
• Go back to the lounge.
• Give Lord Blackwin the article and hanky (in either order), then the hamster.
• Tell Lord Blackwin you're ready to solve the case.

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