Rockstar Publishes New Trailer for Crime Thriller Game L.A. Noire

Rockstar Games has published the first trailer for its new video game, L.A. Noire, scheduled for release early next year for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.

Set in 1940s Los Angeles, the crime thriller game involves innovative new motion-capture technology and investigation gameplay. GameInformer has a great article describing it all. For now, enjoy the trailer.

The Killing Storm by Kathryn Casey (Book Review)

The Killing Storm by Kathryn Casey. A Sarah Armstrong Mystery. Minotaur Books Hardcover, October 2010.

Two cases are offered readers here, each with uncertain resolutions, yet it is the remarkably drawn character of Sarah Armstrong that ties everything together, and makes this mystery all the more enjoyable.

Read the full text of our review at Mysterious Reviews: The Killing Storm by Kathryn Casey.

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Read the first chapters of The Killing Storm below.

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Mysterious Reviews is your source for the latest mystery, suspense, thriller, and crime novel reviews, edited by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.

IDW to Publish Hardcover Edition of True Blood Comics

IDW has announced that a hardcover edition of the comics based on HBO's True Blood series will be published in February 2011. True Blood Volume 1: All Together Now combines the 6 already published and upcoming issues of the first series into one volume. (It's available to pre-order now.) Presumably, given its title, more are planned. The comics, the first of which came out in July 2010, have been published at the rate of one a month since then.

The overall story arc starts when blood and sex mix on a hot rainy night at Merlotte's, where Sookie and her friends are trapped by a vengeful spirit who feeds on shame.

True Blood is based on the popular Southern Vampire series of mysteries by Charlaine Harris.

Authors on Tour: Sheldon Russell Visits Wordsmithonia and Sharon's Garden of Book Reviews

Please join Sheldon Russell as he visits several blog sites this week during his online book tour for the second mystery in his Hook Runyon series, The Insane Train (Minotaur Books, Hardcover, November 2010, 978-0-312-56671-5), which is published this month.

Today, Friday November 12th, Sheldon is visiting two sites:

• Wordsmithonia: Book Review
• Sharon's Garden of Book Reviews: Author Guest Post

You'll also have a chance to win a copy of The Insane Train, courtesy of the author. Simply visit each site on the tour, pick up a PIN code, and enter that code with your name and e-mail address on the Sheldon Russell tour page for a chance to win!

Find Three Missing Celebrities in Mystery Trackers: The Void, New from BFG

Games of Mystery is pleased to announce the availability of a new mystery casual game from Big Fish Games released today and available to BFG Club members. You can find out more about these games by visiting our Mystery Games: Big Fish Download Games page or by clicking on the links provided below.

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The Void family mansion used to be a gorgeous home ... until Dr. Malleus Void inherited it. Legend has it that the creepy doctor spent his time doing terrible experiments in the home, and it has been abandoned for an entire decade. After three world famous celebrities go missing inside the house -- a writer, a magician, and an actress -- it’s up to you, a member of the Mystery Trackers, to go inside the house and solve its mysteries once and for all.

This is the standard edition of the game. For a more in-depth gaming experience, Mystery Trackers: The Void Collector's Edition is full of exclusive extras you won’t find here, including additional gameplay, an integrated strategy guide, original soundtrack and concept art, and more.

Mystery Trackers: The Void may be downloaded and purchased for $6.99 with a Big Fish Game Club membership. A demonstration version (589.25 MB) may be downloaded and played for free for one hour.

Watch a preview video below:

Get any standard game for $6.99 with a Big Fish Game Club membership. Other benefits include the $2.99 Daily Deal, Tomorrow's Game Today, and special member rewards. And if you purchase any 6 games within a single month, you earn a free game with the Big Fish Game Club Monthly Punch Card! (Collector's Editions earn 3 punches each, half-way towards your free game!)

Read Ms. Terri's reviews of the adventure and casual mystery games featured on this site, including Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy, Nancy Drew Dossier: Lights, Camera, Curses!, Enlightenus, and many more!

Big Fish Games: Bestsellers

Big Fish Games: New releases

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Mystery Bestsellers for November 12, 2010

A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending November 12th, 2010 has been posted on the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books website.

Again, only some minor reordering of the top bestsellers with The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson still at number one for the ... well, we haven't kept count but it's a long time. Two new titles enter the list this week.

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Moving up from just off the list last week to number 11 this week is Edge, a stand-alone thriller by Jeffery Deaver.

Shock waves of alarm ripple through the clandestine agency when Washington, D.C., police detective Ryan Kessler inexplicably becomes the target of Henry Loving, a seasoned, ruthless “lifter” hired to obtain information using whatever means necessary. While Loving is deft at torture, his expertise lies in getting an “edge” on his victim—leverage—usually by kidnapping or threatening family until the “primary” caves under pressure.

The job of keeping the Kessler family alive falls to a man named Corte, a senior federal protection officer known as a “shepherd.” Uncompromising, relentlessly devoted to protecting those in his care and a passionate board game aficionado, he applies brilliant gaming strategy to his work. For Corte, the reappearance of Loving — the man who, six years earlier, had tortured and killed someone close to him — is also an opportunity to avenge his friend’s death. The assignment soon escalates into a fast-paced duel between Corte and Loving, a dangerous volley of wits and calculated risks.

As he shepherds the Kesslers to a concealed safe house, Corte must anticipate Loving’s every step as the lifter moves in on his prey, and with the help of razor-sharp investigator Claire DuBois and his longtime ally, FBI agent Paul Fredericks, pinpoint which of Kessler’s seemingly insignificant cases has triggered Loving’s return. As the team digs deeper, each of the Kesslers comes under close scrutiny, and in captivity their family bonds are stretched to the breaking point — as the lifter draws near, Corte must ultimately choose between protecting his charges and exposing them to a killer in the name of long-awaited revenge.

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Debuting at number 12 is Hell's Corner, the 5th Camel Club thriller by David Baldacci.

John Carr, aka Oliver Stone — once the most skilled assassin his country ever had — stands in Lafayette Park in front of the White House, perhaps for the last time. The president has personally requested that Stone serve his country again on a high-risk, covert mission. Though he's fought for decades to leave his past career behind, Stone has no choice but to say yes.

Then Stone's mission changes drastically before it even begins. It's the night of a state dinner honoring the British prime minister. As he watches the prime minister's motorcade leave the White House that evening, a bomb is detonated in Lafayette Park, an apparent terrorist attack against both leaders. It's in the chaotic aftermath that Stone takes on a new, more urgent assignment: find those responsible for the bombing.

British MI-6 agent Mary Chapman becomes Stone's partner in the search for the unknown attackers. But their opponents are elusive, capable, and increasingly lethal; worst of all, it seems that the park bombing may just have been the opening salvo in their plan. With nowhere else to turn, Stone enlists the help of the only people he knows he can trust: the Camel Club. Yet that may be a big mistake.

In the shadowy worlds of politics and intelligence, there is no one you can really trust. Nothing is really what it seems to be. And Hell's Corner truly lives up to its name. This may be Oliver Stone's and the Camel Club's last stand.

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The top four mystery bestsellers this week are shown below:

Please visit the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books where we are committed to providing readers and collectors of mystery books with the best and most current information about their favorite authors, titles, and series.

Starz to Develop Live Action Adaptation of Noir Anime Series

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Starz is developing a live-action adaptation of the anime television series Noir. Sam Raimi and Rob Tapart (Xeno: Warrior Princess, Spartacus Blood and Sand, Legend of the Seeker) will executive produce.

Noir, which aired for 26 episodes on TV Tokyo in 2001, starts with a mysterious e-mail and a haunting melody. Professional assassin Mireille Bouquet's world is knocked askew by an unnerving contact from a young amnesiac, Yumura Kirika, whose killing skills are as deadly as Mireille's, and whose missing memory may unlock the mystery of Mireille's life as well. With their pasts inextricably linked, Mireille conditionally admits Yumura into her confidence. In uneasy partnership, the two -- known now as Noir -- face a conspiracy that quickly calls on all of their lethal resources. It is a journey through the darkness, searching for a truth that they know will mean their deaths.

Warner Bros. Options Film Rights to Brad Thor's Scot Harvath Thrillers

Yesterday we learned that Warner Bros. had pre-emptively acquired the film rights to Brad Thor's soon to be published thriller The Athena Project. Today, Variety is reporting that the studio actually acquired the rights to all of Brad Thor's novels, which, to date, have featured ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath. The first book in the series is The Lions of Lucerne, originally published in 2002.

Considering The Lions of Lucerne as an "origins" story, the studio said, "We think that this could become something like the Jason Bourne franchise."

In this first book of the series, the snow-covered slopes of Utah have just become a nightmarish reality: thirty Secret Service agents have been viciously executed and the vacationing president of the United States is kidnapped by one of the most lethal terrorist organizations in the Middle East -- the dreaded Fatah.

But one man, surviving agent and ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath, doesn't believe the Fatah is responsible for the attack. Driven by his professional code of duty and honor -- and a solemn vow to avenge his fallen comrades -- Scot creates his own rules to get some answers. But his search for the truth raises the blood pressure of his superiors ... and casts his own life in mortal jeopardy.

Mr. E. Reviews Ice Blues

Ice Blues, the fourth in a series of made-for-television movies adapted from the mysteries by Richard Stevenson and featuring Albany (NY) private investigator Don Strachey, is without doubt the best of a very good lot. Chad Allen is just about perfect in his role here, his performance strong and on point.

Read the full text of our review at Mr. E. Reviews: Ice Blues.

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Mr. E. Reviews is your source for mystery, suspense, thriller, and crime drama reviews of television and film.

Invisible by Lorena McCourtney is Today's Featured Free Kindle Mystery

Kindle Mysteries is pleased to feature a mystery title that is currently available in Kindle eBook format for free from Amazon.com. We don't know how long it will be offered at this special price (typically only until a certain number of downloads have been completed), so download it today!

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Invisible by Lorena McCourtney
An Ivy Malone Mystery (1st in series)
Fleming H. Revell (Kindle eBook)
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About Invisible (from the publisher): She's not your average crime fighter! Ivy Malone has a curiosity that sometimes gets her into trouble, and it's only aggravated by her discovery that she can easily escape the public eye. So when vandals romp through the local cemetery, she takes advantage of her newfound anonymity and its unforeseen advantages as she launches her own unofficial investigation.

Despite her oddball humor and unconventional snooping, Ivy soon becomes discouraged by her failure to turn up any solid clues. And after Ivy witnesses something ominous and unexplained, she can't resist putting her investigative powers to work again. Even the authorities' attempts to keep Ivy out of danger and her nosy neighbor's match-making schemes can't slow her down. But will the determination that fuels this persistent, quirky sleuth threaten her very safety?

Grove/Atlantic Partnering with Otto Penzler to Relaunch Mysterious Press

Publishers Weekly is reporting that Grove/Atlantic is teaming up with Otto Penzler to relaunch the Mysterious Press.

Mysterious Press was an independent publisher of mysteries from 1975 through 1989, when it was sold to Warner Books (which itself was sold in 2005 to Hachette Book Group). Penzler recently reacquired the name from Hachette.

“We are thrilled to start this partnership with Otto Penzler, who is recognized as one of the premier editors and publishers of mysteries and thrillers working today,” Morgan Entrekin of Grove/Atlantic said.

The imprint will relaunch with new titles in Fall 2011.

AMC Cancels Conspiracy Thriller Rubicon

The Hollywood Reporter's Live Feed blog is reporting that AMC has canceled its original conspiracy thriller series Rubicon, which had a short run this past summer.

In a statement from the network, "Rubicon gave us an opportunity to tell a rich and compelling story and we're very proud of the series. This was not an easy decision, but we are grateful to have had the opportunity to work with such a phenomenally talented and dedicated team."

The series stars James Badge Dale as Will Travers, an analyst who cracks codes for a living at a New York City-based federal intelligence agency, who is thrown into a story where nothing is as it appears to be.

In stark contrast is AMC's latest original series, The Walking Dead, which is so popular it has already been renewed for a second season.

Authors on Tour: Sheldon Russell Visits Novel Works and CMash Loves to Read

Please join Sheldon Russell as he visits several blog sites this week during his online book tour for the second mystery in his Hook Runyon series, The Insane Train (Minotaur Books, Hardcover, November 2010, 978-0-312-56671-5), which is published this month.

Today, Thursday November 11th, Sheldon is visiting two sites:

• Novel Works: Author Interview
• CMash Loves to Read: Author Guest Post

You'll also have a chance to win a copy of The Insane Train, courtesy of the author. Simply visit each site on the tour, pick up a PIN code, and enter that code with your name and e-mail address on the Sheldon Russell tour page for a chance to win!

OMN Welcomes Elliott Sawyer, Author of the New Thriller, The Severance

Omnimystery News is delighted to welcome Elliott Sawyer as our guest blogger. Elliott's debut thriller, The Severance (Bridge Works, Hardcover, November 2010, 978-0-9816175-3-4), is a mystery set amid war.

Today, we're excited that Elliott has chosen to provide us with a first look at the sequel to The Severance.

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I really struggled to write this blog post. See, I found myself in “Novel Writing Mode” which for me is totally different from blog writing mode. I must have started and stopped this thing like 10 times trying to come up with something I could stand. Nothing worked. I just came back to the conclusion that I wanted to pen another novel.

Should The Severance does well (and I hope it does) I have a prequel and a follow up planned. The prequel, titled The Burnout, is already done and I’ve just starting working on the The Severance’s sequel The Payback.

What I want to share with you is the first 1500(ish) words of The Payback. When I say the first words I really mean first words. This is my work at its absolute rawest. Spell check is the highest level of editing the following has seen. Not even my editor, Barbara, has seen this stuff. If it’s a real bomb then it should stand as a testament to her skills as an editor. Read it and let me know what you think (There are half a dozen ways to get in touch with me.) Rip on it, correct it, mock it, hate it, or love it. Do your worst. I have a thick skin. I would love to hear what you have to say, good or bad. Just know that I rarely write novels sequentially so while these words came out first they might not be first in the finished product.

If you want to see more of this, grab a copy of The Severance. It’s your way of voting “yes” for The Burnout and The Payback.

Enjoy!

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The Payback

 “Kodiak 6, Acknowledges all, standing by, out,” Jake Roberts said into his radio handmic.
 Captain Jake Roberts stumbled in the sandstone rubble and nearly fell flat on his face. Looking down at his boots he noticed there was blood on them.
 “Not again,” Jake said trying to scrape the cranberry red sludge off on a large piece of debris. It was the second pair of boots he’d bloodied that week. If he wasn’t more careful he’d be barefoot soon. He thought it ironic that he was wiping his feet in the middle of what had been someone’s living room. He would have considered moving over to the front door if there were any way to figure if where that had been.
 The smell of human feces mixed with the lingering chemical odor of explosives. It was the stench of death in 21st century warfare. Jake Roberts was all too familiar with this horrible stench. Years ago the smell used to gag him but now he breathed deeply and let it fill his lungs and nose. It might as well been his wife’s favorite perfume.
 He surveyed his troops as they methodically removed bricks from the seemingly unending mountain of bricks that was once an Afghan’s compound. Five hours of digging seemed to make little difference in the size of the brick pile. Yet the Soldiers of the Kodiak platoon continued to dig. They dug hoping to find a survivor.
 No, Jake thought, they dug hoping they’d be given the order to stop digging.
 It would have been easier to think if it weren’t for the incessant wails of the baby. That baby had been the only person the platoon found alive when they’d arrived on scene. It had howled for five hours non-stop. Sometimes Jake could tune out the cries but now the baby had transitioned to a high pitch squeal that simply couldn’t be ignored. They were the kind screams that could cause a brain tumor.
 “Ramirez, isn’t there anything you can do to shut up that kid?” Jake asked looking over to his medic.
 “No, Sir,” Doc Ramirez said lighting a cigarette, “Baby Rosa’s legs are completely shattered and the only thing that’s going to calm her is morphine, which, as you know, they don’t let me carry.”
 The one draw back to having Ramirez, a reformed drug addict, as a medic was that he couldn’t carry any painkillers stronger than aspirin. It was going to take a lot more than aspirin to help baby Ros–
 “Wait a minute, did you name that baby Rosa?” Jake asked.
 “Yeah, Rosita actually,” Ramirez said with a shrug.
 “Why?”  
 “Well I figured that since baby Rosa’s mom and dad are living in dead-ville there was no way we’re ever know her name and since I’ve spent so much time with her that I decided to give her a new name,” Ramirez said.
 Jake nodded his head and didn’t say anything. What was the point of naming an orphaned baby? Then again, what was the harm in it?
 “Got an arm here,” Corporal Peter Harris said from the apex of the brick mountain.
 Reaching down Harris ripped the severed limp form out of the pile. Jake could see from his vantage point that there was still a wristband attached.
 “Hey Petie, I need an arm,” Specialist Benakowsky said standing over a body.
 “Bullshit Bena, that arms got my name all over it,” Private First Class Parsons said from the opposite side of the pile. He was standing over his own body in a partially zipped up body bag.
 “No way, Asshole. I saw it first,” Benakowsky said and then looked up at Harris, “Toss that baby down.”
 Harris looked down at the arm and then to both Bena and Parsons bodies.
 “Hey Bena, Left or right?” Harris asked.
 “What?”
 “Do you need a left or right arm?”
 “Left.”
 Harris smiled holding up the cherished arm so Bena could see the right thumb, “This just isn’t your day, my friend.”
 Parsons thrust his latex gloved fists above his head and let out a victory howl.
 “Damn, I’m never going to get this one put together,” Bena said.
 “Toss that motherfucker down to me,” Parsons said.
 “Coming at you,” Harris said throwing the arm down in a football style lob.
 Parsons caught the arm and immediately compared it to the stump on the body.
 “Perfect match,” Parsons said zipping up the bag with all the components inside. Looking around at the other soldiers around him he continued, “That’s four bodies tagged and bagged. You motherfuckers need to step your game up. I’m the king of this shit!”
 “Man all I seem to find are feet,” Specialist Joe Eastman said. The towering soldier held up two left feet, “Anyone need a foot?”
 “I’ve been working on this guy for over an hour! Does anyone have this guy’s left arm?”
 Sergeant First Class McBride crested mountain of destruction. Jake noted the NCO didn’t look happy. Then again there wasn’t anything to be happy about.
 “Shut your mouths, assholes! UAV reported 18 heat signatures in this compound before the bomb hit and battalion won’t be satisfied until we have 18 bodies accounted for and HIIDE’d. Hurry the hell up,” McBride said to everyone in earshot then looked to Sergeant Olsen, “Where are we at with the HIIDE?”
 Sergeant Olsen released the hand he was scanning and let the Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment hang loose around his neck.
 “This thing is a hunk of junk,” Olsen said motioning to the black electronic brick, “It only wants to work half the time and when it does work it takes me 20 minutes to¬–”
 “Bullshit Gramps,” McBride said with the wave of a hand, “You have to be smarter than your equipment. We need retina and fingerprint scans on all these assholes.”
 “But I–”
 “Do it, or I’ll find someone who can work the HIIDE and you can go back to digging.”
 Olsen looked down at the HIIDE device and sighed, “Roger, Sergeant.”
 McBride nodded in only partial satisfaction as Olsen went back to work and then stumbled his way through more of the rubble until he was standing next to Jake. The officer could practically smell the misery coming off his senior NCO.
 “I need a cigarette,” McBride said.
 Jake smirked, “I can tell.”
 “I only packed 4 days worth of cigarette for this mission.”
 “I know. You’ve mentioned it.”
 “We’ve been out here 7 days.”
 “Really? I thought we spent the last week in Bermuda.”
 “No Sir, we’ve spent the last 3 days stirring up a hornets nest for airstrikes.”
 Jake nodded that had been the mission in a nutshell. It had officially been called a “dismounted reconnaissance” but the Kodiak platoon had been air lifted deep in Taliban controlled territory and ordered to walk around in hopes that the enemy would shoot at them so they could be targeted with artillery and airstrikes. They’d been sent in as bait for the green monster. For four days and nights they’d been successful in drawing Taliban fighters out into open combat so that could be killed en mass by 155mm artillery shells and thousand pound guided bombs. They’d been so successful at being cannon fodder that they were dropped additional food, water, batteries and ammunition so they could continue their mission. Typical fare for the “rehabilitation” platoon.
 Finally after 7 days of endless walking and fighting the platoon had caught the attention a mid-level Taliban leader. Once he’d come out of hiding and intel picked up on his trail his death had become a priority. That Taliban leader thought he’d been hunting the insolent American platoon meandering through his territory but, in fact, he was the one being hunted. Half a days walk and 2 thousand pounds of aerial explosive later the platoon was standing on that man’s tomb. He and 17 or his closest friends. Again, typical fare.
 “We’re going to be here for another 2 days until we get all these fuck heads dug out,” McBride said leaning down to pick up a baseball-sized rock and examining it.
 “No we’re not,” Jake said.
 “You super fast way to move this rubble that you’re not sharing, Sir?”
 Jake patted his radio handmic, “Battalion just called, XV2212 has been declared dead. They’re sending exfil birds with the medevac for the baby. They want HIIDE data on whoever we dig out before then.”
 “Praise Jesus,” McBride said throwing his hand in the air in a faux exaltation, “What’s the ETA?”
 “3 hours. The commander wants to wait until after dark to send the birds. Can’t risk a daylight extraction.”
 “Yeah, every insurgent for 100 kilometers is on high alert, but I guess that’s our fault,” McBride said.
 “Cost of doing¬–”
 “I got one! I got one,” Big Joe said. The soldier began jumping up and down like he’d just won the lottery.
 “Major power move from the big guy, fellas,” Parsons said craning his neck to see what Joe had uncovered. From where Jake was standing he couldn’t see Joe’s prize.
 “Man, you’re in it to win it for the sickest shit of the day,” Harris said looking down from his perch.
 “Thanks guys, I owe it all to perseverance,” Joe said grabbing at what he found to pull it out.
 McBride stepped in front of Jake blocking his view, “That’s crazy fucked up.”
 Jake moved to McBride’s right and finally saw it.
 A cold sweat formed on the back of his neck and his knees began to give way. Joe was holding a white toddler dressed in American clothes. Joe was holding John Roberts.

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Elliott Sawyer was an officer in the 101st Airborne Division. He saw action as a combat patrol leader in Iraq in 2005 and 2006 and during a second deployment in Afghanistan in 2008 and 2009. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and an Army Commendation Medal. Now, back in the United States, he commands a training company of up to 240 soldiers. He and his wife live in Elgin, Oklahoma. Visit his website at ElliottSawyer.com.

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About The Severance: A mystery set amid the war in Afghanistan, its authenticity derives from the author's combat experience there.

The protagonist is an officer who ran afoul of Army discipline, and was assigned to lead a rehabilitation platoon of similar troublemakers. While fighting the Taliban they discover a corrupt contractor's cache of dollars, plot to smuggle it home- only to find themselves fighting a deadly unknown foe trying to highjack it.

The Severence is also available in a Kindle edition. You can read the first chapter of it below:

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Join Sherlock Holmes in the Search for The Hound of the Baskervilles Collector's Edition, New from BFG

Games of Mystery is pleased to announce the availability of a new mystery casual game from Big Fish Games released today and available to BFG Club members. You can find out more about these games by visiting our Mystery Games: Big Fish Download Games page or by clicking on the links provided below.

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Take on the role of the most famous consulting detective in this incredible hidden object adventure game!

Charles Baskerville is the latest victim of a centuries-old curse! Now, Henry Baskerville needs Sherlock Holmes’s help to break the curse, before another murder occurs! Travel to legendary Baskerville Hall, and figure out exactly what is going on, and what the mysterious Hound of the Baskervilles is after.

Dig into the impenetrable marshes; feel the cool, wet fog creeping up on you; and sense your hair stand up on the back of your neck as you reveal the diabolical curse of the ancient Baskervilles family. Test yourself against a supernatural power and the desperate beast hiding behind savage crimes in this dangerous adventure!

This special collector's edition includes features not found in the standard version, such as bonus gameplay, a built-in strategy guide, stunning soundtrack and other multimedia, wallpapers, extra puzzles to play, and more!

Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles Collector's Edition may be downloaded and purchased for $13.99 with a Big Fish Game Club membership. A demonstration version (161.78 MB) may be downloaded and played for free for one hour; the full version is 323.72 MB.

Watch a preview video below:

Get any standard game for $6.99 with a Big Fish Game Club membership. Other benefits include the $2.99 Daily Deal, Tomorrow's Game Today, and special member rewards. And if you purchase any 6 games within a single month, you earn a free game with the Big Fish Game Club Monthly Punch Card! (Collector's Editions earn 3 punches each, half-way towards your free game!)

Read Ms. Terri's reviews of the adventure and casual mystery games featured on this site, including Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy, Nancy Drew Dossier: Lights, Camera, Curses!, Enlightenus, and many more!

Big Fish Games: Bestsellers

Big Fish Games: New releases

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Games of Mystery is your source for mystery-themed video, electronic, and board games, parties for kids and adults, and murder mystery weekends and mystery getaway vacations!