Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases

About this board game

Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases is a mystery-solving game for 1–8 players, with cases designed to take about 120 minutes.

Enter nineteenth-century London and take on a series of challenging investigations. Each case presents a mystery, and your task is to trace the threads of evidence through the city’s byways and mansions until the facts begin to fit together.

Your investigation depends on careful reasoning rather than dice or luck. You will need to use your deductive abilities as you pursue leads, examine information, and compare your conclusions with those of your opponents and the master sleuth himself, Sherlock Holmes.

• Interview suspects to uncover useful information.
• Search the newspapers for clues.
• Follow evidence through Victorian London.
• Assemble the facts to reach a solution.

The cases capture the atmosphere of Holmes’s London, from foggy streets and Baker Street to the docks, mansions, and an opium den beneath the Bar of Gold. The mysteries include the murder of two lions in Hyde Park, paintings missing from the National Gallery, and the death of Oswald Mason.

Thorough research into Holmesian and Victorian accuracy gives Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective a strong sense of place and period. Released in 1981, it offers a focused test of mental ability for players who enjoy following clues, weighing evidence, and solving intricate mysteries without relying on chance.