The Case of the Beheaded Smuggler

From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
The Case of the Beheaded Smuggler (ZX Spectrum 48K)
Buy the pastiche story "Sherlock Holmes in the Case of the Beheaded Smuggler" (pastiche, 2025)

The Case of the Beheaded Smuggler is a video game created by Patrick Walsh & Kez Gray released in 1988 on ZX Spectrum 48K, published by Mental Images (UK), re-released in 1990 by Zenobi Software (UK).

The game is 100% textual (only the title screen is graphic).

In december 2025, Patrick Walsh published the pastiche story based on his video game, see opposite.


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