| The Case of the Beheaded Smuggler |
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| Aliases | Sherlock Holmes in The Case of the Beheaded Smuggler |
| Release Date | 1988 |
| Original Publisher | Mental Images (UK) |
| Min. Hardware | ZX-Spectrum 48K |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Adventure Game: Text-Only |
| Max. Players | 1 |
| Authored with | Professional Adventure Writer |
| Original Price | £2.99 |
| Themes | Detective/Crime Investigation |
| Inspirations | Sherlock Holmes (Book) from Arthur Conan Doyle (UK) |
| Other Platforms | Amstrad CPC |
| Average mag. score | 75.50% (2 reviews) |
| Martijn's WoS score | 70% (8 votes) |
Re-releases
| #1 - Zenobi Software (UK) | |||
| * Release price: £2.99 |
Authors/Contributors
| Patrick Walsh (UK) | - ? | ||
| Kez Gray (UK) | - ? |
Contents
| Inst.A-1 | The Case of the Beheaded Smuggler | (1988) | by Mental Images (UK) | - Full version | |
| Inst.B-1 | Yuppie | - original release | - Full version |
Compilations
| Full version in | Balrog's Big Disk | (1991) | by Zenobi Software (UK) | ||
| Full version in | ZX-Spectrum Vega | (2015/Apr/24) | by Retro Computers Ltd (UK) | - titled "The Smuggler" |
Main File Downloads
| Filename | Release | Machine | Scheme | Language | Comments | |
 | CaseOfTheBeheadedSmugglerThe.tzx.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (None) | English | |
| CaseOfTheBeheadedSmugglerThe(ZenobiSoftware).tzx.zip | #1 | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (None) | English | |
| CaseOfTheBeheadedSmugglerThePart1(ZenobiSoftware).z80.zip | #1 | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (???) | English | - part 1 | |
| CaseOfTheBeheadedSmugglerThePart2(ZenobiSoftware).z80.zip | #1 | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (???) | English | - part 2 | |
| CaseOfTheBeheadedSmugglerThe(ZenobiSoftware).mgt.zip | #1 | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (None) | English | ||
| CaseOfTheBeheadedSmugglerThe(ZenobiSoftware).dsk.zip | #1 | ZX-Spectrum 128 +3 | (None) | English |
Additional File Downloads
| Filename | Size | Release | Type | Language | Comments | |
| CaseOfTheBeheadedSmugglerThe.scr | 6,912 | Original | Loading screen | |||
| CaseOfTheBeheadedSmugglerThe.gif | 3,347 | Original | Running screen | |||
| CaseOfTheBeheadedSmugglerThe.txt | 7,763 | Original | Instructions | English | ||
| CaseOfTheBeheadedSmugglerThe.zip | 352,565 | Original | Scanned instructions | English | ||
| casebeheaded.zip | 0 | Original | RZX playback file | - Recorded by Paul E. Collins (with rollback) |
Magazine Reviews
| The Games Machine | issue #24-1989/Nov | page 68 | - Review: 71% | |
| Your Sinclair | issue #48-1989/Dec | page 80 | - Review: 8/10 |
Magazine References
| Die Speccy CD | issue 1996/Jan | page 0 | - Information | |
| Sinclair User | issue #101-1990/Jul | page 46 | - Tips | |
| Your Sinclair | issue #53-1990/May | page 58 | - News/Note |
Related Magazine References
| Your Sinclair | issue #64-1991/Apr | page 52 | - Offer (Balrog's Big Disk) |
Links
| CASA | (Information - in English) | |
| MobyGames | (Information - in English) | |
| RZX Archive | (Information - in English) | |
| The Tipshop | (Information - in English) | |
| ZX Spectrum Reviews | (Magazine Reviews) | |
| Spectrum 2.0 | (User Reviews) | |
| The TZX Vault | (Software Preservation) | |
| ZX-Art | (Spectrum Graphics) | |
| ZXInfo | (ZXDB Front End) | |
| Every Game Going | (Multi-Platform Archive) | |
| New World Of Spectrum | (Spectrum Archive) | |
| Original World Of Spectrum | (Spectrum Archive) | |
| World Of Spectrum Classic | (Spectrum Archive) | |
| Spectrum Computing | (MAIN VIEW) |
