The child murderer

The Child Murderer is a shareware text and graphics adventure game designed for the beginning level player. The player takes the role of Charles Browning, personal servant to Robert Harris a rich businessman living in Victorian London. You are blamed for a murder you did not commit, and must both evade your captors and find the real killer.

The text parser uses small Verb / Noun sentences, such as Talk to the woman, or Use the candle. In addition a menu of common commands and keystroke shortcuts is displayed in most locations and key objects in the game are preceded with the term, Visible Objects.