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The WITNESS, according to DISCOVER magazine, is "a murder mystery in the classic hard-boiled detective tradition." According to ELECTRONIC GAMES, it's the "Best Adventure of 1984." This spine-tingler is a case of blackmail that turns into murder before your eyes, and anyone from the knockout heiress to the poker-faced Oriental butler could be the killer. Your suspects act with minds of their own, and you have just 12 hours to solve the crime. Armed with a packet of crucial physical evidence, you face a tangled web of clues, motives and alibis. And the only two things you can believe are your own eyes - because you are The WITNESS. STANDARD LEVEL

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Dead: one gilt-edged society dame. And now it looks like some two-bit grifter is putting the screws to her multi-millionaire old man. All in all, a pretty typical Angeleno clan for these days. But then the shakedown turns ugly, and you're left with a stiff and a race against the clock to nail your suspect ... if, that is, you don't cash in your chips ahead of time!

February, 1938. FDR's New Deal is finally rolling. Hitler's rolling too; this time, through Austria. But as Chief Police Detective for a quiet burgh on the outskirts of L. A., you've got other fish to fry. Working from a clue-laden police file and battling a 12-hour time limit, you're up against your toughest case to date: a sordid family affair that may land everyone from the knockout heiress to the pokerfaced Oriental butler in the slammer before it's over. Ahead of you is a Gordian knot of motives and alibis to untangle, and the only testimony you can trust is that of your own eyes - because you are The WITNESS.