Remember those Dennis Wheatley mystery novels mentioned in this thread?. The same ones Zack Urlocker is giving away both as comp prizes and for testers of his Z-Machine Matter. I need a helping hand with one of them!
I recently got a copy of the 1979 facsimile edition of Murder Off Miami from ebay. Not the true 30’s original, but quite beautiful anyway. I pretend to go through it this summer while I simultaneously play the IF adaptation Delta 4 guys made in 1987 just for the sake of comparing the experience and have some fun with it. My trouble is: not beeing used to read hand-written english some of the notes in the book are close to unintelligible to me , specially the deceased Bolitho Blane’s ones!
I will probably find transcripts of them in the computer game which I could easily understand, but untill that happens I just can get a few isolated words from the messages. Now, if someone here could make some quick transcripts of them… I don’t need a translation, it’s just that I can’t read Bolitho Blane’s hand-written English!
I can only offer my eternal gratitude in exchange (and if that’s not enough, the vague and unlikely promise that if I keep on writting IF works after my Indigo Speed-comp entry some day I will name a NPC after whoever helps )
Thanks a lot!! Your guess is right, It’s all about a list with stock references (including some Argus-something, I’m at job right now and can´t see it, company) his assistant, Mr Stodart, had handed him just a bit earlier. Hey, this has saved me a lot of guess work to get things into making more sense! (though I’m still far from making a solid theory of who the murderer is )
Thanks again (and now there will be a matt-character in my next IF work… whenever that happens! )
, specially the deceased Bolitho Blane’s ones!
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