A foul fate has befallen detective game developers Frogwares. After accusing publisher Focus Home Interactive of foul play, nine of ten games threatened with delisting have been removed from sale. Fortunately, it’s not a total loss. The sole PC entry in the targeted lineup, Sherlock Holmes: Crime And Punishments has been saved on Steam and secured its survival with a new release on GOG. If the Reichenbach Falls couldn’t keep Holmes down for good, what chance did a publishing scuffle have?

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Frogwares, developers of umpteen Sherlock Holmes games and the recent The Sinking City, are embroiled in a public dispute with publisher Focus Home Interactive. In a statement released via their own site, Frogwares allege that Focus are removing their older games from sale on various digital platforms, and refusing to transfer title IDs to them “evne though our Publishing and Distribution Agreement has expired.” Frogwares also say more of their games will disappear in the days ahead.

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There is a moment in Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments where the detective has to identify a brand of cigar. This scent is familiar to me, but in order to recognise it, I must combine my associations into one picture, he says. You find yourself swivelling a stink cloud, aligning its wafting lines into a hidden image. Problem is, Holmes nose deals in broad stereotypes – it locates the stogie as Mexican in origin by arranging the smell into a picture of a sombrero. That legendary sombrero smell that all Mexicans have. I believe this one comes from Conan Doyle s beloved story, The Case Of The Horribly Misjudged Minigame.

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Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, does whatever a Sherlock can. Everyone’s favourite logic-slinger, the mysterious costumed figure known as Sherley to his fans, will return in a new adventure next year. It’s called The Devil’s Daughter [official site] and will pit our friendly neighbourhood mystery-man against the usual cowardly superstitious criminals who challenge his deductive wit, but there’ll also be “family stories, irresistible emotions and an occult revenge”. Dang. Any fool knows that Sherley’s superpowers are ineffective against magic.

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