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An Interactive Murder Mystery

"Four Badges is some of your best writing ever." - Bob N.

Mass murder comes to the sleepy suburbs.  Merridoc, New Jersey is nestled in farm country just miles away from the Poconos. As horses graze in meadows, housewives stay prime in step classes and commuters make the daily trek, a killing spree unfolds.  While Merridoc slept two prominent members of the community were murdered in the night.  The next morning brings no new hope; you discover a third death just after you, a detective with Merridoc's tiny police department, report for work. 

You've got a serial killer tearing through town and who knows how much time to stop him before his next victim falls...

Four Badges Means Four Perspectives

Tapping into the hidden power of interactive fiction, Implementor Howard Sherman presents this murder mystery from four different perspectives.  When you begin this work of crime fiction, your starting point is randomly selected for you.  There are four possible starting points corresponding to the four detectives portrayed in the novel. By extension, just one of four key pieces of evidence will be given to you.  That's when you step inside the story and assume the persona of one of those four detectives.

A Serial Killer Stalks a Small Town

While you slept a member of the town council was discovered decapitated on his own driveway, a bloody fire axe besides his body. Across town a school board executive was brutally butchered by a corn knife, the bloody scene sickening first responders.  Every aspect of sleepy suburbia is captured in Four Badges with a cast of characters running the range of human experience.  One of them is behind all the murder and mayhem but who is it? That's the murder mystery you must solve; who snapped and went psycho committing these grisly acts?

Interacting with a dozen different characters and potential suspects, you'll have to stretch your investigative skills to beyond your limits and pose the right questions to the right people and know when to open the kimono with the damning evidence just waiting for you to uncover. When you're positive you've got your man (or woman) make the arrest and find out if you're as good a detective as you think you are.  The wrong move can get you fired.  The best solution will make you a hero..

As you take in the landscape, conduct your questioning and build your case, the clock is ticking all the while. Make sure time doesn't run out or it might be the end of the line for you.

With this Murder Mystery Nothing is as it Seems.

Because Four Badges is interactive crime fiction, you're not turning pages in this murder mystery.  You step inside the story as the main character -- the detective. Many people - but not everyone - respects your gun and your badge.  Are they being sarcastic or just plain stupid? Weaving your way in and around town through the suburban staples of a bagel shop, a gym, a bank and an antiques shop, you're on the prowl to find the killer.  Who is it? Where are they? And why did they flip out?

As soon as you start the case, you'll discover the FBI is already on scene with a mobile crime lab at your full disposal.  Your boss is no help at all, as he sits behind his desk poised to take the credit for your hard work.  As soon as you start making progress you'll stumble upon shocking new crimes that can turn your investigation of this murder mystery upside down.

Read the Four Badges Blog And Learned What Happened Behind the Scenes

A Murder Mystery Game That Reads Like Crime Fiction

Since Four Badges is interactive crime fiction; it's a murder mystery game you read or a crime novel you play. When you step inside this murder mystery you are the detective.  Your decisions within the story can thrill you with success or shock you with stunning failure. Murder mystery fans will savor every moment of this interactive crime fiction masterpiece.

We all love books. But the shame is, you read them once and you're done. You're involved for a while as you follow along with the story and harbor your own suspicions about the culprit but then, suddenly, it's over. You know who did it. All the questions are answered. Maybe there's a loose end or two dangling to get you hooked on the next book in the series.

Even so, it's still over.

But not when come to just one of the several different endings of Four Badges. As with Greystone, Howard Sherman's first work of crime fiction, there are over a dozen different ways that Four Badges can end. The best possible outcome is a surprise waiting for you inside Four Badges.  That doesn't mean you have to solve every crime to finish the novel.  Or even any of them.  The clock's ticking.  What if the killer goes postal before you figure it all out? The non-linear nature of Four Badges makes all of these different possibilities not just likely, but probable.

Every possible ending is a direct reflection of your investigative prowess. Are you up to the challenge?

Customer Service You'll Be Happy to Investigate

  • Lifetime free updates of your copy of Four Badges to make sure you always get the very best results from Malinche's unrelenting quality controls.
  • Free hints are always available by emailing Four Badge's Implementor. With your order you'll get a secret email address that no one else gets. Just tell the writer where you are in the story and your hints will be personalized to your situation by the author himself. Being able to email Howard a question means you'll never be left hanging when you need to get past a seemingly insurmountable challenge in the story.
  • If You want something more potent than hints, we can provide a full walkthrough of Four Badges that empowers you to solve the crimes with our help. Many people enjoy reading the Four Badges transcript as if it were a murder mystery book in its own right! Reading it from the shocking start to the explosive ending, it really is if you stop and think about it.
  • World-class client support is available to you via email or telephone.
     

We Want You to Try This Amazing Murder Mystery with Zero Risk

We aren't going to ask you to trust us on this.  We respect you too much for that.

Instead,  Malinche provides a generous return policy.

Malinche's own President & CEO has PERSONALLY approved this policy: We want you to conduct your murder investigation at your leisure and spend as much time with it as you want....for 60 days. At the end of those 60 days, you can either keep the title or request a refund for any reason whatsoever.  The choice is entirely yours.

If you do choose to erase this interactive fiction masterpiece, we will make sure you are rushed back a complete refund of your money. You aren't risking a penny this way - Four Badges has to live up to your expectations, or you get all your money back. Period.

That's more than fair, and it's the way we treat everyone because we here at Malinche all wish to be treated the same way. We're offering the best "guarantee of satisfaction" you could ever ask for. You don't have to trust us at all -- we have to trust you! And we do.

 

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All Malinche interactive fiction titles work perfectly on all versions of Windows (all the way from Windows 95 straight through to Windows 8 and every version in between) and any version of Mac OS X. In addition, our interactive fiction books are compatible with Linux, Unix, the entire Palm family, Windows Mobile devices and the latest Windows Phone, most smartphones, the iPod Touch, the iPhone, your Blackberry and any iPad.

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