Here’s another terrific game from I-play and Elephant Entertainment. If you aren’t familiar with the family of games that includes the Dream Day Wedding series you should be because you are missing out on some relaxing fun. This one is similar to the Agatha Christies Peril at End House but it’s even deeper and more intriguing. There’s a curve here. Every time they come out with another one of these seek and find adventure games for PC they get better.

In game play this time you need to solve a series of murders. To do that you will solve a variety of interesting and clever puzzles. There are the seek and find pictures that have items in a jumble that you need to click on to complete your list. There are many locations where each puzzle takes place. The detective office, the Judge’s room, the crime scenes, and the coffee shop. Each one id unique and graphics are well done.

Some of the puzzles involve sorting out bottles that have instructions on them that you’d find in an IQ test. Other puzzles require that you run mazes, or untangle a mess of yarn. In addition to the easy to navigate point and click items to find you also have to solve the mystery.

You will be looking for evidence, gathering clues and finding information on the detective computer. You’ll take blood samples, collect little baggies of noxious substances to analyze in the lab. You do blood typing and use the technology that makes all the detective TV shows so popular.

What I like best about this game is that there was a female game designer, Jane Jensen. For that reason alone all of my readers should purchase this one. You play as not one female character, but an unprecedented three women. You’ll work as a detective, a journalist and a medical examiner.

The game is available now for download at a variety of online game providers. I would go for the retail box package though. It will include an exclusive novella about the games story line, and some teaser chapters from James Patterson’s next Women’s Murder club novel. My next email will be to check out some of his books at the library.

I have very few criticisms of this game. However it’s the same one that I have had on the last few I-play titles. Make the fonts bigger in the notebook. Remember that your 40 something female demographic has to go crazy trying to see the seek and find items. They don’t have to be tiny to make it challenging. The other odd thing that happened was that the bottles that you need to arrange for the blood tests would not move for me no matter what I did with them. The instructions were not clearly enough explained.

This is a fine offering that will keep you awake at night until you figure out who did it. It evokes the spirit of a good mystery without being too violent or harsh. The puzzles aren’t too easy, or ridiculously hard. I give Women’s Murder Club Death in Scarlet an 8 out of 10.