Low light · moody lamplight

Gaslight

A face from Gaslight

Gas lamps, brass and old money. The lights are always low and always warm, and the shadows they throw are the point — this is the world of the drawing-room murder, where the household has known each other for thirty years and every one of them can account for the evening. Antique gold on candlelit black; the look Culprit was built in.

The twelve

Every colour on this page is one of those twelve — and so is every pixel of the art in a case set here. The palette is the style lock the plates are quantized to, so the chrome and the art can never belong to different games.

A death here is announced like this

The Midnight Examiner

— Police have appointed a detective to the case. Full report, page 2.

Cases set in Gaslight