Your neighbors put up a fight when an important tradition is threatened.
"The sugar ban affected traditional baking and housewives asked me to find a way to lift the restrictions."
Solution[]
Miguela Lawless: Could you help me out? With the sugar-ban, basic foodstuffs used in baking pies are rationed. And I'm not the only dedicated baker with this problem.
Miguela Lawless: Together with some meeighbors I founded the Housewives Club. We recruit everyone, from soccer mums to businesswomen... and guys too. Everyone likes a good pie.
Detective: So, where do I come in? You want me to join?
Miguela Lawless: That would be lovely, but... I was wondering if you could help us solve the rationing problem. Just like you helped doctor Martens?
Detective: Miguela, I can't be just running around breaking the law. But I promise you, I'll see what I can do.
Witnesses[]
Detective: This looks like a tough case. Maybe I should interview people from the Housewives Club and their associates.
- 2 photos
- 2 fingerprints
- 3 maps
- 4 photos
- 3 fingerprints
- 2 maps
If you fail:
Detective: Rules are rules. There's no way the housewives are going to bypass them.
If you win:
Detective: There are rumors suggesting that someone managed to by-pass the sugar ban. There's a bakery that specializes in selling baking ingredients. I should check it out.
City search: The Smell of Freshly-Baked Cookies[]
Detective: I need to find the place selling baking ingredients. It should be somewhere in this area, a plain industrial building.
The bakery is:
- exactly 6 from a post office
- more than 2 from theaters
- more than 1 from factories
- more than 1 from clubs
- On the map there are 2 theaters
- On the map there are 2 factories
- On the map there are 3 clubs
If you fail:
Detective: I thought finding a bakery woukdn't be so hard. What to do now?
If you win:
Detective: This looks like the place. Because of the sugar ban, the bakery is pretty well protected. Yet somehow someone managed to get more ingredients then normal. Interesting.
Crime scene search: Iron Rations[]
Detective: I should poke around the bakery. The buyer probably left something behind I can use.
If you fail:
Detective: I better scram before someone sees me. The cops are so nervous these days, I could get arrested for just loitering here.
If you win:
Detective: A check for the baking supplies. Oh, that's a lot of ration stamps attached. So the purchase was legal, but someone had a bucketload of ration stamps.
Suspect Identification: Baking by the Dozen[]
Detective: The signature on the check is illegible. If the person comes here regularly, maybe I should just stake out the bakery?
- Akira Mikado
- Perry J. Jameson
- Mario Delgadillo
- Oprah Klein
- Lana Quay
- Patience de Monde
- Betty Mayday
- Sam Lowry
- Olivia Pasqual
- Stanley Robinson
- Alfred Abronsius
- Mary Christiansen
- Amy DeAndre
- Maud Beans
- James Valentino
- Bharata Chopra
- Maggie Tailor
Solution: Patience de Monde
If you fail:
Detective: I guess the client wants to remain anonymous. Without knowing his or hers identity, I won't be able to do a thing for the Housewives Club.
If you win:
Detective: Mrs. de Monde? Could I ask you why are you buying such a large amount of baking sugar? It's rationed, after all.
Patience de Monde: Oh, don't worry dear, I have the rations taps right here. Al gave them to me. He has a party tomorrow. Everyone will be there. Commissioner Valentino, Judge Harshfield, Mr. Jameson...
Detective: You mean Alphonse Covet? The mayor? Say, could you do me a small favor? Miguela Lawless started a baking club. Maybe you'd like to become a member?
Patience de Monde: Certainly, dear! The more bakers, the merrier.
Finale[]
If you fail:
Detective: I'm sorry, Miguela. I'm afraid you'll have to make do with the ingredients you have. I just don't think there's a valid way to by-pass the ban or influence the mayor in any way.
Miguela Lawless: What a pity. Maybe I'll be able to scrounge something up from all the club members. Thanks for the effort, though.
If you win:
Miguela Lawless: Detective! Patience de Monde volunteered to join the club. She personally knows mayor Covet and bakes for him! Even more, she promised to talk with him about the sugar ban!
Detective: I guess traditional baking is back in the game, isn't it?
Miguela Lawless: Exactly! And all thanks to you! Would you like a slice of apple pie?
Detective: How could I resist?