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Rick Lane

This whimsical adventure game sees you play as a retired Sherlock Holmes whose beekeeping hobby keeps getting interrupted by pesky crimes

Sherlock Holmes looks out across a chalk cliff bay with a bloody corpse at his feet in The Beekeeper's Picnic.

Sherlock Holmes never struck me as the retiring sort, more the 'dying in his armchair mid-deduction' sort. Nonetheless, this is the premise of The Beekeeper's Picnic—A Sherlockian Adventure, a charming little adventure game that's just released on Steam.

Finally fed up with the detective lark, Holmes retires to the village of Fulworth to start a new life as a beekeeper. He's eventually joined by Dr Watson, who Holmes wants to help "rest and recuperate" from his service as a medic in the first world war. As part of this, Holmes decides to arrange a picnic for his pal.

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