The Mystery of the Mummy was inspired by The Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The player is Sherlock Holmes in this
point-and-click first-person adventure game.

Lord Montcalfe, a well-known Egyptologist, is missing and is believed by the
police to have committed suicide. His daughter, Elisabeth, insists that he is
still alive and calls upon her fiance’s cousin, Sherlock Holmes, to prove her
theories. Arriving at the manor, Holmes finds that Lord Montcalfe was
suffering from a deep paranoia. It seems he had made a terrible mistake and
triggered what he believed to be a mummy’s curse. Trying to shield himself and
others from that curse, he had booby trapped his own home with elaborate
locks, some of which were designed to kill anyone who tried to tamper with
them.

Holmes investigates mostly in solitary fashion without the aid of his normal
sidekick, Watson. Other people in the game appear only in the cut-scenes.
Puzzles become more difficult as the story progresses. Find illusive inventory
objects and read many documents for clues as you search the secret passages
and elaborately decorated rooms of the Montcalfe Manor.