The Witness description
A text adventure from Infocom. This is much to understand. 1938, a suburb of Los Angeles. In the morning, to the head of the police Department came a telegram from Freeman Linder. In it, he reports that his life is under threat - it threatens a certain writer, and he asks to drive up to himself that evening to deal with the situation and to protect him. And it is complicated by the fact that not long ago his wife committed suicide, leaving a highly controversial note After a brief conversation with Mr. Linder, he briefly disappears from sight. Soon we hear a shot and you find the body of the landlord lying on the floor with a gunshot wound. From this moment you have exactly 12 hours to find evidence and figure out who the killer is.
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