Sherlock Holmes Chapter One Ghosts of the Past Walkthrough (Prologue)

Ghosts of the Past is a Main Case in Sherlock Holmes Chapter One. This walkthrough will guide you through all objectives of the Ghosts of the Past main quest.

Starting Borough: Grand Saray
Starting Location: Hotel
Quest Giver: None, automatically started during “A Mother’s Love”
Requirement: Having entered the Seance-Room in the Hotel
Reward: 80 Money
Trophy: Diamond in the Rough

Objectives:

• Character Portrait
• Clues in the Room
• Clues outside of the Room
• Imagination Sequence
• Talk to the Cravens
• Talk to Ghalichi
• Closing the Case

Starting Location: Ghosts of the Past

Ghosts of the Past Case starts automatically during “A Mother’s Love“, upon entering the Seance-Room of the Hotel, after finding out about the owner of the walking cane.

Character Portrait

After entering the room, we should draw our first character portrait. Watch out for the sections indicated by yellow sparkles and hold / to inspect them closer (face, ring, knuckles, clothes).

Whenever you observe someone, you get two portraits to choose from. One is wrong and one is correct. The correct one here is that Lord Craven is a “Bored British nobleman”. Afterward, go through all dialogues with him, it doesn’t matter in which order you pick them.

Clues in the Room

In the seance room, you can talk to the hotel staff as well as the Medium “Luka Ghalichi”, inspect the mirror and the skulls in the corner, and the broken chair by the door. You can highlight every point of interest by pressing / . Additionally, there are five clues found at the table in the middle (use / on the diamond in middle of table, inspect wine glass, ash tray, green ‘ectoplasm’, butterfly brooch on jacket). The butterfly brooch on the jacket over the chair is the tricky one to see, you must place the cursor over it precisely so it turns yellow, then rotate it to inspect its wings. The clues are all circled red in the image below.

After finding all clues you can make your first deduction. Open the menu, go to “Mind Palace”, click “Ghosts of the Past”, combine “The Lady pointed across the table” and “Lady Craven faced the window”. This reveals there was a courtyard witness outside the window.

Clues outside of the Room

Head through the door next to the hotel staffer to enter a yard with a pool. By the window, you can find a broken heel on the floor. Use concentration mode / to inspect it, pick it up, rotate it to collect it.

 

Open your casebook and pin the objective “Someone in the Courtyard”, only then you can follow the tracks.

Now go into Concentration Mode / and follow the trail of where the person went, past the pool of water and through the door at the end of the courtyard. Go through the next door on the left. Inside, interact with the shoe on the ground. It should be colored blue when you go near it.

Inspect the lace on top of the shoe as well as the heel by rotating it.

 

We found out this shoe is being worn by the hotel maids. Make sure the objective “Someone in the Courtyard” is still pinned, then go talk to the maid at the lobby entrance who’s scrubbing the floor (should she not give you any info, talk to other maids around the hotel).

By talking to the maids you will learn that Lucia is the name of the maid we are looking for. She’s on the upper floor, by the paintings next to room 225. Talk to her and tell her you’re solving a crime.

Imagination Sequence

After talking to her, head back to the Seance Room downstairs. Interact with the white bubble to start reconstructing what must have happened in the room.

The correct positions of the persons in the room are shown below (medium using ectoplasm on the side nearest mirror, woman in chair nearest couch pointing at window, Lord Craven lifting chair on side nearest entry door). After all is done, hold / to validate:

Talk to the Cravens

When the sequence above has played out correctly, open your casebook and pin objective “The Probable Thief”.

Now we can proceed to the Cravens Suite 226, which is situated on the upper floor.

In front of the door, we are presented the first opportunity to eavesdrop for intel. Stand near the two maids with the “ear icon” between them, then hold / to start. You must swipe up the left stick to filter out the following words: Made her husband drunk, Was on the lookout, Cannot use a fish knife. If time runs out, walk away a few meters and come back to retry.

Now enter the room. A short sequence will play and you will talk to Lord Craven and address the elephant, or rather the corpse, in the room.

Interact with the corpse, it has 3 clues (bruised throat, red handbag, diamond on bed must be rotated and viewed from the top). In the same room, inspect the door in concentration mode. Also inspect jewelry box on the cabinet for 5 clues (use concentration mode on box to reveal secret compartment, ring with butterfly, ring with engraving, cheques, vanity case next to it).

The other room of the suite has a letter and ripped papers on the desk, and a letter on the small table on the opposite side.

After collecting everything, present the evidence to Lord Craven and exhaust all available dialogues with him.

Then pin objective “Lord Craven’s Explanation”, head downstairs and talk to the receptionist to get the key to Ghalichi’s room. He’s in room 225, next door to Craven’s room.

Talk to Ghalichi

Head back upstairs and enter room 225.

First, look at the evidence on the left table (tools in middle of table, green ectoplasm bottle on right side of table, letter on right side of table).

After picking it up, go to casebook > Ectoplasm Sample > press / to start a Chemical Analysis. The easy method is to press to skip it and get the solution immediately. The way to do it manually is to move ( / ) the chemical operation icon from the top row to the center. Move the reagents “red 3” and “green 2” from the bottom row into the left box, link them to the chemical operation icon in the middle ( hold / ). Then link the chemical operation icon to the target formula on the right side and press the confirmation button when done. See solution image below.

Now make a portrait of him (bleeding nose, neck discoloration, belly. left hand, right hand).

The correct conclusion is “Former thief became a medium”. Talk to him and present him with all the evidence.

Closing the Case

We have all the evidence we need. Open the menu and go to the Mind Palace, combine all the different pieces of intel that you have gathered. There’s no way to combine wrong evidence, so you can’t mess this up. Do this until no evidence is left to be combined. From the mind palace screen you can press / to enter the deductions screen where all clues are connected. Make sure you click on all that show “???” to form the full picture. The correct choices are “Emma scratched Luka”, “The murderer left the diamond”. Eventually, it will form a chart like this and you have to choose the outcome you prefer:

This case only has one viable suspect and the outcome you choose is not relevant for any trophies or achievements, nor does it impact the rest of the story. You can either choose to “Bring Luka Ghalichi to justice” or “Help Luka Ghalichi escape”. Pick whichever you like better, it doesn’t matter. Once you made your choice, press / to quit out of this menu, talk to Ghalichi again and pick the “Accuse” dialogue. It doesn’t matter in what order you pick the remaining dialogues. At the end you can choose “you must be punished” to have police arrest him, or “I’ll give you a chance” to help him escape. But again, this doesn’t matter and doesn’t impact anything else in the game. Either way Ghalichi will never be heard of again.

This finishes Ghosts of the Past case in Sherlock Holmes Chapter One.

Now you come to the outer courtyard, interact with the carriage to skip to the Cemetery. Continue with Main Case “A Mother’s Love” – Objective: At the Cemetery.

Up Next: A Mother’s Love

For all other Cases, view the full Sherlock Holmes Chapter One Walkthrough.