Laura Bow 2: The Dagger of Amon Ra walkthrough
by Jeff Allred, [email protected]
This document copyright 2001, Jeff Allred

To gain a full and complete understanding of the game's potentially
confusing storyline, I suggest thoroughly questioning the characters you
come across.  Question them frequently throughout the game, especially
after significant events have occurred.  This may seem tedious and time-
consuming, but by doing so, you'll learn revealing, often entertaining
information vital to solving both the museum burglary and the mysteries
surrounding it.

ACT I

After speaking with Crodfoller, question him about all topics contained
in your notebook.  When you ask him about the flower shop, he'll explain
that it's just the cover for a speakeasy, and he'll mention Ziggy, the
local stoolpigeon.  Look at your desk.  Lift the lower right-hand corner
of the blotter, take the key you find and use it to unlock the desk
drawer.  Take the press pass from the drawer then exit the desk close-
up.  Rummage through your wastebasket and you'll find a discarded
baseball.  Outside the Tribune, use the hand icon on the yellow taxi
sign to hail a cab.  In the cab, show your press pass to Rocco, the
cabbie.  Choose the police station as your destination.

At the police station, use the hand icon on the sleeping man.  Enter the
building and speak to the desk sergeant.  Looks like you'll have to get
on his good side to get any information from him.  Exit the building,
pick the newspaper up from the ground and take the coupon you find
inside.  Back at the Tribune, give the coupon to Luigi and you'll
receive a sandwich.  Return to the police station and give the sandwich
to the gruff desk sergeant to improve his mood.  Now he's ready for
questioning.  When you question him about the speakeasy, he'll tell you
the password for the door.  Ask him about Detective Ryan O'Riley and
he'll give you permission to see him.  After you've finished with the
desk sergeant, go to O'Riley's office to discuss the burglary.  Leave
the police station and go to Lo Fat's Laundry.

When you arrive at the laundry, you'll notice three kids playing near
the entrance.  Give the baseball to Biff, the boy in yellow.  He'll give
you a magnifying glass in exchange.  Inside the laundry, question Lo
Fat.  When you mention the museum, he'll add the names of three museum
employees to your notebook:  Dr. Olympia Myklos, Wolf Heimlich and
Yvette Delacroix.  Next, make your first trip to the speakeasy.

Knock at the side entrance then use the password you learned earlier to
get in.  Inside, tell the bartender you're looking for Ziggy and he'll
point him out for you.  Speak to Ziggy.  When he asks who sent you, tell
him Crodfoller.  Now he'll cooperate and answer your questions.  When
you bring up Egyptology, he'll tell you of the museum's accountant,
Rameses Najeer.  He'll also recite a riddle he learned from Rameses,
which will be of importance later in the game.  Once you're finished
with Ziggy, leave the speakeasy and go to the 12th Street docks.

Arriving at the docks, you'll be greeted by Steve Dorian, the dishy
stevedore.  When questioning Steve, make sure the museum is the last
topic you cover, because it will end the conversation.  You must speak
with him about this topic, however, in order to progress to the next
act.  Ask him about Dr. Archibald Carrington and he'll give you another
name connected to the museum, Countess Lavinia Waldorf-Carlton.  Now, if
you like, go back to previously visited locations and question everyone
about the new topics you've added to your notebook.  When you hail a
cab, you should get a different driver.  The new cabbie, Bob, will ask
you if you have a problem with his cab.  Tell him no, you love sitting
in filth.  Before choosing a destination, use the hand icon to move away
the litter closest to Laura.  By doing so, you'll uncover a laundry
claim ticket, which will score you something to wear at the museum
soiree.  Take the cab to Lo Fat's and exchange the claim ticket for a
gown.  At the speakeasy, go to the women's lounge.   Take a second to
question the flapper.  If you're ready to begin the next act, change
into your gown and leave the speakeasy.

ACT II

At the museum entrance, give Wolf your press pass to get into the party
then go inside.  Questioning everyone is extremely important here.  Even
if you've previously spoken with a character, they'll have new things to
say.  When you've finished questioning, take a drinking glass from the
table in the center area.  Go to the museum gift shop.  Inside, examine
the souvenir daggers with your magnifying glass.  Toward the left side
of the display case, you'll find one that isn't stamped with 'Made in
Pittsburgh.' When you do, Wolf will enter and ask you to leave.  Now
it's time for some eavesdropping.  Go to the center area and walk behind
the five party guests gathered there to overhear their conversation.
Several other discussions will now take place in the three areas of the
rotunda, but before you finish all 14 conversations, go to the center
area when there's nobody there to listen in on.  There, you'll meet
Steve for a romantic interlude.  Here's a list of where the
conversations take place and whom they include:

1:  Center, Ziggy, Dr. Carter, Yvette, Rameses and Dr. Carrington
2:  Center, Ziggy, Dr. Carter, Rameses and Dr. Carrington
3:  Left, Yvette and Det. O'Riley
4:  Left, Det. O'Riley and Dr. Smith
5:  Center, Rameses and the countess
6:  Center, Ziggy and the countess
7:  Right, Ziggy and Yvette
8:  Right, Yvette and Dr. Carrington
9:  Right, Det. O'Riley and Ziggy
10:  Center, Yvette, Rameses and Dr. Smith
11:  Left, Yvette, Dr. Myklos and the countess
12:  Left, Dr. Carter and Yvette
13:  Left, Dr. Carter and Dr. Smith
14:  Center, Steve and Yvette

Before you listen in on the last conversation, take a minute to question
Steve.  You're now free to explore the left side of the museum.  Find
your way to the T-rex room and take the dinosaur bone from the display
table.  Next, go to the Egyptian exhibit.  In the first area, inspect
the glass case that held the dagger before it was stolen.  Move to the
other area of the exhibit.  Look at the first half of the Rosetta stone
with your magnifying glass to copy the hieroglyphs and their
translations to your notebook.  Examine the bloody footprint with the
magnifying glass then take the gold ankh medallion from the pool of
blood.  Examine the ankh medallion with your magnifying glass and you'll
see the initials 'P.S.' inscribed on it.  Open the right-hand
sarcophagus to find Dr. Carter.  Examine him thoroughly, taking the
notepad you discover in his pocket.  The act ends after Det. O'Riley
enters and questions you about the murder.

ACT III

The right side of the museum is now unguarded, so make your way to the
old masters gallery.  If you touch the paintings there, you'll notice
they feel curiously damp, as if recently done.  Continue to the
sculpture gallery.  When you arrive, use the drinking glass on the door
to Yvette's office to hear her speaking with Dr. Myklos.  With Dr.
Myklos occupied, now's a good time to snoop around in her office.
There, remove the cloth from the second half of the Rosetta stone and
examine it with your magnifying glass to complete your list of
translated hieroglyphs.  If you decipher the text on the blackboard,
you'll get the answers to Rameses' two-part riddle, which you'll need to
know later.  Here's what it says:

'I PAY HOMAGE TO THEE, YE LORDS OF ETERNITY.  RA, STRONG IS THY SAIL IN
THE WIND AS THE LAKE OF FIRE IN THE UNDERWORLD.  BEHOLD SHU, THE MOTHER,
CREATING THE GODS IN SILENCE FROM WOMB.  QUICKER THAN GREYHOUNDS AND
FLEETER THAN LIGHT, LET ME NOT BE BURNT, LET ME NOT BE CONSUMED, LET ME
NOT PERISH AS MY MUMMY LIES PROSTRATE IN MY TOMB.'

When you try to take the bottle of snake oil from Dr. Myklos' desk, she
enters and snatches it up herself.  Follow her out of the room to see
her open the hidden stairway, which leads downstairs.  In Yvette's
office, retrieve the carbon paper from the wastebasket.  To read the
carbon paper, hold it in front of the desk lamp.  You'll need the light
bulb from the lamp, so turn it off to let the bulb cool.  Go next door
to Dr. Carrington's office.  There, use the glass on the door to
overhear Yvette and Rameses.  Look in the fireplace and take the
charcoal you find there.  When you rub the charcoal on Dr. Carter's
notepad, you'll be able to read a list of his appointments for the
night.  Look at the intercom unit on Dr. Carrington's desk.  Set the
intercom to receive mode by pressing the top left button.  Now use the
bottom row buttons to select which room to receive from.  By doing so,
you should overhear three conversations.  Return to Yvette's office and
take the now touchable light bulb from the desk lamp.

Back in the sculpture gallery, move the Thinker's head to open the
hidden stairway.  When you approach stairwell, the light over the stairs
will burn out.  Replace the burned out bulb with your bulb then head
downstairs.  In the downstairs hall, use the dinosaur bone to break the
glass over the emergency alcove.  Take the lantern from inside.  If Wolf
interrupts and orders you out, try again or come back later.  Once you
have the lantern, go upstairs to Dr. Myklos' office.  Turn on your
lantern then pull the horned rhesus' horn to enter a secret passage
leading downstairs.  In the alcohol preservation lab, use the glass on
the door to Ernie's office to overhear his conversation with Yvette.  If
you like, walk in and catch them in the act.  Now go to the mammalogy
lab, where you'll find Dr. Myklos.  She'll explain that she's looking
for her ferret then she'll ask you to leave.  Go upstairs and use your
glass on Yvette's door to overhear her with Det. O'Riley.  Again, if
you're feeling voyeuristic, you can walk in on them.  If you've done
everything quickly enough, the time should now be close to 10:15.  Hurry
to the Egyptian exhibit to wait for Dr. Smith.  He soon enters to meet
with Dr. Carter, apparently unaware of his murder.  Leave the Egyptian
exhibit and go to the pterodactyl room to discover that Ziggy has been
murdered.  After inspecting the corpse, find Ziggy's head hanging in the
life masks exhibit.

After being grilled again, head downstairs to Wolf's office.  Shortly
after you enter, you should hear a message on the intercom from Dr.
Myklos.  Use the dinosaur bone to spring the mousetrap then remove the
cheese from it.  In the lower left side of the bookcase, look for a
series of books called "Torture Without Leaving Scars."  Here, you'll
notice a book that's been turned around to hide the title.  Open the
book and take the garter from inside.  Examine the garter and the note
attached to it with your magnifying glass.  Pull the framed medals
hanging on the right wall to reveal a button.  Turn on your lantern then
press the button to enter a secret passage leading upstairs.  In Dr.
Carrington's office, examine the new murder scene carefully.  Of
particular interest are the letters written on the desk in blood, and
the time of death indicated by the broken clock.  After exiting the
close-up, look at the notepad on Dr. Carrington's desk.  Glance over the
phone list and notice the suspicious-looking listing for 'B. Sayff.'
The number is actually the combination to the wall safe, which is found
my pulling the painting hanging over the fireplace.  In the safe, you'll
find the diary of the museum's previous president, Sterling Waldorf-
Carlton.  Go to the bookcase and take the red book from the right-hand
side of the center shelf.  Tucked inside the book is a police report on
con man Watney Little.  Take the file with you.  The time should be
approaching 1:00, so head to the medieval armor display.  When you pass
through Yvette's office, notice the bloody blade on the paper cutter.

When you arrive at the armor display, use the hand icon on the tapestry
to hide behind it.  After the clock strikes one and the countess shows
up, move out from behind the tapestry to confront her about the
suspicious late-night meeting planned between Dr. Carrington, Ziggy and
her.  Once you're finished with her, inspect the suit of armor in the
center of the display and you'll see that somebody's attempted to hide
Dr. Carter's body.  Go to Dr. Carrington's office to overhear Yvette
speaking to Dr. Smith in her office.  Question Ernie in his office
downstairs.  If he's not there, come back later.  Dr. Myklos has left
the mammalogy lab so go there now.  When you walk into the room, you'll
see Daisy the ferret come out of hiding and sniff the steamer trunk
located under the shelves.  If you examine the trunk, you'll see that it
belongs to Dr. Carrington, and was previously aboard the Andrea Doria.
If you watched the game's intro, you already know what's inside.
Ernie's office should now be unoccupied, so here's your opportunity to
do some snooping there.  Soon after you enter, you'll hear a message on
the intercom from Dr. Myklos.  Evidently, there's a problem with vat 13
in the alcohol preservation lab.  Grab the snake catcher from under the
desk.  Next, open Ernie's toolbox and take the wire cutters.  On the
desk is a listing of the vat contents.  Take a look inside and you'll
see that warthogs are currently contained in vat 13.  Press the large
button next to the door to open a secret passage in the mammalogy lab.
If you don't finish everything before Ernie returns and asks you to
leave, try again later.  In the preservation lab, find vat 13.  Climb
the ladder and take a look inside.

Back in the mammalogy lab, open the cold storage locker and take the
rancid meat from inside.  Notice the sack of plaster sitting atop the
locker.  Take the bottle of snake oil from the shelf.  You'll find the
key to the steamer trunk upstairs, so turn on your lantern and enter the
secret passage behind the crates, which you opened from Ernie's office.
Go to the pterodactyl room and look at the corpse once more.  Use the
wire cutters on left-hand piece of wire protruding from the pterodactyl.
In the old masters gallery, you may have noticed a glint on the
Anonymous Bosch painting.  Examine the glint with your magnifying glass
to find a skeleton key.  Use the wire cutters to safely remove the key
from the painting.  Return to the mammalogy lab.  Use the skeleton key
to open the steamer trunk then quickly drop the slab of meat inside.
Examine the skeleton in the trunk.  When you use your magnifying glass,
you'll find a pocket watch, which identifies the remains as Dr.
Carrington.  Take the watch with you.  Go to Ernie's office to discover
that he and Yvette are at it again.  Upstairs, in the sculpture gallery,
use the glass on Yvette's door to hear her arguing with Det. O'Riley.
The time is approaching 2:00, so head for the armor display to spy on
Dr. Myklos and Wolf.  Go to the mastodon room now to discover that Ernie
has been murdered.  Upon closer inspection, you'll notice heavy traces
of alcohol, as well as animal hairs.  Take the hairs with you.  Find
Wolf and Det. O'Riley in the old masters gallery to end the act.

ACT IV

In her office, speak with Yvette about Ernie's murder.  When you exit,
you'll run into Steve.  After Yvette steals him away, use the glass to
listen at the door.  If you haven't yet had a chance to question Wolf,
he'll be in his office now.  Go to the preservation lab to find that
neither party shows up for the meeting planned there at 3:00.  Return to
Yvette's office to see that there's been a struggle.  Examine the
evidence, taking the shoe with you.  Go to the old masters gallery and
use the dinosaur bone on the plaster statue.  Thoroughly examine
Yvette's corpse, taking the red hairs and bifocals you find.  Next, go
to the armor display.  Pick up the work boot from the floor and examine
the blood.  Go to the sculpture gallery to prompt a cut scene.  Enter
Dr. Myklos' office and use the snake oil on Barney three times.  When
you've trapped him in the corner, use the snake catcher on him then
return him to his cage.  Before you look at the countess, check your
snake oil to make sure that it's one-quarter-full.  If it's not, go
downstairs to the preservation lab and refill it from the container
sitting on the workbench.  Now examine the countess.  Inspect her ankle
to see that she died from a venomous snakebite.  Look at her with the
magnifying glass to find the smelling salts.  Also take the grapes from
the floor.  Leave the room to end the act.

ACT V

In this act, Laura must outrun and outwit the killer, so speed is key.
First, go next door to the pterodactyl room.  Close the doors then use
your piece of wire to hold them shut.  Next, run to the armor display,
where you'll close and bar the door.  Now go to the storage room hall.
Create a diversion by pushing the chair in front of the door and opening
the transom.  Run to the Egyptian exhibit and open the sarcophagus on
the left to hide.  The killer will enter, see that there's nobody there
then leave to search the storage room.  Hurry to the storage room, which
is now vacant.  Push the crate toward the door and use the wire cutters
on the rope to drop the crate, thus blocking the door.  Move the crate
on the far right to reveal a hidden elevator.  Pull the lever inside the
elevator to descend to the museum basement.  In the mummy storage room,
take the mummy from the sarcophagus on the floor.  Close the door and
prop the mummy up against it.  The sarcophagus closest to you on the
left has a switch on the headdress.  Use the snake catcher on the snake
protruding from the headdress to activate the switch.  Open the
sarcophagus and exit to the temple.  The Amon Ra Sun Worshippers will
now seize you and offer to spare your life if you can answer their
riddle.  If you translated the hieroglyphs in Dr. Myklos' office, you
should already know the answer.  If not, the answers to the two-part
riddle are 'womb' and 'tomb.'  Use the translated hieroglyphs in your
notebook to spell them out.  When you get to the furnace room, remove
the coal concealing Steve's face then use the smelling salts to revive
him.  Before he gets on his feet, give him his other work boot, which
you picked up earlier.  Slide away the large carved stone on the wall
and enter the tunnel.  Once inside the tunnel, turn on the lantern.  Use
snake oil in the tunnel to drive away the cobras then continue upward.
To get rid of the rats, throw the cheese through the left opening, which
leads to the furnace.  Escape through the right opening to the T-rex
room.  Capture the killer by pressing the T-Rex's button, on the control
panel to the right.

ACT VI

The coroner now asks you a series of questions in order to solidify the
case against the murderer.  If you've paid careful attention to the
numerous clues available throughout the game, you shouldn't have much
trouble answering correctly.  If you're unsure, here are the correct
answers:

Who murdered Dr. Pippin Carter?
Detective Ryan Hanrahan O'Riley
Motive:  Financial gain
(O'Riley was ultimately behind the dagger heist.  Killing Dr. Carter
eliminated the biggest obstacle preventing him from getting away with
and cashing in on the scheme.   Yvette's bloody footprint and Dr.
Smith's ankh medallion found at the scene of the crime were merely red
herrings)

Who murdered Lawrence 'Ziggy' Ziegfeld?
Detective Ryan Hanrahan O'Riley
Motive:  Cover another crime
(Ziggy was murdered because of his involvement in the art forgery
scheme.  The bloody paper cutter, which was used to decapitate Ziggy,
may have pointed the finger at Yvette, but O'Riley was the actual
culprit)

Who murdered Ernie Leach?
Detective Ryan Hanrahan O'Riley
Motive:  Cover another crime
(In Act III, Ernie tells Yvette he saw something he wasn't supposed to,
referring to the dagger theft.  The alcohol and warthog hairs found on
his body reveal that he was murdered while trying to move the dagger
from its hiding place so he could later fence it to pay his gambling
debts)

Who murdered Yvette Delacroix?
Detective Ryan Hanrahan O'Riley
Motive:  Jealousy or revenge
(O'Riley found out about Yvette's numerous affairs and killed her in a
jealous rage.  You can hear them quarreling in Act III.  The red hairs
and bifocals found with her body belong to O'Riley)

Who murdered Countess Lavinia Waldorf-Carlton?
Detective Ryan Hanrahan O'Riley
Motive:  Cover another crime
(The countess aided Watney Little in smuggling stolen paintings out of
the museum and replacing them with fakes.  She provides one of the
biggest clues in the game when she uses her dying breath to tell Dr.
Myklos who poisoned her.  The grapes found near her body are a favorite
snack of O'Riley's, as Wolf reveals toward the end of Act III)

Who was the skeleton in the steamer trunk?
Dr. Archibald Carrington III
(The pocket watch found with the skeleton identifies it as Carrington)

Who murdered Dr. Archibald Carrington?
Watney Little
(Little murdered Carrington aboard the Andrea Doria in order to
impersonate him.  This is shown during the game's intro)

Who impersonated Dr. Archibald Carrington?
Watney Little
(This is evidenced in the police file and book found in Carrington's
office combined with the discovery of Carrington's remains)

Who murdered Watney Little?
Detective Ryan Hanrahan O'Riley
Motive: Cover another crime
(O'Riley killed Little in order to cover his tracks.  In an effort to
expose O'Riley, Little offers a valuable clue by writing the letters
'C.P.' in his own blood before dying.  The letters refer to the book
Crime and Punishment, in which Little's police file is kept)

Who actually stole the dagger of Amon Ra from the ancient Egypt exhibit?
Watney Little
(Posing as the museum president, Little had no trouble accessing the
priceless dagger)

Who manipulated Little into stealing the dagger of Amon Ra?
Detective Ryan Hanrahan O'Riley
(O'Riley aided Little in his prison escape in exchange for his help with
the dagger heist.  Yvette confronts O'Riley about this in Act III)

Who was the woman involved in stealing paintings from the old masters
gallery?  Countess Waldorf-Carlton
(She confesses to the crime when you catch her red-handed at the
medieval armor display)

Who was the man involved in stealing paintings from the old masters
gallery?
Watney Little
(When confronted, the countess also exposes Carrington, AKA Little, as
her partner in the forgery scheme)

Who was the middleman who provided forged paintings for the countess and
sold the real ones for her?
Lawrence 'Ziggy' Ziegfeld
(During the party, Ziggy refers to a 'deal' in his brief conversation
with the countess.  He was also scheduled to meet with her and Dr.
Carrington at the armor display)

Who is the high priest of the Amon Ra Sun Worshippers?
Rameses Najeer
(Rameses is easily recognizable while being chased by O'Riley in Act V.
Yvette also reveals his involvement with the cult during a conversation
in her office)

Which museum employee runs a fencing operation as a sideline business?
Ernie Leach
(The carbon paper found in Yvette's office points this out)

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