Much of the game usually focuses on investigation and deduction but combat can and does play a big part in it.

From the back of the book : "The Adventures of the Bow Street Runners in their Struggle Against the Minions of the Cthulhu Mythos London, 1749: A city of vice, crime and misery.

Corrupt night-watchmen and thief-takers turn a blind eye to wrongdoing.

And dark creatures lurk in back alleys, called from beyond by the desperate with nothing left to lose.

But there is a new force on the streets of London; for the author and magistrate Henry Fielding has teamed up with his brother John to form the city’s first police force – the Bow Street Runners.