I don't have a good track record with strategy games but I'm satisfied with how this one turned out. It's a card-based game where the goal is to figure out who is the killer, and your cards are investigative actions. It has some light deck-building mechanics but in the end it turned out that adding cards isn't very helpful (ah well). There are three different "characters" that serve as different decks, and I tried to make them play differently. It's supposed to be set in the Victorian era but I didn't have time to add anything in particular that indicates that (besides the old-timey color scheme).

Unfortunately I didn't have time to add in-game rules; you'll have to be a bit patient and read the README.txt. The game isn't too complicated once you understand how things work. I also don't expect the game to be very well balanced but it seems to be ok. Luck might be a bigger factor than I would like (technically you could win in turn one if you're lucky).

Thanks to everyone who played my game! I appreciate all your comments.

Making a game like this was a bit risky, but it was worth it. I haven't done a lot of strategy games like this in Pyweek and my past attempts weren't very good. I'm happy that I was able to make one that I'm satisfied with and it looks like many of you liked it as well. It was also surprisingly time consuming; I spent a lot of time polishing the interface throughout the week and I was just trying to rush everything in in at the end. I'm glad that things worked out and I'm quite happy with how the interface turned out (which is often a weak point of mine). I might avoid strategy games next time though unless I have an idea I really want to try.
I made the mistake of leaving the tutorial to the very end. At least I probably should have done that before adding card variety. Usually when I'm making puzzle games, tutorial levels kind of come out naturally as you develop puzzle mechanics. However, with a strategy game like this with relatively complicated rules, it actually takes a substantial amount of time to develop a tutorial, and I realized at the end that I wouldn't have enough time. This was probably one of the biggest issues with the game and I was aware of it at submission time but I hope that wasn't a big deal for most of you.
There's also a weird property in this game in that chance is a big deal. You could be lucky and catch the killer very early on because you happened to have a guard in a block and there were few people there. You could also randomly target a suspect and have a chance of winning the game. For this reason, I'm not sure if this is an idea that would survive scaling up and maybe it's best that it's just a small Pyweek game. I wonder how a developed version of this idea would look like.
Congratulations to the other winners (Python Prison and Badge Blaster 2112) and to everyone else who completed a game! I don't see ties very often. These were excellent games and there were also other great games in the batch. Thanks mauve for hosting Pyweek. I had limited time to rate games this Pyweek, so sorry if I wasn't able to play yours. See you all next time!