Fun to play and I particularly enjoyed twirling my moustache!
Also, good thing with the hints, I used them a few times (almost all these times I was thinking in the right way beforehand, but didn't pursue the lead all the way)
Great game. A lot of things going on, the mystery unfolds itself in small pieces. I guess you have to play it many times to understand it all.
I agree with the freedom I felt about doing stuff. Though, one minor bug was that once, a man was both dead and quaking with fear at the sam time... I suppose I failed to see how I should kill the guy before he died anyway:
"He is dead already. The band of gold glitters from his finger like a burial treasure. Time to go.
[the man's name] quakes with fear, you feel his shudders."