Yamamura Misa Suspense: Kyoto Kurama Sansou Satsujin Jiken

Kyouto Anba Sansou Satsujin Jiken is a murder mystery adventure game based on writings of Misa Yamamura, a Japanese writer of murder mystery novels. The protagonist of the story is Akiko Sonoyama, freelancer who finds herself in the middle of a murder mystery after the son of the host dies during the dinner right after drinking the wine.

Remake of the 3D0 original. The main difference there is that live actors have all been removed and characters were replaced with silhouettes and game interface changed to look like a mystery visual novel but with a selectable actions such as talk or inquire which make the game less of a typical visual novel and only resemble it in graphical presentation by using static backgrounds with dialogue text over it.

[from Moby Games]