221-B Baker Street - Deluxe?

We picked up the Deluxe Edition of 221-B Baker Street and gave it a test run.  I've known about this one for a few years now, and all the expansion packs that add 10 or 20 new cases each.  This box had 200 cases.

As we played it, we got an odd vibe.  You roll dice and try to get to locations that have clues.  You read the clues from the casebooks, maybe jot down some notes, then roll dice to get back to 221-B Baker Street to give your best guess.  But ... played together as a team, the board and dice serve no real point.  It just randomizes which clue card you read next.  That's it.  We could have just stayed home, picked random clue cards and propose our solutions without rolling dice at all.

I suppose this could get interesting if we wanted to compete against each other, or if there was another team playing.  As it was, we wondered why we didn't just watch the next episode of Elementary instead.

I did not miss the irony that the designer's last name was Moriarty.