[TOMT] PC game involving Carnival

I'm really straining to remember about this game. It involved a sideshow type setting; one of the characters was an IRS agent who took the job because a tax dodger had run over his dog as a kid. This back story was told through a series of woodcuts along with voice over. The same thing was done for the other characters. I think the game was from the early to mid-90s and was not for children. It had a black sense of humor. And it wasn't Faust: Seven Games of the Soul, as far as I can tell.