![]() ![]() Designer: Gary Grady, Suzanne Goldberg, Raymond Edwards.If it’s any consolation, I’d placed my hat on the Gardener!” ![]() I didn’t wait for Holmes to continue, I mumbled my farewell and proceeded to the door held open by Watson. My God! I was so far off the scent – I had the nosey neighbour down for it all how could I be so wrong. She placed the jewels in the banks vault to retrieve them later, after the insurance had paid out.” Lofthouse stole her own Pearls and Diamonds, though she never intended any harm to her husband, he caught her by surprise, and she panicked. “One quick glance at the scene and a call to the bank and it was all wrapped up. Lofthouse to her bank, where she placed something within its vaults for safe keeping. “The length of the stride, the weight of the prints in the mud, the size and shape of the shoe, man, did these mean nothing to you?” My heart sank, my shoulders slumped, was I so very wrong? Not only do you take three days to reach a conclusion on what is such trivial case, but you totally failed to see what was right in front of your eyes.” Holmes was standing by the fireplace, and, without further ado, I lavishly laid all I had discovered of the case at his feet, finishing with a smile of my own and awaiting my mentor’s praise. Watson answered my knock and bade me enter, a kindly smile on his face that made one warm to the old Doctor. Hudson let me in, and I made my own way up the familiar stairs I had been one of the great man’s proteges for a couple of weeks now. I, though, had no such worries, for I had solved Holmes’s case in double quick time and was mighty pleased with myself for having done so. I strutted my way along Baker Street, heading for a door that had seen more than its fair share of distressed souls pass through. ![]()
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