Mystery 25: Mrs Hudson Is Suspicious
"Yes?" Mrs Hudson peered at the irate man on her doorstep. "What's the problem?"
"Your tenants are - crazy!" the man spluttered.
"Tell me something I don't know," Mrs Hudson smiled pleasantly.
"Last night, I heard footsteps on my roof. When I looked out the window, I was just in time to glimpse the backs of two men – a tall one in a dark coat and a shorter one in a bluish cardigan hightailing it over my garden wall. In the morning, when I inspected my yard, all my flowers were trampled – ruined."
"How do you know for sure they were my tenants?" Mrs Hudson was suddenly suspicious.
"Well because," the man paused, "I've seen this Sherlock and his sidekick on TV and the tall one always has a black Belstaff."
"Surely there are plenty of people with such coat," Mrs Hudson was not impressed.
"But most of them don't have a penchant for running around under the light of the moon and trespassing in private gardens along with a short accomplice."
"Hurmph!" Mrs Hudson frowned. "I can neither confirm nor deny the whereabouts of my tenants last night as I make it a practise not to track their whereabouts; however, if you're going to tell the police, I suggest you stick to the truth. You're assumptions are a bit brazen."
Answer to Chapter 24 ("B" is for...): "biliary colic". The last victim of the murderer suffered from biliary colic and had gallstones.
A/N: Based on the case of a British serial killer, John George Haigh (1909 – 1949). He murdered his victims and dissolved their bodies in acid. He was known as the 'Acid Bath Murderer'. Eventually he was convicted when forensics found three human gallstones and a partial denture within the sludgy remains of an acid barrel. The denture was identified as belonging to his victim, Olive Durand-Deacon. He was found guilty of 6 counts of murder and executed by hanging. He claimed to have killed 9 people.