Sherlock Holmes The Pearl of Death Page #7

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tell us just who did it?

Yes, I think I can.

I've never known

but one killer

who used that technique.

What?

Oh come on he's

dead and done for.

Can you remember him?

Am I likely to forget

the Oxton Creeper?

Oxton Creeper?

Oxton Horror I called him.

A monster Watson with

a chest of a buffalo

and the arms of a gorilla.

His particular method of

murder is back breaking

and it's always the same,

the third lumbar

vertebrae.

How horrible.

Do you mean to stand

there and tell me

you think he's

still alive?

Why they got

him two years ago

trying to escape

from Devil's Island.

Did they?

I wonder.

I'll lay you odds

he's in London at

this very moment.

All right Mr. Holmes you

stick to your theories

I'll stick to my facts.

That's fair enough.

Do me a favor will you?

Anything your

little heart desires.

This broken china get it

all swept up carefully

and send it to me at

Baker Street will you?

All right but what do

you want it for anyway?

Oh just a souvenir.

Come along Watson

I think our usefulness

here has ended.

Mind you sweep it

all up Lestrade.

As a matter of fact Watson

what I did not

tell Lestrade,

since I can't prove it,

is that the Oxton Creeper

has always been Giles

Conover's right arm

when it comes to killing.

When you heard that Major

Harker's back was broken

you suspected

The Creeper huh?

Naturally, can't

be mere coincidence

that the Creeper comes

back into the scene

just as Giles Conover

reappears in London.

I see but how does Harker

tie up with that gang?

I haven't the

foggiest notion.

Buy a box of

matches gentlemen?

But there is a connection

or Harker wouldn't

be lying there now

with his back broken.

My surmise is

that Giles Conover

has lost the Borgia Pearl

and is trying

desperately to get it back

just as we are.

I'm just as

sure of it that am

that we're being shadowed

this very moment.

Eyes front Watson,

come on.

Listen, have you

got your revolver?

Yes.

Then get it ready.

Huh?

Taxi?

No thank you.

Come on Watson.

Conover's gang.

We're on the right

track Watson.

Due primarily to the

brilliant work

of Inspector Lestrade.

Brilliant work of

Inspector Lestrade,

rubbish!

Lestrade couldn't even see

the stripes on a zebra.

Hello.

Housekeeper held,

arrested the housekeeper.

Whoa.

How could a little

woman of that size

break a man's back?

Lestrade's an idiot.

Well what the dear

public don't know it,

the dear public

won't worry about.

Funny.

I had it here

a moment ago.

Extraordinary thing...

Where can it be?

Oh what would Holmes do?

I know, reconstruct it.

Reconstruct it, that's it.

I was sitting here,

cutting,

paste,

reach for pipe,

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