Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #3 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: mystery, sleuth, detective, murder, Sherlock Holmes
ISBN: 9781434437310
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2014-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

He made a fist in the air, as if squeezing a microbe to death.

“…if our interests should happen to run counter to those of the client, we settle the matter in such a way that we are ultimately convenienced while our patron does not realise precisely what has happened. This, also, you understand?”

“Too right, Professor,” I said.

“Good. I believe we shall have satisfaction of each other.”

I sipped my tea. Too milky, too pale. It always is after India. I think they put curry-powder in the pot out there, or else piddle in the sahib’s crockery when he’s not looking.

“Would you care for one of Mrs Halifax’s biscuits?” he asked, as if he were the vicar entertaining the chairwoman of the beneficent fund. “Vile things, but you might like them.”

I dunked and nibbled. Mrs H was a better madam than baker. Which led me to wonder what fancies might be buttered up in the rooms below the Professor’s lair.

“So, Colonel Moran, I take pleasure in appointing you as the head of one of our most prestigious divisions. It is a post for which you are eminently qualified by achievement and aptitude. Technically, you are superior to all in this firm save myself. You are expected to take up residence here, in this building. A generous salary comes with the position. And profit participation in, ah, “special projects.” One such matter is at hand, and we shall come to it when we receive our next caller, Mister—no, not Mister, Elder—Elder Enoch J Drebber of Cleveland, Ohio.”

He consulted his watch.

“I’m flattered. And a ‘generous salary’ would solve certain of my problems, not to mention the use of a London flat. But, Moriarty, what is this division you wish me to head? Why am I such a perfect fit for it? What, specifically, is its business?”

Moriarty smiled again.

“Did I omit to mention that?”

“You know damn well you did!”

“Murder, my dear Moran. Its business is Murder.”

* * * *

Barely ten minutes after my appointment as Chief Executive Director of Homicide, Ltd., I was awaiting our first customer.

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