The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade
“They both came two days after the murder of Forbes. McNaghten had intensified the search for ‘Agrippa’, Agrippa the Elusive. Twenty-six constables and three sergeants had been found from somewhere, but house-to-house searches had revealed nothing.
The first letter, Lestrade had been waiting for – The door flew open, in he ran, The great, long, red-legg’d scissor-man.
Oh! Children, see! The tailor’s come And caught out little suck-a-thumb.
Snip! Snap! Snip! They go so fast, That both his thumbs ...are off at last.
‘Agrippa’ had become the ‘great, long, red-legg’d scissor man’. It was the same man, unruffled. So Forbes had found something, but what? He was onto someone, but who?
It was the second letter that took Lestrade by surprise. The scissors man had struck again, even before there was a body, even before a crime was reported. Somewhere, Augustus lay dead – Augustus was a chubby lad; Fat ruddy cheeks Augustus had; And everybody saw with joy The plump and hearty healthy boy … Across the twilight river, the trees of October were dark and gaunt.MoreLess
The first letter, Lestrade had been waiting for – The door flew open, in he ran, The great, long, red-legg’d scissor-man.
Oh! Children, see! The tailor’s come And caught out little suck-a-thumb.
Snip! Snap! Snip! They go so fast, That both his thumbs ...are off at last.
‘Agrippa’ had become the ‘great, long, red-legg’d scissor man’. It was the same man, unruffled. So Forbes had found something, but what? He was onto someone, but who?
It was the second letter that took Lestrade by surprise. The scissors man had struck again, even before there was a body, even before a crime was reported. Somewhere, Augustus lay dead – Augustus was a chubby lad; Fat ruddy cheeks Augustus had; And everybody saw with joy The plump and hearty healthy boy … Across the twilight river, the trees of October were dark and gaunt.MoreLess
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