Young Sherlock Holmes [antikvár]

Chapter OneONE NIGHT DURING THE WINTER OF 1870 A WEALTHY London accountant of exemplary character leapt to his death through a third floor window at his apartment in Pimlico. Inevitably, in their accounts of the tragedy the newspapers made use of the term "mysterious circumstances," but their speculation went no further. Whatever terror had impelled the unfortunate man to make so spectacular an exit from life left no clue as to its nature.There had been no break-in. The police found no evidence of foul play. It must be recorded that some patrons of a nearby restaurant recalled that he had shown signs of a lack of sobriety while dining there that evening, though no one who knew him believed that he was a heavy drinlcer. Indeed at the inquest, family and friends testified that he had every reason to feel life had been good to him and he had every intention of continuing to enjoy whatever years might be left to himhe had just turned seventy. Given such testimony to so blameless a lifestyle, what else could7