Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Detective's Old Residence

"Where do you want to go today?" Kano asked as he brought Fleur a glass of milk and sat down next to him.

The young girl who confirmed the relationship was in a happy mood, and Fleur was ready to play in England for two more days, and Kano was naturally accompanied.

But today, it's up to Fleur to decide where to go.

"I'd like to go to Baker Street." Fleur laughed and said, "The Sherlock Holmes in the book are so powerful, like a wizard. ”

"But you're a wizard." Kano said funny.

"But he used Muggle methods to do things that wizards don't necessarily do." Fleur finished the milk and kissed Kano on the face, leaving a milk mark.

"Alright, let's go!"

The two cleaned up, and Fleur pushed Kano out of the apartment.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's image of Sherlock Holmes is popular around the world, but 221B Baker Street in his book is a semi-virtual address.

Baker Street existed, but it ended at number 85.

It wasn't until the 30s of the 20th century that Baker Street was rebuilt and the house number was renumbered, which gave rise to this classic house number.

Kano and Fleur took the bus to the Baker Street station and followed the prominent sign to the location of 221B Baker Street.

This is the National Bank of Abi, and there is a sign in front of the door: "Sherlock Holmes Secretarial Office".

"Isn't the Sherlock Holmes Memorial here?" Fleur looked at Kano in confusion, and Kano pointed ahead.

The Sherlock Holmes Memorial is there, not in 221b, but between 237 and 241.

The two came too early, and the memorial had just opened. The two bought tickets to enter, and the somewhat confused docent took the two on a tour of the study, which is most often seen in the novel, which is full of materials, such as Sherlock Holmes's violin, pipe, and a chemistry laboratory in the corner.

On the third floor are classic props from Sherlock Holmes's novels, as well as scene wax figures, as a fan girl, Fleur looked at these wax figures in surprise and smiled very happily.

"By the way," Fleur suddenly remembered, "why isn't the museum open at 221?" ”

The staff spread their hands: "Abi National Bank has been there for almost sixty years, and this museum only opened the year before last. ”

"The bank has also set up a special post of Sherlock Holmes secretary, and has been responsible for replying to the book lovers who send them for so many years."

"It's romantic." "I thought the shredder was the only place they went. ”

"However, the owner of this museum seems to want to get his hands on the house number and the power to reply to letters, and he has not had a good time with the bank recently." The staff shook their heads helplessly.

But this did not affect the mood of the two of them. Walking out the door, Kano bought a deer hunting hat at the nearby souvenir shop and put it on Fleur's head, and Fleur bought a black bowler hat and put it on top of Kano's head.

"Female Sherlock Holmes and her boyfriend Watson?" Kano straightened his top hat and posed as if he had a shoulder injury and couldn't lift his hand.

"I think this setting will be popular." Fleur grinned and picked up a candy pipe.

The two laughed and returned the way they came, just as a postman walked briskly towards the Abi National Bank.

He pulled out a stack of letters addressed to Sherlock Holmes, stuffed them into a special mailbox next to him, and turned away.

But he didn't notice that a letter slipped out of his hand and fell to the ground.

Kano and Fleur stepped forward and picked up the letter, ready to put it back in the mailbox.

But Fleur's hand stopped, and she hesitantly put the letter in Kano's hand.

"I don't know much English yet, but this note... It's messy. ”

Kano touched the envelope: "This kind of envelope is very expensive, and the seal is still made of fire paint." This person's economic situation should be good, and his education level should not be very low. ”

"Could it be that he was flustered when he wrote the letter?"

"A real case?" Fleur frowned.

The two looked at each other, holding the letter and not knowing what to do for a while.

"Isn't it bad to open other people's letters privately?"

"But we're wizards, we can reseal it after taking it apart, probably no problem."

The two sneakily took the letter and entered the café on the corner.

Kano used his wand to heat the fire paint seal slightly, opened the envelope, and removed the letter inside.

"Dear Mr. Holmes,

I'm a fan of your books and grew up reading your stories. Now I have encountered incomprehensible horrors, and the police can't help me, I can only turn to you for help. ”

"I swear by my honor that everything I have recorded is true."

Fleur raised her eyebrows: "It's a classic Sherlock Holmes letter for help. ”

Kano nodded in agreement, and the two of them looked down.

"My parents died in accidents when I was a child, but they left me a great legacy."

"Now I live alone on a small estate in Stirlingshire, with me and the old butler on the estate, right next to the forest. During the week, I work in the city during the day and drive home at night. ”

"Recently there have been strange noises outside the manor, which sound like wolves howling. But the wolves in Britain have been extinct for almost two hundred years, and the police can't tell what they are. ”

"Then an expedition team came to us, but they were never heard from after they entered the forest."

"The police searched for them for 10 days and finally found the skeletal remains of several people by the stream."

"They asked me if I had seen anything suspicious, and on the day of the full moon, I saw a huge wolf on the edge of the forest, standing on its legs and howling."

"But the police didn't believe me at all, and thought I was scared and insane."

"I also think I'm insane, I'd better be insane!"

"Now the old housekeeper and I don't dare to go out at night, but I don't want to leave my ancestral house and live in the city, so I can only take a shotgun and be on guard at all times."

"I fear that I will be like the last descendant of the Baskervilles, facing a devilish wolfdog, and I will die in a dark swamp for no apparent reason."

"Please help me, Mr. Holmes, or whoever it is."

"Louis. Cromwell. ”

Kano twisted the letter with his hand, put it under his nose and sniffed it.

"It still has a fragrance, and even the ink is high-end."

"Either he's really cornered, or he's a rich paranoid." Fleur concluded.

"Shall we go check it out?"

"Why not?" Fleur asked with great interest, "Could it be that Mr. Watson has something else?" ”

"And a certain Mary I don't know. Does Mostan exist? ”

"Don't make jokes like that." Kano stretched out his hand and pinched Fleur's face viciously.

"In the letter, he said that the last time the anomaly happened was during the full moon, and maybe it had something to do with the werewolves in England." Fleur said with a smile as she shook Kano's hand.

"There are two days left until the next Full Moon, so let's go."