Mystery 35: Irene's Earrings
A/N: This 221B mini mystery is dedicated to Wisteria22 who suggested Irene Adler play a part in the next chapter.
Irene Adler looked again. Surely her eyes were playing tricks and had failed to find this particular pair of earrings on her dresser. Her dragon-eyed earrings that were fashioned with exquisite emerald irises and piercing black onyx pupils with silver trim always went so well with her outfits, adding to the fierce, untamed allusion she often sought to display when she was with her clients. She searched her jewellery box again. Gone.
"Kate, darling," she called downstairs to her assistant, "have you seen my earrings?"
"No, I haven't seen any of your things lying around the house," she replied. "You might ask Reggie though. He was doing a few repairs in the house yesterday and might have seen them."
"Earrings?" Reggie asked incredulously when Irene questioned him. "Why would I want a set of eyes dangling from my ears?" He turned aside with an air of disgust.
"Earrings?" the housekeeper shook her head. "I don't even have pierced ears. Maybe they fell on the floor in your wardrobe when you changed yesterday?" She added helpfully.
That evening, Irene lounged on her sofa and texted Sherlock about the case. "Did you take my earrings?" she added. She pictured her beloved earrings boiling in a cauldron of caustic chemicals.
"No," was Sherlock's instant SMS reply. "But isn't it obvious who took your beauties?!"
Answer to Chapter 34: The Jack Frost Murderer
Sherlock realised that the guard was lying when he mentioned he wiped the window clear of frost from outside the building. Frost forms on the inside of windows. The guard should not have been able to see anything inside the building through the frost-covered windowpane while standing where he indicated. His witness testimony did not hold true. When confronted with the facts, the guard confessed that he'd killed the victim and used the recent sensational Jack Frost serial killer to lay the blame with a faked snowflake card.