


For the rustic the fields of corn, the craggy mountain, the blossomy lane, or the rush of water through the greenwood. Take London from whatever point you will and she will satisfy. In London alone he finds those fantastic groupings, those monstrous masses of light and shade and substance. Paris affords no townscapes: everything there is too perfectly arranged its artificiality is at once apparent. Only in the London night may the connoisseur find so many vistas of sudden beauty, because London was never made: she has growed. Ottermole himself, who claims that the reason for his crimes was because "ideas came into his hands".For the few who have an eye for the beauty of townscapes, London by night is the loveliest thing in the world. A reporter suspects that the culprit has to be someone taken for granted by the public, but falls victim to the killer in turn: Sgt. The story is set in early twentieth-century London, where a murderer has been strangling people to death in the fog and outwitting the police investigation, led by Sgt.

During the trial, Ryunosuke Naruhodo accidentally referred to him as Ottermole, only for the furious juror to state they look nothing alike. The policeman would go on to be picked as a juror for the trial of Albert Harebrayne the following day. While attempting to deduce the goings on at the museum, Herlock Sholmes mistook the sleeping policeman for a wax statue of Ottermole, and deduced it to be the missing waxwork.

One year after the Ottermole murders, one of the exhibits of a "ruthless mass-murderer" at the Madame Tusspells Museum of Waxworks was "abducted", and a policeman arrived at the scene to investigate, only to fall asleep. Ottermole "look-alike"? Main article: The Return of the Great Departed Soul He was eventually caught, convicted, and executed. It eventually transpired that this was because the killer was a senior member of the police called Ottermole. The murders were considered mysterious at the time, as the culprit would always manage to disappear before the police could arrive. (allusions) Ottermole was a "ruthless mass murderer" who killed many people in London.
