Modus Operandi
- Here's where things get scary, so grab your lucky stuffed animal.
- Women in Holmes' employment begin to disappear: first a waitress, then a stenographer. And the hotel constantly smells like chemicals and gas.
- The police are never involved.
- Unlike London's Jack the Ripper, Holmes doesn't kill face to face. "But he did like proximity" (3.5.4).
- Holmes' vault stifles cries and pounding. He also fills rooms with gas while guests sleep, and slips into rooms to press chloroform-soaked rags to guests' faces.
- "The choice was his, a measure of his power" (3.5.4).
- He continues to send cadavers to Chappell, having decided long ago not to keep trophies of his kills.
- Okay, we're done. You can stop squeezing Mr. Whiskers.