| In Shoreditch, two friends reunite with Lestrade and make their way to the crime scene, which is located in a cheap lodging house guarded by policemen. The body lies gutted in the center of the room, and green blood is splattered all over the floors and walls. On one wall, the word "Rache" is written in the victim's blood. Lestrade assumes that the victim was writing the name "Rachel" and deduces from the green colour of the blood, the number of limbs on the body, and the nature of the eyes that the victim was clearly a royal, most likely a prince of a German state. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Lestrade confirms that the victim was Prince Franz Drago of Bohemia, a nephew of Queen Victoria who was staying in England for his health (or, as the detective put it, for "theatres, whores, and gaming tables"). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The detective, complaining about the police's amateurish efforts to destroy the evidence, proceeds to inspect some splattered mud and a pile of ash. He then states that Lestrade is foolish to be looking for a woman, as "Rache" in German means "revenge". |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
