A Study in Scarlet - Chapter 5 - Our Advertisement Brings a Visitor

Our fateful chapter begins with an overtired Dr Watson, his nerves strained by the relentless cadence of the morning's exertions, seeking solace in fitful slumber but finding none. A film of disquiet lingers, imprinted by the tainted memory of the grotesque, lifeless face of a man named Enoch J. Drebber. Watson's thoughts waltz the precarious line between gratitude for the man's departure from this world, and the realisation that a transgression, no matter how vile, does not place one above t...