Coming down to breakfast I found Sherlock Holmes already up and perusing the morning paper. “What do you make of this Watson?” he cried. “Four eminent professors of chemistry, in different parts of the country, done to death in one night. Scotland Yard admits they are baffled and have asked for my help. Look”, he went on eagerly, thrusting the paper towards me, “these are the postal districts where the victims lived. Can you see a connection, Watson?”
A postcode mystery
Coming down to breakfast I found Sherlock Holmes already up and perusing the morning paper. “What do you make of this Watson?” he cried. “Four eminent professors of chemistry, in different parts of the country, done to death in one night. Scotland Yard admits they are baffled and have asked for my help. Look”, he went on eagerly, thrusting the paper towards me, “these are the postal districts where the victims lived. Can you see a connection, Watson?”
B5
N7
S16
W74
“It's elementary my dear Holmes” I answered.