He showed me a doctor's report on one of the
bodies. As I read it, a sick feeling carne over me.
'What man could do this?' I asked. 'What possible
reason could he have to do this to a woman? Why,
Holmes, why?' He smiled coolly at me.
'Why indeed? That is the real interest of this case. In
themselves, these deaths are not important. Women
like that are murdered every week. But why does this
killer cut them up? Why rip the bodies to pieces with
a knife? That is the question which makes this case so
exciting!,
If anyone can stop these terrible murders, Holmes is
that man, I thought. This case could become his
greatest success.
At that moment somebody knocked at the door.