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A sharp rapping at the door interrupted us. A young woman burst in, her face as pale as the mist outside. She wore a silk evening gown, torn at the shoulder, and clutched a heavy brass key.

I looked up from the British Medical Journal . “I should say his heart gave out. A tragic, if mundane, end.” subtitle Sherlock Holmes

“Tell me, Watson,” Holmes said, eyes fixed on a bubbling test tube. “What do you make of a man who dies of fright in a room locked from the inside, with nothing but a half-eaten orange on the bedside table?” A sharp rapping at the door interrupted us

“Mr. Holmes,” she gasped. “My father is gone. But he didn’t leave through the door. He left through the mirror.” I looked up from the British Medical Journal

Holmes’s eyes ignited. He reached for his deerstalker. “The Mirror of the Blackwood Estate, I presume? A fascinating piece of Venetian glass. They say it doesn't reflect the sitter, but the person standing behind them in the afterlife.”

He grabbed his magnifying glass and signaled to me. “Come, Watson. The game is afoot, and it seems we are dealing with a villain who understands optics better than ethics.”

“Mundane?” Holmes turned, his thin lips curling into a predatory smile. “The orange was sliced into precisely seven segments. Six were consumed. The seventh was punctured with a needle—not to inject poison, but to extract the juice. And yet, the floor was bone dry.”