An Excellent Mystery - excerpt

A couple of entries below I've been discussing the new story idea to a Sherlock Holmes adventure in the original, Victorian settings, but with certain characters from the modern BBC-series. Behind the cut you can read a short excerpt of Chapter 01, just for the fun of it.

( For Station Superintendent Roberts there was no grander building in Birmingham than New Street Railway Station... )

For visuals: Mr Roberts is "played" by Sir Derek Jacobi, as he looked in the role of Colonel Protheroe in "Murder at the Vicarage".

So, what do you think?