The Adventure of the Copper Beeches: The Piper (R)

[vaysh]

Canon Story: The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Title: The Piper
Author: vaysh
Words: 60
Rating: R (for violence)
Author's Notes: Darkly inspired by the line 'a child who may some day play a considerable part in the history of the country.'


Twenty years after the Whitechapel murders, another killer haunts the East End. Witnesses describe him of small build, dressed in a frock of electric blue. He kills with a hammer, a blow smack on the head of his victims, three so far, all with chestnut hair. The Piper, the press calls him, as vermin is said to follow his path.

Comments

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Jonathan Kellerman would have needed 500 pages to write that.

An excellent and original 60. The chestnut hair is a brilliant touch.

[vaysh]

Aw, thank you so much. It may be a tad more suspenseful to read a Jonathan Kellerman novel. :)
In my mind, the boy was both jealous of his sister (what with all the attention she was getting, thus killing people with chestnut-coloured hair), and he wanted to be her (thus the electric blue frock).