If Sherlock were to do "ripped from the headlines":

[tzikeh]

Tell me this is not TOTALLY a Sherlock case:

A British spy who was found dead in the bath of a flat in London was killed before his body was stuffed into a sports bag where it lay decomposing for up to two weeks.

Scotland Yard said today that a post mortem was inconclusive in establishing a cause of death and further examination, including toxicology tests, would be required.

There was no evidence he was stabbed, sources said, dismissing earlier reports. Detectives are studying whether he was strangled, asphyxiated or drugged....

Jason Hollands, 41, a City worker, who also lives nearby, said: "It's truly gruesome - this is a very mixed area of bankers and politicians. I've spoken to the next-door neighbour, who knew nothing."...

Mr Williams' mobile telephone and sim cards had been carefully laid out elsewhere in the flat....

You guys should read the whole article. It sounds more and more like an episode with each detail.

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Comments

[ipstenu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but Watson would name it the Pimlico Ponderance or something ;)

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAHA!

Pimlico Peril!

[spiderine.livejournal.com]

YES YES YES I saw that and thought of Sherlock immediately!

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Me and pandarus were thinking it sounds a hell of a lot like The Great Game, or at least the Bruce-Partington plans bit of it.

[cromarty.livejournal.com]

It gets more interesting. He was a maths genius who got a first class degree at 17. No one seems to have spoken to him, ever. He was a codebreaker at GCHQ, we suspect (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/aug/26/gareth-williams-mi6-officer-parents)

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Yes - I picked up the newspaper at lunchtime, and it might as well have been the start of a fanfic.

The poor man - this is probably the most attention he's ever had.