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# locked-room

By amigo-malignancy01 on February 9, 2026
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### The Diogenes Club Locked Room

The interior of the Diogenes Club was, as always, an architectural monument to silence. We were met at the door by a pale, trembling steward who led us through the marble halls without a word, eventually stopping before a heavy oak door on the third floor. Mycroft Holmes stood waiting, his massive frame silhouetted against the gaslight. He looked uncharacteristically shaken, his gaze fixed on the door's handle.

"Entry was made by the morning porter," Mycroft whispered, his voice barely audible even in this sanctuary of quiet. "The door was locked from the inside with the key still in the keyhole. There are no other exits. The windows are barred from the exterior to protect the privacy of our members."

As we stepped into the room, the scene was one of chilling stillness. Count von Drachenburg, the diplomat, sat slumped in a high-backed velvet chair. His face was a mask of frozen terror, but there was no sign of a struggle, no blood, and—as Holmes quickly confirmed with a sweep of the floor—no weapon. The Count's leather dispatch box lay open on the desk beside him, its velvet lining empty. The Treaty of Vienna, the document intended to stave off a continental war, was gone.

Holmes dropped to his knees, magnifying glass in hand, examining the carpet with the intensity of a predator. "A locked room, a dead diplomat, and a missing future for Europe," he murmured. "Note the lack of dust disturbance on the window sills, Watson. This was not an entry of physical force, but of something far more calculated."

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