A figure cloaked in mystery, she strikes from the shadows and then vanishes as if she'd never been there at all, her victims the only evidence of her presence.
There's also the running tab she has at the dressmaker's for yellow taffeta fabric. That stuff is uncommon in Grennet-sur-Chanoît, and would be an easy giveaway to any ambitious, sharp-eyed inspector-constable.
Many years later, the Gotham City Police would use similar thinking to finally break down the flamboyant crime syndicates which had plagued their municipality for decades. Cherchez-l'art: shut down the art supply stores and the super villains would eventually run out of purple and green paint and be forced to abandon their garish, overdecorated, tilted lairs. As a bonus, it takes a certain form of villainy to charge the prices arts supply stores ask for purple and green paint, so that's two forms of villainy struck down in a single operation.
There's also the running tab she has at the dressmaker's for yellow taffeta fabric. That stuff is uncommon in Grennet-sur-Chanoît, and would be an easy giveaway to any ambitious, sharp-eyed inspector-constable.
ReplyDeleteMany years later, the Gotham City Police would use similar thinking to finally break down the flamboyant crime syndicates which had plagued their municipality for decades. Cherchez-l'art: shut down the art supply stores and the super villains would eventually run out of purple and green paint and be forced to abandon their garish, overdecorated, tilted lairs. As a bonus, it takes a certain form of villainy to charge the prices arts supply stores ask for purple and green paint, so that's two forms of villainy struck down in a single operation.