Contamination: End Notes

[laurajv]

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These end notes contain spoilers for the story "Contamination".


This story is largely based on David Bowie's 1995 album Outside (also called 1. Outside), a concept album about a "ritual art-murder" of a teenage girl, Baby Grace Blue. The detective assigned to the case was Nathan Adler. Bowie's short story "The Diary of Nathan Adler" was printed in the liner notes for the album. The storyline was supposed to encompass three albums, but the followups were never recorded. Contamination (or 2. Contamination) was the name of the second album in the series.

The murderer's hideout is somewhere between the closed Aldwych Underground station and Holburn station, to which Aldwych used to connect. Underground History: Hidden Holburn has some pictures of the areas in-between. I selected these stations because there is available access and enough people that a man coming and going would not attract much notice, and yet there appears to be enough disused space that someone could have a hideout there. There is a lot of information about closed stations and abandoned lines online. Sites I referenced included Subterranea Britannica, Underground History, and London's Abandoned Tube Stations.

Comments

[kickair8p]

Loved this! Your insights into the characters, the insights of the characters -- it's hard to make Lestrade shine as a cop when he's standing next to Sherlock, but you don't let him down. Nice work!

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[laurajv]

Thank you! Lestrade is awfully interesting to write, I find.