#and detective notes which is julie and lizzy my beloveds

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hi, can you say what "honey wolf" "restored art" "burning chapel" etc. etc. mean, like who are the people involved in all of them? sorry but i looked them up on your blog and couldn't figure it out.

Ah no worries! You don’t need to apologize at all, I’m the one who’s being a total werido with my obscure cross-novel (very JD-centric) ship names 😭

Honey Wolf is Marian Halcombe and Fernand Wagner (a friend of mine once went “would Halcombe’s partner ever call her honeycomb as a nickname?” and I became OBSESSED so there’s the honey part, Wagner has Faust-caused werewolf syndrome (long story))

Restored Art is Basil Hallward and Walter Hartright (they are both painters and Walter ends up helping Basil heal a whole lot from his ✨previous relationship✨ (“restoring him” to his former self, in a way))

Burning Chapel is Lucy Westenra and Anne Catherick (tldr they may or may not have been responsible for a church catching fire in JD’s narrative)

Vampire Hunter is Henry Clerval and Codrin Dracula (Clerval calls himself a monster hunter and Codrin has his unintentional vampire aesthetic, you know how it is)

EDIT OH MY GOD. REANIMATED PAINTING. CURSE ME AND MY MEMORY. That’s Liam Frankenstein and Lily Vane. They’re surprisingly normal don’t worry about them.

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Dr. Batty

Act IV, Scene 2: Dr. Batty

Jimmy and David are walking towards Dr. Batty’s home and business at 254 West 49th Street. They look at the poster advertising Dr. Batty’s cigarettes which is in the window of his pharmacy.

David- (To Jimmy) Asthma Cigarettes?  This should be interesting.

Fast forward to the doctor’s office.

Dr. Batty- I don’t know where she got the name Gertrude Farington. Our Miss Elizabeth Hessey was a trained nurse.  She had worked with us for the past three years.  In fact, she and my wife along with my kids just got back from a vacation three weeks ago.

David- You told the police that she had attempted suicide before this.

Dr. Batty- Twice.  About two years ago Lizzie was seriously injured by a cable car.  She was bedridden for quite some time.

David- And you believe that this is what prompted her actions?

Dr. Batty- Absolutely.  After the accident she had fits of despondency. You must understand that Lizzie was beloved by all who knew her and except when this unconquerable desire to make away with herself dominated her, she was otherwise strong mentally.  She was a bright and most engaging girl and exceptionally clever in her profession.

David- When was the last time she attempted suicide?  

Dr. Batty- Last July I received a letter from her saying, “I’m going to the Putnam House to kill myself.”  I telephoned to the hotel to find that such a girl was really in the hotel, and with all haste ran to the Putnam House to find Miss Hessey far gone in opium poisoning.  It took us hours to restore her to consciousness.

David- Did she have any relatives?

Dr. Batty- She had no near relatives that I’m aware of, but she spoke of an aunt, a Mrs. Clute.

Scene switches to inside Captain Schmittberger’s office.  Detective Lohmeyer is at the captain’s map with the pins.  

Lohmeyer- I’m replacing Gertrude’s pin with a suicide red.

Schmittberger- No, not just yet.  Take another look at this suicide note. Where did she get the typewriter from?

Lohmeyer- Typewriter?

Schmittberger- Why didn’t she sign it? And, why didn’t she write it?  As you can see she had a pencil when she added the misspelled field. I didn’t think of it at the time, but this note is typed on the hotel stationary.  That means this note had to have been made at the hotel the night she died.  We know she didn’t check in carrying her own typewriter, and I can’t see her or anyone asking management if they could borrow one of theirs to type a short suicide note.  We need to find this machine.