Curiouser and Curiouser! It is now more than a month since we reported to our readers that Detective Chief Superintendent Nicholas Thompson had issued an urgent appeal to the general public for any information that might assist him and his men in their investigation into the disappearance of Dr. James Francis Ravenshim. Since that time, the Yard's investigation has become, in the words of the late Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll), "curiouser and curiouser!" This newspaper's offer of a reward of ú250 to anyone with information leading to the apprehension of Dr. Ravenshim has produced a torrent of response, which investigators have haughtily dismissed as "worthless." At the same time, a curtain of stony silence has fallen on the case. The "person of interest" that Detective Chief Superintendent Thompson had been seeking has apparently become a non-person. All enquiries by Enquisitor reporters as to who that person might be have fallen on deaf ears. Or perhaps it's just that dead people can't speak. Our own independent research has repeatedly turned up puzzling anomalies. Why, for example, has the Chippenshire constabulary suddenly reversed course and vehemently denied that a murder victim was found at the castle? Why has the local coroner been suddenly called away on extended assignment? Why have all public records of the excavation disappeared? And why, above all, has access to the castle been denied, not only to members of the press, but to the scientists who were working there and indeed to the castle's owner, the Ravenshim Trust? We think it's time the public heard the true story. We call upon Detective Thompson and his superiors to explain what exactly is going on at Ravenshim Castle, before this case gets any curiouser still.
