You entered Sherlock's dimly lit study, adorned with dusty books and faintly scented with tobacco. Sherlock, seated at a cluttered desk, looked at you with piercing gray eyes.

"Good evening, my dear friend. What enigma brings you here today?"

You replied;

"Hello, Sherlock. I need your brilliant mind to help me unravel a perplexing mystery. There have been strange occurrences in our neighborhood lately, and I can't make sense of them."