"Why, I'm flattered," he says, modestly. All the little details click together, in a satisfying way -- the law-woman, the criminal, the criminal's sister. He considers questioning a little more closely what a man has to gain from changing a storyline in a book -- but he wants to focus on the woman in front of him, on understanding her motives. Her brother's matter only so far as she clearly looks up to him. "It does have all the makings of a serial," he says. "The main character going from misadventure to misadventure, contending with consequences of her last case. Unfortunately, it means any vengeance is unlikely to succeed -- not unless it's something like Sherlock at Reichenbach Falls. But even Sherlock came back from that one. You'd have more luck here, on narratively neutral ground ... but it's already been a long time waiting. What will you do now?"