A Mystery in Scarlet No. 2: "Waiting for the Robbers."

In the Mystery's house in Westminster, Bertha aims at the barricaded door as the robbers try to break in. Note the two portraits on the walls. From The London Miscellany, no. 2 (17 February 1866), 17. Wells Library copy. Image courtesy Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.