Evil Villainy: The Porfect Moider

[mishalak]

So our evil villain twirls his mustache and thinks aloud, "How will I do away with that cursed innocent lamb who stands in the way of my nefarious plot?" He dramatically raises a finger in the air as if to say, I've got it, "An ice bullet! It will melt away leaving no evidence of my crime. Oh, but curses, they're too fragile."

He subsides back into his chair, a black wrapped package of bubbling wickedness spitting out horrible thoughts, " Perhaps if I add something to it to make it harder. Sugar? No. Sawdust? Maybe, but suspicious. Ah hah! I have it now. I shall use a bullet, but a smaller caliber one. I will freeze it in the ice which then becomes an undetectable discarding sabot. Because of the difference in size it won't lead the police to my weapon, but to whatever one the smaller bullet came from. Oh, you are masterfully evil you wonderful evil genius you. I'd have your children if it were biologically possible."

And so our villain heads for the basement to prepare his plot against all that is good and right in the world, but will it succeed?

Comments

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I think you might have something there!

[gomeza.livejournal.com]

Maybe.

If it's a discarding sabot, why does it need to be made of ice?

Also check out the Remington "Accelerator" round. I've always thought someone could use a bullet puller to take out the round, remove the sabot, fire the bullet through a rifle owned (and borrowed) from the person you want to implicate into a tank of water at the right angle (this is how the labs do it, leaves no marks and does not deform the bullet, at least if it's a jacketed round), then reinsert the bullet into the sabot, reload the round (requires a reloading press, commonly available) and fire from the gun you wish to use...

Might have to change powder too.

I presume you've read all of Sherlock Holmes, ie; the dagger shot from a pneumatic gun?

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Ice would be used because he's an evil dastardly villain and they sometimes do things because it is cool. And for the practical reason that after shooting the good guy he doesn't have to go hunting for trace evidence (provided he's using a revolver and not a semi-auto).

I think I vaguely recall the pneumatic gun, but I don't recall which story or how the guy was caught. Though I also remember Colonel Moran shooting at a bust of Homes with a pneumatic riffle because of its silence. That was cool as well.

[gomeza.livejournal.com]

"...because it is cool."

I will get you for that.

The Holmes story with the pneumatic dagger may not be a Holmes story at all, I am having a hard time finding it online. The story I'm thinking of _may_ be "The Aluminum Dagger" (1909) by R.August Freeman. Whoever wrote it, it is a classic "impossible crime" story, a locked-room mystery. Someone is stabbed with a very strange dagger, in a room which is locked from the inside, and into which there is no other ingress for a human being but said locked door. The detective notes that the dagger is very light weight, and has a hex-shaped pommel protrusion. Further, the victim's clothing is slightly twisted where the dagger penetrated. The detective finds something outside the scene and pockets it, which is later revealed to be a lead washer with a hex-shaped hole in it...