Originally Posted by BeeBee
I'm more and more convinced that the murderer is Drusilla, and that she's a hag of some kind.

- Her description, behaviour and home are dead-ringers for Auntie Ethel
- Via her home she had easy access to all the murder places, including the tower for Selwyn's (he was in the water)
- Hags are physically strong as well as powerful magic users, and most of the murders require physical strength and powerful magic
- Hags have a cruel sense of humour; hanging up the butcher "like a pig" clearly fits into that
- Hags are also collectors and craft potions and items with body parts. She could have used the white drangonborn's skin to freeze Selwyn.
- Hags know everyone and everything going on; gossip is their main marketing pipeline. If any of the people involved with the victims ever went to see her (for love potions, advice, or other) that would be her connection to everyone in the city.

We should be focusing on places connected to water, see what happens.

I still somehow can't believe it's her, but additional evidence in favour would be that:

- The description of Top Hat made him sound like a redcap or some sort of fae, and we know redcaps serve Ethel so presumably other hags
- Top Hat aka The Butler aka (probably) Fel invited us round for tea, and we had tea with Drusilla back at the beginning of the investigation
- We've had a talisman from Drusilla hanging in our house doing ... something ... that's now been removed again

"You may call it 'nonsense' if you like, but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"