Hollow Client: Mystery/Fantasy

In what we eventually decided to call The Case of the Hollow Client, we didn't realize she was hollow at first when we took the case. Granted, I think that innate sexism that I've tried so hard to banish from my own thoughts reared its ugly purple head when she walked into the room and said, "I don't care if she seems funny or off-kilter or a little bit not-there, take a look at that body! Especially that bit. Those, too. And did you see the--oh, crap, she's looking at us." And so I was too busy trying to cover my own reaction, since one never wants to be quite the sexist pig that one's ex-wife told one one is, and I never noticed that she didn’t have the reaction to my reaction that a normal reactionary person would have. If you follow my drift. So I have only myself to blame for some of the weirdness and the sadness that we ended up in later. Of course, I also only have myself to blame for the parts of the thing that were incomparably grand and worth every penny that she'd promised to pay me and didn't.


Inspiration: Sherlock, "The Sign of the Three" - so don't use that case name!
Story potential: High.
Notes: I rather like the idea of an extremely self-aware protagonist who is, in fact, very sexist in his first impulses and very good at not actually acting that way. Most of the time. Could do the same gig with something else, I guess, but it might be a bit much to make him sexist AND racist AND etc.