The suicides? He remembered reading about that, but he hadn't realized that Sherlock Holmes was working on the case. The only thing he knew about the man was the tiny bit Mike had told him and what he'd discovered on his website. He was an investigator of some sort, but he didn't work for the police. Why would he have been working on the suicide case? Why would there have even been a case for suicides?
"All right..." he agreed, a little slowly. He had the creeps, too, but he wasn't entirely sure it was just from the strange town. Jim seemed perfectly friendly... Perhaps he just didn't like it because he seemed so familiar with him, while John knew absolutely nothing about Jim. "I suppose even this place will have a pub or something..."