Hmm. Reptilian eyes studied him for a long moment, attempting to deduce what he could from his appearance.

"I would like to hear of any murders you solved recently," he said, which was probably disconcerting. Again. Sherlock was desperate, he'd not had any cases since he'd come to this Carnival. He ignored the second part of what he said. It probably wouldn't be a good idea to tell people that he had, actually, shot a man in cold blood once.

"Please present the facts to me in the way that you discovered them."

Well, that was certainly not a conventional greeting of any kind.