There will a be a short delay, ladies and

gentlemen! Senor Carini is not well!

You have to wait to hear your great Carini, Mr. Holmes. Maybe it

will be called off.

Don´t be optimistic sergeant. I know

you don´t like fiddles. But you will

like this one.

I play the violin as a hobby, but Carini is one of the greatest

who ever played.

Aren´t you sergeant Flaherty? Come

backstage please! There´s something wrong with senor

Carini.

No fiddles after all!

Come on Mr. Holmes!

A doctor and ambulance are on the

way sergeant! Is the

gentleman with you in the police?

I wish he was. This is Sherlock

Holmes. The great English

detective.

Thank you Flaherty. Now, let us look at

Carini.

He´s dead, I think it was a suicide. He seems to have

used gas!

Strange… It smells

familiar…

Whatever he used it smells bad!

This seems to have contained the substance that caused Carini´s death … A very thin glass vial.

Seems to be some kind of

cyanide gas. It is well dissipated since the room

has been opened.

Dissipated or not, get your nose away from that. I would lose my job if anything

happened to you.

There is nothing for you in this case Mr. Holmes.

Carini took his life.

Why are you so sure?

What else could it be? There are no

windows and Carini had the door

locked from the inside. The key is still in the lock.

I still think it was

murder sergeant!

The concert tonight was to be his big moment. The

last one. Even if he wanted to commit suicide, he

would surely wait till after his triumph. No,

gentlemen, it was something else…

I don´t want to have a lot of bad publicity about murder in my theatre. Keep

your nose out of it. Let the police

handle it!

I´m beginning to dislike you, Mr.

Small. And it will make things

easier for me!

Sergeant Flaherty was puzzled… But his respect for Holmes caused him to obey

the famous detective …

What´s next, sir?

Let´s see, first, we´ll go to my hotel and get my

fiddle. The n také me to the finest glass blower in

the city?

You must know what you are

doing, sir, but I don´t.

Hardly to be expected, sergeant! I

am not really sure

too.

Don’t be impatient, sergeant! The action

is about to begin.

Precisely! We’ll wait. Také your

time on this job.

Very thin glass! You say you want a small wial that you

can seal, of the same

thickness?

Three long hours later…

Holmes and

sergeant Flaherty

had all the material

they needed but

someone else was

beginning to worry

about their activity …

I don´t get …

Jump for your life Flaherty!

Watch it, you fool!

How in the world did you save that glass vial? I would have dropped

everything.

Just exactly what I was supposed to

do, I think!

Back at the theatre a few minutes later…

Are you really going to play that violin, sir?

Perhaps not as well as Carini, but I shall

play!

Look out, Holmes!

Never mind him, get Holmes!

Tell your employer to try it himself next time!

I heard a commotion! Is anything

wrong?

Do you play the violin, Holmes? What kind of a joke is this?

I doubt if you’ll think it very funny. I see you replaced the broken door. Very

good.

That glass is the same thickness as the original,

now if you’ll close the door, we’ll have duplicated the setting in which Carini

met his death!

Flaherty was impatient with his guest’s deliberate actions … But Lyman Small watched

with something like fear in his eyes…

No, Mr Small,

everything is fine! Will

you take us up to Carini’s

dressing room?

Very impressive! I’m a busy man, Holmes. I won’t waste time with

your childish tricks.

That the vial of cyanide gas shattered when Carini hit a note that perfectly matched the harmonics of that vial!

This vial is identical – As is the cyanide inside it!

This is crazy! Stop it. What will it prove?

I will play the selection poor Carini was rehearsing when he died… with possibly the same results!

Yes, you will Mr.

Small! You stay till

Mr. Holmes says so.

See, Mr. Small? My experiment

worked!

Stop it! Stop it! Please!

It’s vibrating. Soon it will shatter?

We’ll all die like

rats! Let me out!

C-Cyanide? In that vial? Holmes, you’re crazy!

The fear was building in Lyman Samll until he couldn’t stand it! Panic overcame reason.

Yes, yes. I did it! I’ll confess! I can smell

the cyanide!

You did it. Didn’t you? You put that vial in this

room!

That’s not cyanide you smell. It’s

almond oil. Smells exactly like it!

I owe you an apology

sir! I thought

you were wrong for a while.

You see Flaherty,

sometimes it pays to listen to a fiddle once in

a while!