Sherlock Holmes

There's no doubt about it.

How are you, Inspector?

Oh, thank you, sir.

Dr. Watson and I have been carrying on for you until your arrival.

Oh, thank you.

A marigot here discovered the body only a few minutes ago when he arrived to deliver a violin Drenko had ordered.

The painter you'll find out in the hall has had the room under observation all morning and will assure you that no one else entered or left it.

And the fellow stopped practicing about an hour before.

Sets the time of death pretty accurately.

Here's the suicide note, Inspector.

I'm afraid we're presenting you with rather an open and...

Shut case.

And here's the violin that Drinker was practicing on.

Let me see it, Watson.

No, Inspector.

That fact by itself would merely be singular.

But listen to the violin on which he was practicing.

Perhaps, Inspector, you may then be able to explain why a world-famous violinist like Drinkel should do his practicing on a violin that is most unmistakably out of tune.

But how should I know what a man would do just before he commits suicide?

Suicide?