Sherlock Holmes

What do you mean, Mr. Holmes?

If you come to my hotel room tonight, my dear prince, I can safely promise to make the whole matter clear to you.

And I dare go a little further.

I think that I can even help you find consolation in your bereavement.

Ladies and gentlemen, I can see that you wonder why Dr. Watson and I have asked you to come here to our hotel tonight.

I should prefer to say her murder.

Ladies and gentlemen, if you please, I should like to make my own position in this matter quite clear.

Two nights ago, you, Martha...

came to me on behalf of Miss Lena Rayner to solicit my aid.

I convinced that she was guilty and refused that aid.

Yesterday morning, she died before a firing squad.

Last night, her ghost appeared to me here in this room and asked me to avenge her death.

Her ghost?

What nonsense are you talking?

I agree with Krasnodar.

To talk of ghosts is beyond belief.

Please let me finish.

When I had this visitation last night, I decided to investigate the case thoroughly.

I did so today, and I can assure you that Miss Rayner paid for a crime she did not commit.

The letters that were supposedly written to her were in the Groznyan language, and yet today Prince Stefano informed me that she could not appear in the theater here because she did not speak the language.