Speaker 1: Well, Dr Watson, I'm curious to know what you mean
Speaker 1: by the logic of.
Speaker 2: Murder, mister Harris. This adventure began one autumn evening in
Speaker 2: eighteen ninety six, when Holmes and I were in our
Speaker 2: flat at two twenty one B Baker Street. We'd had
Speaker 2: an unexpected visitor. He was a lean, pale chap abnormally
Speaker 2: tall with penetrating eyes. As he explained his grotesque mission,
Speaker 2: my amazement grew each moment. My name is Forest, mister Holmes,
Speaker 2: Dr Nelson Forest.
Speaker 3: Most distinguished name, Sir, one with which I'm quite familiar.
Speaker 3: May I present my friend in Colleen, doctor Watson.
Speaker 4: How you do, doctor Watson?
Speaker 2: Don't you occupy a chair of medsone and Oxford?
Speaker 1: Sir?
Speaker 2: Indeed I do, but my acific duties prevent my being
Speaker 2: very active at the university. I'm also chief toxicologist at
Speaker 2: the Colonists Office bars Hill. Addcent to Oxford.
Speaker 4: And the purpose of your visit, Doctor Paris.
Speaker 2: I performed the duty of a coroner for decades, mister Holmes.
Speaker 2: I performed more than six thousand autopsies and something of
Speaker 2: an expert on causes of death.
Speaker 4: Intriguing background pray continue.
Speaker 2: I have two associates, Chief Justice Wickham, yes.
Speaker 4: I know him well, professor of jurish.
Speaker 2: And Professor Edward Roberts ah, yes, one of the world's
Speaker 2: formal experts on logic. We were enjoying a pleasant afternoon
Speaker 2: tea some weeks ago, the three of us. The conversation
Speaker 2: turned to the ancient problem of the perfect murder.
Speaker 4: I've spent many a long evening ruminating over that problem.
Speaker 2: The conversation became most spirited. Each of us made contributions. Wickham,
Speaker 2: a veritable genius on evasions of the law, made a
Speaker 2: few superb suggestions I contributed to on the basis of
Speaker 2: my knowledge of causes of death. And Roberts Roberts, our
Speaker 2: master of logic, fitted each step of the perfect murder
Speaker 2: into its proper place with breathtaking precision.
Speaker 3: You need to say, doctor Paris, that your trio has
Speaker 3: created the perfect murder.
Speaker 2: Astonished, no, gentleman, not quite. Our objective was to construct
Speaker 2: a murder so ideally committed that it was a slutely
Speaker 2: impossible to know how the victim had died, and impossible
Speaker 2: to identify the killer. Good lord, if anyone knew how
Speaker 2: to commit such a crime. While I think someone does,
Speaker 2: Dr Watson, really, we solved every problem for the would
Speaker 2: be killer except one. The final step called for a
Speaker 2: staggering feet of logic. It was a puzzle fit for
Speaker 2: our greatest minds. Well R. T. D. Wickham and I
Speaker 2: forgot the problem.
Speaker 3: We felt it could never be solved, and Professor Roberts
Speaker 3: the logician.
Speaker 2: Precisely why I've come to you, mister Holmes. I've known
Speaker 2: Roberts intimately for years. He has an insatiate passion for
Speaker 2: such things. He spent every minute of his spare time
Speaker 2: playing highly advanced forms of chess Shogi, the Japanese version,
Speaker 2: cylindrical chess, three dimensional chess. He has solved retrograde problems
Speaker 2: in chess that have been riddle since the sixth century. Person,
Speaker 2: you mean, doctor? You believe Robert may have solved the
Speaker 2: last step of this perfect crime. I do. It's a
Speaker 2: horrible accusation. Once knowing that last step, Roberts might commit
Speaker 2: murders endlessly without ever fearing that he be caught.
Speaker 4: Why are you so certain that Roberts has solved.
Speaker 5: It, mister Holmes?
Speaker 2: That man could not sleep, could not eat, could not
Speaker 2: keep his senity if he did not solve such a problem.
Speaker 2: But even if he can commit the perfect murder, why
Speaker 2: should he attempt? The temptation is too powerful to resist,
Speaker 2: Doctor Watton. You're a man of science, sir, surely you
Speaker 2: appreciate the ruthless driving force of the scientific mind. Professor
Speaker 2: Roberts would have to know if the murder would really perfect.
Speaker 2: He'd have to try it.
Speaker 4: And what do you expect of me, Doctor Pett.
Speaker 2: I am a physician, Sir, not a criminologist. I believe
Speaker 2: the menace is great. I hoped you might see Professor Roberts,
Speaker 2: you might try to learn if he can commit the
Speaker 2: ideal murder.
Speaker 4: Have you asked him yourself if he solved the puzzle?
Speaker 2: Yes, he denies, having thought of it since that tea,
Speaker 2: But his whole being is dedicated with a religious fervor
Speaker 2: to visiting weird, unexplored areas where the human brain has
Speaker 2: never ventured. He could not resist embarking upon so magnificent
Speaker 2: odyssey of the mind.
Speaker 4: I see accept.
Speaker 3: The invitation, Doctor Porrest Watson, and I shall see your professor.
Speaker 2: It's simple to find him. He lives with his young niece, Edith,
Speaker 2: at a cottage in Boys Hill.
Speaker 3: Come Watson, we shall attempt to learn if Professor Roberts
Speaker 3: has become the one human being on earth who knows
Speaker 3: the technique for an absolutely perfect murder.
Speaker 5: I'm delighted to.
Speaker 6: Have so renowned against mister Helmes.
Speaker 3: Welcome, Thank you, Professor Roberts. I trust we're not imposing.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, cries the contrary.
Speaker 1: I've plenty of time. Matter of fact, I was just
Speaker 1: leaving for a few days vacation with my niece.
Speaker 5: I've all sorts of spare time these days. Are you
Speaker 5: comfortable there, Doctor Watson, Very Professor Verick.
Speaker 6: A gentleman with so many demands upon his services.
Speaker 1: Surely this is a this is a vital importance. It is, Professor,
Speaker 1: I met your service.
Speaker 3: Professor, you entered into a discussion with two faculty associates
Speaker 3: of yours some weeks ago, Doctor Forrest and Justice Wickham.
Speaker 1: When I see them so frequently to which discussion do
Speaker 1: you refer?
Speaker 4: It was a.
Speaker 3: Delightful afternoon tea and the subject was murder, Professor the
Speaker 3: Flawless's murder.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, I recall it. Evidently it
Speaker 1: made a lasting impression upon them.
Speaker 3: Who will talk to you about it, doctor Pollip? Professor
Speaker 3: one step in logic remained. One problem was unsorrowed to
Speaker 3: arrive at the ultimate ideal technique for committing the murder?
Speaker 4: Is that correct?
Speaker 5: It is?
Speaker 2: Did you give the problem further thought?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 6: No, no, none.
Speaker 1: What's the problem with impossible even for one of your gifts,
Speaker 1: mister Holmes. Surely you must know that the perfect murder
Speaker 1: is an illusion. It defies the infinitely pettiscope of the
Speaker 1: human mind.
Speaker 7: Uncle Edward, the luggage is ready hit by the door. Oh,
Speaker 7: I beg your pardon.
Speaker 1: Oh, this is my niece, Edith Marshall, Edith, mister Sherlock Holmes,
Speaker 1: Doctor John Watson. It's been preparing us for our little vacation.
Speaker 1: Is everything ready, my dear.
Speaker 8: Yes, Uncle Edward, I haven't the time between the house,
Speaker 8: though I dislike leaving it though, Dustice, it's all about
Speaker 8: on the brookshelves and your chest.
Speaker 7: Set on the man.
Speaker 1: Oh, let it be that is each child? We shan't care,
Speaker 1: mister Holmes. Was it solely because of that discussion you
Speaker 1: mentioned that you came here solely? I certainly do hope
Speaker 1: you won't take offense. But it strikes me.
Speaker 5: As rather a fool parent, does it? Doctor Forest is.
Speaker 1: Sometimes more of a nervous old woman than a professor
Speaker 1: of toxicology.
Speaker 3: I always choose to follow the sense of murder. Professor
Speaker 3: arm however, faint and elusive.
Speaker 7: What's wrong, Uncle Edward?
Speaker 5: Nothing?
Speaker 6: Nothing at all.
Speaker 1: Mister Holmes and I were just chatting a third problem
Speaker 1: of the perfect murder.
Speaker 2: If they're off on a vacation homes perhaps sweet better.
Speaker 7: Oh, we don't want to rush you. It's quite all right,
Speaker 7: of course, this is an entirely education.
Speaker 5: For Uncle Edward.
Speaker 4: Why not, because you.
Speaker 8: Must read the minute that the border passing was meeting
Speaker 8: last week. You should have gone, I'm taking them along.
Speaker 2: We best dash along him.
Speaker 6: I regret that your mission is not more.
Speaker 5: Truthful, mister Holmes.
Speaker 1: It's been enlightening, Professor Roberts.
Speaker 8: Uncle Edward, don't be upset.
Speaker 5: But what is it?
Speaker 7: You did tell mister Holmes the truth, didn't you?
Speaker 8: The truth about not having worked out a way to
Speaker 8: commit a perfect murder?
Speaker 5: Of course I tell the truth.
Speaker 7: I wish you'd never discuss it with Wickham as forest
Speaker 7: afar Well, ever since you did, I've had an awful
Speaker 7: feeling about him. Really, the kind of shadow's fallen over
Speaker 7: the cottage. I was never afraid to stay here before, But.
Speaker 8: Last night I couldn't sleep. I kept wondering if you
Speaker 8: solved the problem. I kept wondering what you might do dismiss.
Speaker 1: It from your mind, even if, by some chance I
Speaker 1: should finally answer.
Speaker 4: What of it?
Speaker 7: I don't know. I saw you in the garden yesterday,
Speaker 7: a twilight. It was very cold outside, but you were
Speaker 7: standing there without a colder hat, and there was perspiration
Speaker 7: on your face.
Speaker 5: Does your imagination no, I saw you quite clearly.
Speaker 7: I couldn't help but think yes. Never mind, I am
Speaker 7: being foolish.
Speaker 1: You've been working hardy this your tents. You, we're both
Speaker 1: a bit bored. The atmosphere is oppressive. As soon as
Speaker 1: we reached the cutthroll, those beautiful hills, your alife.
Speaker 7: I hope you.
Speaker 8: I have been overwrought all because of that stupid conversation
Speaker 8: and that gruesome problem.
Speaker 7: Care we set your things and do.
Speaker 5: By all means.
Speaker 2: Well, Holmes, For once, I do believe you've taken us
Speaker 2: upon a futile journey. Not that I mind a carriage
Speaker 2: riding the trade back to London. I rather it, Holmes.
Speaker 2: Are you paying the slightest bit of attention?
Speaker 4: No, my dear one thing.
Speaker 2: You're not convinced by Professor Roberts protests of innocent's eyes.
Speaker 3: One mixes the various elements in the retort Watson, one
Speaker 3: lights the flame and soon the bruise against the bubbles.
Speaker 3: There were elements of our few moments with the Professor
Speaker 3: of Logic that should soon produce a fascinating compound.
Speaker 2: I didn't notice anything peculiar.
Speaker 4: Didn't you? The Professor of Logic was most illogical.
Speaker 3: Was he given a moment for further contemplation? I shall
Speaker 3: have crystallized my thoughts. Well, I'm to think fast. If
Speaker 3: the Professor knows how to commit the perfect murder, he
Speaker 3: may be tempted to cry it at any moment.
Speaker 4: Ah, you have it home.
Speaker 3: Turn back driver, back to paus Hill, to the Professor's
Speaker 3: house where you found us, quickly, quickly.
Speaker 2: Do you believe the professor solved at home?
Speaker 4: I'm sure of it.
Speaker 2: How'd you know?
Speaker 4: He remarked that he had a great deal of fair
Speaker 4: time Previously.
Speaker 3: Doctor Forrest informed of the Professor Robert has a fanatic interest.
Speaker 2: In advanced forms of chess. Yes, sir, he did.
Speaker 3: Yet with all this fair time, Edith, his niece, observed
Speaker 3: that his chest that was covered with dust, had gone
Speaker 3: unused for a considerable period. Why, what's why would an
Speaker 3: incurable addictive treess abandoned it completely when he has ample time?
Speaker 3: Then consider the minutes of the trustees meeting.
Speaker 2: The minutes.
Speaker 3: Yes, Edith reprimanded the professor for failing to appear at
Speaker 3: the meeting, so that he's now obliged to read the minutes.
Speaker 3: Although he has so much time, the professor neglected up
Speaker 3: your appointment, White, What's he only one answer is conceivable.
Speaker 3: He's been so consumed by the desire to solve the
Speaker 3: riddle of the ideal murder.
Speaker 2: Yes, you're right, House, we must confront him with your conclusions. Yes,
Speaker 2: but while you've the evidence that he's been struggling with
Speaker 2: the riddle, how'd you learn that he's found the answer?
Speaker 4: Think Watson.
Speaker 3: If he were innocent, if he were considering the problem
Speaker 3: merely as an exercise in mental gymnastics, he would admitted
Speaker 3: to working on it, would he not?
Speaker 4: However, he lied? He pretended who ignored that afternoons? He
Speaker 4: once it had ended.
Speaker 3: He could only have attempted that camouflage if he had
Speaker 3: an insidious motive. I should say he knows how to
Speaker 3: commit the perfect murter, and he intends to try. I
Speaker 3: should say he would choose for his victim a trusting
Speaker 3: individual who's quite handy. In short, is lovely young nieces
Speaker 3: Edith try not contrasted.
Speaker 4: You better hurry, man, hurry, hurry.
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Speaker 1: Dr Watson, we're most impatient to return to your story.
Speaker 2: Well, mister Harris, with the shocking realization that Professor Roberts
Speaker 2: knew how to commit a perfect murder and was probably
Speaker 2: about to try it upon his young niece, Holmes and
Speaker 2: I raised in our carriage back to the Professor's cottage
Speaker 2: at Ball's Hill.
Speaker 3: It's odd if this answered so quickly when we first
Speaker 3: call on him, not once more, Watson.
Speaker 2: You know he may have done away with either after
Speaker 2: we left. Now is Spanish.
Speaker 4: If he has, it'll be the first active murder.
Speaker 3: I shall never be able to prove Watson merely indicting
Speaker 3: him on the basis of chatter the tea party would
Speaker 3: be of no avail. We shall not be able to
Speaker 3: establish the cause of death, the motive, nor anything else.
Speaker 2: Refuses to answer.
Speaker 4: This door is flimsy. I mean we have enough strength
Speaker 4: to force it right.
Speaker 2: You are ready, ready once more? Home There we are.
Speaker 4: To Petha Roberts, Pa, Petha Roberts, that's the other rots.
Speaker 2: Yes, No one in the bedroom, not in this kitchen
Speaker 2: that is empty too.
Speaker 4: They've gone.
Speaker 3: Watson, the professor of logic, has made off with his
Speaker 3: niece to use her as his victim.
Speaker 2: Could we possibly find them homes? They said they were
Speaker 2: going on a vacation.
Speaker 4: Yes, but where Watson where? We must look at every
Speaker 4: corner of this cottage for a.
Speaker 2: Clue about ransacked the whole place.
Speaker 4: Home, Yes, and no indication of where he's taken the girl.
Speaker 4: There must be one.
Speaker 3: A human being cannot quit his quarters for a prolonged
Speaker 3: period without being traced to see.
Speaker 2: They might have gone to Bonn as the fishing, or
Speaker 2: the whales. Whales from mountain there they might have taken
Speaker 2: the waters in malroom. Perhaps they just dashed over the Cotswolds.
Speaker 3: You know, the many small hotels and many possibilities. But
Speaker 3: we have no time at all, and we must know.
Speaker 2: Exactly where I've gone through the pazzas, through his books,
Speaker 2: as desk, the niece's bureau.
Speaker 4: We haven't emptied the waste paper basket, Watson, the motion homes.
Speaker 5: I'll do it, the.
Speaker 2: Notes, canceled check and advertisements. That envelope, just the corner
Speaker 2: of an envelope. The rest has been hopelessly torn away,
Speaker 2: just the last person where the return address is printed.
Speaker 4: Mass Yet m E R s E T s h
Speaker 4: I R E.
Speaker 2: What word ends are in our homes? This letter might
Speaker 2: have been written to the professor for any purpose whatsoever.
Speaker 4: Yes, Watson.
Speaker 3: But if it should happen to have come from a
Speaker 3: well established resort, we might reasonably assume it with correspondence
Speaker 3: involving a reservation for the professor in his niece.
Speaker 2: The vacase of spots. I can think of end. There's
Speaker 2: molds a border of the desile of white.
Speaker 3: The word that ends that way is Somersetshire, The Cutswolds,
Speaker 3: the nearest and most popular holiday resort in this area.
Speaker 4: We'll do just as well by carriage as it if
Speaker 4: we stop to wait for the train.
Speaker 2: Certainly he petch a cab, run Watson run.
Speaker 7: The countryside. Here in the cart is excluse it isn't
Speaker 7: Uncle Edwards?
Speaker 5: Heh yes, yes, it's m charting.
Speaker 7: You don't seem to be enjoying it.
Speaker 5: Oh, but I am idea, I am.
Speaker 7: You seem distracted. You haven't been thinking of that awful problem,
Speaker 7: have you?
Speaker 5: Perhaps, Uncle Edward the great weakness he is proud of.
Speaker 5: My can't soil becomes an obsession. You should know that I've.
Speaker 1: Become candless, thirsting in hell, up to my chin in
Speaker 1: a pool of water which proceeds, but I attempt to drink.
Speaker 7: You must use your willpower. You must forget it.
Speaker 5: It's too late. What do you mean I did lie
Speaker 5: the homes? What I lied?
Speaker 1: I have been thinking about how to commit the perfect
Speaker 1: murder ever since that's strained after you know, it seems
Speaker 1: almost unreal now, almost as if part of it were
Speaker 1: a drink. I have been thinking of it since I
Speaker 1: sat there in the sun of the two professors to tea.
Speaker 1: I'd lid chat dream, never realizing what seeds were being
Speaker 1: planted in my mind?
Speaker 7: Did you saw the part along Lebward? Do you know
Speaker 7: how to commit a perfect murder? Do you know?
Speaker 5: Do you know.
Speaker 7: Tantony by?
Speaker 5: Yes? Yes I do?
Speaker 7: What do you intend to do about it? Will you
Speaker 7: tell me the homes? Will you tell Wickham? Or false
Speaker 7: to the police.
Speaker 1: I've been under a great stain all these weeks. I've
Speaker 1: hardly Let's go back to the hotel.
Speaker 5: Leave me. I want to walk by myself.
Speaker 8: In this cool air very well, not Ledward, but you
Speaker 8: can't keep this terrible secret to yourself.
Speaker 7: What do you intend to do about it?
Speaker 5: I shall do nothing for the moment.
Speaker 2: Well, our carriage is coming into the Cotswolds host and
Speaker 2: past one. Difficulty remains.
Speaker 4: Difficulty wants to There must be.
Speaker 2: Some fifteen or twenty hotels camps in other places where
Speaker 2: the professor may have taken his niece in these hills. Now,
Speaker 2: how do we determine which spot that he's chosen for
Speaker 2: the month?
Speaker 4: There will be away, Watson, there will be away.
Speaker 2: Confounded holds of human idea of how to find the skiller?
Speaker 2: Then tell me this is hard for the time to
Speaker 2: play capt'n.
Speaker 3: House only Watson calmly, there must be a way of
Speaker 3: learning the whereabouts if we're not too late to save
Speaker 3: the girl's life already.
Speaker 7: Clark, Yes, ma'am. Does this al send telegraphic messages first death?
Speaker 2: Certainly, ma'am, I.
Speaker 7: Should like to send this message immediately. Can you read
Speaker 7: my handwriting?
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 2: Mister Sherlock Holmes, two to one feet Baked Street, London.
Speaker 4: Uncle Edward has solved the riddle urgent to come here.
Speaker 4: We are in the Cutwall Saint George Hotel.
Speaker 7: Then I'll lose this sect that's right, Send it now?
Speaker 7: Would you put the charges on my bill?
Speaker 4: Yes? Miss, thank you?
Speaker 1: Yes, Oh, Professor Lovell, I need here to Did you
Speaker 1: do what she wanted?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 6: I am sending the telegram for and now.
Speaker 4: May I see it here?
Speaker 5: Profession o? Mm hmmm, oh, it isn't necessarily to send
Speaker 5: Tear it.
Speaker 2: Out, the professor said, tear it up anything you think?
Speaker 2: Pop hair driver, Well, this is the Godchool District homes.
Speaker 4: Now where to I shall make an inquiry of the
Speaker 4: first hotel?
Speaker 3: Watch to me what sort of inquie I shall ask?
Speaker 3: Which hotel in this area is equipped with health Spark facilities.
Speaker 3: What on earth you remember when he first visited the
Speaker 3: cottage and bold head Edith said their luggage was ready
Speaker 3: and standing by the door. Yes, you saw, but you
Speaker 3: did not think you should have noticed that the Professor's
Speaker 3: luggage was covered with labels from hotels. He'd been too previous,
Speaker 3: as you and I have been writing. I run quickly
Speaker 3: through the labels I've seen. I realized instantly that every
Speaker 3: hotel the professor had visited in the past was equipped
Speaker 3: with health both facilities, obviously a preference of his.
Speaker 4: The remainder of our problem is negligible.
Speaker 3: We shall dash into this hotel and ask which spot
Speaker 3: in these hills has a Turkish bath and similar equipment.
Speaker 4: Wait for us, coachman, don't keep your pus.
Speaker 7: Here's the ice for your head. Uncle, heads feeling better?
Speaker 5: Yes, it is much better. So kind of you to
Speaker 5: bring it to my room.
Speaker 7: I've wrapped him this chiel I found in your bathroom.
Speaker 5: There you are, Oh, I feel the good splitting headache.
Speaker 7: You must take a nap. I leave you.
Speaker 5: I don't think you can leave. I've locked the door.
Speaker 5: What I've locked the door?
Speaker 7: Why did you do that?
Speaker 5: I didn't want you to go.
Speaker 7: Don't get up saying that you're not worse.
Speaker 5: There isn't the thing.
Speaker 2: Wrong with me, But you asked me to bring the eyes.
Speaker 1: Very cheap deception, Edith, but practical enough. I locked the
Speaker 1: door to be sure you wouldn't run off. You see,
Speaker 1: I've not only worked out how to commit the perfect murder,
Speaker 1: but I cannot resist the temptation to see if my
Speaker 1: theory is correct.
Speaker 7: You're playing a game with you.
Speaker 5: No, not at all. Try the door.
Speaker 7: You've done that.
Speaker 1: I fought this temptation, Edith. I did not want to
Speaker 1: know the answers to the problem. I was afraid I'd
Speaker 1: want to try it once I knew, And then I
Speaker 1: fold this. I'm convinced the chances of anyone's learning the
Speaker 1: cause of your death, the chances of their learning the
Speaker 1: cause of your death, or of every using me of
Speaker 1: it on non existence.
Speaker 4: There is a way to kill you that.
Speaker 5: Fulfill those seemingly impossible requirements.
Speaker 7: Let me up.
Speaker 5: Steps. You didn't notice.
Speaker 1: I selected a room in an abandoned section of this
Speaker 1: huge hotel in a distant town.
Speaker 7: You couldn't do it.
Speaker 4: You couldn't, I thought that myself. But can you appreciate
Speaker 4: what an achievement this will be for me.
Speaker 1: Can you understand how I had to know the answer,
Speaker 1: and now that I do, how I must confirm it.
Speaker 7: They'll find me here in your role?
Speaker 1: Will the Holmes knows I went off with you. It's
Speaker 1: a long way from that, proving I did away with you.
Speaker 1: You forget this is the ideal murdered. There are steps
Speaker 1: I shall take after you are dead.
Speaker 7: I know the window.
Speaker 5: I can't hope that I ended to that.
Speaker 1: You also noticed that before you came, I cleared the room.
Speaker 1: Nothing is available to you to use as a weapon
Speaker 1: again me and you're going to die within the next
Speaker 1: few texts. Before you die, you will have the privilege
Speaker 1: of seeing a technique in murder never before us in
Speaker 1: the history of man.
Speaker 5: I should start now. The simplicity of it will excound you.
Speaker 4: All I must do, all I must do is you'll
Speaker 4: do nothing. I brought them all with me to seat
Speaker 4: him up. Then, come on, professor, you is going to
Speaker 4: go one off? How kind of text, professor? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Through the window. Well now hopes Now that we've returned
Speaker 2: to make a speat, I say we should enjoy a
Speaker 2: well deserved rest. Eh, oh, now, who could that be?
Speaker 4: Come in?
Speaker 5: This is yes.
Speaker 2: My name's Briggs.
Speaker 7: I'm councilus of the estate of Professor Roberts.
Speaker 4: There is in this morning.
Speaker 3: You know what brings you to maker speakers to brings Well,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, this is doctor Watson.
Speaker 4: I know business is in just with you.
Speaker 2: We've found his envelope here in the steel box of
Speaker 2: the late professor says no one is to open it,
Speaker 2: but you to go on openly.
Speaker 4: Lets it done with this very well? And the viral
Speaker 4: moves this sealing wet ah.
Speaker 2: What does it say?
Speaker 4: Hmm? What's it say?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 3: Professor Roberts writes that he bequeaths his technique for committing
Speaker 3: the absolutely perfect murder to me. He wrote this to
Speaker 3: be read by me, should he die before I did.
Speaker 3: He wishes to be remembered by postility as the creator
Speaker 3: of this technique, the first in all recorded time to
Speaker 3: discover it. Cribs how to commit the perfect murder? Just
Speaker 3: three sentences, the most surprising three sentences I've ever read.
Speaker 4: And he's right, he's one.
Speaker 2: What are the homes? What does the paper say?
Speaker 4: Nothing?
Speaker 2: Watson, the governor tells you all that paper.
Speaker 4: Just close the fireplace, and your birden exactly what I
Speaker 4: intend to do, mister Briggs. They are all right, But.
Speaker 2: Mister Holmes, you you birdy, we'll never know what the
Speaker 2: paper says. Ugh ho, how do you commit the perfect murder?
Speaker 3: That's, my dear Watson, is something I must try desperately
Speaker 3: to forget, something about which the world must forever wonder.
Speaker 1: Well, doctor Watson. And did mister Holmes ever reveal that secret?
Speaker 2: No, mister Harris, never, Oh.
Speaker 1: Well, you for revelation you must make so doctors do I?
Speaker 1: Mister headas you must tell us a bit about the
Speaker 1: adventure you've planned for next week.
Speaker 2: Well, let's meet, mister Harris. I shall relate to you
Speaker 2: the adventure of the ancient Queen. It involves a crooked knife,
Speaker 2: a statue's fist, and a certain society. And I'm quite
Speaker 2: sure you'll enjoy it,