- Accused of killing his wife, Phylis, and sitting on death row actor and theater director Edward Brighton, where the execution is divided into only five hours, asking for a meeting with Sherlock Holmes. She tells him the ill-fated course of the evening, she died Phylis, asks to locate the actual perpetrator of the crime. Reveals that since the wedding with much younger, beautiful actress suffered from strange ailments: heart aches, dizziness, nausea, symptoms of which - paradoxically - disappeared in prison. That night it felt wrong. Waiting for his wife to prepare a common output for the party, went on the air, but it did not help. When barely returned home, he saw a strange object on the floor did not belong to him. He bent down to pick it up and lost consciousness. When he awoke, the house was full of police. He was told that he was found with his hands clenched around his neck dead wife. Mysterious object was not. Worse yet, he still can not remember what I then saw on the floor. Holmes discovers that this thing was a packet of tobacco, but completely different than the one that burned Brighton. He decides to follow suit. He must hurry, because until midnight, when the execution is to take place, is getting closer.—Butterbaugh
- A death row inmate, a former theater producer, requests to see Sherlock Holmes mere hours before his execution in hopes of saving his life. He explains that after a disagreement with his wife, he falls ill and awakens to find her dead with him as the main suspect. Holmes investigates and the trail leads to the theater. Holmes knowledge of tobacco comes into play in this episode.
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