Casebook 4: A Score Settled - 4.17[index]

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All my suspicions were eventually confirmed: the pathologist confirmed deafness in both ears by poisoning; an expert violin-maker confirmed the clever copy; the mortified hotel manager confirmed the unexplained presence of an agency man who, it transpires, had never been sent for.

And my friend, the doorman, confirms, through blinking, sweat stung eyes: A stranger leaving with a parcel under his arm. He couldn't see his face against the fierce, blazing sun, but he remembers him whistling a strange, discordant tune.