Step into Ernst Wolzogen's Motley Theater, Max Reinhardt's Sound and Smoke, Rudolf Nelson's Chat noir, and Friedrich Hollaender's Tingel-Tangel. Enjoy Claire Waldoff's rendering of a lower-class Berliner, Kurt Tucholsky's satirical songs, and Walter Mehring's Dadaist experiments, as Peter Jelavich spotlights Berlin's cabarets from the day the curtain first went up, in 1901, until the Nazi regime brought it down. Fads and fashions, sexual mores and...

Murder at a famed cabaret! Sherlock Holmes and Watson are called in to investigate a double murder at a cabaret in Paris…a crime that has to kept silent. But Inspector Bodine claims the murder and motive are obvious and Mr. Holmes' help is not needed. Holmes demonstrates that not everything is as it first appears. With guest characters such as Oscar Wilde and Toulouse L'Autrec, the mystery weaves a tapestry of greed, betrayal and forbidden love....