First broadcast 17th May 1997.

Veteran comedian Jack Holiday has committed suicide. But how did a man with crippling arthritis manage to hold a gun to his head? And how was Jonathan duped into another of Maddy's "grisly murder investigations"?

Alan Davies - Jonathan Creek
Caroline Quentin - Maddy Magellan
John Bluthal - Jack Holiday
Colin Stinton - Scott Reisner
Bernard Kay - Oliver
Maureen O'Brien - Kirsten Holiday
Robin Soans - Alan Rokesmith
June Watson - Rachel Rokesmith
Helena McCarthy - Mrs. Rokesmith
Andrew Powell - Police Officer at Shelter
David Thorpe - Police Officer at Cottage
Geoffrey Beevers - Neville Spivey