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They arrive in Chamonix, they find out
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what man carrying lots of flowers and dressed in white
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has rented a villa up in the hills.
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And they get--as they're moving into arrest him at this villa
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he blows his brains out.
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And this bursts into a full-fledged political crisis
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that came close to bringing down the Republic.
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Now, the police didn't bother to call a doctor
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until they were sure that Stavisky was dead;
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and this raises all sorts of concern
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because of the obvious issue
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that he might reveal highly-placed people with whom he was working.