Madame Giry against speaking out, he is later found strangled and hanging from the stage rafters during a performance, throwing the audience into chaos. The 2004 film shows that he drinks from a green glass bottle. In Nicholas Meyer's 1993 novel The Canary Trainer, Erik kills him as punishment for Buquet declaring his love to Christine Daaé. Irene Adler, currently performing Carmen at the Palais Garnier, hires Sherlock Holmes to investigate his death, beginning the series of events that pits Holmes against Erik. References Characters in The Phantom of the Opera Fictional French people Literary characters introduced in 1909 Male characters in literature