1 minute to solve the case

Chapter 35 Mature Wisdom (1)
withered rose

In the morning, the police station suddenly received a call to the police, saying that something had happened to Mr. Solingham who lived alone.The police station quickly organized police forces and rushed to Mr. Solingham's residence.

The room Solingham had rented had only one window and one door, which were locked inside.The policemen carefully opened the door and entered the room, only to see Solingham lying on the bed, shot dead.

The police officer called Inspector Bonnan and reported the situation to him: "It was the flower seller near the Shark Street subway station who called the police this morning and said that Solingham came every Friday night. He has been buying 13 pink roses there for 10 years without interruption, but he hasn't been there for two weeks. The vendor was a little worried, so he called us. Initially, Solinghan Tom appeared to lock the doors and windows first, then sat on the bed and shot himself. He fell to his right side and the pistol fell on the carpet. The key to the door was in his vest pocket."

"What happened to the roses he bought?" asked the Inspector.

"They were all in a vase, and the vase stood on a narrow window sill, and the flowers were all withered and withered. Also, according to our analysis, Solingham had been dead for at least eight days."

"Is the entire floor carpeted?" "Yes, up to an inch from the base of the wall," the officer replied.

"Is there blood on the floor, windowsill, or carpet?"

"Just a little dust, nothing else. Just blood on the bed."

"Then you'd better have someone check the blood on the carpet," Bonnan said. "Someone was given a key to the room, and he opened the door, and killed Thoringham who was standing by the window, and after the murderer washed all the blood, Jean moved the body to the bed, so that it looked like suicide."

Why did Bonnan infer this?Can you find the suspicious point of the case?

The 13 roses in the window sill vase have been withered and withered after two weeks in the room, and the fallen petals should be found on the window sill, floor and carpet. It is impossible to have "just a little dust" and "nothing else ".So Bonnan believes that these petals were lost together when the murderer cleaned up the blood.

peeping window

Teacher Anna is a well-known beauty nearby, and because of her beauty, she also has many complicated relationships.On this day, Inspector Green visited Teacher Anna because of a student.He rang the bell, but the door didn't open.

Anna's door is equipped with an automatic lock. Once it is closed, unless there is a key, it is impossible to enter from the outside.After waiting for a long time, there was no response, and Detective Green had an appointment with Anna yesterday, and he had not received any notice of the change. Green felt strange and asked the administrator to open the door.He went in and saw Teacher Anna was wearing pajamas, stabbed in the chest and died on the ground.It is speculated that the time of death was around 9 o'clock last night.

After investigation, two people came to see Anna around 9 o'clock last night, one was her lover and the other was her student.In addition, the student is a local hooligan who has been coveting the teacher for a long time.

When questioning the two suspects, they both said that they rang the doorbell, but no one answered inside, thinking that Anna was not at home, so they didn't go in.

After listening to their stories, Green remembered that there was a small peep window on Anna's door, so he immediately identified who was the real murderer.

Excuse me, can you point out who the murderer is?

The murderer is Anna's lover.When students come to visit, she doesn't answer the door in her pajamas.

death mystery
On Saturday, a student committed suicide by taking poison in a certain hotel.The next day, the hotel clerk discovered the deceased and did not dare to make his own claim, so he immediately asked the supervisor for instructions. "Should I call the police immediately?" the waiter asked.

"Don't be so stupid, he wanted to die by himself, why should we cause trouble? As long as the police come, this matter will be publicized, which will have a great impact on the hotel's reputation."

"But the corpse must be disposed of!"

"Let's leave it in the park behind! It's a famous suicide site. A couple committed suicide there last month. The police just thought there was another suicide case."

At midnight, when all the passengers were asleep, the waiters and supervisors quietly carried the body to the park behind.

They saw a discarded newspaper in the grass, and decided to put the body on it, then stuffed the suicide note into the dead man's pocket, and put the poisoned cup at the foot of the dead body, making people look like they were in a park. Suicide in general.The supervisor and the waiter also did it very neatly, without leaving any evidence related to themselves.

The body was found the next morning.After an autopsy, it was confirmed that the time of death should be around 9 o'clock on Saturday night.

The experienced detective Bill said after observing the scene: "Even if it was a suicide, the place where it happened is definitely not here. I speculate that someone moved the corpse here out of trouble."

Do you know what Inspector Bill's basis is?

Because of the negligence of the waiter and supervisor, the newspapers they placed under the corpse were the same day. Since the deceased died the day before, of course he would not have the next day's newspaper.

The truth about cheating

Gary is a private detective. Business tycoon Tom suspects his wife is having an affair, so he hires Gary to find out where his wife is dating her lover.Gary launched an investigation immediately after accepting the commission.

Early on Wednesday morning, Gary began to conduct comprehensive surveillance of Tom's wife.At 8:10 in the morning, Mr. Tom left for work. At 9:30, Mrs. Tom went to the department store, walked around and went home.I didn't go out in the afternoon, only a few female guests and the postman came, and a laundromat boy, but they left after a short stay, and they were by no means Mrs. Tom's lover.At 8:40 in the evening, Mr. Tom came home from get off work...

星期四，上午8点10分，汤姆先生上班。11点整汤姆太太去买菜，40分钟后回家。下午3点30分去邮局办事，途中买了一份晚报。晚上7点30分汤姆先生下班回家。

Mr. Tom starts work at 8:10 on Friday.At 1 o'clock in the afternoon, Mrs. Tom dressed up and went out to a big hotel. She was just attending the class reunion.At 6pm she went out again, to dinner with Mr. Tom.

On Saturday, at 8:10, Mr. Tom goes to work. At 11:12, Mrs. Tom went shopping and came home after 4:6.At 10 o'clock in the afternoon, I went out to buy daily necessities again, and I didn't go home until 8:[-].At eight o'clock in the evening Mr. Tom came home.

On Sunday, Mr. Tom went to play golf, and Mrs. Tom tidied up the yard, did the laundry and did the housework.

After a month of investigation in this way, Mrs. Tom was not found to have any affair.Gary thought it was all Mr. Tom's paranoia.But in fact Mrs. Tom often has dates with her lover at home.

How did Mrs. Tom escape the detection of the detective?

Mrs. Tom gave her lover a key. When she went out, her lover entered the house, and when she went out again, the lover took the opportunity to leave.Gary, who followed Mrs. Tom, naturally would not find Mrs. Tom's lover.

murderer's lie
As soon as Officer Thomson walked into Kaiser's office, Campbell greeted him and said, "I didn't touch anything except the phone on the desk. I called you as soon as it happened."

The officer saw Kaiser's body lying on the carpet behind his desk, with a French-made pistol next to his right hand.

"Tell me what's going on!" the police officer asked eagerly.

"Cather asked me to come over here," Campbell said. "As soon as I got there he yelled at me and his wife."

"I told him he must have made a mistake, but he was getting overwhelmed by the fire. Suddenly, he yelled hysterically: 'I'm going to kill you!' and he opened the top drawer of his desk. , took out a pistol and fired at me, but luckily missed me. I had no choice but to defend myself in such a critical situation, which was completely self-defense."

The officer inserted a pencil into the barrel of the pistol, lifted it away from the body, then opened the top drawer of the desk and carefully replaced the gun.That night, the deputy said to Sergeant Thomson: "Campbell is a private eye and his pistol is registered. We found a French-made pistol bullet on the wall opposite the table, which Campbell said was first shot at him." The gun had Kaiser's fingerprints on it, but he didn't have a gun license, so we couldn't find out where the gun came from."

"I think we can file a case against Campbell for premeditated murder," Sergeant Thomson said.

At which link did Campbell show his feet?
Campbell claimed he touched nothing but the phone, and said Cather impulsively opened a drawer, pulled out a pistol and shot him first.But even the most prudent and careful person would not have fired the gun after closing the drawer in such a situation. A closed drawer would suggest that Campbell was lying.

strange drowning

On a Sunday morning, the body of an angler was floating on the surface of the lake in the suburbs.It looked like the person had drowned when the boat capsized while fishing in a small boat. The time of death was around 5 o'clock on Saturday afternoon.At first the death was considered to be a simple accident, but after investigation by the police, it was determined that it was a murder, and the murderer turned out to be a friend of the deceased because he owed a large debt to the deceased.

But the criminal had an alibi. On Saturday, he rented another boat to fish with the victim. He broke up with the victim at around 3 p.m. and returned to his home in K City by himself by the tram at G Station at 15:40.The train arrives at K city station at 18:30.During this period, the perpetrator has been sitting on the train, and there is a definite testimony from the conductor.

However, when the police learned that this person was working as a pharmacist in a hospital affiliated to a certain university, they exposed his ingenious modus operandi.

So, what method did the perpetrator use to drown the victim to death?

It was the use of anesthesia.The perpetrator, who was fishing with the victim, put the victim to sleep with narcotics before leaving at 3 p.m.Not long after, the victim woke up from his lethargy and tried to get up, but his body swayed and he couldn't stand stably, causing the boat to capsize and fall into the water and drowned.

people in the castle

Mr. Hal is a rich man who owns a castle.He has no relatives, few friends, and a bit of a bad temper.Although the family property is rich, but not long ago he had a stroke and suffered from hemiplegia.But the rich man has a strong will, and he still looks like he can live another 20 years.

Unfortunately, however, it happened again.He was strangled to death in the living room at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon.Because many people were taking a nap at this time, the servants in the adjacent room did not hear any sound, and the police who came to handle the case did not find any tools for the crime.

There are many people living in this castle, including Mr. Hal's driver, bodyguard, secretary, cook, servant, groom, and gardener.The people who came to visit Mr. Hal on the day of the incident included his lawyer, doctor and a business partner, and none of them had any grudge against Hal.

Mr. Hall made a will long before he was killed, distributing his property to all those who worked for him.Everyone benefits from Hal's death, making it harder to find the killer.

Who actually killed Hal?

The murderer is the groom, because Hal can no longer ride a horse after hemiplegia, and the groom killed Hal because he lost his job and could not get the inheritance.

no witnesses
It was a moonless night, and it was so dark outside the window that you couldn't see your fingers.In an office of the museum, financial administrator Marco tremblingly pulled police officer Philip and said: "You don't know how scared I am. After get off work today, I stayed here to work overtime to settle accounts, and suddenly saw a shadow on the ground on the right. The window was open..."

"Didn't you hear anything?" asked Philip.

"Absolutely not. There was music playing on the radio at the time, and I was very focused on my work. As the shadow moved, I saw someone jump out of the window from the house. I quickly turned on all the lights in the room. Before that, I only turned on There is a lamp. Here, it is the lamp on the right corner of the desk. I found that two safes containing precious ancient coin exhibits were missing. These two boxes were sent here for inventory after the exhibition this afternoon. How good is it to know that these ancient coins are rare treasures?"

"What time did you come here?" asked Philip.

"It's almost nine o'clock," Marco replied.

"Do you think I will believe your lies?" Philip asked angrily, "Stop performing such deceitful performances!"

How did police officer Philip find out that Mark was deceiving him?

At that time, only the desk lamp in the right corner of the desk was on in the room, and it was dark outside the window without moonlight.Sitting at a desk, it is impossible to see a figure on the ground on the right first, and then realize that someone jumped out of the window.From this, it can be inferred that the administrator Marco is lying.

murder under the lake
Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world, and in terms of transparency, it is also second to none in the world. From the surface of the lake, it is possible to see 40 meters underwater.

Just one summer morning, a floating male body was found on the water surface of Lake Baikal, and a small boat was overturned on the water surface and floating with the body.It looks like the accident was caused by a wind-blown wave that capsized the boat while on a boat trip.The police presumed that the time of death of the deceased was around 8 o'clock the night before.The deceased was a draftsman at a machinery factory on the southwestern shore of the lake, and lived in a single dormitory in a five-story building.Because of his fear of heights, his room is on the first floor.

"He can't swim, right?" The police went to his factory to ask his colleagues about the situation.

"I often see him go swimming in the swimming pool of the gymnasium. Therefore, when the boat capsized and fell into the water, he probably suffered a heart attack and died. Because the temperature of Lake Baikal is very low even in summer." The colleagues replied. .

However, the police suddenly noticed something, and immediately concluded clearly: "Even if the drowning death is not a shipwreck accident, it is a homicide case faked by the perpetrator to cause a shipwreck accident."

Why is this?

The police recalled that the deceased lived on the first floor of the single dormitory because of fear of heights.People with a fear of heights are as afraid of looking down from high-rise buildings as they are of going on boat trips to deep seas and lakes.When taking a small boat, as long as you look underwater from the side of the boat, you will feel dizzy and your legs will feel weak.A person with a fear of heights would never go boating in a lake by himself.

The disappearing carriage

This is an incredible case.A carriage full of world-famous paintings quietly disappeared from a moving train.Moreover, that carriage was hung in the middle of the train.

When the train departed from Southampton at 8 o'clock in the evening, the famous painting was still on the train, and there was no abnormality.But at the next stop, Newberry Station, the carriage containing the famous painting was gone.On the way, the train never stopped.Although there is a branch line between Southampton and Manchester City, it is dedicated to the summer tourist season and is generally not used.The next day, the disappearing carriage was found on that branch line, but the famous paintings had been looted.It is unbelievable how the carriage hanging in the middle of the train would be uncoupled from the running train and run to the branch line?For this strange case, the police had no clues and were helpless.

In this case, the famous detective Hassle came out.He searched on foot between the two stations along the railway line, especially carefully inspecting the switch on the branch line.The switch was rusted, but traces of oiling on the tires were found. "As expected, someone has touched it near here." He took a photo of the fingerprint on the switch, and asked friends from the Metropolitan Police Department to help identify it, and learned that it was the fingerprint of Sko, who had a history of robbing trains.So Hassle found out where Sko was hiding and went alone.

"Hurry up and take out the paintings stolen from the train."

"That's unreasonable. What evidence do you have that I'm the criminal?"

"Your fingerprints are on the switch. Of course, you are not the only culprit, there should be at least two accomplices, otherwise the carriage would not be unloaded so neatly." Hessle exposed the crime committed by Sco and his gang. trick.

So, what method did they use to unload a carriage from a moving train?
Divide the three criminals into A, B, and C, and set the car to be unloaded as X. A and B sneak into the train, and C waits at the switch of the branch line switch.As soon as the train departs from Southampton, A and B tie a thick rope to the connectors of the two cars behind and behind car X.Wrap the rope around the outside of the X, on the opposite side from the branch.When the train approaches the branch line, the connectors on the two cars in front of and behind the X are opened.Even if it is opened, the rope is still connected, so the two carriages at the front and rear of X will not be separated, and they can still move forward.C, who was waiting on the branch line, quickly switched the switch the moment the wheels of the front compartment of X stepped on the handover point.In this way, X slides on the branch line.Instead of waiting for the wheels of the rear compartment of the X to step on the handover point, return the switch switch to its original position.In this way, the car behind X is pulled on the track by the thick rope.

Soon, the train approached Manchester City Station, the speed slowed down, and the rear carriage pulled by the rope would catch up with the front carriage due to inertia.At this time, criminals A and B close the connector again, unload the slack rope, jump off the train and escape.On the other hand, the compartment X that slides into the branch line will automatically stop after walking for a while, and the criminal C can easily steal all the famous paintings on it.

who is the murderer
One morning when the luxury liner sailed around the world to the Pacific Ocean, a female body was found on the poop deck.The deceased was a fashion designer named Reina who was stabbed to death with a dagger.Because the crime happened in the vast Pacific Ocean, even if they escaped in a lifeboat, there was little hope of survival, so the murderer must still be on board.

In fact, two people on board had a motive for killing her.

David, the nephew of the victim, is the heir to his property.He has a lot of debt from gambling and is struggling to pay it off.

(End of this chapter)