1 minute to solve the case

Chapter 37 Mature Wisdom (3)
"My husband and I fell asleep at 11:45 at night. I didn't know what happened. I woke up at about 3:25 in the morning. It was strange to hear that my husband was not breathing at all. Take a closer look. I found out he was dead. He was killed."

"and after?"

"I'll call you downstairs right away. I saw that window was wide open." She pointed to the open window, "The murderer must have come in through that window, and then through that window." out the window."

Green walked to the window, only to feel the fierce cold wind blowing straight into the room, he shrank his neck and hurriedly closed the window.Turning to Mrs. Bernstein, who was still sobbing, he said, "Let the autopsy be done by the police and medical examiner. Maybe you'd like to tell me the truth before they get here!"

Mrs. Bernstein's face became even paler after hearing what Green said: "What do you mean?"

Detective Green sneered, "Because you didn't tell me the truth just now."

Why does Detective Green think Mrs. Bernstein is not telling the truth?

It took at least 40 minutes for Detective Green to arrive at Mrs. Bernstein's house after receiving the call.If, as Mrs. Bernstein said, she had discovered that the window was open before making the phone call, the temperature in the room must have dropped by leaving the window open for such a long time on a cold, snowy night.But when Green first entered Mrs. Bernstein's house, he felt that the room was very warm, which meant that the window had not been open all the time, but had just been opened.

missing ransom

Billionaire David's only daughter has been kidnapped.The kidnappers sent a threatening letter, which said: "If you want your daughter to return home safely, put a ransom of 100 million pounds in your travel bag, and let your driver stop at the bronze statue in the park at 12 o'clock tomorrow night." Dig a hole next to it and bury the money in the ground. If you receive the money, your daughter will be released."

After receiving the kidnapper's letter, David was very anxious and immediately reported the case to the police.

At 12 o'clock the next night, the driver came to the bronze statue in the park with a travel bag containing 100 million pounds.Just in case, six policemen in disguise went with the driver, and several criminal policemen guarded the exit of the park from a distance.According to the request of the kidnappers, the driver dug a deep pit next to the bronze statue, buried the travel bag in the pit, and then left there with a shovel.

The remaining criminal policemen watched carefully there until noon of the next day, but they never saw the kidnapper come to withdraw the money, but David's daughter returned home safely.The police immediately dug up the pit where the money was buried. Unexpectedly, the travel bag was empty, and the ransom of 100 million pounds was taken away at some point.The criminal police in charge of monitoring confirmed that the kidnappers had never been here, and no one approached the pit.

So, how did this missing kidnapper evade the surveillance of the criminal police and take away the ransom of 100 million pounds?The driver did bury the £100 million ransom in the pit!

The kidnapper was the driver. In fact, the ransom was not taken away at all, but buried under the travel bag with a layer of dirt in between!Because the driver was in the dark when he buried the ransom, the police did not see it.

Unstoppable poisoning

In the middle of the last century, Mr. B, a millionaire, made a will when he was dying, leaving all his property to his second wife, Mrs. B.Living with the wealthy lady is her adopted daughter Maggie.

Maggie is a typical fashionable girl with a wide range of social contacts and a good spendthrift. Her adoptive mother is very strict, which makes her often in short supply. Therefore, she always hopes that her adoptive mother will die soon and she can legally inherit a huge amount of property.However, Mrs. B is in very good health.Finally, one day, McGee put arsenic in the soup, and Mrs. B suddenly passed out after drinking the soup. Fortunately, she was discovered in time, and Mrs. B's life was saved.

After Mrs. B recovered, she immediately warned McGee: "I know you want my life. In order to protect the reputation of the B family, I will not sue you this time. In order to ensure my personal safety, I should remove you from this family now." Expulsion. Regrettably, according to your father's last words, I can't do this. Therefore, in order to spend my old age in peace, I will take preventive measures from today, and you will never want to poison me again!"

Mrs B completely remodeled the second-floor bedroom, installing iron bars on the windows and re-locking the door.The servants are not allowed to cook three meals a day, but she personally buys canned food from the supermarket and cooks in the newly added kitchen in the bedroom. No one is allowed to touch all the tableware, and even drinks only bottled mineral water.Ask a health care practitioner to check up on your body every week.Even the doctor only allowed him to measure his pulse and body temperature, and he was not allowed to take any injections or medicines.

Despite such strict precautions, Mrs. B was still doomed and died in less than half a year.After an autopsy, it was found that a small amount of colorless, odorless toxin had invaded her body for a long time, and the amount of toxin accumulated in her body had reached a lethal level.The reasoning writer Quinn accompanied his father, who was the sheriff, to participate in the investigation of this case. His father was busy searching for poison at the scene, but Quinn was looking through the medical equipment used by the deceased. After thinking for a while, he pointed out that poisoning murder criminal.

So, who used what method to poison this well-prepared Mrs. B?

The accomplice in this murder by poisoning was Mrs. B's health practitioner.He was bought by McGee with a lot of money and became an accomplice to this crime.During weekly checks, he applied a colorless, odorless poison to the front of the thermometer.At the time, thermometers were worn in the mouth.In this way, every time, a small amount of toxin entered Mrs. B's body through the mouth, accumulating over time, and finally reached the lethal dose one day.After learning about Mrs. B's careful precautions, Quinn determined that the poison can only enter through the mouth, and only through the way of temperature testing.

Self-defeating
It was a hot summer with a temperature exceeding 34°C, and a train had just arrived at the station.The female detective Maggie stood on the platform and heard someone calling her from behind: "Miss Maggie, are you going on a trip?"

It was called by Melissa in connection with a case she was investigating.

"No, I'm here to pick up someone." Maggie replied.

"What a coincidence, I'm also here to pick up someone." Melissa said.

As she spoke, Melissa took out a piece of chocolate from her handbag, broke half of it and handed it to Maggie.

"Haven't you had lunch yet? Come have some chocolate."

Maggie took it and put it in her mouth.The chocolate was hard. At this moment, Maggie suddenly thought of something, and said sharply to Melissa, "Why are you lying? You clearly just got off the train. Why did you lie to me that you were also here to pick up someone?"

Melissa's expression changed when she asked her this question.But she still wanted to deny it, so she asked, "How do you know I just got off the train? Did you see it?" "No, I didn't see it, but I know you're lying." Maggie said confidently.

Why did Maggie conclude that Melissa was lying?
Because there is air conditioning in the train, and the temperature inside the train is lower than the melting temperature of chocolate.The temperature outside is 34°C, which is much higher than the melting temperature of chocolate, so it can be deduced that she just got off the train.

conspiracy
Ambassador McCullough held a reception in his villa.Spy K also attended the meeting disguised as a diplomat.While people were drinking champagne and chatting enthusiastically, Ambassador McCullough picked up the camera and walked up to the famous film actress Miss Grace and said, "Miss, let's take a photo as a souvenir of today!"

"Where are you taking pictures?"

"Please stand under that pine tree."

So the ambassador took the young lady into the yard and asked her to stand under the pine tree. "Please don't move, okay, I'm going to take a picture." After speaking, he was about to press the shutter.At this moment, the wine glass in the hand of the ambassador's wife who came to the steps fell to the ground.Almost at the same time as the sound of the wine glass falling to the ground, a gunshot was heard, and Miss Grace fell down. The bullet hit her heart, and she died instantly.The guests pointed to the windows on the second floor and shouted: "It's the gunshots from the second floor." K quickly jumped up to the second floor and found that in the study on the second floor, the ambassador's eldest son Mike stood there blankly, Mike, whose eyes are covered with bandages, was blinded by a shotgun accident two weeks ago.

The window was open, and a pistol and a pair of pliers lay on the table in the study.

"You shot Miss Grace with this pistol?" asked K.

"It's unreasonable! I can't see with my eyes. Even if I can use a pistol and pull the trigger, how can I aim?"

"Who fired that shot?"

"I don't know. I was just lying on the sofa when I felt someone walk in and the sound of a window being opened. The sudden gunshots stunned me."

"What are these iron tongs for?"

"What iron tongs? Why is there such a thing here?" Mike asked back.

The guests and servants were all on the first floor when the gunshots were fired, and no one was seen going upstairs.It seems that the culprit can only be Mike.However, he was blind, how could he aim at Miss Grace under the pine tree in the yard?

After a while, the criminal police came to the scene and began a rigorous investigation.At this time, K called Ambassador McCullough to another room, and said to him quietly: "Mr. Ambassador, the criminals are you, your wife, and the eldest son Mike, right? What a wonderful trap, with tacit cooperation. , invulnerable. But why kill Miss Grace?"

The ambassador's conspiracy was discovered, and he told K the truth: "She is a double agent. Our country sent instructions to kill her. Please don't tell the police about this situation, and I can give you a confidentiality fee."

How did the ambassador's family of three design a trap to kill Miss Grace?

First, McCullough used iron tongs to fix the pistol on the table by the window of the study on the second floor, aiming the gun at the pine tree in the yard.As soon as Miss Grace took her designated place under the pine tree the gun would be aimed at her.For this reason, Ambassador McCullough pretended to take pictures of Grace and asked Grace to stand under the pine tree at the designated position.At this time, the ambassador's wife deliberately dropped the wine glass to the ground as a signal, and Mike pulled the trigger as soon as he heard the sound of the wine glass breaking, and the bullet naturally hit Miss Grace.Although Mike couldn't see the target, because the pistol was fixed, all he had to do was pull the trigger.Mike then unhooked the pistol from the clamp and placed it on the table.

detective insight
The wealthy Mrs. Katz is so bored that she even thinks of tying the famous detective Green.

On this day, at 2 o'clock in the morning, Green received an emergency call from Mrs. Katz's butler, saying that "Madame's jewelry was robbed" and asked him to come immediately.

Green walked into Mrs. Katz's bedroom, closed the door, and quickly checked the scene: two French windows were open, and there was a coffee table on the left side of the messy big bed, with a book and two candles that had burned 3 inches on it. There was a lot of candle liquid running down one side, a doorbell cable was thrown on the thick green carpet, and a dresser drawer was open.

Mrs. Katz introduced in an orderly manner: "Last night I was lying on the bed, reading a detective book by candlelight, the door was suddenly blown open by the wind, and a strong draft rushed in. So I pulled The doorbell told James to come and close the door. Unexpectedly, a masked gunman came in and asked me where the jewelry was. James walked in while he was pocketing the jewelry. He tied James with the doorbell's cable Get up, and bind my hands and feet with these things." She said, picking up a stocking. "When he left, I asked him to close the door, but he just smiled and left the door open on purpose. James It took 20 minutes to break free from the rope and free me."

"Ma'am, allow me to pay tribute to your elaborate robbery and ridiculous performance." Green said with a smile.

Where is the loophole in Mrs. Katz's lie?
All the liquid from the candles dripped to the side of the door, which means that if the door had been open for so long as Mrs. Katz said, the liquid from the candles would not have flowed to one side against the wind.

cola poisoning
Officer Grant's friend Rui is a baseball coach.

On this day, Rui ran to the police station in a hurry, reported the case with a sad face, and told what happened.

"I came home late today, and it was almost 10 o'clock when I got home. When I entered the door, I found my daughter Kelly lying on the table. At first I thought she was asleep. I called several times but she didn't answer. I took a closer look. She's dead."

Officer Grant rushed to the scene immediately and found a half-drunk can of Coca-Cola on the table.Tests showed it contained cyanide.A few pieces of letter paper were scattered on the table, and on one of them was the half can of Coca-Cola mixed with cyanide.The pen writing on the letter paper was very clear.

"Where did you keep this can of Coca-Cola?" Officer Grant asked.

"It's in the refrigerator in the kitchen." Rui replied, "My daughter likes to drink iced Coca-Cola the most, so I always have a lot of Coca-Cola in the refrigerator at home. Who would have thought that someone would poison her to death..."

Grant checked the refrigerator and went back to Kelly's boudoir.He picked up a piece of letter paper on the table, looked at it, and asked his assistant, "Have all these letter papers been authenticated?"

"Yes, after identification, the handwriting and fingerprints on it are all Kelly's, and the letter paper is full of poems about broken love."

"Rui, is your daughter in love?" Grant asked.

"Yes," Ruy replied, "she broke up with her boyfriend a few days ago because I didn't approve of her dabbling in love at a young age."

Grant took out the letter paper under the Coca-Cola and looked at it for a while, then asked: "Has Coca-Cola always been pressed on this letter paper?"

"Yes, no one touched it," Ruy replied.

Grant thought for a moment, and judged: "Kelly didn't take this can of Coca-Cola from the refrigerator, but the criminal made her drink it to death!"

I would like to ask: What is the reason for the police officer to make such a judgment?

The Coca-Cola taken out of the refrigerator is cold, and there will be water stains on the letter paper when it is heated.

No Survival Mystery
A small tourist helicopter carrying a passenger encountered a storm while flying over the sea, and crashed into the sea before sending out an SOS distress signal.Fortunately, due to the buoyancy of the wings, the plane did not sink immediately, so the pilot and passengers had the opportunity to blow up the life raft and climb onto it.

The sea was calm.The rubber raft is for four people, so it is more than enough for two people.There were five cans of emergency canned food on the raft, two of which were fruit juices in place of drinking water.

"If you drift like this for two or three days, there will probably be search planes coming to rescue you, so don't worry." The pilot advised the passengers to rest assured.

However, half a month later, when an international cargo ship found the life raft, the pilot and passengers were dead.The pilot was stabbed to death with a dagger, and the passenger, for some reason, blocked the bulging air tube with a finger of his left hand and starved to death on the raft.Also on board was a bloody dagger and four empty cans, the other untouched in a pocket strapped to the safety handle.

These two must have killed each other with knives to get the last can.But if this is the case, why did the living murderer starve to death instead of eating canned food?The crew on the freighter felt incredible.So, what happened on the drifting life raft?
When the passengers killed the pilot, they leaked the air pipe. In order to prevent the air pipe from leaking, the passengers had to block the air pipe with their fingers.After blocking the air pipe, he couldn't reach the remaining cans, and he didn't dare to let go, so he starved to death.

horrible murderer
A middle-aged man and a young woman rented a flat to live in. Soon, the woman disappeared, and only the man was left to live a leisurely life.Neighbors never saw the woman again.The police at the police station felt a little strange, so they asked the man about the woman's whereabouts.The man said that she felt that life here was boring, she went on a trip, and would be back soon.However, the police did not believe his words and wondered if the woman was killed by this guy.So, after two weeks of secretly monitoring the man, the police resolutely searched his house, but found neither the woman's body nor anything suspicious.The woman was indeed missing, and her family commissioned a private investigator to investigate.

The private detective listened to the report on the surveillance and search of the man by the local police, and concluded the following points:

1.This person seldom went out, because the police followed him when he went out, so it was not found that he moved the body elsewhere.

2.For the past two weeks, this person has been exercising on the balcony every day.

3.This person may be a vegetarian and just go get some greens and some salt.But in his kitchen there are several bottles of seasonings for meat dishes.

The private eye quickly sees through the horrific case. Do you know how this woman disappeared?

That man is a cannibal. After he killed the woman, he ate her meat every day in order to dispose of her body, so he only bought green vegetables. He used salt to keep the body fresh, and a few bottles of seasoning were used to cook the meat.He exercises on the balcony every day in order to increase the amount of exercise and increase his appetite.

roller skating boy
Mr. A, a first-year middle school student, rode a newly bought white bicycle to the park on a Sunday.Suddenly, he felt sick to his stomach and went to the toilet.But a few minutes later, I came out to see that the locked bicycle that had been parked outside the toilet suddenly disappeared, and I couldn't help being surprised.

Because the front wheel of the car is locked with a chain lock, if there is no additional key to unlock, the only way to do this is to cut the chain, otherwise it is absolutely impossible to ride the car away.

In fact, it was a roller skating boy who was playing nearby. Because of his naughtiness, he took his bicycle and took it for a spin in the park without authorization.So how did the boy get off the bike without turning the front wheel?
Boy on rollerblades straps his roller skates under the front wheel of his bike and rides away.The pedals of the bicycle drive the rear wheels to rotate, and the front wheels are only idling, so even if the bicycle is locked with a chain lock, roller skates are tied under the wheels, and the pedals can be used to ride away.

night of thunder
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