1 minute to solve the case

Chapter 53
There is a family with a couple.One day the man went out and did not come back after dark, and the woman at home was worried.The next morning, the woman stood at the door and waited and waited, but the man still didn't come back.On the third day, the woman's eyes were red and swollen, and she waited idiotically for her husband to return, but there was still no sign of him.After a few more days like this, someone suddenly reported: "There is a dead body in the well in your vegetable garden!"

After hearing this, the woman trembled like she was sifting chaff, and hurried to the well to look around. Sure enough, she vaguely saw a male corpse floating on the water.After the woman saw it, she burst into tears, and cried, "My dear ones!" while banging her head on the fence of the well, and wanted to jump into the well.Seeing this situation, the neighbors couldn't bear it, and they hugged her by the waist.

Immediately, several well-meaning people persuaded the woman to report the case to the government together.Zhang Gaoqing listened to the woman's wailing, and comforted her with kind words: "Your condolences. Whether your man committed suicide or homicide, I will solve the case."

The neighbor said: "The husband and wife are very affectionate, and this woman has always been virtuous and responsible. A man would never commit suicide."

After hearing this, the woman became more and more distraught, and she fainted from grief.Zhang Gaoqing ordered the left and right to wipe her awake with cold water, and then comforted her: "You have to believe that the officer will definitely make the decision for you and make the case clear." After finishing speaking, he immediately ordered the sedan chair to be prepared and set off to the case. Find the scene to go.

When they arrived at the vegetable garden, Zhang Gaoqing asked the women and neighbors to gather around the well and look down carefully.After a long time, Zhang Gaoqing asked, "Is the corpse the woman's husband?"

The woman cried loudly: "Yes, yes! My lord must avenge my slave's family!"

Zhang Gaoqing said: "You don't need to be sad. May I ask everyone, do you think it is her husband?"

Everyone looked into the well again, and then looked at each other again.Someone said: "The well is so deep, it's hard to see clearly."

Another said: "My lord, let us fish out the body and identify it."

Zhang Gaoqing said with a smile: "Don't worry about it now, of course I will always put the coffin in the coffin." After finishing speaking, she yelled at the woman, "What a cunning whore! You conspired with an adulterer and murdered your own husband , and pretended to be mourning to deceive me!"

Everyone present was stunned when they heard it like a bolt from the blue.Only the woman burst into tears again, crying and shouting: "Master Zhang, don't spit blood!"

Neighbors also pleaded for her: "My lord, we usually see that she is well-behaved and considerate to her husband. I have never seen her hook up with a man who is neither good nor bad."

Facing the crowd, Zhang Gaoqing unhurriedly spoke out her own evidence, but everyone was silent and unable to answer, the woman stopped her tears immediately, and her complexion turned pale.

Zhang Gaoqing ordered the guards to take the woman into custody.After interrogation, it turned out that the woman conspired with the adulterer to kill her husband.

Do you know what evidence Zhang Gaoqing has?

When Zhang Gaoqing found such a deep well, everyone thought the body was unidentifiable, but this woman believed it was her husband. She explained that she had known about the murder for a long time.

key mystery
The guards had a cell with three bunks.Before entering the cell, Sheriff Ginji even untied Kokichi's loincloth for a careful inspection.A dexterous thief, as long as there is a thin nail, can easily open the lock of the cell.Ginji confiscated all the items that Kokichi had brought, and carefully checked all the clothes and belts he was wearing, but found nothing.

That night, the watchman Hachikuro was on duty.

Early the next morning, Hachikuro ran to Ginji's house in a panic.

"Boss, it's not good."

"What happened? It was so noisy early in the morning."

"Xingji escaped."

"What? Escaped... when?"

"This morning, when I woke up, I found that the cell was empty. So... Boss, I'm really sorry." Hachikuro bowed his head and pleaded guilty.

"Let's go and have a look." Ginji rushed to the cell on Mishima Street and saw that the cell door was opened, and the cell lock that was opened fell on the ground, and the key was still inserted in the lock.

"Hey, Hachikuro, what's the matter with this key?" Ginji pulled the key from the lock.

The key was about an inch long and was a cell key made from an old key file.

"Xingkichi, he opened the lock with this key and escaped," Hachikuro said.

Ginji was very surprised: "But, where did he get the key?" Before putting Xingji in the cell last night, he had stripped off his clothes and checked carefully. He would never bring anything into the cell.Moreover, he would not have anticipated that he would be caught by Ginji and imprisoned in this cell, and it was impossible for him to prepare the key to this cell in advance.

"Hachikuro, where is your spare key?"

"It's on me, it was still wrapped in my belt when I went to bed last night." Hachikuro took out the key from his pocket and showed it to Ginji.

Ginji compared the two keys and found that Hachikuro's key was two inches long.

"Where did Kokichi get the key to the prison door?" Hachikuro asked sadly.

"Hey, where did this big bowl and bamboo skin come from?" In a corner of the cell, Ginji found a bowl of soba noodles and a bamboo skin with rice grains stuck to it.

"I sent it to Kokichi yesterday."

"Who sent it?"

"Shinsuke from Chojuan brought him a bowl of soba noodles and two rice balls wrapped in bamboo skin yesterday."

"Why don't you check these things and let him hand them over to Kokichi? Maybe there are cell keys hidden in the rice balls and soba noodles. Every order here is delivered by Chojuan, and they take care of the guards and print the cell keys. It is very easy to copy a model."

"Boss, I won't be so careless. Before handing over to Xingkichi, I inspected everything I delivered. The rice balls were all broken, and the soba noodles were stirred with chopsticks. Even the bottom of the soup was checked. After that, the key to the cell can't be hidden in those things," Hachikuro said.

"Maybe Shinsuke approached the cell and handed it to Kokichi?"

"How could it be? I have been watching and never let him approach the cell."

"Besides, was anyone else in the cell?"

"No one."

"You never went out once?"

"Yes, not once."

"Did you close the windows when you were sleeping?"

"Closed it well, no one can get in from the outside to help Xingji escape."

"Even so, when you woke up this morning, Kokichi had already run away..."

"It's really shameless to see people." Hachikuro shrank his shoulders.

"It seems that Shinsuke is still suspicious. He must have handed over the key to Kokichi without your eyes." Ginji said, then turned the empty bowl over, and there was a protruding bowl bottom under the big bowl.Not only large bowls, but also common dishes and other utensils have such a foundation.

Ginji took the big bowl of noodles and the bamboo skin and thought for a while: "Yes, I know, it was Shinsuke who used a clever trick to hand over the key to Xingji. After Xingji finished eating the noodles, after you fell asleep, you can I opened the cell with the key and escaped. Hachikuro, arrest Shinsuke immediately."

"Yes." Hachikuro rushed to Choshouan immediately, but Shinsuke and Kokichi who delivered the food had already fled together, and they were accomplices.

So, according to Ginji's reasoning, how did Shinsuke give the key to Kokichi?
When Shinsuke delivers the noodles, the key can be stuck to the bottom of the bowl, so no matter how you check the noodles, you can’t find them, and it’s impossible to turn the bowl upside down to check if there are noodles in the bowl.

lying waitress
A luxury hotel in Paris, France.

Early in the morning, the manager reported to the police that a handbag containing many valuable jewelry had been stolen from the passenger Miss Shana.

A few minutes later, Sheriff Halgen arrived.After checking the scene, he called Miss Shana to him and asked about the incident.

Ms. Shana came to attend an international fair on behalf of the company, and came to this hotel as soon as she got off the plane.Her handbag contained many exquisite jewelry, and the hostess on the second floor put the handbag on the bedside table for her.

"Miss, what do you need? Please just ask." The waitress said very attentively.

Miss Shanna said: "I have nothing else to do, but please bring me a cup of hot milk tomorrow morning."

Before going to bed, Miss Shana checked the jewelry and found nothing damaged.

Early the next morning, when she woke up, she rang the bell to call the waitress to bring milk, and went to the bathroom by herself.After brushing her teeth, when she was washing her face, she heard the door open and thought it was the waitress bringing milk, so she didn't pay attention.

However, when she rinsed the soap on her face, she heard a scream of "ah" outside, followed by a "plop".Miss Shana rushed out to have a look, only to see the waitress lying in the doorway, unconscious, with blood streaming from her forehead.She looked at the bedside table again, and was even more surprised: the handbag had disappeared...

After listening to Miss Shana's narration, Sheriff Halgen went to visit the waitress who had woken up, and asked her to explain the situation just now.

The waitress who suffered some head injuries said with difficulty: "Just now, I brought a cup of hot milk according to Miss Shana's order. But as soon as I entered the room, I suddenly felt a gust of wind behind me. I saw a man jumping out from behind, he punched me on the head suddenly, I was knocked down to the ground, and in a daze, I seemed to see him take a handbag and run away."

"What does that man look like?" asked the sheriff.

"I didn't see it clearly."

The sheriff didn't ask any more questions, walked to the bedside table, picked up the cup of hot milk and said, "Miss Shana, you haven't had any milk yet."

"Oh, by the way, I forgot if you didn't tell me."

The waitress said courteously: "It's cold, miss, I'll warm it up for you."

The sheriff said sarcastically: "Miss receptionist, stop acting and call out your accomplices!"

The waitress turned pale and argued, "What do you mean, Mr. Sheriff?"

The sheriff sneered and revealed the flaw he found.The waitress was speechless, unable to justify herself.Under repeated questioning by the sheriff, the waitress had to confess her accomplice and handed over the handbag full of precious jewelry.

How did the sheriff figure out that the waitress was lying?
The waitress said that when she opened the door, a man knocked her to the ground, but the glass of milk was placed on the bedside table. The waitress was obviously lying.

boss lie
On a cold night with light snowfall, at around 11:[-], Detective Luo Bo received a report and rushed to the scene.

The scene was a ramen restaurant located in an alley on a busy street.There is a layer of fog on the glass of the door with the half-cut cloth curtain printed with the word "face", and the room is so hot that it is impossible to see the scene inside from the outside.

Pulling open the glass door, Detective Luo Bo rushed into the room with a stride, his frozen face was choked by the oncoming heat, and he couldn't breathe for a while.The snowflakes that fell on the shoulders melted immediately.

At a table in the back corner, a man dressed as a hooligan died with his head stuck in a bowl of noodles, shot in the temple.The big bowl was filled with bright red blood.

"Mr. Detective, it's really tiring for you in the middle of the night." The owner of the noodle shop smiled flatteringly and approached him.

Luo Bo immediately remembered that this was the guy who was caught by Matsumoto before.

"Ah, it's you, have you changed your mind?"

"Yes, finally..."

"Tell me in detail how that man was killed."

"Around 11:[-], he was the only guest left. He ordered two jugs of wine and a large bowl of noodles, and while he was eating, a man broke in from the door."

"Did that guy shoot it?"

"Yeah, he pulled the pistol out of the pocket of his leather jacket as soon as he got in the house and fired. I was doing the dishes in the operator room. Geez, that was a sharpshooter, he must be a hit man. After the shot he I ran away, and I was frightened by the sudden incident and stood there." The boss seemed to recall the scene at that time, and replied with a pale face.

"Were you the only one in this shop at that time?"

"Yes."

"What did the criminal look like?"

"I don't know much about this. He is tall, wearing light-colored sunglasses, and a scarf under his nose. In short, he just blows past like a gust of wind."

"yes……"

Luobo stared at the boss's face intently.

"Then, it's so pitiful. Now you should go to jail again. If you want to tell a lie, you should invent it better!" Detective Luobo's unquestionable tone made the noodle shop owner tremble with fright.

So, how did Detective Luo Bo deduce and see through the boss's lies?
The owner of the noodle shop was lying when he said that the murderer was a man wearing sunglasses, because when he entered a house full of heat, the lenses would be frosted and he would not be able to see clearly, and he would not shoot the victim immediately.

Mysterious Knife Marks

The owner of Jin Bulan's pawn shop died, and he died a terrible death, pierced through the chest by a short sword and nailed to the wall board alive.The proprietress was scared to death.Not long after reporting the case, people from the police station came, headed by the famous detective Iwakaze.

Yanfeng surveyed the scene, and the boss had just died, less than an hour ago.In addition to the sword pierced on the body of the deceased, there was a knife on the ground at the scene.After identification, the proprietress confirmed that it belonged to her husband.There are many freshly scratched knife marks on the cabinets and the surrounding wall panels in the room, as if left by a fight.Apart from these, Yanfeng could no longer see any other clues.

Yanfeng ordered that those who had committed the crime and were suspected of committing the crime should be arrested first.Four people were quickly caught, two were shop assistants, and two were customers who had just been to the pawn shop.Yanfeng questioned these four people one by one, but no one would admit that he was the murderer of the boss.Without evidence, Yanfeng had nothing to do with them, so he had to temporarily guard them.

The boss of Jinbulan is kind and kind, and the neighbors have a good reputation. He has never heard of anyone having a feud with the boss, and the possibility of vendetta is very small.If it's for money, it's not right. There's not a lot of silver at the counter, obviously it's not for money.

What is the murderer for?Yan Feng pondered every picture and every detail during the day.

I couldn't find the key to the warehouse, thinking it was taken away by the murderer, how did I find it later?The proprietress should be familiar with where to put the keys. Why is the key not in the usual drawer, but in the lower drawer that has never been left?The key was changed to another drawer, was it done by someone else, or was it the intention of the deceased before his death?Also, judging from where the deceased was stabbed, the murderer was tall and strong. He pierced the man and stabbed him into the wall. It can be said that he was a tall and burly guy.However, there are so many knife marks on the scene, which shows that the two people had a life-and-death struggle, and they were evenly matched.This kind of fight will not only alarm the surroundings, but it also does not match the murderer judged by Yanfeng.Because the boss is short and weak, it is impossible for him to stay with a strong man for so long.

If the boss was defeated by the murderer's sword after only resisting a few times, then how could there be so many knife marks on the scene?The more Yanfeng thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong. There must be something here.

Early in the morning, Yanfeng hurried to the scene of the crime again.He checked the scene carefully again, especially the knife marks.Yanfeng found that the knife marks on the cabinet were intermittent and messy, and some of them didn't look like they were cut by a knife.he thought.Suddenly, Yanfeng thought of the thing that the key to the warehouse was changed to a drawer.Yes, aren't these drawers all replaceable?Could it be... Yanfeng pulled out all the drawers one by one, and then put them together like a puzzle according to the knife marks on the drawers and the cabinet before putting them into the cabinet.

When all the drawers were put back into the cabinet, Yanfeng's eyes lit up, he said "It's done", and hurried back to the police station.

As soon as he arrived at the police station, Yanfeng released the other three people, leaving the suspect Wang Qi behind.Wang Qi refused, and said, "They can leave, why don't they let me go?"

Yanfeng didn't say anything, but just took Wang Qi to Jin Bulan's pawn shop.When Wang Qi came to the crime scene again, where he killed the boss, his face turned pale.

"See, this is the evidence that you killed the boss." Yanfeng said majesticly.

Seeing that the matter had been revealed, Wang Qi was so frightened that he was out of his wits, trembling, and knelt down in front of Yanfeng with a "plop", crying and begging desperately for mercy.Wang Qi was irrefutable, so he had to confess his murder.

The flawless murder plan was still seen by Yan Feng.

What is the evidence for killing the boss?

Yanfeng put the drawer on the cabinet again, and found that the words "[-]" were clearly written on those knife marks, which were traces intentionally scratched by the boss in a hurry.

tulips and pearls
Just after noon one day, private detective Samson came to a house outside Amsterdam at the invitation of mystery writer Holman.Surprisingly, Holman was delivering a police patrol car that was parked in front of the door to start.

"Sir, what's the matter?"

"Hey, Mr. Samson, you are a step late. The criminal police just left after investigating the scene. I wanted you, the famous detective, to come to investigate together."

"What site are you investigating?"

"The door thief came in. Please come in and talk about the details."

After Holman let Detective Samson into the living room, he immediately introduced what happened.

"Yesterday morning, a misfortune happened to a relative's house, so my wife and I went out together. This afternoon, I went home first to have a look, and when I entered the house, I found that the house was in a mess. It must be that a thief came in when there was no one at home, yes Came in through that door." Holman pointed to the door facing the courtyard.I saw a round hole in the glass of the door cut by a knife.The criminal reached in through the hole and pulled the latch to get in.

"So, what was stolen?"

"No valuables, just a camera and my wife's gemstones. Except for the pearl necklace, they are all counterfeit, hahaha..."

"During the on-site investigation, did the criminal police find any strong evidence?"

"No, I returned empty-handed. The criminal didn't even leave a single fingerprint. It must have been done by an experienced sneaker. As far as evidence is concerned, the only evidence is that five or six pearls from the pearl necklace were thrown in the yard."

"Is it the pearl from that pearl necklace that was stolen?"

"Yes. The string of the necklace was broken. It may have been put in the pocket of the suit when it was stolen by the perpetrator, and there was a hole in the pocket."

Holman led Samson into the courtyard where the sun was setting.Tulips of red, white and yellow are blooming in the flower beds in the yard.

"Hey, sir, there's a pearl in the middle of this flower too." Samson noticed a white pearl in the middle of a yellow flower.

"Where? Where..." Holman also leaned over to look at the flower.

"It seems that this is an omission by the surveyors."

"Do you know when this flower blooms?"

"Probably the day before yesterday. Yellow tulips are always the first to bloom, I remember it very clearly." Holman replied, and carefully took out the pearl from the middle of the petals.

(End of this chapter)