1 minute to solve the case

Chapter 55
The owner of the store, Church, told him: "My jewelry store has just been closed for three days. It just opened this morning, and a customer came in. He asked me to open the cupboard to take a look at the automatic mechanical watch inside."

Speaking of Church, Vernay took Vernay to the cabinet, pointed to the cabinet and continued: "So, I opened the cabinet and let him choose. The customer picked up the watch and fiddled with it for a while, asked the price, and said that he would consider it. After thinking about it, I left. Just after he left for a while, I found that a string of precious pearl necklaces was missing from the window near the door..."

Verney looked at the cupboard and asked, "What does that man look like?"

Church thought for a while, and said: "He is tall, wearing a pair of brown glasses, well-dressed, and I can't see his face clearly. I believe he must be a habitual thief, because his movements are so fast that even I Didn't see it."

"If he was a habitual thief," said Vernay, "his fingerprints must be in the files, and they will be on this watch."

"I saw him put on his gloves as soon as he put down his watch."

"Then there must be his fingerprints on the watch."

"But there are more than 100 watches hanging in this cabinet, and all customers who come to buy watches have to fiddle with them. Which watch can have no fingerprints on it?"

Vernay thought for a while and said, "Don't worry, I'll soon find out the watch that he moved." As soon as he finished speaking, he picked up a watch with tweezers, "That's all !"

Church said suspiciously: "Is it this one? How do you know?"

Verney gave his reasons.

In the end, the criminal's fingerprints were removed from the watch, and the criminal was identified and arrested.

Do you know how Vernay found the watch he wanted?

The watch shop was closed for three days, the automatic watch had stopped long ago, and the thief was the only customer today, so the watch he was playing with must still be going.In this way, it is enough to find out the watch that is running.

Detective's Judgment
There was a boy named Leroy Brown in Idaville, USA.His father was the chief of police in this town.Little Brown was very intelligent since he was a child. Influenced by his father, he has a special interest in solving crimes.Idaville is a small city, but crimes often occur, but with a conscientious police chief, few criminals here can escape the law.Surprisingly, Director Brown often gets help from his son Leroy, so people call Leroy a little detective.

One night, when the whole family was having dinner, Director Brown said to his son Leroy: "Natty, the fugitive, committed another crime. He robbed the suit shop jointly opened by Dillon and Jones."

The young detective Leroy knew something about the fugitive Natty.Since he escaped from prison, he committed crimes five times within a month, but they were all committed in rural areas and on highways. Unexpectedly, he committed crimes in the city this time.Because of doubts, Leroy asked, "Father, how do you know that the robber who robbed the suit store is Natty?"

The father said: "That was provided by Dillon, one of the co-owners of the suit store." Then, he took out a notebook and read what Dillon said: "At that time, I was the only one in the store, and suddenly there was a man He barged in and shouted: 'Hands up!' I was startled, and looked up hastily, and standing in front of me was the fugitive Natty. He was wearing a gray overcoat with a belt on the back, and he had a copy of the Natty ordered me to face the wall, and under his threats I had to obey him. When I turned around, he had slipped away and robbed the shop of all its money."

After listening to the transcript, the little detective Leroy asked: "Dad, has Natty's picture been published in the newspaper?"

"Boarded, but indistinct features, the principal features being the gray overcoat and the belt behind the back, as is well known."

"It's an easy case to solve," Leroy said.

Director Brown asked in surprise: "Now that Natty is nowhere to be found, how can the case be solved?"

"I mean Dillon's suit shop never had any robbers," Leroy said.

"Oh——" Director Brown seemed to be thinking about this question after being reminded by his son, "Then you think Dillon is lying? How can you be sure about this?"

After the case was clarified, the little detective's speculation was confirmed. It turned out that Dillon wanted to embezzle the public funds of the store, but he didn't want his partner to know, so he blamed his crimes on the robbers.The fugitive Natty committed five crimes in one month, and Dillon thought he was the most suitable scapegoat for himself.

Do you know how Leroy concluded?

According to Dillon, when the robber entered the door, he faced the robber at first, and then faced the wall, so he couldn't see the belt on the robber's back at all, so Dillon was lying.

TV as proof
There was a male corpse in a pond on the outskirts of the city. After forensic examination: the deceased was about 30 years old, 1 meters tall and thin.The time of death was about 73 hours ago (that is, around 15 o'clock last night), and the cause of death was caused by suffocation.He drank alcohol before his death and was strangled to death with a rope and thrown into a pond.After identity investigation, the deceased was the village of the local transport team.

Sheriff Matsumoto noticed something suspicious while dragging the corpse by the pond.A large area of ​​weeds was overwhelmed, and there was a deep footprint around. The sheriff saw at a glance that it was left by a person walking with a heavy load, and said: "This may be the place where the criminal threw the body into the pond." place." After they followed the footprints for a while, another bicycle wheel print appeared, but at this time the footprints disappeared.

The police followed the wheel marks to find a house and knocked on the door.It was a typical single man's place. There were several empty wine bottles on the coffee table, as well as wine glasses, cigarette butts and some empty dishes.

After questioning, Sergeant Matsumoto knew that the owner of the house was Ichiro Kawashima. He was drinking at 7 o'clock last night while watching the live broadcast of the game. His colleague Okayama was present.

Chief Matsumoto found Okayama and asked, "Please recall, where did you go after get off work yesterday?"

Okayama said: "Yesterday after get off work, I went to a tavern to drink a little wine. When I walked out of the tavern, I met my colleague Kawashima, and he asked me to go with him to his house for another drink."

"I didn't want to go at first, but he told me it was still early, and there would be a football game broadcast in a while. As soon as I heard that there was a football game, I asked him to take me to his house by bike. As soon as I entered, he opened the door immediately. Turned on the TV, the ball game just started."

"Do you know what time the game starts?"

"The time on the TV screen is 19 o'clock. After the game, I will go to my girlfriend Mieko."

"When did you arrive at Mieko's place?"

"I don't know, I just think it's late. Because I drank enough at the tavern, and I drank a lot at Kawashima's house, so I was drunk."

"Are you sure you only stayed at Kawashima's house for one game?"

"I'm sure I'm only here for one game."

Sheriff Matsumoto returned to the office and began to analyze the case.Judging from the footprints and wheel marks at the crime scene, the murderer of the village was Kawashima, but Kawashima had no time to commit the crime, so the inference of this case cannot be established.Sheriff Matsumoto leaned his head back in his chair and listened to the recording of his conversation with Okayama.Suddenly, he stood up abruptly and said, "Come here, arrest Chuan Dao immediately."

what is going on actually?Doesn't Kawashima have no time to commit crimes?
The game that Okayama watched was a video played by Kawashima. After he was drunk in Okayama, he displayed 19 o'clock on the screen and asked Okayama to perjure him.In fact, at 19:[-], Kawashima had already killed Honmura.

The Murder in Room 117

After Detective Bill met Carrie in the Rodin Library because he solved the kidnapping case, he often went to the library to find her to borrow books.

On this day, after the library was closed, the two came to the bar of the "Crown" hotel to drink coffee.Suddenly, the night manager of the hotel in a black suit rushed up to them and shouted, "Inspector Bill, it's very kind of you to be here! There's been a murder in room 117. The dead is Bronwyn de P. Mrs. F. She checked in last night."

In Room 117, Inspector Bill and Miss Carrie saw: a young woman in a gray nightgown lying sprawled on a bed, she had red hair with a bullet hole near the root, plasma Has solidified.The lady has been dead for a long time.

Miss Carrie also looked carefully at the room.I saw a few expensive-looking pink suitcases placed in a corner, each with the golden letter "B·de·p" hot stamped on it.The door of the closet was open, and it was filled with expensive and splendid outfits: a rose red chiffon pajamas, a scarlet wool coat, a scarlet dress, an orange raincoat with a hood, a matching Pink coat with beige streamers.

Miss Carrie turned to the night manager: "Did you see Mrs. Bronwen de Puff when she came to check in last night?"

The manager said, "Yes, it was raining heavily last night, and she was wearing this raincoat with a hood, half covering her face."

"These are her luggage. By the way, the wallet on the dressing table is hers too."

Bill rummaged through his wallet and pulled out a stack of business cards with the letters "B·de·p" printed on them, but there was no money in the wallet.Miss Carrie said to the Inspector, "Bill, I have always felt that the luggage and the clothes in the closet were not the woman's in the bed. The victim was certainly not Mrs. Bronwen de Puff."

"Why?" Bill asked with a smile, and he knew the truth, but he wanted to test the librarian in front of him.

Miss Carrie gave her reasons.Bill said approvingly, "Your analysis is exactly what I thought."

A few days later, Bill caught Mrs. Bronwen de Puff at another restaurant.It turned out that she was the murderer.The girl who was murdered had been manipulated by her. In order to silence her, she set a trap to kill the girl, and deliberately dropped all the luggage, trying to make the police mistakenly believe that the deceased was Mrs. Bronwen de Pouf.

Do you know what Miss Carrie saw, and how she analyzed it?

The dead girl has red hair, and the clothes in the closet are also red, which is unreasonable from an aesthetic point of view.She concluded that the deceased was not Madame Bronwen de Puff.

blind musician bet

Monsieur Vallan is a blind musician who plays first violin in the opera house.But last night, he lost his beloved violin to his friend Hans.He felt aggrieved and regretted, so he called and told Director Brown about it.

Director Brown and Mr. Varan are both celebrities in Idaville, and they often meet on social occasions.The director will never shirk Mr. Valang's request for help, so he is going to visit him.Chief Brown's son, Detective Leroy, has admired the musician for a long time and wants to meet the celebrity.

The father and son came to a luxurious villa, and the servant led them into a study.Mr. Vallan, the musician, was already waiting there.

"It is absurd to say," recounted M. Valen, "that last night I bet Monsieur Hans with my violin that I would lock the glass with the ice cubes in the safe of this room and ask Hans to come out of the house, and he would Swap the ginger for the ice in the safe within an hour. I double-locked the door, thinking it was impossible, but an hour later, when I took the glass out of the safe, the glass It was pretending to be ginger juice. I lost, and the beloved violin had to belong to him, but I couldn't figure out what was going on..."

The father and son listened carefully to the musician's narration, and felt that the matter was really unbelievable. Director Brown said, "Please tell me the story in more detail, especially some details."

Mr. Warren continued: "There are a few points I must emphasize: first, when I put the ice in the glass into the safe, I touched it with my hand, and it was indeed ice. Second, after an hour, the glass When I took it out of the safe, I tasted it, and it was indeed ginger ale. Thirdly, I locked the safe door myself. For an hour, I held my breath, paid attention to the sound, and heard nothing, but Hans actually It worked."

The little detective Leroy said: "I'm afraid you have forgotten the most important point. This bet was suggested by Hans."

"Yes!" The blind musician agreed, "Because he doubted my hearing, I became cruel and took my beloved violin as a bet."

Director Brown felt very embarrassed, but he comforted the musician and said: "Since you are good friends with Mr. Hans, I will go and talk to him and ask him to return the violin to you!"

(End of this chapter)