Crime scene: 162 mystery solving puzzles to find out who the murderer is

Chapter 21 The Death of the Horse Trainer

In the early morning, the inspector was watching the riders practice horse racing. Suddenly, a blonde girl rushed out of the stable and shouted: "Come on! Someone is killing someone!" The inspector hurried over.

In the stable, a man dressed as a horse trainer was lying prone on the haystack, with a large bloodstain on his back, and a sharp ice pick was stuck on his waist.

"It's been about eight hours since I died." The inspector said to himself, "That means the murder happened in the middle of the night."

He turned around, glanced at the blonde who was covering her face, and said, "Oh, sorry, is that blood on your sleeve?"

The blond turned the cuffs of her riding suit to reveal a long streak of blood.

"Hey," she said with a pale face, "I must have rubbed against him just now. My name is Gail Devour, and he, he is Peter Murphy. He trains horses for me."

"Do you know anyone who might have killed him?" asked the Inspector.

"No," she answered, "except . . . maybe Bob Ford, to whom Peter owed a great deal of money . . . "

The next day, the police officer told the inspector: "Peter owes Ford the exact amount of $15000. But Ford, who runs the fish shop, swore that he hadn't seen Pete for two days. In addition, Miss Gale's cuff The bloodstains were tested to be that of the deceased.

"I suppose you must have done it?" asked the Inspector.

"The criminal is in custody," replied the officer.

Who is the criminal?
【Answer】The criminal is a blonde.She claimed that the blood was "just rubbed on him", when in fact Peter had been dead for 8 hours.His blood was congealed, and it was impossible to rub it on her sleeve.

(End of this chapter)