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

Chapter 66 The Coffee Poisoning Case

The young detective Salari went to the New York City Police Department, where he was received by the Chief of Criminal Affairs of the Police Department.

"Mr. Minister, look at your demeanor, is there another difficult case?"

"Yes, there is a coffee poisoning case at hand. I have encountered some troubles, and the case has not progressed. The most important thing is how the murderer made the deceased take the poison. It is still difficult to confirm."

"Can you be more specific?"

This is a murder that happened in a certain company in broad daylight and was committed cleverly in full view of the public—clerk Baker got up and poured a glass of boiled water, and when he returned to his seat, he said, "Oh, how do you drink it?" The boiled water is here, let me bring you a cup of coffee." A female colleague said courteously.

"Oh, no need, I want to take some cold medicine. But taking medicine is medicine, I'd better trouble you to have another cup of coffee." Baker said as he took out a medicine bag from his coat pocket.

"If you want to make coffee, bring me a cup too." Brown, who was sitting at the table next to Baker, also raised his head.Brown is well-known within the company as a coffee drinker.Let Brown make such a rant, and everyone in the room asks for coffee.The female colleague had to prepare a cup for everyone, and another female staff also went to help.This situation is commonplace in the company.

Brown took two cups from the tray extended by the female colleague, and handed one cup to Baker at the next table, then put two spoonfuls of sugar from the sugar pot between the two tables into his cup, The sugar pot moved to Baker's side.Brown picked up the cup and took a sip before suddenly coughing, and the coffee splashed on the manuscript paper on the table.Seeing this, Baker immediately handed over half of the glass of water left after taking the medicine to Brown. Brown took it and drank it in one gulp.

"Hey, what's the matter!" Baker quickly ran over to pick up Brown who was about to fall, but Brown had already died.

"Baker was very responsive. He immediately ordered everyone's cups to be kept, including Brown's, so when we arrived, the scene was well protected," the criminal minister explained to Salari. "After identification, only Brown's cup was poisoned, and no poison was found on other people's cups and sugar pots. Of course, the two female staff were once suspected, but the coffee pouring and delivery were made by two people together. Moreover, it is difficult to distinguish the individual cups, so unless the two people are accomplices, it is difficult to deliver the poisoned cup to Brown. The two female employees have neither motive nor accomplices in killing Brown."

"Does Baker next door have no motive for killing?" Salari asked.

"Yes. I heard that this person owes him a lot of money for playing cards with Brown. Although the two are sitting next to each other, and there are many things piled up in a mess between the tables, it is very important for Baker to prevent being caught poisoning Brown's cup." impossible."

"It is said that Brown spilled coffee on the manuscript paper before he died. Did the manuscript paper be kept?"

"I think so."

"Then let's test the manuscript paper, and I think the drug-tainted coffee left in Brown's cup should also be collected and put away?" According to Salary's intention, the criminal minister who came out of the identification department an hour later said happily: "What a surprise, as expected."

So how did Baker poison Brown?

[Answer] Baker replaced the sugar in the sugar pot they shared with salt.Brown coughed after drinking his coffee with salt.In fact, there was no poison in the glass at this time, and the people present just thought it was the pain caused by poisoning afterward, and the glass of water Baker handed to Brown was really mixed with poison.He probably pretended to take medicine to get a glass of water, and then secretly put the poison into the glass to dissolve.As for the poison in Brown's cup, there is no doubt that after Brown's death, Baker put the remaining poison into Brown's cup while everyone was in a panic.

Therefore, no poison was detected from the coffee foam splashed on the manuscript paper.It was so, and to avoid suspicion, he must have had salted coffee himself.

(End of this chapter)