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

Chapter 9 The Masked Diviner

A Japanese tour group set foot on the Silk Road in China.One night, the "masked fortune teller" was murdered at his place of residence. The cause of death was that someone mixed poison into the coffee the fortune teller drank.This "masked fortune teller" became famous on Japanese TV's "Your Future Life" column, but the audience has never seen his true face, and knows nothing about his private life.In the tour group, although he talks and laughs happily and treats people warmly and friendly, he never takes off the veil on his face.

Why is this?Chinese police officers uncovered the mystery when investigating the scene: he had suffered from syphilis, his nose was rotten, and he was masked to hide his ugliness.According to the analysis of Chinese police officers, people with syphilis generally have a chaotic sex life, so the possibility of this case being a love homicide is extremely high.So the Chinese police sent a notification to the Japanese police through Interpol, requesting to find out the private life of the fortune-teller and provide clues to solve the case.But the answer from the Japanese police was disappointing: the divination teachers and students had syphilis inherited from their parents, they were decent and kind, had no enemies, and had no clues to solve the case in Japan.

tricky puzzle.Solving the case can only start with the stupid way: find out who in the tour group had coffee with the fortune teller.After some painstaking and meticulous work, three suspects were finally found: Keiko - the fortune teller's wife; Mucun - the fortune teller's younger brother; Longshan Taro - a member of the tour group.Keiko has another new love, and she didn't want to travel to China this time. She wanted to take the opportunity to stay in Japan and hang out with her concubine. The fortune teller exposed her attempt and forced her to come to China.For this reason, she quarreled with the fortune teller every night.Usually she likes to drink coffee and has a motive for committing crimes.Mucun is a big securities dealer, he is insidious and cunning, and he often does anything to get money.Three years ago, I lent a sum of money to the fortune-teller, but I failed to collect it many times.During this trip, when he was drinking coffee with the fortune teller, he saw that the fortune teller had brought a huge sum of money, and asked him again, but the fortune teller not only refused to return it, but also reprimanded him for his behavior as a brother, which made him furious.

When Chinese police officers cleaned up the fortune teller's relics, they found that the huge sum of money he brought had disappeared.Takayama Taro, a fashion designer, is financially strapped and stingy.He and the fortune-teller didn't know each other before, but they became good friends during the trip.They often drink coffee together.Once, Longshan Taro asked a fortune-teller to do a fortune-telling for him. I don’t know what the fortune-teller said to him. The two had a quarrel.

None of the above three people had any witnesses who were not present at the presumed time of the fortuneteller's death, and the other members of the group were ruled out as suspects one by one.The Chinese police officers reasoned and analyzed the three suspects one by one, and finally identified the murderer.After interrogation, the suspect confessed and found evidence.

[Answer] The murderer is Takayama Taro.Because the people who drink coffee with the fortune teller are: the fortune teller's wife, younger brother, and Takayama Taro.No matter how ugly the fortune teller looks, his wife and younger brother have always seen it.In other words, there is no need for the fortune-teller to cover his face in front of the two of them.Since the fortune-teller had to drink coffee with someone masked and was poisoned to death, it was concluded by the method of elimination that there was no other murderer except Takayama Taro.

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