1 minute to solve the case

Chapter 3 Pure Thought (2)
Sideley City is 20 kilometers away from London.Francie drove to the scene and saw that the victim was a 68-year-old woman.The forensic doctor told Francie that the deceased was killed at 1000 am.

Francie inspects the scene but finds nothing.Francie asked the neighbors of the deceased, and learned that the deceased had lost her husband in her early years, had no children, and lived alone.Although lonely, but because her husband left a lot of property during his lifetime, he has no worries about food and clothing, so he is a wealthy family here.The deceased had little contact with everyone, except for a nephew who lived in London.

Francie immediately went back to the police station, opened the file, and found the "Huck" column, which read:

"Huck. 28 years old, a salesman for an electrical appliance company, no criminal history..." Francie looked at the files of the nephew of the deceased, and asked the female police officer Jenny to call Huck.

After a while, Huck came to the police station.Francie asked, "Young man, did you know that your aunt was murdered?"

"Understood, please ask the police officer to avenge my aunt and solve the case as soon as possible." Huck said, looking very sad.

Francie asked again, "Where were you when the murder happened?" Huck took a photo from his coat pocket and handed it to Sergeant Francie.Francie saw that the people in the photos looked very energetic standing in the sun. "When the murder happened, I was playing in a park in the city of London. This happened to be a photo I took at that time, and the big clock on the memorial tower in the photo was exactly 1000."

"Young man, don't be so clever." Francie said contemptuously, "You are the murderer, and you tried to fool the police with 1000 alibi, which just proves that you are the murderer."

After further interrogation, it turns out that Huck deliberately created the murder in order to occupy his aunt's house and property.

Do you know how Francie saw through Huck's promise?

It was raining heavily in the inner city park at 1000 am, and Huck's photo was taken in clear sunshine.This proves that this photo was not taken this day, and Huck told a lie.

who is the drug dealer

In one operation, the police captured two important members of the drug cartel, one named Doug and the other named Putney.When the news reached the drug cartel, the drug dealers immediately changed the smuggling route, and the anti-drug work had to find clues again.

The police learned through special channels that a drug dealer disguised himself as a traveler to transfer drugs.So the police sent a powerful investigation team. After careful investigation, they finally narrowed down the scope to three people. After they were brought back to the police station, Sheriff Jack interrogated them.

The first one was a grumpy man, who yelled loudly as soon as he was brought in: "I protest, why did you bring me here, I want to sue!" Jack calmly explained: "Don't be angry, we are Routine. I just ask you a few simple questions, who are you looking for here?" "Do you have to find someone to come? I'm here to play!" "What did you bring?" "Why are you so troublesome, I'll come out Bring some necessities, of course!" "So you know Doug, Putney?" "Who knows what the hell he is!" Hearing these words, the Sheriff said to him, "Well, you can go gone."

The second man came in, he was a man of few words, he asked ten questions and answered one.Jack had no choice but to comfort him: "Please don't worry too much, we are just a routine, just say what you have." "Please let me get out of here, I never deal with the police." "So, Doug, Putney, you know Do you?" "I don't know, tell him to let me out quickly!" "Okay, I'll let you out right away."

The third was very easygoing and cooperative, and he repeatedly affirmed that he was a good citizen.He not only answered all Jack's questions seriously, but also said very understandingly: "I have encountered this kind of thing a lot, and an important case has occurred. Of course you can't trust anyone easily." The sheriff asked casually: "You have been to many Place?" "Yes, I like to travel." "So do you like it here?" "Of course I do! The people here are very warm." "So, Doug, Putney, you know?" "I don't Don't know them, I've never heard of these two people."

"Okay, sir, stop acting, you are a drug dealer."

On what basis did the police conclude that he was a drug dealer?

The third person is too smart because he knows that Doug and Putney are two people.

general manager and secretary

20 cash was stolen from Giant's safe last night.The general manager Laifu was dumbfounded. He quickly secured the scene and asked his secretary Xiaosi to report the crime. Then he sat in the living room and hoped that the detective company would send someone soon.Just when he was running around in a hurry.A young woman appeared in front of him.He said angrily: "I don't work today, let's talk about it another day if you have anything to do!"

The woman smiled slightly, took out her ID and said, "You are mistaken, Mr. Manager, I am Detective Day."

"What? You're a detective?" Laifu was so angry that he almost jumped up, "Our place was stolen, and we didn't intend to hold any clothing exhibition."

Day opened the briefcase indifferently, took out a pen and paper, and said, "Mr. Manager, I don't care about your attitude. Let's start working." Lai Fu said, "It's very simple. The money you put in yesterday, It disappeared this morning, where did you say it went?"

After hearing this, Day went to check the site first, then went back to the living room, called for some people from the managerial department, and politely asked them to talk about what they did after get off work yesterday.

Seven or eight people finished talking quickly, and only Fu and Xiaosi were left.Lai Fu seemed a little embarrassed, and said in a low voice, "Yesterday I took Xiaosi to the movies, and I didn't ask everyone, so I will definitely make it up next time." Xiaosi also immediately admitted that they went to the movies together.

"What theater? What movie? What time?" Day asked.

"The Enlightened Cinema is the blockbuster "Lord of the Rings". The time is 745." Lai Fu replied immediately.

Day didn't ask any more questions. He tidied up his things and said, "We'll stop here today, and we'll continue tomorrow." After speaking, he nodded to everyone and went out.

Day came again at the same time the next day.She seems to have forgotten what she did yesterday, and she still asks everyone to talk about what they did the day the accident happened.After everyone had finished talking, it was Fu who came to talk about it, and he said angrily, "I took Xiaosi to the movies..."

"The Lord of the Rings, at the Kaiming Cinema, 745?" Day asked.

Lai Fu nodded and said, "Your memory is pretty good!"

"Thank you. Unfortunately, the projector at the Kaiming Cinema broke down that day, and that movie was canceled. You just learned about that movie from the newspaper." Lai Fu was about to argue, but Day stopped him, and then He went on to say: "I have seen the scene of the crime, neither the safe nor the doors and windows have been pried, so the thieves must be inside you. You must know who the thieves are!"

So who are the thieves?
Laifu and Xiaosi lie together, which means that they are thieves. According to the normal logic: people who tell the truth have no ghosts in their hearts, and vice versa, people who tell lies must have ghosts in their hearts.

suicide or murder
One summer night, millionaire Wilson died in his study.I saw him holding a pistol in his right hand, a bullet hit the head, and he fell on the carpet.There was an electric fan and a suicide note on the table.The suicide note stated that he committed suicide because he could not bear the loneliness after being widowed, and rushed to heaven to meet his wife.Judging from the scene and suicide note, Wilson apparently committed suicide.Everyone knows that Wilson loves his wife very much, and his wife was almost inseparable from him during his lifetime. They both go for a walk in the park and play badminton every morning. They are a loving couple.A year ago, Wilson's wife died unexpectedly in a car accident, which brought great mental torture to Wilson.He often goes to his wife's grave alone to express his grief and mutter to himself.

Officer Crews rushed to the scene to investigate.He saw at the scene that the wire of the electric fan had been pulled out of the socket on the wall and was crushed under Wilson's body. "Wilson knocked it off when he fell from the chair?" Cruise had a hypothesis in his mind.For the sake of caution, he pulled the wire out from under Wilson's body, and inserted the plug into the socket on the wall. The switch of the electric fan was on, so the electric fan turned on again.The strong airflow generated by the electric fan blew Wilson's suicide note on the table to the ground.Officer Crews bent down to pick up the suicide note on the ground, and he already had a clue in his mind: "This is not a suicide, it's a homicide! After murdering Wilson, the murderer put the forged suicide note on the table and fled the scene."

Do you know why Officer Crews made such a judgment?
Plug in the plug, the electric fan starts to rotate, and the suicide note on the table will be blown off by the wind.And the suicide note was still on the table when the police arrived.That is to say, when Wilson, who was shot, fell to the ground, he touched the power cord, the plug fell out of the socket, and the electric fan stopped turning before the murderer put the forged suicide note on the table.If it was Wilson's suicide note, it would have been blown to the ground, so there is no doubt that it was homicide.

ancient coins hidden under leaves
Detective Black received a call from his friend, the collector Kane, saying that a rare ancient gold coin was going to be auctioned in the market. For safety, he asked the detective to accompany him.

The inspector arrived as scheduled in the afternoon, but Kane's body was unexpectedly presented in front of him.He was hit with a blunt object and was dead for less than half an hour.

The detective turned Kane's body over and found a green trefoil badge on the lapel of his jacket. There was something shiny behind the badge. Looking carefully, it was the ancient gold coin hidden in the badge's interlayer.He put the gold coins back in their place, turned the body back upside down, and gazed thoughtfully at the turned out pockets of the dead man.

While he was inspecting the kitchen of the deceased who lived alone, Kane's nephew Tom came in and asked what was going on.The inspector took out a tea pot from the cupboard, opened the lid and let Tom hold it, while taking tea from the pot himself, he said: "This morning, your uncle called me and asked me to accompany him to the market in the afternoon to auction an antique tea." Gold coins, obviously, the murderer got ahead of me. It seems that the murderer searched the body, but found nothing, because your uncle didn't put the gold coins in his pocket."

The inspector paused for a moment, put a pot of water on the stove and said, "Get it out for me, it's hidden under the leaves." Tom immediately put down the tea pot in his hand and left the kitchen.After a while, he found gold coins from his uncle.

"Why murder your uncle?" the inspector snapped at Tom.

Excuse me, why did the detective decide that Tom was the murderer?
The fact that Tom found gold coins from his uncle's body proves that he is involved in the murder.If he is innocent, Tom will understand the "leaves" as the tea pot in his hand instead of the trefoil badge as the detective said "the gold coins are hidden under the leaves", and immediately go to find his uncle's body .

escaped secret

On the Irish plateau full of woods, there is a baron's villa built at the end of the 19th century.One night, a masked robber sneaked into the room, tied up the baroness couple with ropes and locked them in the toilet, stealing a lot of jewels.

Blake was the one who investigated the case. When he knew the news that the phantom thief Ramban was stranded in London the day before the incident, he guessed that he must have committed the crime, so he immediately visited the London hotel where Lamban was staying.

"Mr. Lamban, did you go to the villa in the Irish Highlands last Saturday night? Because someone saw it, so you think you can't get rid of it." Black said.

"Yes, yes. What's the matter?"

"A masked robber entered the baron's villa that night, stole the baroness's jewels and fled. You are the criminal, right?"

"What nonsense! When did the incident happen?" Lambin asked solemnly.

"When the criminal stole the jewels, he tied up the baroness and his wife with ropes, and locked them in the toilet for some reason. Afterwards, the baron said it was 2105, and he glanced at the clock in the bedroom."

"If it's 2105, I have an alibi at the time. I'm not a robber. That night I took the night bus 2116 at Station S back to London. In any case, 10 minutes from the Baron's villa to Station S is not enough. "

"Oh! It seems that you are very familiar with the Baron's villa." Blake said sarcastically.

"I was invited to stay overnight during the horse race last year." The strange thief Lang Banqiang said with a smile on his face.

The baron's villa is quite a distance from the S station, and it takes 30 minutes to walk to the nearest road.Therefore, if it is true that Langban took the night bus 2116 from S station, his alibi is established.

Detective Black has already been to the S station, and let the station staff see the photo of Ramban to prove that he is not lying.Langban was the only passenger who got on the train from S station that day, and he did not wear makeup. The station staff and conductors all remembered him clearly.

"However, Mr. Lambin, there is a way to get from the villa to the S station within ten minutes." Detective Black said.

"Like if I got away in a carriage—"

"No, for a scheming man like you, you would never take someone else's carriage. There is a stable in the baron's villa, and there is a horse, and there is a bicycle outside the stable."

"Then you're going to say I used one of those tools. If so, I'll throw it somewhere near the station. Did you find that tool?" Ramban retorted confidently.

"No, the baroness broke free from the rope an hour later. When they went out to check their surroundings, they saw that the horses were still in the stable and the bicycles were still in the same place. However, the door of the stable could not be opened from the inside. , Only by pushing from the outside can it be pushed away. So, Mr. Lambin, I already know what kind of tricks you are playing. You should return the stolen jewels to me honestly, or I will call the police." Black said solemnly.

May I ask, what tool did the phantom thief Langban use to escape to the S station in only 10 minutes?

The strange thief Lamban rode his horse from the villa and galloped to the S station, dismounted near the S station, let go of the horse, ran to the S station to take the night train 2116, and returned to his residence in London.The horse left unattended returned to the stable by itself.Because the door of the stable can be pushed open from the outside to the inside, so the horse can walk into the stable by itself.

left side shell

Detective Jack came to travel somewhere and stayed in a room on the second floor of a high-end hotel.Suddenly, a woman's cry for help came from the corridor.

He followed the sound and found a young woman crying in front of the door of room 315. From the open door, he saw a man in the room collapsed on an easy chair, dead.After a simple inspection of the body, Inspector Jack confirmed that the man had just died and the bullet had shot through the heart.

The local police station also sent someone.The young woman cried and said: "A few minutes ago, I heard someone knock on the door. When I opened the door, a masked man outside the door shot at my husband, threw the gun into the room and fled."

There was a pistol with a suppressor on the carpet, the two shell casings on the left were not far apart, and there was a bullet hole in the wall behind the deceased.Detective Inspector Jack told police officers: "Take this lady back for questioning."

Why did the inspector become suspicious of the deceased's wife?
If the gangster shot her husband from outside the door as she said, the bullet casings would not fall in the room, nor would they fall on the left side, because the bullet casings flying from the automatic pistol should fall on the ground. A few feet behind and to the right of the shooter.

will without words
Kuhn is a blind man who loves writing very much, and after decades of hard work, he finally became a successful writer.Jane is Kuhn's good friend, he is a blind singer.The same experience made Kuhn and Jane become close friends.

On this day, Jane came back from the show and stopped by to visit Kuhn who was seriously ill in bed.Kuhn held Jane's hand tightly, panted and said to Jane: "You are my best friend, and I trust you the most. There is something entrusted to you. After I die, I will take it from my estate Set aside half, that is, 100 million US dollars to the welfare institution for the disabled, hoping to help more disabled people. Now, I will start writing the will, and then you will keep it.”

Then, Kuhn asked his wife to bring a pen and paper. He fumbled by the bedside to write the will, put it in an envelope, sealed it with his own hands, and solemnly handed it to Jane.

Jane took over the will and carefully sent the will to the bank safe for safekeeping.Six months later, Kuhn died of cancer.At Kuhn's funeral, Jane announced his will, and everyone was moved by Kuhn's love.But when the representative of the disability welfare agency solemnly opened the sealed and intact will, his eyes widened in surprise—it turned out to be a blank piece of paper!
Jane couldn't believe that the will that Kuhn sealed, took over with his own hands and kept in the bank would become a blank sheet of paper!He recalled carefully that there was nothing suspicious about the whole process. The will was in the bank's safe, and no one could change it or alter it, let alone the seal was still intact.

At this time, Inspector Nick, who came to attend the funeral, said to Jane: "Mr. Jane, although this is just a blank sheet of paper, Mr. Kuhn's will still stands."

Everyone was puzzled, and Inspector Nick said a few more words, and everyone suddenly realized.

Do you know why this is?

In order to preserve the inheritance, Kuhn's wife deliberately handed Kuhn the pen without ink.Since Kuhn and Jane were both blind, they naturally did not find out, and the blank paper without words was finally preserved as a suicide note.

However, although there is no handwriting, the handwriting left by the pen on the white paper still exists, and it can be distinguished if it is carefully identified, so Inspector Nick said that the will is still valid.

Fingerprint on doorbell button
Kem was walking back and forth in the new house with satisfaction, when suddenly a pleasant doorbell rang outside the door, Kem opened the door, but saw Owens who he didn't want to see the most.

Owens said loudly: "Old friend, it seems that you are doing well! You bought the beautiful new house with the money you owe me, right? You should have paid me back three months ago."

"Owens, listen to me." Kem panicked all of a sudden, "I can't blame you, you know, no one can predict the decline of stocks..."

Owens said angrily: "Kem, I won't talk nonsense with you, you must return all the money to me within two days!"

"I really don't have any money..." Kem said pitifully.

(End of this chapter)