1 minute to solve the case

Chapter 50
Jennifer approached the lawyer of National Automobile Company, Mr. Magret, and pointed out to him: During the last trial, Magret concealed the problem of the truck brake device, and she will use the newly discovered evidence and the other party’s concealment as the basis grounds, requesting a new hearing.

Margaret was stunned for a moment, and immediately asked her: "Then what do you want to do?"

Jennifer said: "I hope to find a reasonable solution to make up for the loss of the poor girl a little bit. The car company has to give the girl $200 million. But if you push us To sue, we will demand $500 million in damages."

"Well," said Magret, "I'm going to London tomorrow, and I'll be back in a week. I'll probably make some arrangements then."

Unexpectedly, on the appointed day, Margaret asked his secretary to call Jennifer, saying that he was in meetings all day and couldn't get out, and asked her to forgive him.Jennifer suddenly remembered the issue of the statute of limitations. After checking, the statute of limitations for Connie's case expired on this day.She knew she had been duped, but she hung up on Margaret anyway.

Magret laughed and said on the phone: "Miss, the statute of limitations has expired today, and no one can sue me anymore! Please tell your client and wish her better luck next time."

Jennifer was shaking with anger, she looked up at the clock on the wall, it was already 4 o'clock in the afternoon.If you appeal, you must submit it to the court before 5 o'clock.She asked the secretary, "How long will it take you to prepare this file?"

"It will take three or four hours," said the secretary.

"Doesn't National Motors have branches all over the United States? We sued them in San Francisco and later proposed that the venue of the trial needs to be changed. It is now 1 o'clock in the afternoon."

"Too late. We have all the papers, and even if we found a law firm in San Francisco and briefed them on the facts, and then they drafted new papers, there was no way we could finish it before five o'clock."

Quick and wise, Jennifer finally came up with a good way to buy precious time for the lawsuit.The final outcome is: Miss Jennifer won the lawsuit, and the National Motor Corporation compensated Miss Connie for $600 million.

Do you know what she came up with?

She thought of moving the prosecution site to the west, which is an hour away from the next district.The difference between Hawaii and New York is 5 hours. If you file a complaint in Hawaii, you can win half a day for filing a complaint.

smart makeup artist
A young man pretends to be a telegram carrier and breaks into the house of a big make-up artist at a movie studio.He pulled out a dagger from his waist and said: "If you follow my instructions honestly, you won't hurt half a vellus hair. You just need to show your skills. Playing skills will not shorten your life." life span?"

This famous Japanese female makeup artist has excellent makeup skills. The still photos of movie stars hanging on the wall were taken after her makeup, which can be regarded as a masterpiece of art.Look, that 40-year-old actor, after applying makeup with her dexterous hands, has become a young man in his 20s.The one next to her was originally a pretty girl, but now she has become a gray-haired old woman.In addition, there is a still photo of an actor disguised as a woman. No matter from which angle you look at it, you can't see the slightest flaw.

Now, the young man said viciously: "I have been in prison for nearly half a year, and life in prison is really uncomfortable. Today, I escaped, and I don't want to go back to that ghostly place again. I want you to take me away." Make up your face!"

The big make-up artist glanced at the dagger in his hand, and said obediently: "So, what are you going to disguise as? Yes, I will transform you into a woman, okay?"

"No, changing my face into a woman will not be very convenient in the future. I'd better find a way to change my face."

"That's easy, let's turn you into an ugly middle-aged man, okay?"

"Row."

After a while, the face of a middle-aged man with dark complexion and fierce eyes was reflected in the mirror.

"Well, are you satisfied with this appearance?"

"Yes, I don't even recognize myself."

The fugitive tied up the big make-up artist, gagged her mouth with a towel, pushed open the door and left with a deformed face.

Moments later, a group of policemen came to the house of the big make-up artist, untied her, and said to her, "Thanks to your help, we have brought this guy to justice. You have suffered!"

The makeup artist said: "I am also praying that the fugitive will be caught as soon as possible. However, the guy has no idea how he got caught anyway."

Do you know how the perpetrator was caught by the police so quickly?

The female make-up artist imitated the photos of the prisoners.She moved the shape of the murderer's face onto the fugitive's, so that the police were on him right away.

Christie meets the robber

The lively birthday dinner didn't end until 2 o'clock in the morning. "It's late at night, we don't worry about you rushing back alone. Or, let us take you back." The friend and his wife warmly greeted the vehicle and wanted to take Agatha Christie home together.

"Thank you, you are tired too. You don't need to send it away. Besides, I am a detective novelist myself, so am I still afraid of thieves?"

Agatha Christie stopped her friend and his wife with a smile, and hurried on the road alone.

The British female writer has indeed written dozens of full-length detective novels, such as "Murder on the Orient Express" and "Tragedy on the Nile" and so on, shaping the detective Hercule Powell, who is as famous all over the world as the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Luo's image.However, who would have expected that tonight, she herself actually encountered a robbery case.

When she was walking alone on the long and deserted street, suddenly, in the shadow of a building, a tall man rushed out. He held a sharp cold knife and pointed at Agatha. Christie jumped over.Agatha Christie knew that she couldn't escape, so she simply stopped and waited for the man to rush up. "You, what do you want!" Agatha Christie asked with a look of extreme fear.

"Take off your earrings." The robber was very straightforward.

Agatha Christie's frown relaxed when she heard the robber asked for earrings.She tried to cover her neck with her hands, and at the same time, she took off her earrings with the other hand and threw them on the ground at once, saying: "You take it! Well, I can go now ?"

The robber saw that she didn't care about the earrings, but tried to cover her neck with her hands. Obviously, there was a valuable necklace on her neck.Instead of bending down to pick up the earrings on the ground, he gave another order: "Give me your necklace!"

"Oh, sir, it's worth nothing, keep it for me."

"Stop talking nonsense, move quickly!"

Agatha Christie reluctantly took off her necklace with trembling hands.The robber snatched the necklace and ran away as fast as he could.Agatha Christie breathed a sigh of relief, and happily picked up the earrings that had just been thrown on the ground.

Why is she happy?
She protected the fake necklace and the real earrings, and she was trying to draw the robber's attention away from the earrings.Because her diamond earrings are precious, and her necklace is made of glass.

two strange bangs
One day, while sailing in the Atlantic Ocean, a luxury passenger ship suddenly hit a rock and sank.

Beforehand, the ship had maintained a huge amount of navigation insurance.After the accident, the underwriting insurance company should be responsible for compensation, but before the compensation, it is still necessary to conduct a detailed investigation on the accident process and reasons.

The insurance company asked Section Chief Wang to handle the case, but Section Chief Wang was handling another case, so he assigned his assistant Xiao Li to handle it.

Xiao Li first investigates with a surviving female guest.The female passenger said: "After the ship hit the rocks, I boarded the lifeboat and left the scene. From a distance, the luxury passenger ship was gradually sinking. After about 3 quarters of an hour, I suddenly heard a 'boom' explosion. The ship sank completely."

Xiao Li asked several passengers on the lifeboat, and they all spoke in unison and gave the same answer.

Later, I asked a male guest who had escaped, and his answer was different.He said: "After the ship hit the reef, I jumped into the water alone and swam to a small island several miles away because I was good at swimming. There was a loud noise, and the ship began to sink. After a few seconds, a second explosion was heard..."

"Are you sure you heard the second explosion?" Xiao Li continued to ask.

"Yes, I'm sure I heard two loud bangs."

"Can you be sure it's not an echo?"

"No. If it's an echo, everyone should be able to hear it."

"It's weird, why everyone only heard one loud noise, but he was the only one who heard two loud noises?" Xiao Li felt that there must be a reason for the incident, and suddenly felt that the case was complicated and difficult to settle, so he temporarily bid farewell to the company manager and went back to report to Wang The section chief reported the case.

After listening to Xiao Li's report, Section Chief Wang touched his chin, thought for a while, and then said with a smile: "Many passengers on the lifeboat only heard a loud noise, which is certainly true; Two loud bangs are also good. Just do as I say in this case..."

After hearing this, Xiao Li was still puzzled. He scratched his head and asked Section Chief Wang to explain the reason.

Excuse me, what is the reason for Section Chief Wang to say?
Sound travels five times faster in water than in air, so passengers hear a fast-moving explosion when they are in the water, and a slower explosion when they are in the air.

300 million old coins

On this day, Sergeant Rainey of a police station in a Canadian city received a call from a person who claimed to be Bill.He reported that a coin bag in the carriage he was escorting was snatched, and it contained 300 million yuan of old coins.Many countries regularly destroy a certain amount of worn and defaced notes in order to issue an equal amount of new notes.The destruction of old coins is carried out in a very secret state. Now such a large amount of coins is robbed, but it is a big case.

Sergeant Rainey put down the phone and immediately led his assistants to the scene.However, except for two cigarette butts that were only half-smoked and discarded near the car door, no suspicious traces were found.

Bill's hair was disheveled, there was a bloodstain on his face, and he was very embarrassed. He told Sheriff Rainey about his struggle with the gangsters: "At 7:300 am yesterday, I loaded everything on the platform as usual. Train. At this time, my boss pushed a mail bag with a trolley and told me that the mail bag contained old coins to be destroyed, totaling 11 million yuan. He asked me to put this coin bag on the train and transport it to After the final station, I will give it to the station master. He also told me not to let anyone know about it on the way. I will load it on the train and put it under my small table, so that it is easy to keep an eye on. About At 15:[-], when I was preparing the things to be unloaded at the next stop, I suddenly heard someone knocking on the door, so I went to open the door."

"Well, do you remember what kind of knock it was?"

"Two light taps, then three hard taps."

"Did you ask who it was?"

"No, because I think the person who came may be the train conductor or the conductor. I definitely didn't think it was a bad person, because I don't think anyone in this car knows about it except me."

"Then did you see clearly whether the person who came in was the conductor or the conductor?" Sergeant Rainey asked again.

"Two people came in, I didn't know them at all. They were both wearing masks, except for their eyes! Oh, yes, and they were wearing gloves."

"What did they do when they came in?"

"The big fat man came in and without waiting for me to speak, he punched me to the ground. Then he tied me up with a rope. At this moment, the thin man took out the money bag from under the small table and threw it down... ..."

"So, what's with that gash in your face?"

"It was scratched by the ring on that big fat man's finger."

"Oh, and what kind of ring is he wearing?"

"It's a gold ring, and there seems to be a sapphire on it."

"You speak so vividly," said Inspector Rainey, laughing. "Come on, have a cigarette."

"Thank you, I don't smoke," Bill said.

"You don't know how to smoke, why are there two cigarette butts in that car?"

"Oh, by the way, it's those two people. When they came in, each of them had a half-smoked cigarette in their mouths."

"Did you hear what they said while they were in the car?"

"No, because the noise of the train was really loud."

Inspector Rainey smiled and said, "I've solved the case—and you're the culprit!"

"Sheriff Rainey, you can't wrong a good man!"

Later, the police found 300 million yuan in old coins at Bill's house and arrested one of Bill's accomplices.

Why on earth did Sergeant Rainey think Bill was the culprit?What holes are there in Bill's words?

Because Bill first said that the two men were wearing gloves, and then said that the ring scratched his face, how could he see the ring with gloves, let alone the sapphire, obviously he was lying.

Shunzi was locked in which room
A week ago, Mr. Jiang Chuan Ranshan, a writer of mystery novels, lived in Room 1029 of a certain hotel, devoted himself to writing, and stayed behind closed doors.His girlfriend Sunja, a TV actress, comes to stay overnight.The next day, she got dressed and went out.

Unexpectedly, while waiting for the elevator, a man in sunglasses threatened Sunja with a knife and locked her in a room in the hotel.

The man called Jiang Chuan Luanshan: "Put 3 million yuan on the bench next to the fountain in Central Park before 500 pm today. If you report it to the police, your girlfriend will die!"

Sunja was gagged and tied to the armrest of a chair. Her upper arms were tied, but her wrists were still free to move.However, it is impossible to untie the rope.

The criminal said he would come back after dinner and left the room.Apparently, he looks like a down-and-out artist with a gentlemanly demeanor.He said that he accidentally saw Shunzi entering Mr. Luanshan's room last night, so he decided to kidnap him, and he has been monitoring room 1029 since this morning.

Shunzi looked at her watch. It was two minutes after one o'clock, and she had been imprisoned for two hours.She wanted to tell Luan Shan where she was being held as soon as possible so that she could come to rescue her.When she was brought by the criminal, she saw the number on the door and secretly wrote it down.There is a phone by the bed, but I can't reach it with my hands, and my feet are tied to the chair, making it difficult to move an inch.In desperation, she suddenly had a quick wit. When the watch reached 1:2, she used her left wrist to slam the watch against the armrest of the chair desperately. After several impacts, the case broke and the hour hand stopped.

After the criminal came back, Sunja said, "I have a request. I want to give my watch to Mr. Ranshan. When you tied me to the armrest of the chair, the watch hit the corner of the armrest. This watch is from my birthday. A gift from my husband. He will only believe you when he sees the watch and hand over the ransom to you; if he goes empty-handed, he won’t honestly hand over the money to you.”

He took the watch off Sunja's wrist and put it in his pocket without any doubt.

Before 3 o'clock, Mr. Luanshan had withdrawn the money from the bank and took a taxi to the park.He found a bench next to the fountain, and a crumpled shopping bag was thrown under it.Luan Shan picked it up and saw that there was a watch and a note inside.

The note read: "The watch is her proof. Put the money in this bag, then hide the bag in the bin next to it and walk away immediately. I'm spying on you, I can't do it!"

Mr. Luanshan looked at his watch, feeling uneasy, and thought: "The case of the watch was broken, and the hour hand stopped at 1:5. Was Shunzi brutally abused in prison? If so, I would like to know Why did the ransom criminal show me this watch on purpose? He shouldn’t let me worry about Shunzi’s fate! Then, is this watch a distress signal from her in a hurry?”

Mr. Ranshan is worthy of being a reasoning writer. After thinking for a while, he said pleasantly: "Ah, I see, Shunzi must be locked in a certain room in the hotel where I live, and the number of that room is ..."

Luan Shan put away his purse, walked out of the park quickly, hailed a taxi, and hurried to the hotel.

As soon as he arrived at the hotel, he ran directly to the room he had identified.The door was locked, and no one answered the knock.Luan Shan called the manager, explained the situation to him, and opened the door.Sure enough, Sunja was tied to the chair!

So, which room in the hotel was Shunzi locked in?How did Luan Shan deduce it?
Shunzi's watch stopped at 1:5, which was the number of the room where she was imprisoned.At 1:5 and 1305:[-], Luan Shan concluded that it was Room [-] on the [-]th floor.

Flying fan
In early April, the Paris Philatelic Association held an exhibition of precious stamps. Except for members of the association, ordinary people were not allowed to enter.Those responsible for guarding the exhibits are also members of the association.Among the exhibits on display, some are priceless treasures.If laymen are allowed to visit or manage, there is a possibility of loss.Now everyone who comes in and out is a member of the association, and the Philatelic Association thinks that it will be foolproof.

Unexpectedly, something happened. A member who was in charge of guarding the exhibits stole a precious stamp.The chairman of the association had to report the incident to the police.

Sheriff Paul brought people to solve the case.He immediately sealed off the entire building, preventing anyone from entering or leaving.According to the on-site investigation and analysis, Francis, who lives in Room 308 on the third floor, is the most suspicious.

Room 308 has a desk, a bedside table, a sofa, and a wardrobe.There is an electric fan on the table.When the thin Francis saw Sheriff Paul bring the police in, he immediately turned on the electric fan switch graciously, and at the same time opened the doors of the bedside table and wardrobe, showing a selfless look in his heart.

Sergeant Paul was also polite, and searched everything in the room, every gap was spared, but he didn't find the stamp.Paul found that when he was searching, Francis' expression was a little nervous, and he kept wiping his sweat while standing in front of the rapidly rotating electric fan.Paul deliberately asked, "Are you afraid of the heat?" Francis grinned and nodded.

This made Paul more aware of where Francis had hidden the stamps.

Excuse me, where are the stamps hidden?How did Sheriff Paul know where the stamps were hidden?
(End of this chapter)