1 minute to solve the case

Chapter 8 Pure Thought (7)
Sonny limped in front of Henry and said, "I parked the car in an alley behind the house. When I was walking towards the back door, I tripped over a cable on the ground. I sat on the ground and rubbed my ankles. About two minutes later, I heard gunshots and stood up quickly."

Henry began to question the third person, Glenn: "What were you doing when the gun shot?" Glenn said, "I was walking towards the kitchen, and I wanted to put a cup of ice cream in the kitchen. At this moment, I heard a voice from the back door, I just looked out, it was pitch black, I went back to the kitchen to get my ice cream, and a few minutes later I heard gunshots."

In order to confirm what they said, Henry began to search the house. Next to the refrigerator in the kitchen, he found a cup of melted ice cream. The hood of the car has been opened.

Henry went back into the house, pointed at Bill and said, "What you said is all a lie, and you are the murderer!"

Bill said defensively: "How can I be the murderer? You are mistaken!"

Henry pointed out Bill's criminal facts in front of everyone, and Bill was speechless at that time.

Why did Henry say Bill was the murderer?

Glenn heard the sound of the back door, proving that Sonny had indeed returned home before the murder, and had tripped over the wires, so pulling out the wires from the outlet proved Sonny was telling the truth.But since Sonny fell and pulled out the wires, Bill was supposed to be in the dark suddenly while he was working on the car, but Bill didn't mention to Henry that his lights suddenly went out.This was because at this moment he was sneaking up the stairs, killing Harry, and he didn't know it when the lights went out.

Prime Minister's Masquerade

Security services have warned the prime minister to cancel this year's masquerade.But masquerade balls have been a tradition for more than 200 years in the tiny principality, and despite threats from rebels, the annual masquerade went on as scheduled.

Before the ball, the Prime Minister did a lot of work for safety.The guest disguised as a pirate with a prosthetic leg surrendered his sword, and the guest disguised as a Turkish sultan surrendered his machete.No blunt objects were brought into the venue, except for a bat that was allowed to be brought in by a man dressed as a baseball player.Everyone thinks that no one will use blunt objects to threaten their lives.

But something went wrong.An 80-year-old Grand Duke was clubbed to death.The police inspected the scene and saw the Duke dressed as a farmer, lying on a large rock, blood still dripping into a dark crevice nearby.

"Quick!" said the inspector to the one nearest him. "Close the gate and call the guards."

The person next to him was the governor dressed as a pirate, and he strode away from the main venue.

"We need to find the murder weapon," said the detective's assistant.

The guest in the form of a baseball player, a political enemy of the prime minister, said his bat was upstairs.Sure enough, the police found the bat in the spittoon outside the men's bathroom upstairs.

"Take away the evidence," the detective shouted, "Take it back for testing, and we must find the assassin."

"It's not necessary to go for a test," the Prime Minister said for the first time since the murder. "I know who killed the Duke! It's the governor}"

Why did the prime minister say that the governor is a murderer?

Since it is the governor with prosthetic legs, why he can still stride away from the main venue, which shows that his prosthetic legs are fraudulent.At a ball, the governor hid his real leg in his trousers, leaving only a fake leg exposed.After the murder happened, he was able to run with great strides, indicating that his artificial leg was no longer on him.Noticing this illogical change, the Prime Minister concluded that the Governor had killed the Duke with a prosthetic leg.Then the prosthetic leg was thrown into the side gap.

tent in the rain

One day at noon, the sky suddenly rained heavily.After the rain stopped, a man hurried to the police station and said to Sergeant Dashan:

"No, the Piney gas station attendant was shot."

Dashan poured him a glass of water, and then said to him, "Don't worry, speak slowly."

"I was driving into Piney's gas station when I heard a gunshot and then I saw two guys run out of the gas station, jump into a weekender van and drive away quickly. I hurried I ran into the house and saw that a male attendant at the gas station had fallen into a pool of blood." The man described while trembling.

Sergeant Dashan listened to the eyewitness's account, asked about the coaches and the appearance of the two people, and then led a few police officers to search for the suspect.Soon, they found an abandoned coach on the south side of the road block.

Sergeant Dashan saw that the tour bus was only a few meters away from the main entrance of Piney National Park.So he guessed that the criminal must have entered the park.

By an artificial lake in the park, Dashan asked the first camper, Warren, when they came to the park.

"My brother and I came here last night because we've been fishing since we got here in time for the frogfish migration," said Warren, who has a mustache.

"Are you two fishing when it rains?" Dashan asked again.

"Yes." Warren nodded.

Dashan bid farewell to Warren, and came to the tent of the second pair of campers, Al.

Al said: "This morning we pitched our tent and we went out. When it started to rain we took shelter in a small cave for hours and we didn't see anything."

When Dashan was listening to Al's words, he found that the ground was wet. He couldn't help frowning, but walked out of the tent in a friendly manner.

On a tourist bus in the parking lot, Dashan found a third pair of campers, George and his girlfriend.

George said: "I know we shouldn't be here. We didn't hurt anyone. A friend in Chicago lent me this car, so my name is not on the driver's license. You can call Chicago to check."

"No need!" Da Shan said, "I already know who is lying!"

It was Al who was lying.Al said they had set up the tent in the morning, but it hadn't rained yet, so why was the ground in the tent wet?Apparently the tent was pitched after the rain.It means he is the murderer.

a precious coin
It was late at the Derek Moore Hotel, and a cleaner was wiping down the intercom in the lobby.Suddenly, there was the sound of breaking glass next to it, and then the alarm sounded.

In the lobby there is a showcase with memorabilia commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Drake Moore Hotel: the hotel's first menu, price lists for each room, rare coins, stamps, photographs, and the first Signatures of distinguished guests.

The night manager and other staff arrived shortly thereafter to find a precious coin missing.Seeing that there were only three guests nearby, the manager firmly but politely asked the three guests to wait here until the police arrived.

"We've been watching them," the manager told police officers who arrived. "The one reading in the armchair was Ms Oakley and she said she had just had a work meal. She was very cooperative when we asked her to stay here and took a book out of her briefcase to read as soon as she sat down .

"Mr. Blair said he had just come out of his room and went to the front desk to get some aspirin and his wife had a headache. After we kept him, he called his wife on the pay phone and I heard him Tell your wife to wait for a while, don't worry."

The manager pointed to a man dressed in rags and said: "Mr. Greenleaf just came out of the hotel bar. The waiter refused to serve him any more drinks. He just wandered around here. We found him in the elevator when his fingers were beaten. The elevator button is jammed."

"The thief never thought we had an alarm," said the manager. "Maybe he was scared away and we couldn't catch him."

"No, I've found the suspect! He's Mr. Brier!"

Why did the police say Brier was a thief?

There was an intercom in the front hall, but Brier didn't use it. Instead, he used the pay phone to talk to his wife in the room. This was very suspicious and did not conform to a person's normal logical thinking.Because it was coins that were missing, Brier's behavior aroused the suspicion of the police.When the police opened the box of the pay phone, they found the precious coin that had just been stolen.

False case in the alley
At 1300 pm, two policemen heard someone shouting for help in the alley.When they arrived at the scene, they saw a woman sitting on the ground rubbing a lump on the back of her head. It took a full two minutes for her to speak.

She introduced herself to the police: "My name is Mary Ramsay and I work in a jewelry store. I am going to the bank to deliver the receipts from the previous day. I deliver receipts every day. The boss won't let me go down this alley. Today I felt being followed, I was so stupid to turn into this alley. There were footsteps coming from behind, and before I could turn my head to look, I got hit on the head. Then I fell down "Mary continued, "The mugger didn't hit me anymore, he grabbed my bag and ran away. I only saw him from behind, a tall guy in blue jeans and a dark cardigan .”

Based on her description, police began a citywide search and soon detained two people who matched Mary's description.

"Yes, I was running," said the first man, Stu Logan, angrily.A police patrol car found him two blocks away, and he tried to run as soon as he saw a police car."It was near the end of my lunch break and I ran because I didn't want to be late for work, and I didn't want to lose my job," he said. Stu works in a deli next door to the jewelry store.

The second person, Ollie Oscar, is a scavenger hunt. "I wasn't wearing this undershirt," he said, undoing his moth-eaten cardigan. "I just picked it up in the trash before you got me here."

"What's the matter with this money bag?" The police officer pointed to the money bag found on him and asked:

"I picked it up from another dump. You can always find that kind of thing in the dump behind the bank. You didn't find the money on me, did you?"

After hearing the answer from the second person, the police officer suddenly changed his mind, and immediately drove back to Mary, pointed at her and said, "You are lying, I think you are the suspect!"

Why did the police say Mary was a suspect?
Mary said she only saw the mugger from behind, but specified that the suspect was wearing a cardigan.The buttons of this undershirt are in the front, and it is impossible to tell whether it is a pullover or a cardigan from the back. It is obvious that Mary is lying.She was committing a false case, trying to steal a receipt from a jewelry store.

who killed uncle

DeWood is a well-known president who owns several large companies and a huge deposit to his name.Sadly, DeWood has no children.Seeing that he was getting older, Dewood decided to leave all his property to his two nephews Asa and Cecil and his niece Bobby after careful consideration.

This morning, DeWood summoned a lawyer and solemnly signed a property inheritance document in front of the three children.Seeing that their uncle's signature was about to become a reality, the three children were extremely excited.

However, something happened in the afternoon of that day. When the lawyer was sorting out the documents in Dewood's study, he suddenly heard Dewood's scream, which startled the always prudent lawyer, and he ran downstairs quickly.

On the top of the back stairs on the second floor where few people walked, I ran into Asa head-on.Seeing the lawyer running over, Asa stammered, "The voice came from the first floor."

The lawyer walked quickly down the narrow stairs and accidentally hit a spider's web on his face.

He stroked the spider web with his hand, and then came to the kitchen on the first floor.At the door, he took a look in: the floor was obviously just cleaned and looked clean and bright, but the sideboard standing beside it was very messy.Dywood was lying on the floor with a knife stuck in his body.Intuitively, the lawyer felt that Dewood was dead.

The smart lawyer immediately called the nanny and asked him to protect the scene and call the police at the same time.At the same time, he looked into the garden through the window on the door connecting the kitchen to the back garden, and he saw footprints on the muddy ground outside, walking towards the kitchen.

After a while, two policemen came in and began to interrogate them one by one.

Cecil said: "Someone must have broken in through the back door, I've been in the front parlor by the main staircase and I haven't seen anyone come in!"

"Me too!" Poppy said, pointing to the mud on his shoes. "I've been walking in the garden behind the kitchen and I haven't seen anything."

"Okay, you don't need to explain, I already know who the murderer is, and he is Cecil!" the lawyer said solemnly.

Why did the lawyer say Cecil was the murderer?
Lawyers use the method of exclusion.When the lawyer walked up the back stairs, he hit a spider web on his face, indicating that Asa did not walk through the back stairs.At the same time, Asa did not walk through the main staircase, because Cecil, who had been sitting by the main staircase, said that he had not seen him.Also, the fact that there were no footprints on the freshly scrubbed kitchen floor meant Poppy hadn't been in the kitchen.Therefore, only Cecil had time to kill people, and he even said that someone broke in through the back door.

location of the mill

In mid-June 2005, a luxury cruise ship sailed from a port in Spain, and its destination was a port in the United States.

The cruise ship soon sailed into the Atlantic Ocean, and at this moment, three pirate ships surrounded the tanker.The pirates ransacked the cruise ship and robbed all the tourists on the ship of their money.But before the pirates retreated, several patrol boats of sea escort surrounded them again, so the navy and the robbers launched a fierce gun battle.The pirates were defeated and jumped into the sea to flee for their lives.

Two of the pirates who jumped into the sea escaped to an island called "Lying Island" and hid in a mill on the island.

"Lying Island" is not big, inhabited by two indigenous tribes - A and B.One tribe speaks absolutely the truth, and the other tribe speaks absolutely the lie.

The navies who followed were very aware of these situations, and they also very accurately determined that the pirates were hiding in the mill.But they were at a loss for two things: first, which tribe, A or B, was absolutely telling the truth and which was absolutely lying; and second, whether the mill was in the east or the west.The soldiers knew that on this small island with peculiar customs, outsiders could not act rashly without asking about the situation clearly, otherwise they would encounter unexpected troubles.

When they were in a difficult situation, the soldiers saw an aboriginal resident walking down the path, and it could be judged from his clothes that he belonged to the A clan.Everyone wanted to ask him where the mill was, but they didn't know how to ask him.

When he was in a difficult situation, Captain Harry suddenly had an idea, so he stepped forward and asked very modestly:

"My friend, if I ask a member of the B clan whether the mill is on the east end or the west end of the island, how will he answer my question?"

The native replied immediately: "The people of the B tribe will say that the mill is at the east end of the island."

This answer satisfied Captain Harry. He immediately deduced the location of the mill based on the native's answer, and led the soldiers to catch the two pirates.

How did Harry deduce it?
Clan A is absolutely telling the truth, and he said that Clan B would say that the mill is at the east end of the island; then, based on the fact that Clan B is absolutely telling lies, it can be deduced that the mill is at the west end of the island.

a blue suitcase
Hilal was busy processing documents when suddenly the phone rang.It was his wife Jasmine's cry for help, and the voice of a strange man:

"Hey, friend, I don't want to kill you for money. As long as you give me 10 dollars, I promise not to hurt a single hair of your wife. After a while, a person in a yellow trench coat will come to you, and you will give him the money." .If you call the police, you won’t see your wife——” The phone was disconnected at this point.

Putting down the phone, Hilal went to a store, bought a small blue suitcase, then went to the bank to withdraw 10 US dollars, and returned to the office with it.

After a while, a man in a yellow windbreaker came to the office. Seeing that Hilal had prepared the money, he picked up the box and said, "Okay, sir, you keep your word. All you need to do now is Wait quietly and don't call the police, or your wife will die."

After saying "Yellow Windbreaker", he opened the door and left.

As soon as "Huang Fengyi" left, Hilal hurriedly called home, but he couldn't get through, so he called the police first, and then rushed home.

As soon as he entered the house, he saw his frightened wife talking with the police officer who had arrived first. Seeing him walk in, a police officer said to him:

"Your wife has told me about a man and the blue suitcase in which you gave him money. Now, please tell me more about the physical appearance of the man who came to your office."

Hilal narrated what happened in detail.

After the police left, Hilal and his wife talked about the blackmail that had just happened while drinking.

While drinking, Hilal suddenly jumped up on the sofa, glared at his wife and said:

"I see, the real murderer is you, and you conspired with that kidnapper to blackmail me!"

"How is this possible? I am your wife!"

Hilal explained the reason in front of her, and his wife had to admit the crime.

Hilal said: "After I learned that you were kidnapped from the phone, I never spoke to you again. How could you know that I gave money to the kidnapper in a newly bought blue suitcase? The kidnapper must have told you , I used the blue suitcase to hold the money. Since the kidnappers will tell you, there is only one logical explanation, that is, you conspired with the kidnappers to blackmail your own husband."

Seasoning for Seven

Hammer is a well-known drug lord in South America and has always been the target of Interpol.Finally, he was targeted by Interpol.

(End of this chapter)