Chapter 85: The Murder of a Diplomat (2)
Coincidentally, Miss Sachiko, who Mrs. Ikemura asked for an investigation, also came to the villa today. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
From the outside, Miss Sachiko has a quiet temperament, and her status as a top medical student at Tokyo University is also fully worthy of the celibate of the Ikemura family.
It's a pity that women who are too good are often envied by other women, and Sachiko and Mrs. Ikemura are full of gunpowder as soon as they meet. Just because of some trivial things, she was reprimanded by Mrs. Ikemura.
It is conceivable that if she marries into the Ikemura family, Ikemura Takazen will definitely become a triangle between her mother and wife.
Everyone greeted the members of the house, and Mrs. Ikemura led everyone to the Ikemura diplomat's study.
Mrs. Ikemura knocked lightly on the door twice, but heard the sound of music coming from inside the house, but no one came to open the door.
Since the door was locked, she had to take the key from her handbag and open it herself.
After opening the door, everyone was first attracted by the Italian opera being played in the room, and the stereo sound emitted by the huge sound equipment made people feel as if they were singing in front of them.
Seeing a set of valuable audio equipment, Xingchen could only complain deeply about the corruption of capitalist society in his heart.
"Husband, the guests are here, it's time to get up. Mrs. Ikemura walked up to her husband and nudged Mr. Ikemura, trying to wake him up.
Unexpectedly, Mr. Ikemura's body fell to the ground without warning in the direction of his wife's nudge.
"Old, husband!" Lady Ikemura screamed in shock.
Conan and Heiji rushed to Mr. Ikemura's side first, and Heiji touched Mr. Ikemura's carotid artery and confirmed, "It's too late, I'm out of breath!"
The commotion in the study alarmed the other people in the room, and the housekeeper and wanted to enter the door to check, but were stopped by Maori.
"No one is allowed to come in until the police arrive!"
Ten minutes later, Twilight leads a group of police officers to the scene of the crime.
If it is an ordinary criminal case, with Twilight's current status in the police department, he can sit in the office drinking tea, reading the newspaper, and remotely direct his subordinates to handle the case.
However, due to the special status of the deceased's diplomat, the superiors paid enough attention to his death, so they specially named and assigned the experienced Twilight to lead the team personally.
"Xingchen, why are you here?" As soon as Twilight entered the room, he saw Xingchen and the others, quietly pulled Xingchen to the corner, and said with kindness: "Xingchen, don't get too close to Maori in the future, so as not to get contaminated with bad luck on him." ”
"Huh. Xingchen smiled and said nothing. I thought: I got the wrong person, Maori is innocent, and Conan is the source of the curse!
The Japanese police are not able to solve the case, but they are still very efficient in collecting evidence, and soon Twilight has a stack of preliminary reports of the case provided by his subordinates.
"There was a small red dot left behind the victim's right ear, and a needle-like object suspected to be a murder weapon fell next to the corpse. So it should have been after someone stabbed him to death with a poison needle before he posed in this pose. ”
"In addition, the lips and fingers and toes of the corpse have turned purple, and there is also blood spilling. However, there was no painful expression on the face of the deceased, so the deceased must have died from a strong poison that paralyzed the nerves, and judging from the corpse's spots and stiffness, the time of death should have been within half an hour before it was found. ”
"All the windows in the study are locked from the inside, and there are no signs of the doors and windows being pried, so it is impossible for the murderer to enter from the outside, so the only remaining exit is the door. Twilight asks the victim's wife, "Mrs. Ikemura, how many keys are there in this study?"
Mrs. Ikemura heard Twilight's question, and while reaching into her bag and pulling out a key, she replied with tears in her eyes, "There are only two." One is with me and the other is with my husband. ”
"Your husband?" Twilight looked a little surprised.
"That's right. Mrs. Ikemura affirmed, "My husband usually keeps the keys in his pants pocket. ”
Hearing the answer, Twilight walked up to the deceased with a solemn face and reached into his pants. In the pocket of the deceased's pants, he pulled out a key of the exact same style as that in Mrs. Ikemura's hand.
"How is that possible!" Twilight, Hattori, and Conan were shocked at the same time, as if they had seen something they shouldn't have seen.
Hmm? Or rather, the key shouldn't have been there.
"What's wrong?" Kogoro, who realized it later, still hadn't figured out what was going on.
"When we came in, the door was locked, so the murderer didn't leave until the door was locked. However, there were only two keys to this room, one in the hands of Mrs. Ikemura, who came in with us, and one in the double pocket of Mr. Ikemura's pants, who was killed. In this way, a closed room is formed, which is a closed room homicide. Conan reasoned about the case.
Pingji on the side looked at Conan and felt that this child's reasoning coincided with his own.
"Wait!"
As everyone was succumbing to Conan's reasoning, a discordant voice suddenly sounded.
Xingchen stroked his smooth chin and asked his own question: "Why are you so sure that there are only two keys? Although the security of this room is not bad, it cannot be denied that someone secretly matched this key." Especially for those who live in this house, I think it would not be difficult to find a street stall with a key and spend five minutes getting such a common key. ”
"It's not like that. Mrs. Ikemura stood up to help Conan and said, "The door of this study is in disrepair, so I just found someone to change the lock of the door yesterday, and you see that there is only this key on this key ring." ”
Mrs. Ikemura showed everyone her key, which contained only a key and an oval pendant the length of her index finger on the entire keyring.
"I see!" Xingchen didn't mind that his reasoning had failed, and he laughed at himself, "It's indeed a closed room murder, and this term seems to be very popular lately!"
Although Xingchen's question was not to the point, Heiji still pulled him aside and poured him up and down with malicious intentions, as if Xingchen was a delicious cream cake.
"I don't know if this guy Kudo will appear today, Xingchen, are you interested in coming and competing with me for reasoning?"
"Spare me! With Uncle Maori and my father here today, I shouldn't have a chance to play. Xingchen spread his hands, indicating that he was not interested in this case.
Judging from the performance of this uncle just now, the wonderful reasoning published in the newspaper recently is not his own at all, and he must have secretly contacted Kudo to seek assistance in solving the case. But forget it, let me and Kudo battle it out! Let's see who can solve this secret room murder case first. ”
It seems that Heiji is eyeing the throne of "the No. 1 high school detective in all of Japan".
PS: The victim is called "Hiromura Xun" in the manga, "Tsuji (shi) mura move" in the Japanese Chinese character anime, "Tatsumura Xun" in the Chinese dubbed anime, and Xingchen is estimated to be called "Tsujimura Xun". If there is any doubt in the future, the comics shall prevail.