William wanted to step on the line for money, so Mrs. William tried many ways to persuade William not to go, such as why Messer did not choose to meet the next day, but to meet in the evening after the train. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Of course, it makes sense, and it may be that Messer wants to hurry, or even can't wait to solve this matter.

Therefore, this kind of ambiguous question must not stop Wilhelm, who has been carried away by money, and Karl, a German who is obsessed with money.

Karl was persuaded, from not borrowing at the beginning, to taking the initiative to lend William two pounds, so that he could take care of his outfits, and go to meet the former Buck, now Messerster, after all, extortion also needs to be prepared.

Think about it, if you were dressed like a beggar, how much would you want to extort for this standard of living? A hundred pounds at most.

But you're dressed in a suit and leather shoes, and you look good, and you can get your hands on a hundred pounds? Then you can extort more money, William and Carr, working hard for more money.

William, however, was gone, and searched near Finquequ Street, but found nothing, so he found the police, and told them everything she knew, including two letters, as I had said before.

Long after the report was reported, the police had already designated William as a missing person, and it was not until the 12th that William's body was found by two boatmen at the bottom of an abandoned houseboat, and it was too decomposed to be recognized.

[……

"The actual houseboat, you know, had been removed by the time I took this snapshot, but you can see how perfect it is for one person to calmly slit another person's throat without fear of being discovered.

The body, as I said, was so decomposed that it was impossible to make out it, and it had been sitting there for perhaps eleven days, but some of the objects, like the silver ring and tie clip, were still recognizable, and Mrs. William identified them as those of her husband. ”

……]

Needless to say, William's wife must sue Messerst, and the most important thing is that Lady William provided two letters that can be said to be absolute evidence, and then the former Buck, now Messerst was arrested in the Grand Hotel.

Motohiko Izawa didn't notice that he was the same as the female reporter Burton in the book, Burton was disdainful of the old man's statement that the case was very simple or something, but as the old man slowly told the case clearly, the female reporter Burton's attitude changed and became serious and serious.

He didn't expect anything from the mystery novel written by this anonymous Chinese, and the introduction was so unreliable.

However, now, Motohiko Izawa has been concentrating, watching with bated breath, and his head is not thinking about anything else at the moment.

"This case seems to have no twists and turns so far, why is it called an unsolved case?" Motohiko Izawa wondered.

Then, as soon as the words in his heart fell, he slapped his face.

[……

"To be honest, I was quite confused at the time. Mrs. Kershaw's statement and Messerst's letter were later reported, and I tried my old way—mind you, that I was an amateur, and that my deliberation on a case was merely a preference—to find a motive for the crime which the police claimed to be the work of Messerster. It was widely accepted that he really wanted to get rid of a dangerous blackmailer. But have you ever wondered how weak this motivation is?"

……]

"Why is it weak? Getting rid of a blackmailer is a very good reason. Motohiko Izawa blurted out.

That's what he thought, and so did the female reporter Burton.

The old man's answer:

[……

"A man who has amassed a great fortune by his own efforts is certainly not a fool and would not believe that someone like William could do anything to him that would frighten him. He must have known that William would not have incriminating evidence against him - at least not enough to put him hanged. Have you seen Messerst?"

The old man said, groping around in his little wallet again. Bolton replied that she had seen Messerst in the newspaper with the picture at the time, and the old man put a picture in front of Bolton and said, "What impresses you most about this face?"

……]

If you think about it carefully, first of all, none of the self-made rich people are stupid, alert, smart, cautious, control the timing, and even lucky, but there is always one that is different from ordinary people, otherwise how can he become a rich man?

And it would be stupid if Messer came back specifically to kill this blackmailer, and couldn't wait to do it in the middle of the night.

Even if you are not ready to kill at the beginning, and then because you can't negotiate the price, the temporary intention is not reasonable.

"Is this logic?" Motohiko Izawa sensed a little, saying that the old man solved the case through logic.

A logician is very scary, and there is a passage about three logicians walking into a bar.

The waiter greeted and asked, "Do you all want a beer?"

The first logician said, "I don't know. ”

The second logician said, "I don't know either." ”

The third logician said, "Yes." ”

It's a strange three answers, and in fact the first logician's answer, he wants beer, but I don't know if the last two want beer, so the answer is not known.

And the second logician, from the first person's answer, deduced that the first person wanted beer, and he himself wanted it, but he didn't know whether the last person wanted it or not, so I don't know the answer either.

The last one, based on the answers of the first two people, knew that both of them wanted beer, and they also wanted beer, so the answer was yes.

Although this is just a paragraph, it really shows the power of logicians very well, and there is another point, the waiter is really pitiful......

Let's get back to business, after Motohiko Izawa judged that this author used logic to solve the case, he didn't stop, and continued to watch non-stop.

The old man deduced a lot from Messerst's appearance.

[……

"Well, I think it's his peculiar and startled expression, because his eyebrows are all gone, and his hair is cut in a ridiculous foreign style. ”

"It's so close to the scalp that it almost looks like it's been shaved. That's what impressed me the most when I followed the crowd into the courthouse that morning and saw the millionaire in the dock for the first time. He was tall, looking like a soldier, with a straight body and a deep tan on his face. He had no beard or mustache, his hair cut so short that he almost exposed his scalp, like a Frenchman, but, of course, most remarkably, the whole eyebrow, and even the eyelashes, were gone, giving his face a very peculiar look—an expression of surprise, as you say. ”

……] (To be continued.) )