The difficulty of the story is as follows:

The murder case on Finjaqu Street is called an unsolved case, and everyone is confused, and this everyone naturally includes the female journalist Burton. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

According to the description in the book, she also deliberately communicated with many detectives and people with high IQs, but in the end there was no clue.

In fact, it is not easy to describe smart people in novels, and if you describe it a little worse, it will be very inconsistent.

If you have a difficult problem that you think is difficult, and when you talk to someone, the other person's answer is very simple, and it is not even a difficult problem, how do you feel?

"Oh? That's interesting, old man. Motohiko Izawa said suddenly.

He found an interesting description, when the female reporter Burton, ironically the old man, probably said that you really have the ability to solve the case, the old man said that he replied like this-

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"That's right. "You know, on the one hand, I suspect that the police won't accept my opinions, and on the other hand, if I become actively involved in the investigation, my emotional inclinations and sense of responsibility will almost always come into direct conflict." I often sympathize with criminals who are smart and cunning enough to lead the entire police by the nose. I don't know how much you remember about this case,"

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Very good and powerful, the old man is actually on the side of the criminal, this is to subvert the fixed view that the detective is justice, roughly think about it, it seems that what the old man said, it seems that there is really a little bit of truth.

Motohiko Izawa's interest grew.

Although the beginning is bland, it is a good description of the core character of the story, the nameless old man, who likes to taunt, looks down on the police, and should be an extremely smart guy.

Next, the old man began to narrate the case, which is the key to the story.

Everything the old man knew, it was read from the newspapers.

And this case of Fenque Qu Street, at the beginning, was reported by a lady who had her husband William missing.

As for telling what happened.

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On the 10th of December, about three o'clock in the afternoon, Karl, the German, went to visit his friend William, to whom he owed about ten pounds, for a small debt.

When he arrived at William's slum house on Charlotte Street in the Philippines Square, he found William Kershaw in a state of frantic excitement while his wife was crying.

Karl tried to tell him the purpose of his visit, but William called him aside with a wave of his hand, and then, in his own words, shocked him to the point where William asked for a further two pounds.

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It is said that the old man is stating, and the things reported in the newspaper are more like the old man telling the story in his own way, that is, combining what he knows, and then sorting out the story.

I have to say that this kind of narration is fascinating, but on the other hand, this kind of narration is extremely subjective, once something is wrong, there is no mistake at all, and such a method of reasoning makes people frown.

After the missing William failed to borrow money, he was ready to involve the German Karl in a plan with an income of several thousand pounds.

Seeing this, Izawa Motohiko was a little puzzled, and he muttered in his heart: "Although one pound is equal to more than one hundred and thirty yen, two pounds is less than three hundred, and the child has more than a month's pocket money, so he still needs to borrow it?"

The only explanation Motohiko Izawa can think of is that this mystery novel is set in the nineteenth century, when the pound was worth as much as silver.

Obviously, the old man has a great ability to tell stories, and the female journalist Bolton was conquered anyway.

Then the wife of the disappeared William told the police another thing, which is the whole thing, which involved a murder case more than 30 years ago, when William was in college more than 30 years ago, and one day his other roommate seemed to win a lot of money from betting on horses.

Seeing that the money was open, Buck directly killed the roommate, and then ran away with the money overnight, and also changed his name to Messerst.

Next, the two were in contact with each other, and William also supported Buck with a little money when he was developed.

It's just that the good times didn't last long, William went downhill, and Buck, who was renamed Messerster, developed instead, and I believe the following plot can also guess the drama of blackmail and blackmail.

By taking advantage of the previous killings, William blackmailed Messester.

Mrs. William, who confessed everything, also pulled out two copies of William and Barker's letters.

No! It should be a letter from the missing William and Messers.

It can also be seen from the letter that William, who disappeared, has been threatening Messerst with this incident.

The newspapers also published the contents of the letter, so that the old man could copy it from the newspaper.

In modern times, it is almost impossible to publish such key evidence, but it is entirely possible if it were the Nineteenth World.

The first letter, which is nothing to look at, is probably Metherster saying to William, I have been blackmailed by you a lot, and enough is enough.

I'm about to go back to England, because I'm on a friend's boat, and the time of my return is uncertain, and we'll make a break when we come back, so don't blackmail me anymore.

The content of the letter is probably like this, in fact, this also makes Izawa Motohiko's conjecture clearer, because if it is modern, it is enough to make an airplane directly, and what kind of ship do you have to wait for.

Airplane aviation was only formed in the early twentieth century, and the Wright brothers only invented the airplane in 1903.

And the second letter, Messester wrote to William, is interesting.

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With regard to the letter I wrote a few weeks ago, I now inform you that the 'Chasco Siro' will arrive at the port of Tilberry next Tuesday, December 10. I'd land there and catch the first train I could catch north to London.

If you wish, please meet me in the early evening in the waiting room at Finquequ Street Station.

I suspect that after thirty years of separation, my face may be strange to you, and I will be wearing a heavy astrakan coat and a hat of the same material, and you may as well identify me by then. Then, you can introduce yourself to me, and I'll hear what you have to say.

Your faithful friend

Francis Methers

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You can think about it, the person you have been blackmailing is coming back, and it seems that you will give yourself a lot of money, which is strange if you are unhappy.

William was agitated like a mad beast and walked around the room.

But William's wife was very worried, after all, the object she wanted to see was once carrying a human life, so Mrs. William disagreed, because her reaction was the same as normal people, feeling that this kind of blackmail was more despicable, and the murderer should be punished by law.

But obviously, as Marx was right, with 200 percent of the profits, you can trample on the law. (To be continued.) )