A few days later, at noon on Wednesday, several boatmen found the body of a woman floating on the river near Mafin River Park. In this way, we can assume that within three hours of leaving home, the body of the white chrysanthemum was thrown into the river. In other words, it was only three full days between the time she left the apartment and the time her body was found. But if she was really murdered, then the killer would have to kill during the day and dispose of the body by midnight that day, which is obviously impossible.

But how can a murderer who has committed a murderous murder kill someone in broad daylight and not late at night? Assuming that the deceased we find in the river is really a white chrysanthemum, that means that her body will be in the river for about two and a half days, three days at most. However, as a rule of thumb, it takes five to ten days for a person's body to be thrown into the river, whether by drowning or being violently treated to death, before the body is fully swollen and brought to the surface.

So the question is, how can this corpse violate the laws of nature and surface in less than three days? This is very doubtful. Besides, it is unlikely that a murderer who will calmly commit all the atrocious atrocities mentioned above will not even be able to think of the trick of tying a heavy object to the corpse to prevent it from coming to the surface, right? ……”

Richard drew a red line under the line "five to ten days before the body was completely swollen and surfaced", followed by a question mark.

Another newspaper was the Citizen Daily on the 29th of last month, with a red-framed report at the bottom of the front page:

"It has been five full days since the Bai Chrysanthemum case, but the Criminal Investigation Bureau has not made much progress in solving the case, and it is not an exaggeration to say that there is no clue and there is nothing to do. Many discerning people know that so far, they have not even figured out the direction of solving the case, and many citizens are talking about it and full of righteous indignation, all of them are scolding the Criminal Investigation Bureau for being incompetent and stupid.

Many people think that this murder case is 'really nothing special', so you will find that this cold case should be easy to solve from the beginning, and so does the Criminal Investigation Bureau. But that's the sad thing about the Criminal Investigation Bureau. It's because of the idea that "it must be easy to solve the case", but it will not be so easy to solve the case.

And this is also the reason why the Criminal Investigation Bureau was so sure of solving the case in the first place, so it did not think it was necessary to offer a bounty in the first place. Most of them think that the reasons for the murder and the methods used by the murderer are absolutely traceable, and they will preset the various criminal patterns and criminal motives of the homicide in their minds, and they will think that the motives and patterns of the crime will not be separated from those possibilities based on their past experience in handling cases.

But it is precisely because there are indeed many aspects of this case that can be investigated and considered, one hypothesis is a 'love murder case', one is a 'sex robbery case', and the other is a 'suicide martyrdom case', and each hypothesis seems to be possible and has a reason to be established. In this way, on the contrary, this case is full of myriad questions, inextricable threads, and full of suspicions, which is tantamount to implying that this case will become a headless case, an unsolved case that has been unsolved for a long time. But this is something that the public does not accept. Should we, the venerable judiciary, take the public's expectations seriously? ”

Lee perceived the article's point of view as insightful, and it was condemning the Criminal Investigation Bureau's failure to solve the case. The signature at the end of the article is "Hui Rixiang". Erika, isn't she the cousin of the deceased? He thought to himself that this female reporter must meet as soon as possible.

He picked up another copy of the "News" issue of the 22nd of last month, and there was a report in the red box:

"Yesterday an evening newspaper mentioned the disappearance of Miss White Chrysanthemum. Half a year ago, there was a disappearance case that caused public agitation, and the missing party was Miss Bai Chrysanthemum. At that time, she suddenly disappeared from her place of work: the first floor of the Criminal Investigation Bureau. Later, according to insiders, Miss Bai Chrysanthemum returned to work at the Criminal Investigation Bureau a week later without incident. Except for a slightly pale and haggard face, everything looked normal. According to the concession authorities, the reason why she left for a week was to visit a friend in another place, and nothing that caused a sensation happened.

But according to insiders, Miss Bai Chrysanthemum was not killed in the week of her disappearance, but was messing with a debaucherous naval officer. According to insiders, the two seemed to have a quarrel later, and Miss Bai Chrysanthemum left in a bad mood, so she was able to return home safely the previous time. According to insiders, the naval officer's name is Sterley, who has been to Posedonia on several occasions on warships, and he is currently stationed at a base abroad with the ship.

This naval officer, well-educated, had the rank of captain, not an ordinary vulgar sailor. According to eyewitnesses, the location of their many trysts was at the Recha Hotel. If this report is true, then the female corpse found in the Mae Fen River this time is not Miss Bai Chrysanthemum herself, but someone else, who acted as her substitute for some other reason. The insider also said......"

"Oh, there's a bit of an interesting story," Richard thought to himself: the problem was more complicated, and another naval officer had popped up, what did that mean...... Foreign lover? Missing twice? Tryst? If this time is the same as the previous time, it is the second time to disappear, then the deceased is not a white chrysanthemum? This conclusion can be established. But is it possible? Didn't the director and the bureau confirm that the female corpse was indeed a white chrysanthemum? The article says this, is there any other plan, is it deliberately trying to muddy the water? Interference with the audio-visual?

The first disappearance provides an inevitable logic, in order to make people believe that Bai Chrysanthemum is still alive, this time it is just a rekindling of love, love and love, and then falling into madness, and even the possibility of eloping with a foreign officer is not ruled out? From disappearance to elopement, it is logical, what is the author of the article implying to him? Is it to direct the public's attention from disappearance to elopement, abortion or love killing?

Richard read several different newspaper reports and got caught up in the long exam.

These reports convey a lot of information, and they are intertwined, and a lot of specious hearsay, speculation, analysis and reasoning have thrown the case into a mess.

Richard frowned, smoking one cigarette after another, carefully studying and analyzing all the information.

When he smoked the sixth cigarette, he sorted out his thoughts, peeled off the cocoon, analyzed it in detail, and finally found three suspicious points: one suspicion is that in this report, it was mentioned many times that there was an 'insider', and the writer seemed to be an invisible person, he hid behind, and conveyed a message to the public under the tone of an 'insider', that is, the deceased was not a white chrysanthemum, but another person who looked very similar to a white chrysanthemum, but this is clearly a lie, because the autopsy report of the criminal investigation bureau has confirmed that the deceased is indeed a white chrysanthemum;

The second suspicion is that the place where Bai Chrysanthemum and von Sterley had many trysts was at the Licha Hotel, so the Licha Hotel should be a suspicious location, but why was this not mentioned in the investigation report of the Criminal Investigation Bureau? Without mentioning a word, is it the negligence of the Criminal Investigation Bureau?

Thinking of this, he carefully flipped through the investigation report of the Criminal Investigation Bureau, and indeed did not find a single word about the Licha Hotel. Is this normal? The third suspicion, this report, ostensibly quotes the words of an 'insider', but the tone is very positive, and the analysis of the case is also meticulous, and even the names of foreign officers and the port where the warship is docked are clearly known, but this foreigner is thousands of miles away and cannot be found at all.

This method is called 'there is a reason for the incident, but there is no evidence' in detective art. An unverifiable clue can only lead the whole case to one place: a dead end. Who wants to lead the case to a dead end, it can only be this invisible man, this person who contributed to the newspaper.

When Richard analyzed this, a string was plucked in his mind, "That's right, go to the newspaper office and check who submitted the manuscript to the newspaper, won't you know who this person is?" If you find this person, maybe the whole case will find a breakthrough?! ”

Yes, that's it.

Suddenly, there was a quick knock on the door, and someone shouted outside the door: "Inspector Li, Inspector Li, I'm Heshida." ”

Richard got up and opened the door, and Horsta hurriedly entered: "Inspector Li, hurry, there is a new discovery!" Someone finds the scene of the crime in Mafin River Park, and the superintendent asks you to go right away. ”

Richard was shocked: "Oh, let's go." The two opened the door and ran out.

Late at night at Muffin River Park has been emptied.

He Shida drove to the park, and Li and He jumped out of the car and walked towards the scene.

The scene has been tightly sealed by French Concession detectives, surrounded by a rope. A few incandescent lamps illuminated the scene, dozens of detectives conducted a carpet search in a circle of cordons, and the beams of flashlights crossed and strafed back and forth everywhere.

A large group of reporters were stopped outside the cordon, chattering and arguing, and some tried to break into the cordon, but were blocked by detectives.

Richard and Holsta hurriedly cut through the crowd and walked over to the director.

There was a "click", and I don't know which reporter took a picture from a distance.

Richard glanced at a red trench coat in the spotlight.

Huffman pointed to a middle-aged woman with a frightened face and said, "Inspector Li, we just received an important murder clue, which was provided by Adele, the female shopkeeper who runs a sugar cigarette hotel in the park, she found something suspicious here and notified the detective room, I suspect that this is the first scene." You come with me. ”

"First scene?" Richard muttered, and followed Huffman into the bushes, his sharp gaze first drawn to three large boulders. A white petticoat was placed on one piece, a silk shawl was placed on the second, and a parasol, a pair of gloves, and a handkerchief embroidered with the words "white chrysanthemum" were scattered on the floor.