"Murder on the Orient Express" begins with a preface written by Zheng Meihua, and I dare to vouch for it with my own personality, this is a great work, another milestone in mystery fiction. When a literary magazine asked me to write a foreword for Murder on the Orient Express, I declined. However, after reading this novel, I changed my mind. I have to say that Qin Song is a genius writer, and only he can write such a humane mystery novel. I really envy this, even jealousy. Qin Song created a narrative mystery with "Dong Dong Suspension Bridge Falling", and this "Murder on the Eastern Train" will create a new mode of reasoning, which will surely make countless mystery writers follow suit in the future. At this point, readers who have seen this work are lucky, and I wish you to enjoy this oriental train to the paradise of reasoning.

The preface is not long, full of beautiful words, and it can be seen that Zheng Meihua greatly admires "Murder on the Eastern Train".

People who love mystery novels know Zheng Meihua's name, she is a good person in the mystery world, but she is also very principled and will never give up the bottom line because of favors.

After reading the preface, Fang Yingyi's heart held twelve points of expectation, will it really be so exciting? Even more wonderful than Lao Li's works? I don't believe it!

Mei Anhe's white fingers turned over the pages, "Woo woo woo ~ ~~~" The Oriental train began to whistle, which was destined to be a wonderful journey.

One winter morning, at five o'clock, a train was moving through the ice and snow, this express train was in the railway guide, majestically called the Orient Express, it consisted of a cooking car, a dining car, a sleeper car and two ordinary passenger cars, and the great detective Polo was also on this train.

Heavy snow covered the sky, freezing and snowy, and because of the blizzard, the train was forced to stop.

The next day, not surprisingly, the murder occurred, the deceased was a wealthy businessman, everyone called him Mr. Lei, and the rich businessman was stabbed to death in the box.

"This is a typical secret room environment, could it be said that Qin Song didn't write narrative reasoning this time, but changed to traditional reasoning." Fang Yingyi looked at the plot description in the novel, his mood was agitated, the closed carriage was not in front of the village, there was no store in the back, there were a total of thirteen people in the car, including the great detective Polo, and the murderer was among these thirteen people.

No, it should be among the twelve, because of the fifth rule of reasoning, a detective cannot be a murderer.

In other words, the suspicion of the crime of the great detective Polo can be ruled out.

"I'm such a genius that I was able to eliminate a suspect in just a few minutes." Fang Yingyi was smug, "Very good, next, let me find out the real murderer, with a 1 in 12 probability, I will never guess wrong!" ”

"Come on, it's just you, the guy who can't get the correct answer to the four options of the math problem, choose one out of twelve, give you twelve chances, and you may not be able to answer correctly." Mei Anhe disliked.

"Shhh Fang Yingyi took a cigarette from the table and put it in his mouth, looked down at his wife in his arms, didn't light the fire after all, and said stupidly, "I'll smell it, don't smoke it." ”

The story continues, as the great detective, Polo, at the suggestion of Mr. Bu, takes on the case and begins to investigate the passengers and administrators on the train one by one.

During the investigation, Polo uncovered a number of clues, including a linen handkerchief embroidered with an "H" and a pipe strip, which showed that the killer had deliberately left clues. However, each clue seems to point to a different suspect, making it confusing.

What's going on here?

As the investigation deepened, more and more clues appeared, Fang Yingyi found a notebook and recorded all the clues with a pen.

[At about 12:37 p.m., Polo was awakened and heard a shout, and then the electric bell rang, and the conductor came to answer the bell, and Mr. Ray replied, "It's okay, I rang the wrong bell." ”

At a moment, Polo heard the sound of walking and tapping from Mr. Ray's room, the sound of running water, the sound of water splashing, the faucet clicked off again, and there was the sound of footsteps in the aisle outside, and someone walking in bedroom slippers.

Then the electric bell rang, and Mrs. Lin said that there was a man in his room.

After Polo fell asleep, he was awakened by the sound of "bumping" on the door, and came out to see the back of a woman in scarlet pajamas. 】

This is what the article describes the great detective Polo saw and heard from the angle.

Next, let's take a look at the information extracted from the deceased.

[The time of death, probably between midnight and two o'clock in the morning.]

The situation of the corpse, the knife wounds on the body of the deceased Mr. Lei are very peculiar, there are a total of twelve knives, disorderly, only three of which are fatal, in addition to some wounds that seem to be caused by right-handed people, while some seem to be left-handed, and two knives are very deep, but the blood flow is less than normal, and they were stabbed not long after death.

The murder weapon was a cone-shaped dagger in Mrs. Lin's toiletry bag, which was hung on a connecting door to the deceased's room, matching any stab wound. 】

The deceased, Mr. Lei, was an out-and-out bad guy who once caused a kidnapping case that caused the tragedy of Mr. Si's family.

Mr. Si's daughter was kidnapped by Mr. Lei and torn up the ticket, Mrs. Si was stimulated to give birth prematurely, resulting in the death of both mother and child, and Mr. Si himself couldn't bear the blow and committed suicide, and their nanny, because she was suspected of being related to the murderer, committed suicide by jumping off the building. Only his sister is still alive in Mr. Si's family.

From the scorched paper left on the deceased's desk, it can be seen that Mr. Lei's death was related to the kidnapping case.

Before getting into the car, the deceased wanted to pay a large sum of money and invite Polo to be his personal bodyguard, but Polo refused because he was a detective and not a bodyguard.

Unexpectedly, this guy really died in the car.

Polo said in the novel that if you come into contact with these kinds of cases a few times, you will find that they all have one thing in common: everyone involved in the case has something to hide.

Sure enough, as the investigation progressed, there were contradictions between the testimonies of the twelve passengers on the train and the conductor, all the evidence and testimony seemed to be pre-designed, and everyone was not telling the truth, they were lying.

The difficulty of solving this case lies in the fact that the train stopped running due to a snowstorm, they are in a closed space, there is no outside world that can provide any effective information, there is no way to investigate the authenticity of these people's identities, and all the truth can only rely on the logical reasoning of detectives!

So, can Polo judge by the testimony and evidence of each individual?

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