Chapter Sixty-Eight: All the Wicked
Every piece of evidence, every testimony, the reader can follow Polo's eyes and ears to hear and see. The author has nothing to hide from the evidence, so can you deduce the murderer before Polo before the mystery is revealed?
This is the charm of traditional mystery novels, the battle of wits between the author and the reader!
Fang Yingyi was aroused, and kept taking reading notes, not letting go of any suspicions, "Hey, you wait, and then turn to the front and I'll look at the conductor's testimony......"
Mei Anhe saw that her husband was addicted to reasoning and couldn't extricate herself, and she was happy to enjoy reading with him. What her husband says she does, she is qualified to play the role of a tool man.
"Why, why is this the case, who is the murderer." Fang Yingyi looked at the dense notes and howled, "This question is too difficult, I really can't." ”
There should be BGM here......
As the story continues, more and more suspicions emerge, forcing Polo to stop and rethink the case.
Suspicion 1: Mr. Lei took a sleeping spoon, and at 0:37 a.m., if the murderer had committed the murder at this time, the deceased would not have been able to scream, and the sound was obviously misleading Polo, and the deceased died after a quarter of time.
Suspicion 2, the knife edge is messy, the twelve knives are obviously not stabbed by one person, but there is only one murder weapon.
Suspicion 3: The feminine man who is described as a small man talking to a woman does not match the characteristics of anyone in the car.
Based on these doubts, Polo came to two conclusions, one wrong and one correct.
The mistake is that the murderer is a mafia, and there is a business conflict with the deceased, and after killing someone, he jumped out of the car and ran away. This conclusion is naturally full of loopholes.
The correct conclusion is that there were a total of thirteen people on the train, and twelve of them were murderers!
Polo heard and saw a play that the murderers had shown him, and the original plan was to make Polo and the police think that the deceased had died when Polo heard the voice, and then the murderer got off the bus at 0:58, and each passenger could provide some proof that no one on the bus would be suspected.
Unexpectedly, the blizzard stopped the train, and they had to make things even more messy, leaving a lot of plausible clues, and making up a woman in scarlet pajamas.
All wicked!
"I'll go, can I still do this?" Fang Yingyi was stunned once, but he didn't expect the truth of the case to be all the villains? In traditional cases, there are generally one or several murderers, so when you are struggling to think about who is the murderer among more than a dozen people, you have actually fallen into Qin Song's trap, because this case is full of villains except for the great detective Polo!
Seeing this, the course of the case is already clear, but there are still many text descriptions in the later text, can it be said that there is a reversal in the ending?
Fang Yingyi suppressed her trembling nerves and continued to look down.
It turns out that every suspect in the book has a close relationship with Mr. Si's family, and has received a huge favor from Mr. Si, they watched the originally beautiful family be destroyed by a kidnapper, and the kidnapper was still at large after getting the ransom and tearing the ticket, so they plotted to avenge Mr. Si's family and let the kidnappers receive the punishment they deserved.
Legally, they are guilty, morally, they are doing the right thing.
No wonder Zheng Meihua said that this is a contest between legal principles and human feelings, and this is a reasoning novel with humanistic care.
The truth is revealed, between law and reason, Polo is in a dilemma, as a detective, he has to stick to the law, but as a person, he is deeply reasonable.
Eventually, Polo handed the gun to the killers and told them to kill him. However, Mrs. Si's mother, Mrs. Ha, voluntarily took all the crimes and committed suicide with a gun, and it was this act that made Polo decide to cover up the truth.
The novel ends, but the thinking left to the reader never ends, in reality, there is always a place where the light of the law does not shine, when the two choices are placed in front of you, will you choose reasonable, or the law?
This seems like an eternal puzzle!
Fang Yingyi was immersed in the storyline, but she didn't expect that a mystery novel could give people such a big impact, in addition to the exquisite means of committing crimes, the brilliance of human nature contained in it is even more rare.
If you look at the novel as a house, the plot is the foundation, and if you can guess the end of a mystery novel by reading the beginning, it is undoubtedly a failure. The plot of "Murder on the Orient Express" is full of twists and turns, the author sets one trap after another waiting for you to jump into, and when you think you have found the murderer, you quickly find that this is not the case, and your mind is agitated, as if you are on a roller coaster.
"It's not early, go to bed, right?" Mei Anhe pushed her husband's arm and motioned for him to turn off the lights and sleep.
"You go to sleep first, I'll go out for a cigarette." After reading the novel, Fang Yingyi always felt that her heart was heavy, not a taste.
Fang Yingyi walked out of the house, took a deep breath, the little cool breeze blew, and his mood calmed down a lot, looking at the time, it was already early in the morning, how many years, I hadn't read such a wonderful mystery novel, as if I was in the Eastern Train, and followed Polo to experience a wonderful case.
Lao Li's reasoning novel, after reading it, he always felt that it was not enjoyable, until he finished reading Qin Song's "Murder on the Orient Express", and once the two were compared, he understood the gap between Lao Li and Qin Song.
This night, there were many sleepless people with Fang Yingyi, who were immersed in the reasoning train that Qin Song had constructed for them, roaring away.
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Tang Deyuan is the editor-in-chief of "Reading Magazine", he has heard of the fight between "Literary Magazine" and "Reading Magazine" on the same stage, but he dismisses it. Wash up and go to bed while it's early.
Song Xuanming and Li Jianzhang jointly published an article, and the sales of "Reading Magazine" exceeded one million copies on the first day, which made Tang Deyuan's face red, imagining that in the near future, "Reading" can sit on the throne of the first magazine, and he has been looking forward to this day for a long time.
"Hey, Xiaoya, today's low-cut outfit is very beautiful, keep it up."
"Xiaoyou, the stockings feel very good."
Tang Deyuan walked into the company, reached out and touched the black silk of Xiaoyou at the front desk, and let out a lewd laugh.
"I hate it."
"The editor-in-chief hates it." Xiaoyou opened Tang Deyuan's salty pig hand, pretended to say "hate" delicately, wanted to refuse and welcome, and secretly sent Qiubo.
"Hahaha." Tang Deyuan laughed "haha", people were in good spirits on happy occasions, strode into his office, another night passed, the reputation of "Reading Magazine" should be fermented, he couldn't wait to see the feedback of readers after reading the magazine.
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