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Mark's foot slammed on the gas pedal as if it were its own enemy. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The jaguar roared and galloped away, as always.

Jessica Poser watched as a luxury sports car drove down Castro Avenue at high speeds, which exceeded the maximum speed limit on the highway, not to mention the crowded main street of the city. She frowned, where did the Dark Road Patrol go, such a madman should really give him a ticket.

At this time, she heard Max tap his index finger on the window of the car, and she got into the car.

"Boss, the main station said that someone called to report that there was a homicide in a motel at the turntable where highways 85 and 82 intersect. ”

"Now the police are all over Pioneer Park, and they can't spare manpower. Jessica said, "Let's go check it out!"

Max spoke back to the main station, his hand on the steering wheel, the joints rang, and he said, "What a rare day." ”

The police lights on the roof of the car flashed, and the police car honked to drive the city center.

The blazing California sun was annoying, and Mark turned down the air conditioner a bit.

Mark received a call from Eddie not long ago, and as soon as he heard Eddie's voice, he knew something was wrong.

Immediately afterward, Eddie stammered that he had found a corpse.

Obviously, dozens of minutes ago, he was still being interviewed by a beautiful reporter, why did he run away all of a sudden, and there was an extra corpse around him.

Fortunately, the journey was not far away, just east of Mountain View, and he arrived within ten minutes.

This is a motel called "Chico", and fortunately, the toll office and rooms are separate buildings. Mark walked down a trail that was lined with tropical plants that were so overgrown that it looked like it was deserted.

The motel's residential area is an ordinary two-story house, with a vending machine in the porch on the first floor, and only Pepsi in it. Eddie went up the stairs outside, and there were seven rooms in a row, each with a steel-framed table with a sky blue top, and two hoop chairs, and the sun shining through the arched observation deck on the outside, the style of the house was typical of California.

Walking to the innermost room, Mark tapped three times, two times each time.

Add opened the door.

"Great, you're finally here!" said Eddie was relieved to see the savior.

Mark closed the door, the room was small, and on the inside of the bed, there was a man lying face down, and the gray hair color could tell that it was an elderly man.

Mark looked at Eddie suspiciously, and said, "Have you touched the corpse?"

With an innocent expression, Eddie said, "I thought he had fallen, and I went to check his pulse only to find out that he was dead." ”

Mark didn't have to check his pulse to tell it was a dead man, his neck was broken.

"Aren't you in the venue? Why did you come to this place? Who is this person?"

"I don't know?"

Mark raised an eyebrow and repeated, "You don't know?"

"I just want to talk to him!Who knew when I came to the room and found that he was dead!" Eddie sighed and said, "I know it sounds ridiculous, but I see a picture in his hand, it's 'Kryptonite', I can't let go of this clue!"

"Kryptonite?"

Add nodded.

"Where's the photo?"

"I looked for it, and there was nowhere to go! His belongings, some documents and photographs were all gone. ”

Mark couldn't help but furrow his eyebrows together.

"What about him?"

"I touched it, wallet, keys, phone, nothing!"

"Someone killed him and took something!"

"Oh my God!" Eddie said a little excitedly.

"Shhhh

The lock turned, and Mark took two steps forward, shielding Eddie behind him.

The door opened, and the caretaker at the front desk stood in the doorway with the key.

"Don't move!"

Two detectives were immediately squeezed in, a man and a woman, the man had already drawn his pistol, and the woman had one hand on the butt of the gun, and the sleeve with the gun had been untied.

Neither Mark nor Eddie moved, their hands honestly at their sides.

Seeing the people in the room, the male detective was suddenly stunned for a moment, and then shouted, "Mr. Eastwood?"

Mark suddenly remembered, no wonder the two looked a little familiar. He whispered to Eddie, "You called the police?"

Add shook his head.

The male detective retracted the gun holster, and at the same time showed the police badge on his waist.

The female detective walked past them to the bedside, looked at the corpse, and then turned back to them and said, "It seems that we have to ask you two to come with us." ”

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Max Nowarski drove, Jessica Poser sat in the front seat, and Eddie and Mark sat in the back.

No one in the car spoke, everyone was silent.

Jessica knows that these rich people are all top lawyers, and they must ask something before they go out, but if they don't enter the interrogation room and don't make a recording, any words will be overturned by these goblin lawyers, so it is the police's strategy to hold back and not talk.

Mark and Eddie were brought into separate interrogation rooms to prevent them from colluding with each other.

The Irish mafia is divided into three major forces in the United States: Eastern, Western, and Central, and is controlled by three major families. Although the Smith family's sphere of influence is on the West Coast, Mark Smith's name is also thunderous on the East Coast, and he also caused a lot of trouble in New York, but the Cole family on the East Coast helped him settle these troubles, and Jessica heard a little about these things when she was studying at Harvard Kennedy School. Because the Cole family is located in Boston, it has the same history as Harvard, the world's famous school, and even started earlier. During the Prohibition era, Joseph Kennedy made his fortune by relying on the Cole family, and then befriended the Italian mafia in New York through them, and with the help of these forces, his son successfully entered the White House and became the 35th president of the United States.

The Kennedys were in constant trouble, as if cursed. However, Americans with a conscience know that this family is not making a good fortune, and it is blooming and bearing fruit.

So, Jessica treated Mark Smith coldly, she knew that this kind of person was not easy to deal with. She decided to open a breakthrough from Eddie Eastwood.

Being brought into the interrogation room and looking at the one-way mirror, a scene that can only be seen in a movie, gives Eddie an illusion.

Jessica and Max walked in and sat across from Add.

"Mr. Eastwood, I'm a fan of yours. Max still couldn't hide the excitement in his heart and told this thought.

Jessica glared at him, and Max resisted the urge to sign it.

"Am I arrested?" Eddie remembered.

Jessica said, "Don't be nervous, we're just talking." ”

Eddie nodded, muttering to himself, if he had a beautiful press conference one day, and became a murder suspect in the newspaper the next day, he wouldn't dare to think about it.

"Mr. Eastwood. The name was so tongue-in-cheek that Jessica paused, "Don't mind if I call you Add." ”

"Don't mind. ”

Eddie had no previous experience dealing with the police, but Lancer had been through several lawsuits, and they had their own lawyers, and they were very expensive lawyers.

"Can I call my lawyer?"

Jessica smiled and said, "We're just talking, there's no need to be so grand, if you know something, you can tell the police and help the police solve the case faster......"

Eddie can certainly call a lawyer. But Jessica's words were a decoy, the best way to get him to speak.

Eddie hesitated and said, "When I got there, he was dead. ”

Eddie is too impatient to justify himself. Of course, if a person has suffered an unjustified injustice, he is naturally anxious to clarify his innocence, which is human instinct.

Jessica smiled lightly and said to herself: This is a good beginning, he has already started to speak.

"If I'm not mistaken, it's unbelievable how you were at the press conference a few minutes ago and ended up in a dilapidated motel. ”

"After the press conference, I gave an interview! ”

"Ms. Claire Ricken. ”

"Yes!" Eddie didn't expect to hear Claire's name from the police.

In fact, at the end of the press conference, Max wanted to find Eddie and asked him for an autograph, and asked the staff to know that Eddie was being interviewed by a reporter from New York.

Max Novatsky took out a pen, a notebook, and began to record something.

Max knew that Jessica would handle it the way she did, that she was white-faced, and that she only needed to speak out when it mattered.

"Let's talk about your relationship with the deceased, right?"

"I don't know him!"

Max stopped. "You don't know him?"

Add shook his head.

"You mean, you left suddenly to find someone you don't know, and then find out that someone you don't know is dead?" Jessica's tone was sarcastic.

Eddie really didn't like the police's statement, and he became emotional and said, "I want to call my lawyer, right now." ”

"You are in such a hurry to call the lawyer, from the perspective of the police, it is not very good!"

Jessica seemed to be saying "you are in a hurry to see a lawyer because you are hiding something", which worked too well for Addon.

He was silent.

"Do you want to be silent?"

He certainly has the right to remain silent.

"I told you, I'm innocent!"

"So you want to continue working with the police?"

"Yes!"

"Then wouldn't you mind signing a waiver?"

The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which stipulates that criminal suspects have the right to remain silent, and if they sign a "waiver statement", they will waive the right to remain silent, indicating that the suspect wants to answer questions from the police or make his own explanations.

Before Add could reply, the door behind them suddenly opened.

"Of course he minds!"

Everyone turned to see a man in a crisp suit with silver hair standing in the doorway.

"Donald Hans. Jessica couldn't help but call out the person's name.

Donald raised an eyebrow and said, "Do we know each other?"

Jessica didn't answer, but her eyes sparkled, and Donald met it with a sharp gaze, and without saying anything, a war without gunpowder had already begun.

Donald Hans is one of the top defense lawyers in the country, and you know in court that he's going to tear you to shreds.

Jessica wondered how the barrister had come so quickly.

Donald said to himself: This woman who is more than one round younger than himself is not a simple opponent.

"Please go out for a moment, I need to talk to my client. ”

Jessica stood up and came face to face with Donald.

"I'm Jessica Posel, Sheriff here!"

"'What a nice young sheriff,' should I compliment you like that?" Donald smiled and continued, "It doesn't matter if you're a sheriff or something, I need to talk to my clients, and I don't want every sentence to be repeated twice here!"

Donald was undiminished and spoke unceremoniously.

Jessica has nothing to do now, it's all in accordance with the law and must back down.

She winked at Max, and just before they left the room, Donald spoke again, looking up at the corner of the room, where the police had hidden their cameras, and said, "We need a little time, and I don't want to be disturbed during this time, you know what I mean." ”

Jessica left, standing in front of a single mirror and looking at the room, but she couldn't hear anything, and the cameras in the room were turned off and couldn't record. The police will not play tricks at such a time, because if they are caught by a lawyer, it will involve the illegal collection of evidence by the police, and it will involve a miscarriage of justice, and even if the evidence is found, everything will be in vain.

"God, you came just in time? how do you know ......?"

Mark informed me. ”

"What? Didn't he get brought in like me?"

Donald smiled and said, "He naturally has his own way! Tell me, why did you almost sign a waiver?"

"I want to work with them and get everything straight. ”

"Just because you're innocent?"

"Yes!"

Donald calmly told him: "You must know that even if you are innocent in the United States, it does not mean that you are not in trouble, and you are not unlucky!"

Add thought for a moment and told him the general situation, "I told you, the murderer took something very important, and I must find it!"

Nodding, Donald sighed, "Got it, I'll take that into account." ”

The two discussed for a while, and Donald stood up, walked over to the single mirror, and knocked.

Jessica and Max re-entered, and they sat down.

Jessica regretted it very much, if she had done some mental work in the car, so that she could buy more time, but unfortunately, there was no if.

Donald motioned, and Eddie spoke before the sheriff could ask.

"I ran into the old gentleman at the venue, and all I can say is that he had something in his hand that interested me, and I wanted to talk to him, so I followed him to the motel. But when I arrived, there was no answer to the knock and the room was unlocked, so I went in and found him lying on the floor, and I called Mark, and he arrived in a short time, and then you arrived. In less than twenty minutes, I couldn't possibly kill someone I had just met and didn't even know the name. ”

Jessica blames this despite Eddie's plea.

"You didn't call the police in the first place. ”

"Hey, what are you hinting at!" Donald wasn't Add, he wouldn't allow that.

"Yes, I didn't call the police, I called Mark, he is our company's chief security officer, he put me at ease!"

Donald continued, "Alright, this question has been answered, please continue!"

"It took a few minutes until he arrived. ”

"For only eight minutes, I sat on pins and needles and looked at the watch in my room several times. ”

Jessica thought to herself: So almost at the same time as the time when the main station received the wire report, who called the police?

"What did you do in the room. ”

Eddie took a deep breath and said, thinking that the police would definitely find the fingerprints he had left everywhere in that room, and he confessed, "I said, that gentleman has something I'm interested in, and I rummaged through the room, everywhere!"

"What is that thing?" Max asked suddenly.

Eddie was silent for a moment, then said, "This involves Lancer's trade secrets, I can't say. ”

"You're still hiding it from the police!"

"It's not about the case!"

"It has nothing to do with it, it should be judged by the police!"

Donald spoke, "I don't like this attitude, my client has already told everything he knows, and the police have no right to interrogate into private details that are not related to the case!"

In his words. What else can be said now?

In desperation, Jessica can only ask Donald to take Mark and Eddie and watch them leave.

She had to return her mind to the case, when they arrived, there was a fire escape at the end of the walkway, and the fire escape was put down, could it really be that someone rushed before Eddie, killed the deceased, and then escaped through the fire escape?

Max asked, "Boss, what do you think is going on?"

Jessica was silent for a while, and said, "This rich man may be telling the truth, but he must be hiding something!"

"So what's next?"

"The one named Claire Rickon, let's investigate. ”

"She, why, she doesn't seem to have anything to do with it!"

"You don't understand what the rich man meant, he suddenly saw the deceased, and then followed, and it happened after the press conference, and before that he met the reporter. Anyway, look it up! Besides, what is it that can make a rich man interested?"

Max nodded thoughtfully.

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Claire Ricken was invited to the same interrogation room where Eddie had been a few hours earlier.

Jessica pushed the door in, and for a moment she thought she saw a big star coming out of the screen.

Max followed, and this time their roles were reversed, with Max playing the red face and Jessica playing the white face as a woman.

Max pulled away the stool and sat down heavily across from the beauty, and he said in a rough voice, "Tell me!

Claire didn't panic like a deer with a wounded head because of Max's intimidation, she straightened up and said, "I don't want to beat around the bush, you must have called up my phone list, so you should know that one of the caller numbers is registered in Rhett Swift's name." ”

Max looked at Jessica in surprise.

Jessica asked, "Why did he call you?"

Claire replied calmly: "Because I lured him into calling me!"

Jessica was also stunned.

Claire was still talking: "I don't think you need to continue to intervene in this case!"

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