Thriller Paradise Chapter 11: Conjecture about the key

Unfortunately, there are no obvious clues on the lawn outside the villa, because the lawn here is made of fake grass.

Feng Bujue looked up again at the window edge and the outer wall of the villa, and there was no trace left there. But he was not disappointed, because he was not in a hurry to find out the truth...

"While it is not dark, I would like to survey the outside of the villa. Would you like to come together?" Feng Bujue said to Schofield in the window.

"Oh! Okay." Scofield would naturally not give up the opportunity to consult a famous detective. He replied, "Wait a moment." Before the words fell, he turned and left the window and ran to the room. At the door, I told the police officer who was standing guard a few words. Then he turned back to the window, learning Feng Bujue's appearance, and turned out from that window. The detective was also attentive. He was very careful when he moved, for fear that he might touch the blood on the window edge and destroy the evidence.

After arriving outside the house, Schofield, led by Feng Bujue, patrolled the villa.

"Mr. Feng, you just said... the secret room? What do you mean?" Scofield asked.

"Have you seen Poe's "Mogg Street Murder"?" Feng Bujue asked.

"Uh...no." Scofield said, "I rarely read novels."

"Well... the secret room murder is one of the so-called'impossible crimes'." Feng Bujue didn't get too long-winded with the other party on literary issues, and said directly, "When you enter the house, you Did you notice the key stuck in the door?"

"Well, yes." Scofield replied.

"There are two ways to lock this kind of door. The first is... the person inside the door, when the door is closed, turn the brass cap-shaped latch on the back of the lock counterclockwise; the second is... The people outside the door, when the door is closed, use the key to turn around twice.” Feng Bujue explained, “Ms. Carol, who found the body, was because the door was locked and no one answered. I will use the key to open the door."

Schofield thought for a while, then continued, "That is to say...when the body was found, the doors and windows of that room were bolted from the inside."

"In the enclosed space, there is only the deceased, and there is no second person, but the death of the deceased shows that it was not caused by suicide." Feng Bujue said, "In such cases, the methods used by the murderer constitute Murder in the secret room."

Scofield replied, "Oh..." He paused and said suspiciously, "Wait, in the case of this case...what if the murderer also has the key?"

"Before you came, I had asked everyone a few questions in the corridor. Of course, I also asked about this." Feng Bujue replied, "In this house, every room has two One key, one commonly used and one spare.

The spare keys are all chained together and kept by the butler Mr. Henderson personally. I have already seen that bunch of things. The hoop is dead. None of the keys can be removed alone. It looks like a medieval dungeon key...

Because Henderson suddenly fell ill and passed out, the spare key is temporarily held by Mr. Colston. "

"The commonly used keys are all separate." He said, and took out a key from his pocket. "This is the common key of the guest room I live in. I have a table in the room. Found it in the drawer of his.” He paused, then said, “The maid cleans the rooms that are vacant on weekdays, so usually they are not locked and the keys are placed directly in the house.”

Feng Bujue came to the back of the villa while he was speaking. After turning a corner, he continued: "Since the key to the guest room was in the hands of Ms. Carol, if the murderer had the key, There are three kinds of... One, the murderer is the butler Henderson; two, the murderer stole the spare key from the butler, and after killing the man and locking the door, he returned to the original owner; third, the murderer managed to copy a common key ."

Scofield said: "Well...you judge this room is a secret room, in other words, do you think these three situations are unlikely?"

"Yes." Feng Bujue replied, "First of all, in the first case, butler Henderson is the murderer." He began to explain one by one, "This possibility is almost zero...because the old man is seeing After the corpse, I was scared to have a heart attack and almost died. I was close to him at the time, and there was a doctor next to him. If it was pretended, Mr. Henderson would be awarded an Oscar, and Dr. Powell would also Became his accomplice.

Of course, there is a more extreme hypothesis-schizophrenia. For example... the murderer is another personality of Henderson's butler, and the master doesn't know anything about it. "

"Um... so it is." Scofield nodded.

"In the second case, the possibility is also very slim." Feng Bujue continued, "Because the risk and difficulty of this approach are extremely high, it is enough to be discovered when the key is stolen, if it is discovered when the key is returned , The murder is equal to being exposed. And during the period from the murderer stealing the key to the secret return, the Henderson housekeeper may find the spare key lost at any time. This period happens to be the time for the murderer to commit the murder. After Henderson told the police about the situation, it would be meaningless to set up the secret room."

Without waiting for Schofield’s response, Brother Jue went on to say the next one, "The third situation is more likely, but..." He suddenly stopped in front of a tree and looked up for a while. , Then said: "...But the number of times the Denniss come to the villa is limited, and each time they come, the guest room they live in is not fixed. Because Mrs. Carol is more picky, in different seasons, she will choose Different room orientation.

The murderer cannot predict which room they will stay in this time, so...If it is the third case, it means...except for those rooms that are occupied all the year round, the murderer stole the common keys of all the other rooms I went out to back up ~IndoMTL.com~ and his or her purpose was to disguise the room as a secret room after killing Dennis one day. "

"This is indeed weird." Scofield continued.

"It is technically feasible, and the risk is not too high." Feng Bujue said, "It's just that the possibility of actual occurrence is very low, and... its purpose is temporarily a mystery." He walked around his eyes. The tree turned a few times, glanced at the second-floor window of the villa, and then continued to walk forward, "To sum up... Let's rule out the situation where the murderer has the key, and then think about it. What method can be used to complete this secret room?"

Brother Jue’s tone is like a teacher asking a student, but the fifty-year-old detective uncle in front of him is nonchalant, and asks reverently, "It must be related to the blood on the window edge?"

"The method is actually very simple. It can be done with a relatively tough thread. As long as you experiment once or twice, all rooms with windows in this house can be played like this." Feng Bujue raised his hand to indicate. I read the direction of the villa, "I have finished watching the outside, let's enter the house, I'll show it to you." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe and reward. Your support is my greatest motivation.)