Chapter 17 Chapter Seventeen

Ke Baisha said to the police officer: Go in and tell Officer Mi, I can't wait any longer, I have my own things to do. The policeman just smiled at her. I am not kidding.Baisha said angrily: They fumbled around inside, I have been waiting for two hours.Officer Mi knows where I live, if he wants to find me, please invite him to my office or my house. This is inconvenient. It's convenient for me. Not convenient for the police. You go and tell Officer Mi to me. Officer Mi is busy.It's best not to bother him with trivial matters. How can this be considered trivial!There is no reason for this.I don't care, I'm leaving.

The superior ordered me to watch you here. I found a corpse for Shanlou, so why must I stay here? You go ask your Shanlou yourself. Didn't they let Mrs. Gu go? Mrs. Gu is insane.She came here to complete the identification procedures. What are they keeping me for? How would I know? Didn't they find out how people die? I don't even know. You seem to know nothing but food. That's unlikely. what do you know The officer grinned at her.I am ordered to keep you here, and I will keep you here.I know nothing at present, Mrs. Cole, but this. Betha was too angry to speak.

Suddenly, the door opens.Officer Mi Shanlou walked in.He gestured to the officer, bared his teeth and looked at Betha.Hi!Great beauty. Big beauty!Baisha grunted resentfully. What's the matter, Besha?What's the matter? Happy!If you think oh, forget it!never mind! Shanlou sat down by himself.He said: How do you know she is dead? Baisha took a deep breath.I feel her flesh.icy cold.I smell corpses.She didn't move when I touched her.I called her and she didn't answer.Didn't move either.I know she has been lying there in this position for three days.So suddenly I understood, just like you smart policemen, I understood.I said to myself: God, she's dead.Braids up!

Have two hands, Betha.But that's not the intent of my question.I'm asking you, how did you know she was dead until you walked into the garage? I have no idea. So why are you going into the garage? I don't want the person I'm following to suddenly disappear. Who wants it? Anyway, that's why I'm here.I want to see how she suddenly disappeared. Well, that's right.At noon on Wednesday, you lost her.So, on Friday night, you come here again, see if you can bump into her, and continue your follow-up work.It's kind of like a western movie, where you pull the gun out and pull the trigger, and all of a sudden, time stops.

No, that's not the case. So, how is it? I'm just studying the terrain around here. It takes a stronger argument, Betha. what to say.I lost her here, and I have my right to come back and find her. How did you know you lost her in this garage? She turned in from the avenue, and she was nowhere to be seen after that. Then when you were following her that day, why didn't you come in and take a look? Because, I think she turned right on the previous street. so what? I grabbed the front and turned right, but seeing that she didn't turn right, I stepped back and turned left again.

Wait a minute, you said you didn't turn right when you saw her? Yes. how do you know? Because when my car turned right, I saw that there was no car in front of me.I think the timing was too late for her to turn right and then turn again. So you immediately backed up and turned left again? Yes. But the street on the left is also empty, no cars, is it? Yes. Since she turned right in terms of time, it was too late to turn again, so she turned left.It's too late to turn again, is it? So, I'm going to come back here. Shanlou smiled approvingly.Baisha, great, next time you want to laugh at us stupid policemen, how long it takes to figure out a problem, you might as well recall that such a simple chicken-and-rabbit problem, a smart private detective like you, can It took three full days to get a clue.alright!Why don't you look at other places, but only look at this garage?

I'm back here, to study carefully how she might disappear.Find out what happened that day.I found that the left and right turns on the front street are connected by more than two blocks of land, and within a long distance, it is impossible to turn left and right.So I knew that she didn't go straight after turning off the boulevard, and she didn't turn left or right at the first side street.She must have gone into hiding before reaching the first side street. Didn't you notice that the side street in front of you was connected by two squares that day? Honestly, I don't.Bai Sha felt embarrassed and said: I thought this was just an ordinary follow-up job at first.It was a job that no one cared about except the people who paid me to follow.When the relationship between husband and wife develops to the point where one party wants to hire a private detective, sooner or later they will say goodbye.As for whether the wife went out to have a tryst with Zhang San, Li Si, Qian Wu, or Zhao Liu, it didn't make much difference.

Quite philosophical.Shanlou said: I'm sorry that I don't have time to discuss marriage philosophy with you right now.Baisha, why do you think this tracking job is a normal tracking job? Because I guess it's just a routine job. Why didn't you find the street with two squares ahead? I was mad at myself that I was going crazy.I hated myself, and I hated that woman.She didn't drive fast, didn't suspect anyone would follow or was following, and she obeyed the traffic rules, which made it easy for me to follow.To be honest, I don't know where my mind went.While stalking, I've actually been daydreaming.I just followed her mechanically.Suddenly, she did that trick, so I got angry.It never occurred to her that she would turn into a garage.

Did you remember later? I only remembered later.Baisha said. Did you turn back here later on Wednesday to look at the garage here? No.I looked all the way down the driveway.I thought maybe she'd park the car in someone's driveway and go inside. Since I thought I would turn into the driveway, why didn't I think of turning into the garage? I can't say, I just didn't think of it at the time. Another idea that must have taken three days to come up with? You must say so.correct. Just to give you a taste.Shanlou said. uncomfortable. One thing to ask you.There's a note on the floor of the car, you know?

Baisha hesitated. Did you see it? See you. Touched? Yes. Read the content? Yes just a quick look.Just like everyone does. Everyone will?Shanlou asked repeatedly. What's wrong?You think I see a woman dead, don't look around, don't ask or hear anything. You know the importance of being on the spot.You know I don't like people fumbling around at murder scenes. I always had to know if she was dead before I knew it was a murder scene. Well, let me think about it, you lost her on Wednesday, didn't you? Wednesday noon. Well, you found her near dusk on Friday.She's curled up in the car, and like you said, she stinks of corpses already.You touch her skin, it's cold and cold.You call her, she doesn't answer.But you didn't know that she was dead. You had to pick up the piece of paper and read it to know that it was a murder scene.

I. Say it! How do I know what it says?You have to look at it to find out, maybe it's very important, it's her last words or something. A secret recipe for bringing the dead back to life? Don't come here, is sarcasm useful? What I want to tell you is that there are several very clear fingerprints on the paper; Officer Mi said worriedly: We thought we had important clues now.But, as I know now, it might be your fingerprints. I am sorry.Baisha said. Me too. Did she die from carbon monoxide poisoning? It seems so. What do you think is going on? A very wonderful trap, Mi Shanlou said: Someone wrote an informant letter to this woman, she believed it and was hypnotized.You know, all the property in the family is in her name, maybe she doesn't want to take it out.She could see that her husband was just using her to keep the property, and the feelings were long gone.She may be looking for a chance to get it over with.The more evidence there is, the more she can't show a dime.Her husband has the ability to make money, so it doesn't matter if he leaves the house.If she can remarry herself, she will find another long-term meal ticket.She can't remarry, and with the money she scraped off to travel around the world, she may not be able to eat it all. There are still many men around her, but they are all for money. What are you doingBai Sha said: Touch my state of mind? I urge you to think about it. What are you thinking? Put yourself in her shoes and think about her stand, which is her mother's stand. Her mother is also involved in this matter? Records show she had a long-distance call with her mother in San Francisco on Tuesday afternoon.At 6:30, her mother sent her a telegram saying that she was going south and asked her to pick up the car. What did you say on the phone? I asked Mrs. Gu, and she kept pushing, but finally got it out.Mei Bao told her mother by phone that she had received an anonymous letter saying that the maid and husband at home had been ambiguous.Mrs. Gu told her to get it over with, and this was a good time to leave her husband.Mei Baoshang was hesitant to walk away like this, I'm sorry for her husband.She told Mrs. Gu on the phone that the existing property under her name was not actually hers but belonged to her husband.If she leaves her husband, the property division procedures are still required.Mrs. Gu was very angry about this.She talked to Mabel a lot on the phone, and then decided to take the train down and help her face to face.She was determined to break up the family. Telegram, Mabel, have you seen it? have.Jialu was there when the telegram came.From the records of the Telegraph Bureau, it is known that after the telegram arrived in this city, it was transmitted by the Telegraph Bureau by telephone.Mrs. Bei once asked to read the words of the telegram again, so as not to mistake the train number and date.It was Mrs. Bei who told Jialu, and both of them decided to pick up their mother.Bei Fude didn't know about this family crisis at all.His wife asked him that night to fill up the car tomorrow, check the tires and engine oil, and said that he would need the car at eleven o'clock. Wait a minute, Bai Sha said: She didn't leave home until 11:22 on Tuesday morning.What time should the train arrive? According to the timetable, it was supposed to arrive at a quarter past eleven, but it was delayed. Why do Mrs. Bei and Jialu live under the same roof, but don't pick up the train together? Jialu has some things to do in the city.Good morning, Mabel, sleep in late.Jia Lu said that she would meet her at the station after shopping.I think Mrs. North used the phone to ask if the train was on time.The problem now is that the train had been predicted to arrive on time, but I later found out that it would arrive at a quarter past twelve.Suppose Mrs. Bei didn't go out until 11:22.Of course she knew that the train was forecast to arrive at a quarter past twelve.And she didn't have time to do much other than pick up her mother at the station immediately.In fact the train came into the station one hour late. Jialu left the house at nine o'clock.I did some errands in the city, and arrived at the station a little earlier, around eleven o'clock, and then I knew that the train would not arrive until a quarter past twelve.She went to call her sister to tell her that the train was going to be late, but no one answered the phone.She called twice more.Now you look at it.It was eleven o'clock at this time, and according to reason, Mrs. Bei should be sitting on the side, waiting for the anonymous letter writer to call.You also know that she is still in the room at this time, but if Jialu called, is it possible that she didn't answer it? God!Baisha cried: There is only one reason. Yes, let's see if we think the same? At that time, she was murdering Sally. Shanlou nodded.correct.He said. Jia Lu thinks she must have left home to go to the station before she announced the delay of the train at the station.Since Jialu is already at the station, there is no time to go into the city again.So I just waited for her sister to come to the station at the train station.The train didn't actually come into the station until one o'clock.Meibao never came, and she didn't try to contact Jialu at all.Now, you add these things together and tell me what you think. No idea except that the murder happened in that house at exactly eleven o'clock. It looks like this to me, Shanlou said: Mrs. Bei must have called and knew that the train didn't arrive until a quarter past twelve.She must have been anxious to answer the eleven o'clock call from the anonymous writer, but she didn't answer at eleven.Jialu wants to contact her by phone.The anonymous letter writer also wanted to contact her.But it was only at 11:15. Why did you set a quarter past eleven? I don't think it will be earlier than a quarter past eleven.In fact it might have been eleven twenty-one.After answering the phone, within five seconds Mrs. Bei left the house, got into the car and started on the road.So I said that the anonymous letter contacted Mrs. Bei by phone, probably between 11:15 and 11:21. Baisha said curiously: You didn't give her too much flexible time from killing people to answering the phone. Shanloudao: Killing people doesn't have to start at eleven o'clock.She may be busy with the aftermath. But her husband came home at eleven o'clock.Baisha pointed out. He did not enter the house.Baisha, according to what you said, her husband was just outside the door honking the car horn. That's right.You now think she killed Sally and not Northford? It seems so. You used to think it must have been done by men. That's right.But I've changed my mind.Now I think Mrs. Bei must hate Sally.She was so busy with it that at eleven o'clock she almost saved her own life by not answering the phone.She killed Sally, and in the end she couldn't escape the trap set by others and was murdered by others. Who killed her?Baisha asked. Shanlou lit a match, and lit the cigar she forgot to smoke while busy talking with Baisha.Then he answered Baisha's question briefly. On Tuesday morning, between eleven and eleven twenty-one, the phone rang.Someone instructed Mrs. North, get into her own car, drive on the main road, how to run the red light at that intersection and throw off the tail if there is one, turn suddenly at Hackington, enter the garage immediately, close the garage door, keep the engine on, and wait for contact.What a coup for carbon monoxide poisoning.In order to make the project flawless, our protagonist also went out of his way to tape up every gap in the garage. Ke Baisha's eyes popped out and asked: Really? Totally true. Betha whistled. From a technical point of view, Su Shanlou said: It is really difficult for us to prove that this was a deliberate murder.The woman accidentally caused her own death, and Wait a minute, interjected Betha: There is one thing you overlooked.After she answered the phone, she went to get her portable typewriter and typed out the instructions so she wouldn't forget the details. Officer Mi's smile is that of an expert taking care of a layman.Do not be silly.He said: "There was no way she would have listened to the phone and gone to get her typewriter.First, she was anxious to hear what was told her, and she was nervous, and she had taken these instructions to heart.Indelible.Besides, if she wants to write it down, she should use the pencil and note paper next to the phone.She wrote it in her own handwriting and would write it in a hurry.Type it on a typewriter, only childish stuff the murderer would have us believe.Hey!Only laymen will be fooled. You mean the note was typed by the murderer and intentionally placed there after she died? It must be so. What effect? You still don't understand?I just want us stupid policemen to believe that the death was caused by our own carelessness when we found the dead body. That, it seems, is what really happened in this case as well.Yes or no?Baisha asked. There is nothing wrong with that.Shanlou said: There is not a single drop of oil in the tank.The ignition key is in the start position.The battery is dead.She must have been poisoned shortly after entering the garage, but the car kept on running until the last drop of oil burned off.We know there are at least sixteen liters of gasoline in the tank because Mr. Bei put it in that morning. Then the murderer must have gone into the garage after the death and left the note in the car. That's right.That's why I was so happy to see two full fingerprints on the note.So I was so mad at you and found out you were messing around in there. Bai Sha said: I'm sorry. you deserve it.You have been in this business for a long time, and you should also know that you are not allowed to touch any grass or tree at the scene of a murder.You're not to blame for having your fingerprints on the door handle.If you don't open the door, you don't know she is inside, but once you open the door and see the body, you should exit. Shanlou's tone became patient and preaching.He is tired.Already lacking in energy, she also showed her disappointment with Baisha. Kebaisha said it again.I am sorry. knew. It's a little too much. Too much. As you say.Bai Sha suddenly said: The murderer planned to murder this lady by accident? Yes. So besides going to the garage to put down the note, the murderer still needs to check to see if the plan has succeeded? That's right. So why didn't the murderer remove the tape that stuck the gap and leave a clue? I have thought about this too, Shanlou said: It bothers me a lot.But if you assume that you are the murderer, you can understand why. What's the meaning? His purpose has been achieved.Women have been removed.He sneaked into the garage, probably in the middle of the night.His main purpose is to drop the note to make people think that he was careless and died in an accident.He had the guts to go in and put the note, but he didn't want to spend any more time in it.He was afraid that someone would find him inside.If someone sees him sneaking in there, if someone makes a phone call and the patrol car comes and finds someone coming out of the garage in the middle of the night, it doesn't mean that he shot her or killed her with a knife.That was first-degree murder, and he knew it.So, he didn't dare to stay and tear off the tape.He probably thought the police wouldn't notice such little things.Even if he was noticed, it would be much better than being caught on the spot.Much safer. You mean if we can't catch him on the spot, we can't convict him? How to determine the law?Shanloudao: Unless we have enough witnesses and physical evidence to prove that this is a deliberate and malicious killing that has been carefully thought out for a long time, we will never convict him, and we will not even visit him or ask him. Method.You know, he didn't murder this woman.He could have been miles away when the woman died.This guy has brains and must know the law.He completely controlled her mind first, thinking about one thing, ignoring the details that he didn't usually pay attention to.That's why he died accidentally.It will be very difficult for us to find evidence to convince the jury that this is murder, or for the high court to make a decision that it is murder. Shanlou looked at Baisha worriedly. Baisha asked: Do you have one or two pieces of evidence that can point to who the murderer is? have.Bei Fude, Mr. Bei.Officer Mi said slowly: The murderer is a smart man who invented a new method of killing and is a genius murderer.Bei Fude himself brought his career down.Sitting in his office with nothing to do, he could design slowly and carefully. He used his flexible business mind to create such a clever plan.He can eliminate his wife, and he is not punished by the law.He himself wrote an anonymous letter to his wife, reporting on his various extramarital affairs, otherwise how could anyone else know.He paid a private detective to follow his wife.That way he could be sure his wife had driven into the garage.Don't you understand, Betha?We might not know the whole story without you following her.With your tracking, we've got the time figured out.While the woman was waiting to die in the garage, Bei Fude was enjoying his face massage and manicure in the barber shop. Isn't the scene beautiful? In the barbershop?Bai Sha asked without reason. In the barber shop, we have already checked this.In the barber shop, he wisely left his coat and walked out.So the hairdresser will not forget to have this event, and time.Baby, don't pretend you don't know anything.The barber also remembers that you asked about that coat in the past. Baisha couldn't say a word. Another woman, twenty minutes after you went to the barber shop, also went to the barber shop.She said that Mr. Bei forgot that coat in the store and asked her to get it back for him. Various expressions appeared on Baisha's face. It seems that you are surprised, right?Shanlou said: "It shouldn't be."By this time, you should know that he has a female accomplice. How do you know? There needs to be a man who can type expertly on his wife's typewriter.That's not important, what's important is to have a woman's voice, call her, and trick her into the garage.Betha, that was his shortcoming in the whole case.He must have a female accomplice.If I can find this woman don't worry, I'll find her and make her talk so I might be able to convict Northford.The case does not have the difficulty of who is the murderer.The difficulty is whether I can find enough evidence to prove that it was a deliberate murder to send the murderer through the gas chambers of the Holy See Prison. Bai Sha reluctantly said: That's how it is. Tell you, Betha.Shanlou said: If you hide any evidence and don't tell me, if you continue to reveal things in the case, if you stop me from handling the case.I'll show you right away.Tell you to walk around after eating.Don't say I didn't tell you.You can go now.