Chapter 19 Chapter Nineteen

On Monday morning, people rushed back to the office to work, and the elevator was particularly crowded.Some men get sunburned foreheads because they went to the beach or played golf without hats.Ladies wear more make-up than usual to hide wrinkles around the eyes caused by lack of sleep.The slightly sad faces on everyone's faces attested to how tedious it was to come back to work after a weekend of fun. Bu Aiqian arrived at the office before me.Printed on the door of the office: Curry's Private Detective Agency. Before I even entered the door, I heard the sound of typing like a machine gun.

When I walked in, she looked up at me: Hello, welcome home, have you had a good trip? She spun from the typewriter to me, glanced briefly at the wall clock, as if to decide how many minutes of her partner's time she could spend on a partner. So-so.I said. The Florida case was successful, wasn't it? not bad. How are things going in New Orleans? Hang on the fire.Where is Baisha? It hasn't come yet. Did she look into the Rocks estate business? Hmm, there is a dossier with quite a lot of information. She stood up from the chair, walked to the filing cabinet, looked at the index, opened a steel drawer, deftly found the thick paper pocket she wanted, and quickly handed it to me.

All the information that can be found is in it. Thanks, I'll take a closer look.How is the construction business doing? She had a quick look at the outer door, and said in a lowered voice: There was a great deal of correspondence in that business.The file is complete, but part of it is locked in Baisha's office.She didn't send it out for filing, and I don't know where. What are those letters? puts you in a different category. Did you make it? Elsie looked at the outer door again and said: I can't say, I will be miserable if she finds out. Do I have the right to know my own affairs?

This matter is not acceptable, she has repeatedly explained. Say it!Did she succeed? Yes. when? last week. Finalized? Yes. I said: thank you. She looked at me curiously, frowning her eyebrows together: You just let her do this for you? certainly. oh! What do you think I can do? do nothing.she said, without looking up. I took the Rocks Realty files back to my office, sat behind my desk, and looked at them carefully. The archive doesn't tell me anything special. Rox has multiple investments, many businesses.Some are fully controlled by him, and some are only invested.Lockes died in 1937, leaving behind a son and a daughter.His son's name is Luo Leyi and he is fifteen years old.Daughter named Rowena, nineteen years old.Rockwell's business is very complicated, and once the property is divided, it may cause the entire business to decline, so the entire estate has formed a Rockstar Real Estate Co., Ltd., and the two orphans each own the shares under their names.

Howard had been Lockes' personal bookkeeper, employed by him for nearly seven years.Rocks Real Estate Company hired Gao Haode as secretary and treasurer. After Gao Haode's accidental death, a man surnamed Xi took over his position.A lawyer surnamed Fei became the general manager of Lockers Real Estate Company after managing the entire business.The method he used was roughly the same as when Lockes himself was alive, because this was a completely private family business, so the profit and loss of the operating results were not easy to find out.Through many clients who have dealings with the company, Baisha knows that Rocks Real Estate has a good reputation and never defaults on the corresponding payments. However, rumors show that there have been several wrong investments recently.

Of course, it is possible that Rowena is Ge Yina.I picked up the phone and called the Rocks Real Estate Company. I claimed to be a friend of the Luo family who had been away from the local area for many years before returning, and asked if Lowena was married.They said Rowena wasn't married and I could find her name in the phone book, and they wanted to know my last name, so I hung up. At ten o'clock, Bai Sha still hadn't come to work. I told Bu Aiqian that I had something to go out, and I came to the office of Rocks Real Estate Company. From the words printed on the office door, you can almost know the whole experience of this company.Lawyer Fei Hanmen has a series of offices here, and Lockes is one of his main clients.After Rocks' death, Lawyer Fei had to gradually allocate more time to manage Rock's property, gradually deepening.The idea of ​​forming a joint stock company without dividing the entire estate may also be his idea, and of course he changed the general manager.The sign at the gate reads: Fayham Gate, Lawyer, Office, 9/16.And printed on the door of 916: Rocks Real Estate Company, Office.In the lower left corner is Feihanmen, the lawyer.When I went into Lawyer Fei's private office, the font had faded, and he never changed the paint.This has always been the old office of lawyer Fei. Since it is more beneficial to manage the real estate company, he has gradually given up his practice as a lawyer and concentrated on it, but the office has not been moved.It doesn't even take a good detective, anyone can guess that Lawyer Fei's change of career is fat for himself.

I pushed open the 916 door and entered the office. Lawyer Fei is crazy about collecting office machinery. The big office is full of typewriters, digitizers, dictation machines, tape recorders, copiers, and check-writing machines.An older woman was using an adding and subtracting machine, a girl was using a typewriter, and a tape recorder earphones were in her ears. There is an internal switchboard and a small window for information, but no one is present.As I entered, a small light came on on the switchboard and there was a burst of beeps.A lady stopped what she was doing, walked to the switchboard, inserted a line and said: No Rocks Real Estate, he is not here, I don’t know why he is not, I don’t know if he must pass on some information today?OK, I'll pass on thanks to him.

She was in her early fifties, a woman who had clearly worked her whole life.Her eyes were tired, but very kind.There is a kind of trustworthiness, and she also knows that she is very competent. I try my luck: I bet you're in this company the first day it opens. Yes. You were hired by Mr. Lockes himself before you opened the door? yes what do you want sir I said: I'm here to find information about a Mr. Hai. What do you want to know about him? to his credit. Your husband's honorable name. Lai, Lai Tangnuo. What company do you belong to?Mr Lai. It's a partnership.I said: Ke Lai Ershi.I am one of them and we currently have a deal with Mr. Hai.

Wait a minute and I'll see what I can find. She walked to the back of the office, opened a file cabinet, explored one by one with her fingers, pulled out a data card, looked at it, and brought the card back. what name? Mr. Hai's name? yes. High Mole.When he was here, he was probably a lawyer. She looked at the card again, and said: We don't have Haimolai, and there is no information that we have had any contact with him. I said: maybe you will remember him.He may have come on behalf of someone else, and maybe you don't have his name.He is six feet tall, fifty-seven years old, with broad shoulders and long upper limbs. When he smiles, he clenches his teeth first and pulls the corners of his mouth to the sides.

She thought for a while, shook her head, and said, "I'm sorry, I can't help you. We have a variety of assignments. When Mr. Luo was alive, he did both private and commercial investments." Yes, I know that, don't you remember Mr. Hai? do not remember. His last name might not even be Hai. I still don't remember. I turned to the exit, turned back suddenly and said: Do you have a deal with Ge Mako? She shook her head. I'm sorry, I just pretended to remember: Where's Ge Yina? The little bird depends on the person? Completely correct. Yes, we used to do a lot of business with her.

Do you want to continue now? No, the bill has already been paid.Mr. Luo and Ms. Ge had a lot of contacts. Ms. or Mrs.? She thought about it carefully and said: I don't know, I just remember Ge Yina in the record. What do you call her every time she comes?I asked: Miss Ge?Or Mrs. Ge? I have never seen her in my life. Her account is closed? Her account is a joint account with Mr. Luo's.Wait a minute, hi!Lance.She called the lady who was operating the photocopier: Is all Geyna's business over? The lady nodded back and went back to her work. The lady stood at the counter and gave me a weak smile to signify the end of the conversation. I went out and stood in the aisle, thinking. Ge Yina, who had many transactions with Lockes but never came to the office Gao Haode, a bookkeeper and Fang Lvdai drove around Gao Haode at night. All the books of Lockes were in his hands and was murdered. I called the office, and Bai Sha hadn't come to work yet.I told Elsie that I was doing some business and would be back at noon, and that if Baisha came to work, she should wait for me. I came to police headquarters. Officer Lang Peter of the homicide unit has always had a good impression of me, because he and Baisha had two or three conflicts in the past to handle the case. He hated Baisha to death. When I started working for Baisha, he thought I was just Baisha I used a small role to run errands, at most two or three months. In fact, I later became Baisha’s partner, and I drove Baisha many times. Officer Lang seemed to be satisfied with this matter, so Have a crush on me. Hello, Holmes, said he as I entered, what is the matter? It's something. Is the dog nose business doing well? That's all. How are you and Betha getting on? pretty good. I didn't see Baisha's footprints on your butt. not yet. One day, one day, you may be able to delay for a few more days, but she will punish you, she will mark your ears, subdue you, send you to the slaughterhouse, even make leather into shoes, and then Find another fool to run errands for her. I also have my way.I said: I never eat fat. He smiled and said: What do you want? In 1937, an unsolved case, Gao Hao was involved in a murder case.I said. His brows were like brushes, and when he frowned they covered his eyes like a mountain covered with clouds, and now they are clouded. joke? not kidding. What do you know about this case? don't know anything. when are you in new orleans I hesitated. If you want to lie to me, I will crush your detective agency to the ground, and you will never ask me for help again for the rest of your life. I just came back from there. I think so. Why?What's wrong? He put his right forearm flat on the table, raised his wrist slightly, tapped the table with his fingertips, and said: The New Orleans police are investigating this matter. There is a new clue to the matter in New Orleans. What? I looked straight at him, opened my eyes and said frankly: When Gao Haode was killed, a lady named Fang Ludai was in the car with him. Miss Fang was involved in another murder case in New Orleans, and the police also It is uncertain whether she is innocent or the murderer. Most likely she was afraid and ran away. Two murders in five years, that's too much for a young girl! It does seem excessive. What is your connection to this case? It's just under investigation. why people? a lawyer.I said: It's just a matter of property. Hey! It's true, at least that's what he told us. What is the lawyer's name? I smile. What do you want? Ask us to find a missing person. oh? Officer Lang took out a cigar from his pocket, pursed his mouth as if to whistle, but made no sound, just cut off the end of the cigar and stuffed it into his mouth. He took out a match from his pocket and said: It doesn't matter, you listen, in the second half of 1936 we were overwhelmed by a love tax collector, he would take everything from a man, and if a woman was beautiful, he would take it too, because he did a lot of work So we were forced to mobilize a large number of people, that is, to send people to guard the places where lovers often go, and to send male and female police officers pretending to be lovers to lure him out, but to no avail. When the weather turned cold and the lovers started traveling without cars, the bandit stopped showing up, and we thought we'd scared him off, but in the spring of 1937, when the weather warmed up, our tax bandit returned. Gao Haode was one of the men who opposed the struggle after learning about the gangster's plan for his girlfriend. In fact, there were three men in total. Two of them were killed, and one recovered from a gunshot wound.The whole incident was very serious. We couldn't catch this person and couldn't explain it. We lay a lot of traps, he doesn't go in, someone has a good idea, a person who does this kind of thing can't suddenly disappear and come out to do it again, it is a fixed habit for him, so, cold weather Why did he stop at that time? Of course, there are fewer people traveling by car, but no matter how cold the weather is, there are still couples who stop their cars and go to remote places to make out secretly. So we thought maybe during the winter season he was somewhere else.We asked San Diego, they had nothing to do there, and we asked Florida, and we learned that there were gangsters doing the same thing in Miami in the winter of 1936 and 1937, and they had fingerprints and other clues that could help. We investigate. Given this opportunity, we assume that the gangster is driving a car with a California license plate, and we assume that he is a single wolf, especially since he will not have a female companion. This is a long and tedious job, but mobilized a large number of people to investigate Cars from California were used in Florida, and I checked the numbers of all California cars that passed through Florida to the quarantine station in Yuma, California, within two weeks before the first case in Los Angeles the following year. We found a clue. A man named Lu Shiman entered California through the Yuma quarantine station four days before the first case occurred in California in 1937. We found Lu Shiman. He was a very handsome man. Good-looking, dark, gloomy kind of guy, he hasn't worked for a long time, the landlord doesn't know what he's doing, he's melancholy, irritable, but he never owes rent, he's rich, spends a lot during the day, He uses a Chevrolet two-seater parked right behind the house he rents, and he goes to the movies three or four times a week in the evening, but two or three times he just drives out and the landlord hears that he's coming in late, all of this Both were in the second half of 1937. Of course, due to the humiliation of women, only 1/4 or 1/5 of the cases are actually reported. In addition, there are cases where men’s names are not allowed to appear in the newspapers, and women’s names are not allowed. I asked: Is Lu Shiman the gangster? It's not wrong that he is the one we want, Officer Lang continued, we followed him secretly, on the first day he drove to a place where his lovers frequented, parked the car, walked about three hundred yards, and waited in the shadow of a tree , This is already obvious. We had a female police officer who volunteered as a bait. We caught Lu Shiman on the spot and caught the real criminal. Of course he argued for a while, but he completely softened when he came to this office. He just sat on that chair and vomited out his stomach. He knew he couldn't escape, so he didn't care about anything. Although he hired a lawyer later, it was useless because he vomited too much. He said that he used a luminous telescope, and he chose a very dark place, but the object had a little bit of light. He could wait patiently and observe carefully. He was very careful in choosing the object. He said that he saw the object three or four times. After careful observation, it was determined that it was the police in disguise, and the luminous telescope did make him suffer the police. He said that he doesn't remember all the cases he did, but he still remembers a lot. Of course, he did not forget all the shootings. But he always denied that Gao Haode's murder had anything to do with him. Some people don't believe him, but I do. Well, I see no reason for him to lie, he's admitted so much already, he's got his head in the ring, he doesn't have to deny the case. Did they hang him? poison gas. Officer Lang said: After the sentence was pronounced, he became very violent. He never said a word since the first night of capture. The lawyer told him to shut up. They said he was insane, and he also pretended to be insane until the execution. The execution was suspended, but it was unsuccessful. As for me, I always feel that Gao Haode's murder case has not been solved yet, and it is an unsolved case. What are your thoughts on this case?I asked him. Nothing, I have nothing to start researching at all, but I'm a little half-baked reasoning. Tell me. The lady surnamed Fang may be very crazy about him. She wants to marry him, but he refuses. In an old dream, she found a reason to get out of the car, turned to his side, fired a shot, hid the gun, ran to the road and shouted loudly, it was as simple as that. I said: maybe so. Many killers go unnoticed simply because the case is too simple.Officer Lang said: Many so-called smart crimes now gather a lot of people, study various possibilities, and make a perfect crime. However, for a simple case like this, everyone thought there was nothing to dig out, so it became an unsolved case. I said: In Gao Haode's case, are there any fingerprints or anything that can be investigated? Except for the form of the murderer dictated by Fang Ludai, there is nothing at all. What did she say? He opened his desk drawer and smiled: I got it again since New Orleans called, she described the guy as being of medium build, wearing dark clothes, dark coat, flat cap, mask, no gloves, When it appeared, it was clearly limp, but when it fled, it didn't limp at all, how can I describe it! If you were there, could you describe it more clearly? He smiled: Maybe not, but if Lu Shiman didn't do it, she must have done it. Why do you insist it's her? I can only think of it this way, this is the only homicide caused by the love tax that Lu Shiman does not admit. Since Lu Tuman was arrested, it is like cutting tofu with a knife. There has been no similar case. If someone imitates Lu Shiman, it should be more than once. I backed the chair and said: If you don't light the cigar, it will be chewed. His eyebrows frowned again: You asked a lot of fucking questions, but you didn't tell me anything! Maybe I have nothing to tell you. Maybe you have, listen Donno, let me tell you something. What? If you play tricks on us for this woman, I'll kill you alive. which woman? Fang Ludai! What's the matter with her? The New Orleans Police Department is looking for her, and it looks like we're looking for her too. Is there another sentence? If you know where she is, if you're protecting her, you'll never forget it. I said: OK, got it, thank you.I walk out of his office. From the phone booth in the building I called back to the office and Kebetha just came in and I told her I wasn't back in two hours and she wanted to know what I was up to, I told her I couldn't discuss it on the phone . When I went back to the hotel, Fang Lvdai hadn't woken up after a late night's sleep, so I sat beside her bed and said: We should talk. OK. How about Gao Haode? I get on well with him. Will you want to marry him, and he doesn't want you? Absolutely not. Are you having trouble? No. Do you know who he works for? Yes, Rocks, after Rocks died, worked for Rocks Realty. Did he tell you about the nature of his work? No. I looked into her eyes: did he mention Ge Yina? No. I said: You may be lying. Why, Tang Nuo? If you and Ge Yina cooperated intentionally, if you and Ge Yina conspired against Ge Mako, then what you have to face is two murders, not one. Tang Nuo, what I told you is the truth. You really don't know that the subpoena will be delivered to you in Ge Yina's name? Absolutely don't know, I don't know where Yi Na is, let me tell you, I just happened to be there, living there under her name as we agreed. I know, I told her, you've said it many times. I stand up and move away from the bed. where are you going? Work. She said: "I'm going to have breakfast and I'm going down to buy some clothes, I feel too nude without pajamas. I said: You'd better not go to the street, and it's best to have breakfast delivered to your room. You can only buy everything you want at the opposite department store at most, and you can't make phone calls. connection. Why should I contact her? I don't know, I'm just telling you not to. I won't, Tang Nuo, I promise you, I won't do anything you don't want me to do. I said: Let's talk about the murder again. The expression on her face fully revealed how she felt about the words. I said: I'm sorry, but I have to bring this up again, the guy with the mask and the coat walking up to the car is limping? Yes. When he left, he wasn't limping? Yes. Is that person medium-sized? Yes, compared to myself, I have thought about it many times after the incident. I was so excited at that time. You know, if there is no coat, he is very thin. I said: OK, think about the possibility, could it be a woman? It's a woman!How can it be?that man still wants me Don't worry about this, I interrupted her and said, if you are a smoke screen and only ask you a word, it may not be a woman. She frowned and thought about it carefully: Of course, the overcoat concealed his figure, and he was wearing trousers and men's shoes, but Could it be a woman? yes!She said: Of course it is possible, but he told me to go with him, he I said: It's ok, let's not talk about this, are you sure Gao Haode never mentioned Ge Yina to you? No, I don't know that he knows Ge Yina, does he know? I don't know, so I ask you. He never said anything about it. I said: Okay, be good, see you at dinner, goodbye.