Chapter One I stepped out of the elevator, down the aisle, and opened the door with the paint on the door of the Curry Private Detective Agency.There was only one lady in the reception room.I nodded to her, passed the reception room, and pushed open the door that was painted with La Donoux's private office.My private secretary Bu Aiqian was lying on the ground, chasing a small piece of newspaper clipping blown off her desk by the cold air from the air conditioner. The clipping blew into the corner of the underside of her desk, and Elsie stretched out a hand to grab it, propped on one knee and one hand.

Tang Nuo!She cried out and pulled her skirt down as she tried to stand up. I picked up the newspaper clipping from another direction, handed it to her and said: I'll come. She reached for it, but I caught sight of the headline on the clipping and quickly took it back.The news was about a woman who was robbed and humiliated in her own apartment.This is the third case in the past three months, and there are no clues to solve the case.The woman was strangled with her own stockings around her neck. Are there any more like this?I asked. The other two are exactly the same I have put in the scrapbook Donno why did you ask me to do this job?

What job? Collect all unsolved criminal cases in the Southwest. Let you avoid disasters and avoid disasters.I said: Have you noticed that these magic hands are all for lazy people. You have the nerve to call others lazy.She said: Your partner Ke Baisha has been waiting for you to come to work for a long time. How are you feeling? Nothing could be better.I haven't seen her so happy for two months.She simply glowed. Someone must have given her five dollars.I said.I walked past her office, which was also my private little reception room, into my own.Looking at the letters on the table, they are all boring and routine.I come out again.Elsie sat at her own desk, carefully pasting the clippings into the scrapbook.

I stopped and looked down over her shoulder. Alertly, she brought her left hand up to grasp the neckline. Take it easy, I told her: I won't peek.I'm looking at your clippings. She said: You stand behind me, looking at it like this makes me very nervous. I look at you from anywhere and I get nervous.I said: Why do you keep this motel to peek at women's cases?I'm telling you it's only criminal cases that the police are eager to solve. I know.She said: I brought him to see the method of crime.This is the second peeping case in three days.Both are in the same motel.Beachfront day swim motel.

I read that clipping.Santa Ana, Soul Apartments, where a lady Diane spends the night at the motel.Came out of the shower with a face crushed against a glass window.She was too nervous to give police a useful description, but police got a very detailed description from another victim.The other one is Hao Helen from a beauty salon in Phoenix City. She encountered the same voyeurism in the same hotel three days ago, maybe it was the same voyeur. Common things, I said to Elsie: Now that you cut it out, let's stick it up.While walking past her office, she came to the big reception room.I pointed my thumb in the direction of Ke Baisha's office, and raised my eyebrows questioningly.Our reception lady shook her head to indicate she was empty with no visitors talking.I opened the door and walked in by myself.

Ke Baisha is a 165-pound steamroller roller, probably in her early sixties, with small sparkling eyes, an unforgiving tongue, and a naturally profane and hostile personality. Tang Nuo, as soon as I closed the door, she spoke: What do you mean Ai Xi cut the newspaper into pieces? Give her something to keep busy when she has nothing to do.I said. Scrapbooking, glue, don't the same cost money?She said: Why not tell her to put these things in used envelopes and file them.It will save a lot and besides, what is the use of those wastes? This is good stuff that hits the ground running.I said.

What's the meaning? When the police push us too hard on a case.I can dig out a case that looks a bit like that, and take the pressure off a little. Hey!Bai Sha snorted and said: I have used it twice for you, and you are addicted to it.One, the police have lied to you twice, and they will never again.Second, from now on, no matter what the case is, we will never have any entanglements with the police again. How can you be so sure? Because I decided.From now on, our work must return to the stable, safe, and rational side.This was my usual style, until you kid broke in.It's very strange, it's obviously an ordinary routine job, but as soon as it gets into your hands, it turns into a case that stirs up everyone, and the dangerous one gets entangled with the police, which always makes me feel like I'm going to send you to prison like.

In the past, Bai Sha went on to say: I slept until dawn, and I didn't have any troubles with high blood pressure, let alone gastric ulcer. You have too much money in the bank.I told her. That's useless, I want to restore the working situation here to the original situation!She said: I don't want this kind of one-time client again. What is a first-time customer?I asked. You know what I mean about those long-legged, mysterious women who are always hovering around you like moths to a flame.Each of them is a first-time purchase.They got into trouble by themselves, got themselves into trouble, and were so dangerous that they couldn't wait to see you. They came to you to beat around the bush, talk sweetly, and see if they dare to come to me.I knew what they were from half a mile away.It's only you, who will fall for their tricks every time, as long as you have two legs, two tears and a pretended innocence.

All right, Betha.I said: It's no fun arguing about this topic early in the morning. You are clamoring to see me. What do you want? There was a mischievous smile on Baisha's face.Donno, she said: We did it. What have you done? It's starting to get the kind of long-term security I've been hoping for.Big, important, powerful institutions hire us to do respectable, non-dangerous work for them.Don't be rare anymore on what you get for the company. Tell me a little more. His name is Sun Mengsi.Baisha said: He is the chairman of Sun's comprehensive guarantee investment joint venture.His name wasn't enough of a bluff.

Well, I said: It's kind of like having fun. But he is lucky.Much respected. what does he do? He does his own research work on commercial properties. civil engineer? Not that type of survey.He chooses a piece of potential commercial real estate, and investigates how many vehicles and people pass by here every day.Then look at the shops that are already open in the nearby areas to decide what kind of shop to open here and what the highest rental price should be. When he made up his mind, he ran to find the landlord and leased the land for a long time, and he built a house for rent. When the deed finally expired, it would belong to the landlord.

go on.I said. After the house was built, he went to many people who were interested in doing business to sublet his house.Of course, the monthly rent is enough to pay back the cost of his house and pay the landlord's rent, so everyone is happy. Unless the person doing business can't make money.I said. will make money.She said: This is where Mr. Sun is brilliant.It is also the secret of his success.Any store to be opened in the house has been investigated, and it is not casually rented out to industries that do not suit him. I think Mr. Sun pays attention to efficiency? of course.Bai Sha said: Very efficient.This is the kind of work we should be putting in.Never do these risky jobs and dangle in front of a state prison. Who's hanging out in front of the state prison? You were like this in the last case. Nonsense, I said: Sergeant Mishanlou thinks I'm hanging out in front of the state prison, and he's sold you the notion. Anyway.Baisha said: This is a good thing, we started to only do serious work, doing things for big companies.It is said that Mr. Sun also has several large suburban communities.There's a spot about five miles down the road from Palm Springs to Indy. Well, what does Sun Mengsi want us to do? Like his way of working, Baisha said: all his investigations must be very confidential. Of course, I said. However, he couldn't keep a secret. Why? He doesn't know, and he wants us to find out for him. What happened?I asked. There was one of his competitors, Baisha said, called Du Hanbo.Du Hanbo opened a Du's rental appraisal development company. so what?I asked. Several times recently, when Sun's company spent a lot of time and money to determine the value of a corner land, these materials seemed to have grown their own feet, and they were in the hands of the surname Du.The one surnamed Du took the business away earlier with the slightly higher price that Mr. Sun was going to ask the landlord. It is possible that Du's system is as effective as Mr. Sun's.I said: besides, there are fewer and fewer urban lands, and it is possible for two people to see the same few lands. This is not the case.Baisha said: To do this kind of investigation, you need to get the police's approval in advance.There is an air pipe like a water pipe to be placed across the road, and the number of passing vehicles of various types is automatically calculated.In addition, ask someone to stand on the side of the road and count the number of people walking by.If another company was doing the same investigation, it would be impossible not to be detected. I discussed this with Mr. Sun for a long time.Mr. Sun insisted that their information was assigned to Du's company.He wants us to find out where the leaks are in his office. so what?I asked. With a happy face, Baisha used her other hand to adjust the position of the diamond ring on her finger, her eyes fixed on the shiny diamond.It's all taken care of.she says. Say it!I said.I know Betha doesn't like running errands.I doubt even more that, for this type of work, Bai Sha would not hire an operator to run errands. We're going to use you as bait.Baisha said. How to do it? You have a corner lot at the corner of Dior Street on Changchun Road. That was fantastic, I told her: it was like a dream.I earned money by handling cases?Or do you not want any shares?Or do you ask for cash and give me the land? Don't play tricks, Bai Sha said impatiently: Listen to me.Mr. Sun will change some records to make everyone think that the land has been investigated in detail.His records will show that excess vehicles and many hikers pass the place every day.The lot will be marked as an ideal location for a gas station. In Mr. Sun's office, there were only four people who could communicate with Du.Mr. Sun will use the method of absolute confidentiality to talk about the matter of your land with four people separately.He will tell one person that your land is worth two hundred and fifty yuan a month, another three hundred and fifty, another four hundred and fifty, and finally one person five hundred and fifty yuan a month. You see, if Mr. Sun's suspicion is correct, someone surnamed Du will send someone to contact you and offer you a price.From how much he bid, we will know who leaked the news to Du. You said he would come to our detective agency to find me and tell me? Do not be silly!Baisha said: You have temporarily disassociated yourself from our detective agency.You are a young woman who doesn't have to work.The land is just a small piece of real estate in your name.You will live in a very good Wang Laowu apartment, live in style, watch football games, run horses, hang out with beautiful women, you don't have to be keen on making money.You already have money. What about the apartment?Where?I asked. Everything is ready.Baisha opened the drawer, took out a key and said: This is an apartment owned by Mr. Sun in a bachelor apartment.You live in with your own name, and of course you won't deliberately be found too easily. What do I do in my spare time? Gentlemen of the leisure class, you can do whatever you want in your spare time.Baisha said: I told you that you can watch football games, run around and fuck, think of me working alone in the office, and you go to watch football, bet on horses, and go to good restaurants with public funds! Myself?I asked. It is best to be alone, Baisha said: Try to be alone, so as to save a little money. But it's easy to get suspicious.I told her: those surnamed Du will not be hooked.I'd better have a girlfriend. Tang Nuo.Baisha said: You can't poke a big hole in expenses in this matter.I managed to agree with Sun that he would pay you fifty yuan a day as a worker, and he would pay the company a sum of money because I designed such a good plan for him. The plan is good.I said: If it works. It must work.Baisha said. How many days will this egg hatch? The chickens will hatch within a week.Baisha said: Mr. Sun is willing to bear your expenses for a week. Expenses won't come cheap.I said: go to the horse race, watch the ball game, take the lady out Miss you ghost!Baisha shouted: You are not a millionaire!You're just pretending to be a bachelor who's interested in $250 to $550 a month's rent.Don't think you are going to pretend to be Zhu Bajie in Pansi Cave We have to pay women.I said. What!Baisha shouted: Pay to take a woman out to dinner?What did you say? If it is commercial, I say: You must pay Get your bull-eyed secretary out.Bai Sha said: Her eyes follow you all the time.Look at her skinny sweaters and her low cut tops!God, get the hell out of here.Don't make too much expense in this matter.This is business.This is the kind of work we really need.You can take Elsie out if you want.Tell her to do the same thing anyway with a fixed salary in the office.Tell her to only order cheap things to eat.No more than two cocktails per night.Keep expenses as low as possible! When does it begin?I asked. The sooner the better.Bai Sha said: Mr. Sun leaked the news today. How can he be sure that the staff who counted cars and pedestrians for him will not leak the news? Because these people are not close to the core message.Only four people will know the purpose of the real estate and all the information.The estimated rental price is even more confidential. Alright, I'll ask Elsie to see if she is willing to take a job without overtime pay under such circumstances. She would jump up and out of her already over-opened collar.Baisha said: My God!I should have thought of that earlier.Put a girl like her in your office as a secretary, her hook will stick out sooner or later, this kind of girl just wants to find a long-term meal ticket to support her.If you want to marry her, Tang Nuo, the only gift you can get from this office is a get well soon card. Now, get the hell out of here and go to work!