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Chapter 359 New Heights

There was a rustling sound of turning the pages of the book, Carl rubbed the pages with his fingertips, his eyes quickly swept over each word, and began to taste the final truth.

Poirot called together all the people involved in the case and published his own analysis of the case.

The case has been developed so far, but the core question in Poirot's mind is still, why did ABC kill people?
After this question was raised, Carl, who was reading, also started thinking.

There must be a motive behind the occurrence of any case, especially this work, it cannot be the most common random killing.

It's just that when the four cases were arranged together, Karl couldn't think of a reason for a while.

As he buried himself in the reading, Karl seemed to have come to the scene where Poirot was analyzing the case.

Among the several victims, there are great differences, there is no gender plot, and there is no age plot.

Poirot then mentioned that the B case was quite special.

Betty's death method is different from other victims. She was strangled to death by her own belt, which inevitably makes people imagine.

Poirot imagined this to a certain extent. Miss Betty, who loves to flirt with others, meets a man on the beach. When the man praises her belt, she takes it off and teases the man who wraps the belt around hers. neck, joked about strangling each other, then jerked.
Poirot's detailed and specific imagination was interrupted by the man with green hair, Betty's boyfriend Don, who got up with a green face.

Only then did Poirot stop, and turned to discussing Case C. When it came to Case C, the way of being killed was changed to the same one-stick solution as the first case.

In the fourth case, the wrong person was directly killed, and it ended here. The murderer was arrested, and all the incidents seemed to be over.

Here, Poirot makes a bold assumption, assuming that Castor is not responsible for Case B, and even going further, assuming that the murderer who committed Case B may be the murderer of all other cases at the same time.

The fundamental reason why ABC sent out the notice letter was to focus the public's attention on several murder cases.

As Shakespeare famously said, you can't see the forest for the trees, and a needle on a needle-mat is the least conspicuous.

In the same way, an isolated murder case attracts the least attention among a series of related murder cases!
After reading this, Carlton felt a thunder flash in his mind.

As a reader, like the characters in the book, he was completely distracted by the ABC notice letter and the serial murder case.

The diversity and irrelevance of the victims made him subconsciously ignore the most fundamental motive when the crime occurred.

A good trick to hide leaves in the forest!Carl licked his lips excitedly.

What he didn't think of, the mustache detective thought of it. Reading the words in the book, Karl felt that Poirot seemed to be revealing the truth for himself right before his eyes.

Looking back at the most fundamental question, who will benefit the most after each case occurs.

Starting from case A, Mrs. Asher's scumbag husband is most likely to be guilty, but it should be impossible for him to deliberately plan this series of cases.

In case B, Tang had only one motive for killing Betty, which was jealousy, but it was not strong enough. Case C still had an alibi.

Finally, in Case C, Sir Clark was very rich, and his wife was seriously ill. After death, the only person who had the right to inherit was Sir Clark's younger brother, Franklin Clark.

Poirot deduces that ABC is Franklin Clark!
Clark laughed and retorted when he heard the words, isn't there a fourth case and Custer who was arrested?
Poirot continued to export, saying that Custer had already explained everything.

Custer had previously met Clark during a poker game. Custer suffered from epilepsy and seemed to be insane and cowering, which left a deep impression on Clark.

So he began to fool Custer, saying that you must be a person who can achieve great things, and then asked Custer to start selling stockings.

Sent a lot of silk stockings to the poor old man Custer with the ABC timetable in the same packaging, and a typewriter for pre-printed letters.

Afterwards, every time a crime is committed, let Custer go to the designated place to sell stockings.

As a result, Custer was nearby every time a murder occurred.

Custer also discovered this, and he who was already sensitive suddenly became more nervous.

When the fourth case happened, Custer was invited to a movie theater, and the murderer stuffed the knife into his pocket after killing someone.

Castor, who was already nervous, found a knife in his pocket, and thought that he was nearby every time a murder happened. He just suffered from epilepsy and often sleepwalked and lost his memory, so Castor subconsciously began to think that he was the murderer.

In the following story, the evidence of the crime was conclusive and led to his arrest.

After Poirot paused, Clark shook his head, saying that this view was absurd.

At this time, Poirot threw out the evidence again, the stick used in case A, someone in case B saw Betty he brought to the hotel, and two people saw him in the cinema in Doncaster.

And, most importantly, Clark's fingerprints were left on the typewriter sent to Castor.

Clark was silent for a while, ready to pull out his gun to commit suicide, but the trigger was pulled, but the bullets had already been stolen.

The Scotland Yard police who had ambushed in advance took Clark down.

After reading this, Carl breathed a sigh of relief.

The wonderful truth is always sweet, and he was led into the murderer's trap from the beginning of this work, so when everything is revealed, it is even more hearty.

The final ending is warm. Poirot acts as a matchmaker and matches Don and Betty's sister Megan; Castor is released and invited by many newspapers for interviews, becoming a celebrity.

And the evidence that Poirot mentioned before, the most critical fingerprint, was just defrauding Clark once.

Carl couldn't help but smile knowingly at the ending.

Closing the pages, Carl got up and made himself a cup of coffee, no doubt that the reading time had surprised him, like a smooth chocolate.

This can't help but remind Karl of the recommendation he wrote down casually before, and now he thinks it's a bit perfunctory.

So Carl opened his blog, took a photo of his coffee and book, and wrote a blog post seriously.

In addition to a long list of post-reading comments, the last few sentences of Karl Bowen's words give a very high evaluation.

【Karl: It's quite an amazing work, it put me in a deep trap, and I'm looking forward to the next meeting with the great detective Poirot! 】

Carl's recommendation is just a starting point. Not only Carl, several writers also spontaneously posted "ABC Murder" on social platforms.

Coupled with the promotion of the book itself, it immediately attracted the attention of many readers, temporarily making "ABC Murder" surpass the books of famous authors and become No.1 on the new book list of foreign book sales platforms.

A rather dazzling result. There are already a lot of comments on this new book on foreign reading scoring software.

[I have to admit, I have become a fan of Poirot, this guy is a bit charming! 】

[Oh my God, who would dare to believe that this is a foreign writer who debuted for more than a year? 】

[The new work of the creator of the narrative, the same wonderful tricks, different stories, five-star recommendation! 】

[Character engravings and the layout of the entire article are perfect. If it weren't for "Roger's Mystery", this would be the best book of the year! 】

【Amazing! !It's hard to imagine that this is a new book this year, such a wonderful story, I thought I read a classic. 】

[I can't wait to read the next series!I will definitely buy the new book! 】

[I want to watch a movie adapted from this book! 】

[Can you come to Europe and America to hold a signing event? 】

The release of "ABC Murder", the promotion of the publishing house, the recommendation of many writers, and the fan base accumulated by the two books have all made this book highly praised.

On the second day after the MV shooting ended, Jiang Yuan and others returned home from the sea.

After the MV shooting of "Wish Post-it Notes", Jiang Yuan was temporarily free before the Double Eleven party, and only had two or three trips a week to run.

Taking advantage of this time, Jiang Yuan also has some things to do.

Looking at the feedback on "ABC Murder" from domestic platforms, the recent novel is the most popular novel, and it directly scored an astonishing high score of 10 on the 9.3-point platform.

It may decline over time in the future, but at least for now it is the level of word-of-mouth explosion.

At this time, Yang Chao also excitedly sent a message to Jiang Yuan, which was a feedback on his achievements at home and abroad.

Like the high popularity in China, word-of-mouth and sales have skyrocketed under Carl's sincere leadership and recommendation.

One Book, a well-known book pusher, only recommends one book a week, and yesterday updated and directly recommended "ABC Murder".

The reasoning fiction scoring agency also gave this book a high score of 95 points.

It is the second highest-ranked work this year except for the perfect score of "Roger's Mystery".

Yang Chao excitedly sent more than a dozen messages, including some back-to-back pictures of offline activities.

Regarding the feedback sent by Yang Chao, Jiang Yuan was not too surprised, after all, he had already received more immediate feedback from the system before.

The launch of "ABC Murder" officially established the Poirot series. Up to now, it has helped Jiang Yuan obtain [-] achievement points and a silver treasure chest.

And after the publication of "ABC Murder", an achievement task called "The Great Detective" was officially launched.

The task has only one name, and the task conditions are not written.

But according to Jiang Yuan's understanding, it should mean making Poirot a well-known detective on Blue Star.

In this way, Jiang Yuan was still struggling with which new book to publish next, but once this task is completed, naturally he doesn't have to worry about it.

First, he gave a general reply to Yang Chao's previous message, Jiang Yuan thought about it and sent another message.

"There should be a new book soon!"

In the bedroom of Yang Chao's home in Shanghai, he stared at the news from Jiang Yuan several times, and then let out a howl of excitement, startling Yang Miaomiao who was watching TV in the living room.

In the bedroom, Yang Chao felt as if he was going to faint with happiness.

Yang Chao took several deep breaths, barely suppressing his excitement, and after calming down, he typed and asked, "Is it still the Poirot series?"

"Yes." Jiang Yuan replied.

"Sa!" Yang Chao jumped up on the bed again.

After the excitement, Yang Chao hesitated again, "Is it too rushed?"

It's not that Yang Chao feels sorry for Jiang Yuan or doesn't want to publish a new book so soon.

The main reason is that the popularity and reputation of the Poirot series are so high at present, he still feels that the new works will be more secure if they are carefully polished.

However, Jiang Yuan didn't mean to get Yang Chao, and replied, "I have ten days to go on vacation, it's okay."

Yang Chao read Jiang Yuan's reply, hesitated for a moment and asked again, "Do you have any ideas for the story of the new book?"

Originally, I wanted to ask if the quality was guaranteed, but I deleted it again.

"Already have a complete idea, it is definitely a very explosive work! It is very amazing, you will definitely not guess it after reading it!" Jiang Yuan thought for a while and replied.

"Murder on the Orient Express", when it comes to reasoning works, it is absolutely unavoidable, and it is also one of Grandma's masterpieces.

Naturally, Jiang Yuan was also highly respected.

After reading Jiang Yuan's new news, Yang Chao was blown away by Jiang Yuan's description.

Another totally unexpected work!

This made Yang Chao couldn't help feeling that Jiang Yuan didn't have a bottleneck?

"I can send you the new book in a couple of months." Jiang Yuan sent another message to Yang Chao.

Although Jiang Yuan should be able to reproduce "Murder on the Orient Express" during the few days of rest, it is better to be conservative in terms of time.

But for Yang Chao, one or two months is absolutely very fast.

"Okay, I will make preparations first." Yang Chao replied.

After "ABC Murder", Jiang Yuan's status can be said to have climbed to a new height, and she is definitely the head author of their company.

In the international arena, it is directly called a mysterious supernova in the reasoning world.

At the end of the chat, Jiang Yuan once again asked a question that Yang Chao hadn't thought of, "How can I win the literature award?"

Yang Chao stared at this question for a few seconds.

On Blue Star, there is only one who can directly remove the prefix and call it a literary award.

It is more appropriate to say that it is a literary award, rather than a writer's lifetime achievement award.

The award is awarded once a year, and the writers in different fields and languages ​​are selected, and the best award of the year is selected.

This award is theoretically awarded once a year, but basically half of the time is vacant.

Yang Chao was stunned by the question. If he knew how to win the award, would he still be an editor here?

However, he still replied in wording, "There are also several reasoning writers who have won literary awards in history."

After Jiang Yuan received the reply, she checked the information. The last reasoning writer who won an award was ten years ago.

This made Jiang Yuan feel that there was still a chance to do it.

Among the many categories, Jiang Yuan chose to reason and dig deeper, not only because he likes it, but also because it is more suitable.

After all, many well-known literary works in my impression are related to the background of the times and social structure, so it is not suitable to move them out.

On the other side, Yang Chao fell into deep thought after watching Jiang Yuan reply ok and then disappeared. Could the question Jiang Yuan asked himself just now be serious?
(End of this chapter)