Detective Bennet [Comprehensive novel]

Julia = which prince?

Before this equation is established, it must be clarified, is Julia male or female?

Therefore, Kelsey, regardless of the surprises of the others or the exposure or defamation, carefully confirmed with several maids, whether they have seen the naked/naked/naked Julia, and whether they are sure that Orr's second wife is a woman?

"Although the four maids couldn't hide their perverted gazes at me, they all gave affirmative answers.

Whether serving Julia in the bath, or helping her apply body care lotion, it was confirmed from head to toe that the gender of the new mistress of the Angus family was female, and she had never faked it. "

Kelsey narrated the inquiry process, still worried about the unilateral verification of the maids, and entrusted Dantès with a heavy task before he left.

"Hope Ms. Sinbad can get more information from the O Club. Does Julia have a penchant for menswear? Or is she psychologically masculine? Or is her sexuality biased towards women?"

Questions like these suddenly hit Dantès.

Although Dantès accepted the investigation task without hesitation, it is not difficult to see from his eyes that he began to doubt the arrangement of fate.

——Obviously a successful prison escape, the priest is still alive, and a new life is beginning. Why do you feel like you have escaped from one prison and embarked on another road of no return?

Otherwise, why would you need to wear women's clothes to escape from France, and then sneak into weird clubs in women's clothes.

It was hard to get the ship to go to sea, but there were some side effects. Because of his current lady's attire, he was dubbed as a suitable status to dig out Julia's secrets.

In fact, it is on the road of no return.

Kelsey, however, refused to admit that Dantès might be with Death.

Right now, she is more concerned about how to unravel the meaning of Nicole's words, "Nicole thinks Julia is a prince, if it has nothing to do with Julia's male preference, what does it mean?"

"The image of Julia at a certain moment just fits the role of a prince in a certain fairy tale."

While taking fingerprints from three teacups, Sherlock pondered over the answer.

"When can Gina go back to Venice? She has been taking care of Nicole, and she should know more about which fairy tale characters Nicole likes or hates."

"I asked the housekeeper, go and call someone now, Gina will be there in five days at the earliest."

Kelsey couldn't wait five days, and the time limit given by the three of Julia was only three days.

Fortunately, the god of death closes the door for people, but also leaves a window for people.

Kelsey approached Nicole again, and during the chat, she learned that she had the habit of drawing.To put it bluntly, I borrowed those albums with a dessert.

However, Nicole asked to return to the album before dusk.

This afternoon, Kelsey had to scour boxes of drawings for potential clues.

Nicole's paintings have nothing to do with reality. They are all abstract graffiti. The lines, colors, and composition are all unconstrained, which is enough to be called a soul painter.

When Sherlock checked the fingerprints on the eyedrop bottle, Kelsey was found drowned in a pile of grotesque drawings, apparently still clueless.

"It's better to listen to the fingerprint results first."

Sherlock handed Kelsey a stack of fingerprint samples, "These are Henry's."

The fingerprints on the glass bottle of eye drops belonged to Henry, and only his fingerprints.

According to Henry's itinerary yesterday, he went out early until the end of the dance and did not return home until Orr died. He claimed to have never seen Al during this period.

"When were Henry's fingerprints left?"

What Sherlock said was a question, but the answer is already very obvious, it can only be from the end of the midnight ball to Orr's death.

So Sherlock extracted the fingerprints on Orr's bedroom and bathroom door handles, and also found some traces left by Henry.

After checking with the servants again, it was confirmed that Orr's bedroom was completely cleaned yesterday morning, and the tabletop, doorknob, and various decorations were all wiped down one by one.

After 03:30 in the morning yesterday, Johnny the valet found Orr dead, and went to the three owners in a hurry without closing the door.

After Orr's death, Henry, Beavis and Julia quarrel.

The three of them didn't care that the corpse hadn't entered or left Orr's bedroom, and the work of moving the corpse and taking care of it was done by Johnny the manservant.

Kelsey regained consciousness temporarily from the soul painting, "That means Henry sneaked into Al's room and dripped belladonna eye drops into Al's eyes. Why did he do that?"

Is it poisoned?

Indeed, an overdose of belladonna can cause palpitations, hallucinations, coma, mania, and even death from respiratory failure.

However, with the belladonna extract content of normal eye drops, it may cause discomfort, but not death.

Julia had been using the belladonna eye drops and found no abnormalities. Unless Orr's constitution was particularly sensitive to this, he would not have died on the spot.

The most important thing is that Orr had no defensive injuries before his death.

Could it be that Henry dripped eye drops on his father while he was asleep after drinking.

And then Orr wakes up, goes to the river again for some reason, and has him order the footman to prepare the bath water, and ends up being poisoned and dying in the tub?

Kelsey said this conjecture that fits the timeline, "Ol regained consciousness when he was instilled with eye drops, and chased him to the riverside when he thought the person was suspicious? During the whole process, Orr was arresting the suspect, but he didn't call the servant help?"

Sherlock shook his head slightly, logically it didn't make sense.

"If Henry wants to poison, it is not a good way to choose to instill eye drops. When Orr opens his eyes, Henry can easily expose his behavior."

Last night, Orr fell asleep after drinking, so Henry was [-]% sure that nothing would go wrong?

Can he ensure that Orr will die if he touches belladonna, and won't catch the poisoner before he dies?

"I checked Henry's shoes, the soles of the shoes have not stepped on the mud stains by the river."

Sherlock not only checked the shoes in Angus' mansion, but also checked the shoes they wore today one by one before Henry and the others left.

Not one pair matched the footprints on the bloody rocky edge of the grove, nor did the soles of the shoes bear mud stains from the woods or the river.

Perhaps, before Orr's death happened last night, Henry, Bivis, Julia and the others cleaned up the soles of their shoes, erasing the evidence of going out.

It's true that this possibility cannot be ruled out, but Henry didn't wipe off the fingerprints on the glass bottle carefully, and his caution would appear intermittently?

But no matter what, the Angus mansion after the dance last night was by no means as calm as people described it.

"Whether Henry poisoned or not, we must first find out the concentration of belladonna in this bottle of eye drops."

Sherlock shook his eyes at the vial, "It comes from Club O, and it is related to Orr's death, so I think it is necessary to visit the club once.

All kinds of goods are sold there, and the corresponding testing equipment will definitely be found. I want to test whether the concentration of belladonna in this bottle exceeds the standard on the spot. "

It is not easy to find a place in Venice that can do the test.

Now that we have all gone to the O Club, why not do a few more tests, such as whether there are any extra additives in the wine that Orr drank last night.

Sherlock has already sampled everything that needs to be tested, not only the half-drinked wine that Orr has drunk, but also the unopened wine that has been on Orr's must-drink list.

When some red wine is stored, the cork will have two micropores, in order to allow the wine to interact with the humidity of the outside air.

This leaves convenience for poisoners with ulterior motives, who can inject venom into the bottle with a syringe without damaging the unopened appearance of the bottle at all.

When Kelsey saw Sherlock's look, he knew he was ready.

This person has been tortured by the O club before, and today he finally found an excuse to catch the fat sheep of the O club.It is necessary to squeeze the next few layers of wool and make full use of its testing equipment.

Sherlock looked at the time: "It's [-]:[-] in the afternoon, and there is still time to make an appointment for today's boat at Club O. Jerry, are you together, or continue to indulge in the ocean of magical paintings?"

"Together. Wait for me for 10 minutes."

Kelsey chose to go out to change her mind, and returned all the albums to Nicole in boxes.

She has scaled down all the paintings that Nicole has made in the past year since Julia appeared in Angus's house.

Twilight.

Gondola boat, rocking, rocking, rocking to the O Club.

The O club dared to act boldly. Hearing that Auer's death may have some connection with the eye drops produced by the club, he immediately responded and agreed to do a test today.

Please go to the club to discuss the specific operation in detail, and just ask the reviewers Irene and Pattinson who are responsible for receiving visitors.

The water is rippling, and the buildings on both sides of the bank cast reflections.

With the shaking of the oars, the reflected world in the water instantly shattered.

on board.

The boatman was shaking his oars quietly, but the boat passengers sitting side by side were not admiring the water view of Venice.

Kelsey continued to think about Nicole's words.

Through copying, although I have mastered some of Nicole's thinking habits, I still haven't found out why Nicole thinks Julia is a prince.

"I translated some fairy tales drawn by Nicole."

Kelsey opened the copies and pointed out to Sherlock one by one, "These are the stories of Snow White, these are Cinderella, and the ones behind are the Frog Prince."

Some are matchsticks, some are distorted and irregular shapes, in short, there is no human-like image anywhere.

Sherlock admired Kelsey's artistic empathy, "Excuse me, how can you tell which fairy tale they are?"

"Every fairy tale has key items, such as poisoned apples, crystal slippers, and frogs. By locating the key items, the whole story can be deduced."

Kelsey circled the so-called key objects. The colorful sun symbolizes the poisonous apple, the screw that can stab people to death is the crystal slipper, and the two circles of 8 are exaggeratedly enlarged, which is the big eyeball of the frog when it tilts its head. "Look, it's easy to recognize, right?"

Easy to recognize, such exaggerated graphics are very recognizable.

But people who can make such associations are by no means ordinary people.

"Jerry, it is indeed you. Please believe that this is not a derogatory compliment."

Sherlock sincerely praised, "According to your empathy skills, it is only a matter of time before you interpret Nicole's words."

"But I hope the sooner the better."

Kelsey also considered another point, "What if Nicole didn't draw the annoying prince in the picture book?"

Then do the elimination method.

There are many fairy tales about princes and princesses, well-known and unknown, even those that have never been published and are only passed on by word of mouth.

If you think about it, there are many obstacles to quickly deciphering Nicole's words.

Kelsey simply closed the copybook and looked at Sherlock, washing his eyes by observing him, and easing the thoughts dominated by Nicole's abstract paintings for several hours.

Sherlock fully felt the eyes of the people around him, and he cooperated silently, like a work of art being appreciated from various angles.

15 minutes passed.

Sherlock asked, seemingly spontaneously, "Jerry, I'm honored to help you. Have you cleared your head of the horrible distorted picture? So how does it feel now that your mind is all about me?" "