Detective Bennet [Comprehensive novel]

In Venice, the city of water, there is water everywhere.

It is located in a lagoon at the northern end of the Adriatic Sea, that is, an area with some sea water.

A word of water, if you associate it with the words of the prince, people can't help but think of "The Daughter of the Sea".

"Daughter of the Sea, Julia is the prince in the story? That's not a fairy tale with a comedy ending."

But Sherlock knows that the protagonist's tragedy may be one of the reasons why Nicole hates it.

"Not only is it a tragedy, although the mermaid did not say that she was the savior of the prince, but the prince did not rigorously verify who saved him. Such a mistake may be another reason why Nicole hates the prince."

Tragedy and misunderstanding may make the prince who was rescued by the mermaid disliked by Nicole.

However, this is just speculation.

There are many princes who are hated in fairy tales, and the prince who likes Snow White seems to be obsessed with corpses.

Sherlock asked directly, "Jerry, do you have evidence? Nicole drew this fairy tale?"

"On the contrary, Nicole did not paint "The Daughter of the Sea". It is a famous fairy tale, but she did not mention it at all."

Kelsey looked through Nicole's picture book and found something else, "In addition, throughout last year, Nicole didn't draw rivers or seas, to be precise, she didn't draw flowing water."

Nicole drew the Frog Prince.

This fairy tale happened by the deep pool, but in the picture book there is a dark red hole, as if the pool water was dyed red.

"Nicole also drew the story of the ugly duckling, and the lake inside is also red."

Kelsey thinks it happened for a reason.Nicole's paintings are abstract, but they all have a logic that is self-contained and will not be separated from the story itself.The water Nicole used to paint was blue, yellow, and colorful, but it turned red last year.

"Water, running water, is red to Nicole. With all due respect, that redness is blood."

Nicole has been staying behind closed doors, why did she see the flowing water stained with blood?

Sherlock immediately thought of the small river in Angus' house.

Someone was injured by the river, and blood entered the river, and Nicole saw the red water.Could it be Julia who was hurt?Rescuing her is like the little mermaid saving the prince?

This raises the question, where did the mermaid come from?

"That's right! It's a mermaid."

With a flash of inspiration, Sherlock instantly reorganized the logical order of the incident, "Nicole ran into the mermaid and the prince, which became the reason for her to hate outdoor lights."

Kelsey nodded, "Yes, that's what I guessed too."

If Watson was present, he would have to ask why the two of them were right? !

Just a moment ago, I was talking about the blood in the river in "The Daughter of the Sea". What kind of reasoning process did you go through, so why did you just skip to the next step?

In fact, things are simple and complicated.

The simplicity lies in the fact that Nicole's feelings are very intuitive. Even though her memory is poor and she tends to forget things, she will firmly remember the feelings of disgust and fear.

The complexity lies in the fact that children's thinking cannot be speculated according to common sense. They must be able to speculate based on general logic, but they have to jump out of straight-line thinking to infer.

The prince that Nicole hates is divided into two layers: the one in the fairy tale and the one in reality.

First of all, Nicole didn't like "The Daughter of the Sea" because the prince couldn't clearly identify who his savior was. In the end, the story didn't end in comedy.

Later, Nicole didn't like Prince Julia in reality because the relationship between Julia and her "mermaid" disgusted Nicole.

This is related to Nicole's aversion to the firelight outside the house in the dark.

One night, Nicole noticed a fire by the river.

She sneaked out of the room in violation of the family's prohibition, but unexpectedly bumped into Julia and the "mermaid" emerging from the river.

A mermaid in a fairy tale turns a fish's tail into a leg in order to get ashore.

In reality, the "mermaid" was injured when he went ashore. It may be that the bump in the river made him go ashore with blood, corresponding to the bloody feeling of a fish tail turning into a leg.

It is still unclear whether Julia directly brought the "mermaid" back to the bedroom, but it is certain that the two had some intimate affair.

At that time, the two found Nicole who had sneaked out.

Julia makes up a mermaid-and-prince story, successfully coaxing Nicole off her feet, or somehow threatening to silence Nicole about the secret of that night.

Nicole shut up, her intellect and memory couldn't remember complicated things, but her subconscious mind remembered the lights outside the house in the night, and the "mermaid" emerging from the flowing water.

Later, the sense of reality mixed with the feeling of fairy tales, and there is the so-called Julia is the annoying prince.

Kelsey pointed out, "Based on this, there are traces of Julia's whereabouts last night. She went to meet her lover "Mermaid" privately. "

"The grove, the blood on the rock." Sherlock asked the guests and servants one by one during the day to make sure that there were no injured people before the ball ended.

"The injury only appeared after the dance was over. It's not that no one came in and out of Angus' house. If you don't go through the gate, someone can sneak in through the river."

Kelsey said, "Swimming without gloves, 'Mermaid' got a slight scratch on her hand and left blood on the stone.This explains the order of the footsteps of men and women by the rock - the tired man sat on the rock with his heels close to the rock and the toes turned outwards, while the woman stood beside him and did not sit down. "

So far, everything is still speculation.

Need to prove that the "mermaid" really exists?

Sherlock said, "When I left London, I didn't bring much blood testing reagents. I tested the blood sample on the rock first, and it was type AB. I hope Ms. Sinbad went to investigate Julia's social circle. He can bring News of a suspicious man with the same blood type."

Under the moonlight, a gondola sailed towards Angus' house.

'Ah Choo—'

Dantès rubbed his nose, shouldn't he be caught cold by the night wind?

If it's a small matter to catch a cold, I'm afraid that people will be completely cold.

Dantès was bringing the two detectives news of a man's death.

"Please understand, in just one day, I couldn't be absolutely sure who had a close relationship with Julia, but I learned the news of the death of another person."

Dantès came to the Angus mansion to pick up Kelsey and Sherlock for a walk to Thomas's house.

"Ken Thomas also participated in the masquerade ball yesterday. This afternoon, a dead body was found in the river near Thomas's house. It was Thomas."

At dusk, the river sweepers blocked the net to catch garbage, but they did not expect to catch a corpse that was still considered fresh.Residents nearby recognized the deceased as Thomas, who ran a small shop.

According to the situation of the dancers last night, Dantès visited them one by one. When he went to Thomas' house in the evening, he bumped into Thomas' body and was transported home.

"Thomas and his wife were also members of the O club. I confirmed to Mrs. Thomas that Thomas was an M, but she wasn't too keen on being an S."

Relying on his outstanding eloquence, Dantès extracted the details from Mrs. Thomas after a conversation.

Husband and wife are different.

Thomas and his wife were about the same age, both in their early twenties. It was the husband who took his wife to the O Club.

Thomas hopes to train his wife into an excellent S, but Mrs. Thomas does not support her husband's special hobby.

"Even though Mrs. Thomas has heard the lectures of the O Club and participated in some exchanges with fellow enthusiasts, she still thinks that her husband's hobby is abnormal. She has always treated him coldly, and in turn hopes to change Thomas' hobby."

Dantès shook his head.This mutual change of personal preferences is very difficult, and the Thomas couple did not complete the transformation of each other's preferences, and one of them passed away.

Ask Mrs. Thomas, she said that Thomas didn't come home all night last night.

The reason Thomas gave was that he had a drink with his friend Barron and would not go home all night.

"This is not the first time Thomas has gone to Barron for a drink. Mrs. Thomas also knows Barron, a young man who has lost his love, and he needs the comfort of a friend."

Dantès asked Father Faria to go to Barron's house for verification. At first, Barron did not know about Thomas' death and perjured him.

Later, Barron told the truth when he learned that Thomas was dead. He had never seen Thomas at all yesterday.

The so-called drinking with friends was an excuse for Thomas.As far as Barron knew, Thomas had a mistress behind his wife's back.

The two colluded, and Barron helped Thomas cover up, mainly to meet his mistress privately without telling Mrs. Thomas and her husband.

Father Faria heard that Thomas had a mistress, and deliberately found a friend to deceive his wife, so he knew that the matter was not simple.

Thomas is M.

According to the data of the O club, there are not many men who are M, and even fewer women take the initiative to be S.

Thomas couldn't shape his wife into an ideal S, but in the same circle, Julia, who was about the same age, was a strong S.

In terms of matching degree alone, Thomas is likely to have a crush on Julia.

"The priest verified Barron's witness. He stayed at a prostitute's house last night. He really didn't see Thomas."

When Dantès said this, Thomas' whereabouts became a mystery after he left Julia's birthday party last night.

"It's like the god of death is coming. Two people died in succession last night. Orr and Thomas knew each other, and even attended the same banquet. I don't think it can be explained by coincidence. Now, do you want to go to Thomas's house to see?" one look?"

Dantès said that he had negotiated with Mrs. Thomas, and the lady who lost her husband wanted to find out the truth.Not only how Thomas died, but who his lover was.

Last night, Thomas accompanied his wife during the ball and never left a step. Who would have thought that he would secretly meet his lover after the ball.And he has been hiding the mysterious lover very well, even Barron, who helped cover up, doesn't know the truth.

Will Thomas' lover be Julia?

Did Julia and Thomas light the fire in the woods at midnight last night?

Both Kelsey and Sherlock asked this question, so it was very necessary to see Thomas' body.

Come to Thomas' house.

Kelsey first observed Thomas' palm, which did indeed have gravel cuts.But when the body sank underwater for a period of time, it was impossible to judge the precise time when the wound was formed.

However, Thomas was still wearing a ball gown, and he could be sure that his shoe prints exactly matched the footprints on the rocky side of the Angus grove.

"Type AB."

Sherlock used a rapid blood type test reagent to sample Thomas' blood and got the same blood type as that on the grove rock.

Same shoe print, same blood type.

It is basically certain that Thomas is the mysterious man by the rock in the grove.

And who is the mysterious lady?Not just the mermaid inference, Julia's shoe size is the same size as the rock side lady's shoe size, and she has the conditions to go back to the room to change shoes and clean the soles.

If Julia finds a lover behind Orr's back, Thomas, who has the same tastes, is indeed a candidate target.

Kelsey thought about it before looking at Thomas as a whole, "Young and handsome, even if he is not rich, but with the first two points, he can be chosen as his lover."

When Sherlock heard this, his eyes were indifferent, "Are you sure you will choose him as your lover?"

Facing this gaze, Kelsey shook her head with a smile, "Okay. This time, I'm not careful enough with my words. It's Julia who chooses Thomas as her lover."

Sherlock didn't seem to ask about the line of sight, but instead persuaded Kelsey, "Jerry, you don't need to explain. I understand that your taste is so high that it is difficult for ordinary people to achieve."

Kelsey: Wait a minute, who is this boasting?

Without waiting for Kelsey to answer, Sherlock directly changed the subject, "The question now is that Thomas drowned, but what about his specific drowning process?"