Detective Bennet [Comprehensive novel]

Although being watched by the three devils makes people feel panic, but it is not without substantial comfort.

Lestrade got a warm dinner of English beef pie with hot soup from Mrs Hudson.

Between fork and knife, he enjoyed the beef wrapped in puff pastry.The gravy is thick, and the lips and teeth are fragrant, making people forget the pain of running around for a while.

"Another homicide?"

Sherlock didn't give Lestrade much time to rest, and the inspector's dinner was doomed to be like a fast food, which had to be over in 10 minutes.

Lestrade was still savoring the taste of the beef, and a bucket of cold water was poured on his face, forcing him to return to reality.

"Oh, yes, homicide. A 10-minute walk from the scene of Woolf's death, another body was found. Male, the identity of the deceased has not yet been confirmed, but he has a distinctive feature, walking around the street in women's clothing. That It's just..."

What is it?

During the Victorian period, cross-dressing was often viewed as homosexuality, and homosexuals were known to have been hanged for a long time in Britain.Even though it was changed from hanging to prison in 1861, the concept of defining it as a crime has not changed so far.

Cross-dressers can only be seen on stage, though performances over the past few decades have rarely seen cross-dressers.

Ten years ago, there were two men who dared to walk from home to the theater in women's clothing.When they watched the show, they were arrested by the police for rape.

Lestrade curled his lips, "First, Woolf likes to suffocate and tie himself up, and now there will be another womanizer, and I don't know where a group of lunatics and perverts come from."

What happened to the cross-dressing?

Kelsey maintained an appearance of listening carefully, secretly thinking that she just likes to jump back and forth, can't she!

As long as it's not the kind of disguise that requires bone shrinking skills beyond the scope of her abilities, she can do other costumes 360 days without repeating the pattern.

"Inspector, please be careful with your words."

Sherlock directly corrected Lestrade, "Don't you care about trends at all, and haven't noticed the changes in the stage in recent years? That male dragger may be a drag queen. It's not what it used to be, and their supporters There are quite a few, and your words will cause a lot of trouble."

Drag queen is a professional title for men who perform in women's clothing.

There were such actors at the beginning of this century, the number was extremely rare, and they were not accepted by the public for a long time.

However, the more taboo the more popular.

In recent years, the audience's acceptance has been increasing, and cross-dressing actors are no longer despised by others, but have become sought after by the audience.Drag queens have become recognized as a performance art, sometimes even more respected than female actors.

Lestrade was blocked by Sherlock's words, how could he admit that he couldn't keep up with the trend.

The inability to read newly published scientific theoretical works can also be attributed to the fact that the intelligence is equal to that of the public.But if you don’t even understand the new dynamics of the theater stage, you will become a police detective abandoned by the times.

"Ugh, you're right! I misused the word."

Lestrade solemnly corrected, "The cross-dresser was killed, the mistake is not in his disguise as a woman, but the murderer must be blamed for being too cruel. This is the murderer's mistake!"

Mycroft watched, said nothing, only smiled.

The naive Inspector Lestrade thought that Sherlock did not directly ask about the situation of the deceased, but instead corrected the language and words. Why?

Perhaps half of it is respect for others because of gentlemanly demeanor, but the other half is unspeakable.

Mycroft keenly discovered some small problems, and instantly thought of two possibilities.

The reason why his younger brother corrected Lestrade's words was that the inspector inadvertently connoted homosexual love, or was the inspector inadvertently connoted transvestite?

The transvestite can't be Sherlock, so who else would be a transvestite?

At the moment, Mycroft seemed to glance at Kelsey casually. Could it be that this Mr. Bennet is a woman disguised as a man?

Kelsey didn't change his face, as if he didn't feel Mycroft's inquiry, and some problems should be solved by the Holmes brothers themselves.

The most important thing right now is the second deceased who appeared near the demolition house.

Kelsey asked Lestrade not to talk nonsense, "Inspector, what are the preliminary findings now? The age of the deceased? The method of death? Was the murder weapon found? You should have investigated these aspects, right?"

"Oh! I have to say, Mr. Bennet, that your first question is a hard one for me."

Lestrade said that the face of the deceased was wearing heavy makeup. "At first glance, the deceased was five or sixty years old and weather-beaten, and his hands were also very rough like old tree bark. But judging from the body skin exposed by the cut clothing, the skin condition is not good. Will be over 60."

Having said that, Lestrade belatedly thought of the drag queen mentioned by Sherrollock just now.

The deceased was not the pervert his supervisor had assumed, it might have been a stage actress in a costume playing an old woman.

Lestrade said of the way the deceased was murdered, "there were obvious fresh strangle marks on the neck, plus several stab wounds in the abdomen. And, um..."

Lestrade pursed his lips, and said silently three times that he was a professional.

He said vigorously: "The deceased's vital organs were severed, and the bloody smell at the scene aroused the suspicion of the inspection team. I'm sorry for the specific situation, but I'm sorry that I don't have enough books to describe in detail."

"go to the scene."

Sherlock didn't need to ask Kelsey to know that she had no doubts, but looked at Mycroft who wanted to say goodbye, wondering if my dear brother would be interested in going with him?

Mycroft hesitated a little, should he use the case to find out some little secret of Tom and Jerry?

Five seconds later, Mycroft shook his head.

Now that Kelsey can make Sherlock change his mind about unmarriage, Sherlock almost shows his brother that he belongs.In this case, the answer to the little secret is no longer important.

"Good luck. I won't go. I have to get up on time tomorrow for work."

Mycroft found a good reason, "Small staff, sitting in shifts, no more free allocation of time than you."

Lestrade was choked again. Looking across the entire British Empire, there was no other 'little clerk' like Mycroft!

Slander, but it can only be slander.

The three people who arranged their time freely but had to travel outside came to the scene.

The crime site was surrounded by cordon off.

The police officers patrolled around with kerosene lamps, and the atmosphere around the demolished house was a bit tense.

The tension is there for a reason.

Woolf's case did not attract widespread public attention, but all the residents or businesses around the demolished house were asked whether they had encountered any suspicious persons.

For this reason, the private inspection team here has deliberately increased the number of inspections. Who would have thought that a murder case would have occurred under their noses.

It was an extremely brutal murder case!

The dilapidated house, the trembling door is about to fall down.

After crossing the threshold, the smell of blood rushed straight to the tip of his nose.I saw a long bloodstain on the ground from the blind corner of the house towards the gate.

Go to the blind corner of the house first.Here stands a stone pillar reaching the ceiling, which should be the load-bearing pillar of the house.A long hemp rope is tied to the bottom of the stone pillar.

There is a rag on the floor.

Lestrade drew a circle on the spot, indicating that there was something wrong with the rag. "Looking at the condition of the deceased's mouth, this rag should be used to block his mouth."

There was blood splattered on the stone pillar, and there was a large pool of blood nearby.

Taking this as the starting point, the bloodstains extended toward the door, with a straight-line distance of about seven or eight meters.The end of the bloodstains is the dead who fell in a pool of blood.

The deceased fell face down on the ground.

The head is facing the direction of the door, the arms are stretched forward, and the legs are in a crawling posture.There are obvious signs of binding on the neck and right ankle.

It's a pity that there is a difference of one meter.

The deceased died before he could climb out of the dilapidated house to call for help.

"After roughly checking the victim, I tried to keep the scene as it was."

Lestrade also took pictures, but did not move the deceased easily, wanting to wait for the two detectives to examine before arranging an autopsy. "The severed organ has been packed, and it was discarded beside the stone pillar."

Detective Carter marked with paint where the evidence was found.This kind of evidence that sends chills down the spine of normal men does not need to wait for the detectives to investigate before storing it.

Otherwise, even if he finds a colleague to bring dinner, he will be so sick that he will vomit and be unable to eat if he stays at the scene.

How cruel was the murderer?

Judging from the evidence alone, the male characteristic organ of the deceased was cut off, and it was chopped several times.

"Two, please see how ruthless the murderer is. This bloody appearance reminds me of April Fool's Day six years ago."

Lestrade took out the evidence box, "After Jason the Ripper, although I have encountered many murders, none of them are so bloody."

Speaking of Jason the Ripper, Lestrade clearly remembered that he and the Devil One met because of this.

"Oh! Mr. Bennet, you should still remember that year? I can prove that I am not exaggerating. There has not been such a bloody scene in London in recent years."

Kelsey nodded slightly, and looking at the organs in the box and the abdominal wound of the deceased, the murderer's knife was extremely vicious. "This kind of knife technique is full of anger."

How angry is the murderer?

Sherlock checked the situation around the dilapidated house, and the police had already marked several bloody footprints along the way.

Bloody footprints walked from the house to the outside. Since they were not the shoe prints of the deceased, they almost certainly came from the murderer.

However, no corresponding footprints were found on the way back.

The crime scene was located in the innermost house of the dead alley, and there were obvious signs of dragging at the entrance of the alley, where the shoe prints of the murderer and the deceased were left.

Based on this, the search was carried out, and from a few scattered shoe prints, it was roughly determined which path the deceased took to enter the demolition house area, but there were no traces of the murderer left behind.

In other words, the murderer attacked the victim at the entrance of the alley, gagged the victim with a rag, dragged the victim into a dilapidated house and tied him up.

During this process, the murderer acted very cautiously so that he did not leave any footprints on the way.

Then, the murderer suddenly changed his mood.

The murderer severely injured the victim angrily in the dilapidated house. He didn't even confirm whether the victim was completely dead. He didn't care about the blood on the soles of his shoes and went straight away.

This string of bloody footprints traveled a certain distance, and finally stopped at the exit near the demolition house area.

Sherlock couldn't help asking, what happened in the broken house that made the murderer suddenly angry?

"Well, I don't know if it counts as a clue."

Lestrade stood beside the corpse, his eyes fell on the right side of the deceased, and there were three bloody characters on the ground.

"Letters, leaving letters again. Although it's bad to say this, what I need is a fully spelled word, not a letter that can only be guessed."

Sherlock squatted down to observe the writing at a close distance.

On the ground is the distorted blood "ALG", "AL" is very close to each other, and "G" is a finger's length away from the former.

At this time, Lestrade very much hoped that the two detectives would really use witchcraft, so that they could immediately decipher the meaning of the words left.

Of course, he also knew that this was unrealistic.He didn't say anything to urge Devil No. [-], and inadvertently looked back at Devil No. [-] to observe.

I saw Kelsey also squatting, squatting beside the pool of blood on the stone pillar.

He was picking up the hemp rope that was tied to a post at one end, and approached with his nose to carefully distinguish the smell of the hemp rope.

"Tom, please check."

Kelsey said to Sherlock, "Doesn't this rope smell sweetly like Swedish gerlag?"

In the past, Lestrade had only seen Sherlock sniffing all kinds of evidence like a hound lying on the ground, but today he actually saw Kelsey doing exactly the same thing.

Lestrade: God!I was suddenly literate.

I didn't know what Ye Gong loves dragons before, but the scene in front of me is what the orientals say is black, right?