Detective Bennet [Comprehensive novel]

The trip to the north was eventually divided into two roads.

Watson made a rare proposal to the two detectives to arrive in Derbyshire in peace.

The three of them outsiders might as well act alone, and don't disturb the travel and leisure of the newlyweds and their families. They just need to attend the wedding banquet at Pemberley Manor on time in half a month.

Watson: There are still excuses.He couldn't admit that he was afraid of facing the enthusiastic (neuralgia-prone) Mrs. Bennet.

Sherlock never mentioned that he had deliberately tricked Watson, but said that Watson was right.The three of them really didn't have time to stop and see the scenery, and needed to arrive in Derbyshire early.

Why come to Derbyshire early?

Since he promised old Bennet to check his uncle's whereabouts, the first stop is to go to the place where Conrad last appeared-his friend Albert Ashby's house.

South Derbyshire Derby City

100 years ago, the Ashby family made a living in silk weaving in Derby.

In the past hundred years, the start of the industrial revolution, the construction of railways, and the development of the machinery industry have brought about earth-shaking changes in the city.

The old house was inevitably demolished, and it took a lot of trouble to find the Ashbys.

After several rounds, I found out that Ashby's family had been demolished, and his descendants were scattered all over the place, and some of them had no blood descendants to continue.

It was finally confirmed that Abbott Ashby has a grandson, Zapata Ashby has studied and lived in Germany for decades, and just returned to his hometown three months ago.

Zapata, 42, is a veterinarian.

On Tuesday, on the morning of weekdays, he may be in the clinic, on the ranch, or rest at home with a small probability.

Sherlock and Watson went to Zapata's workplace separately, while Kelsey went to Zapata's home.

Logically speaking, Zapata is the least likely to be at home.

Kelsey walked to the intersection near Zapata's house, but saw a group of people surrounded by people, and the police cordoned off the inside. "May I ask what happened in front of you?"

"There are dead people inside!"

Onlooker A told Kelsey, "The police who came half an hour ago heard that someone in the house was chopped into meat paste."

Onlooker B retorted, "Why is it meat? Didn't it mean that it was cut into pieces and thrown on the ground?"

Onlooker C gave another version, "No, no, it should have been skinned and convulsed, and fell to the ground bloody and bloody."

It's true that there are spectators everywhere, but the 'truth' they see is always varied.

Kelsey could only be sure that a murder had occurred at the Zapata home.

When she identified herself to the police, she was a detective commissioned to find Zapata.Because Detective Bennet's reputation is bright enough, she quickly met the detective in charge of the case.

"You are Mr. Detective Bennet!"

Detective Julian was very excited. The burly man turned around excitedly, and couldn't help muttering, "Oh my God! I saw Detective B alive!"

Kelsey: ...

Thank you for your love, she will work hard to keep alive.

Julian quickly realized that he had lost his composure and tried to look at Kelsey with a serious face, but his eyes betrayed his inner breakdown.

"Oh no! Why am I so childish in front of idols, is it unprofessional. Can God do me a favor? Go back 20 seconds."

Kelsey smiled, and gently passed the previous scene, "Hello, Sheriff. My client is an old friend of Zapata Ashby's elders, and I hope to catch up with him. It is convenient for you to tell me, Zapata Ashby What happened to the Pata family? Am I not going to see Zapata Ashby anymore?"

"Wow, it's indeed you! You know everything like a god!"

Julian said bluntly, "Zapata Ashby was unfortunately killed. Two hours ago, the police received a report. After Zapata's head was chopped off, it was discarded at the back door of the veterinary clinic where he worked. I will take Someone came to Zapata's house to investigate."

The Zapata family's living room was covered in blood.

This is the scene of beheading, and a headless corpse lay on the ground.

"The ax used for the beheading has been found."

Julian talked about the seriousness of the case, "There are very few vicious murders in this area, and the murders are mostly poisonous. Such a bloody situation is really rare."

Speaking of this, Julian had a flash of inspiration and asked expectantly:

"Mr. Bennet, since you came to find Zapata, and now he has encountered an accident, are you willing to find his murderer?"

Julian: Answer it!Yes!He will be able to watch the idol investigate the case at close range~~

"I am very grateful to the Sheriff for his trust, and of course I am willing to contribute."

Kelsey pretended not to read the tilde in Julian's tone, "Please allow me to ask one more question, this time I came to look for Zapata together with Mr. Holmes and Mr. Watson, can I invite them to participate in the investigation of the murder?" ?"

What!Holmes and Watson are here too? !

Julie felt a little dizzy with happiness for a moment, and almost screamed.No, he has to be reserved and maintain a serious image of a policeman.

"Ahhhh! Consummated! He! Consummated! What a good day today! Let him meet the angel detective partner combination in his mind. It also allows him to meet Mr. Watson who has benefited the book fans and wrote those crime-solving stories! "

Kelsey: Sure.The sheriff probably had a bunch of exclamation points in his head.

"Sheriff Julian." Kelsey had to recall Julian's mind, "What do you think?"

Zhu Lian tried his best to restrain the excitement in his heart, and tried his best to say without a smile, "We can solve the case together, and the most important thing is to find the real culprit as soon as possible."

Without further ado, send messages separately.

Two hours later, Watson and Sherlock rushed to Zapata's house one after another, and they were greeted by the enthusiastic and shy detective Julian.

Coupled with Julian's five big and three thick appearance, this appearance can't help but make people want to ask, is there any strange person mixed in the scene?

Sherlock didn't tell Julian more, but talked with Kelsey about the progress of the case.

"The severed head matches the wound of the headless corpse."

Kelsey told Sherlock that she had inspected the scene and had police bring the head thrown at the veterinary clinic to the Zapata home for comparison.

"The murder weapon for the beheading was also found, in the trash can in the kitchen. The blood on the ax was not cleaned up, and two fingerprints were extracted. In addition, there were shoe prints at the scene of dismemberment in the living room. All the way out of the living room, the broken Three meters from the door."

Sherlock said he also heard a little about the case at the veterinary clinic.

"The clinic opened at 09:30 in the morning. At around [-]:[-], the cleaner went to the back door to dump the garbage and found a human head hanging from a locust tree."

This head is not thrown casually.

Zapata's short hair is tied into a sky braid.

One end of the rope was tied to the braid, and the other end was looped around the branch and tied to the trunk.

"The cleaner almost kissed the head. It is conceivable that the murderer clearly stated that he did not want to hide the existence of the head."

Sherlock surveyed the area around the veterinary clinic and also extracted several shoe prints.The current comparison is consistent with the shoe prints found by the Zapata family.

It's a shoe print.

The men's shoes were a size [-], which was a size and a half larger than the size [-] and a half Zapata himself wore.

For now, the clues seem obvious.

Fingerprints, shoe prints, murder weapons, the victim's body, the first scene and the place where the body was dumped were all found.

According to preliminary autopsy speculation, Zapata's death time was between one and two o'clock in the morning this morning.

Based on this, someone saw the back of the suspect near the body throwing place.

"One kilometer away from the veterinary clinic is a residential house."

Sherlock visited nearby residents, "There are two houses near the street, which are shared by the employees of Bar Street. They get off work at 02:30 in the morning and usually return home at 03:30 in the morning. Shortly after returning home from work this morning, a total of Nine pairs of eyes, all seeing the sneaky figure on the corner of the street."

"At 03:30 in the morning, apart from the movement of these late pub workers going home, the residential area should be quiet."

Sherlock said that the bar staff said that they heard rare footsteps today, "it was the sound of 'tattling' leather shoes and heels, echoing in the empty street. Let them open the window curiously to see what happened."

The nine people only saw the back of a man, who disappeared into the dim light of the street corner seven meters away.

Just judging from the back of the man, he is a bit thin, wearing a dark windbreaker and a gentleman hat, with his hands in his pockets and no leather bag.

"It's a pity that no suspicious shoe prints were extracted from the street corner."

Sherlock immediately went back to the veterinary clinic to ask Zapata's colleagues about his relationships.

"Zapata has just returned to Derby, and his new job has not been completed for three months. His colleagues are not familiar with him, and they only say that he is good at treating cattle, sheep and horses on the ranch, and he should be very good at delivering animals."

Kelsey nodded, "I think Zapata's colleagues also reflected that he is a person who likes to work overtime, and there are a bunch of experimental records left by Zapata in the study.

According to the time of the experiment, Zapata sometimes stayed in the clinic until eleven o'clock at night from Wednesday to Sunday, and sometimes went to the pasture to observe the life and rest of the animals.However, Monday and Tuesday nights are exceptions. "

Zapata is 42 years old and unmarried, and neighbors and colleagues have never seen anyone who had a close relationship with Passata.

The man seemed to be alone all the time.Even if he shows up at the workplace on Sunday, is it just his personal habits that he doesn't arrange work on Monday and Tuesday nights?

"In addition, there are two special points."

When Kelsey searched the room, he found a small wooden box, "There are five magic books in rune script. It is very old, with missing pages, and all of them are related to healing."

The second special thing is a piece of draft paper found from the trash can in the study.

There are some equation calculation steps, a few simple cow anatomy diagrams, and four or five scratches from a trial pen.

In addition, there is a line of scribbled but deeply written Latin: "I hate David!"

"No one in the neighborhood is named David. Have you heard that Zapata's colleagues are named after it?"

Kelsey handed the draft paper to Sherlock. Except for this paper, there is no written text to record the mood with Zapata for the time being.

Sherlock had gone through the staff list at the veterinary clinic and he was sure no one, including the temps, had 'David' in their name.

"Maybe it was Passata's former enemy? When Passata was living in Germany, a certain David offended or entrapped him?"

David is a common name, and the term alone is too broad to identify an audience.

It would be great if Zapata's address could be determined one day earlier. Even if the murder cannot be prevented in the end, seeing Zapata alive will more or less give more clues.

This can't help but make people lament bad luck.

At the moment, all known leads are exchanged.

Sherlock just cast a puzzled look at Kelsey. Ten meters behind, what happened to Sergeant Julian's eager glances at the two of them from time to time?

Sherlock asked in a low voice, "That sheriff, is he all right?"

Ten meters behind.

Sergeant Julian didn't interrupt the conversation between the two detectives, but took aim at Watson as soon as he entered the door, asking various questions about the detective story.

However, Julian peeked at Kelsey and Sherlock from time to time, as if he wanted to draw from them the courage and strength to pursue justice.

What else could Kelsey say? Sergeant Julian opened the door and gave them the convenience of investigating with full powers, and he didn't bluff to interfere with the investigation and express his opinions.

Julian just couldn't hold back his excitement, and had a passionate conversation with Watson, the author of the detective collection.

The current situation is that the two detectives were not lucky enough to meet a live Zapata, but let them meet a live CP fan.

"Tom, haven't you met any fans of Mr. Holmes? Thanks to Watson for writing books, including "The Detective Collection of Sherlock Holmes", "The Collection of Bennett Bennett", "The Collection of KS Combination Detective Cases" .”

Kelsey's tone was a little helpless, "Detective Julian is a loyal book fan of the KS group. He is really happy to see two big living people. As long as this kind of emotion does not cross the line, you can understand it?"

"Well, as we all know, Watson's detective stories are adapted, and he can at most restore [-]% of our real situation."

Sherlock has also encountered some book fans, and it seems that Julian can use his position to maintain a certain degree of close contact, but as long as he does not cross the line, it is still within the tolerable range.

Calm down, you're not just a fan of books.

Who has never been a passionate book fan.

Sherlock said to Kelsey solemnly, "I admire "Apep" very much. I used to look forward to seeing him, and went to the dark castle to attend the party.That was a very wise move that led me to meet you, my "Apep".

Jerry, you are also very fond of the "Chocolate Cake" book and can't wait to meet each other too.So, you met me, your "chocolate cake" in the dark castle.In this way, we are really made for each other, it was destined to love each other from the beginning, wasn't it? "

Kelsey nodded with a smile. "Mr. Holmes, you are as accurate as ever. I love 'chocolate cake.' "

ten meters away.

Watson tried to keep a smile on Sergeant Julian, but from the corner of his eye he kept glancing at the two detectives.

"Huh? What's going on? Kelsey and Sherlock don't just talk to each other and smile at each other, but look at him too! He's about to be asked crazy by the book fan Julian!

Are the two detectives not afraid of losing their responsible and brave assistant if they don't come to the rescue?This time he had been prepared that he might encounter a murder case, but he really didn't expect to meet such an enthusiastic book fan as Julian. "

Watson couldn't help but reflect: Is it because I am too restless?