Detective Bennet [Comprehensive novel]

There are not many traces of the life of the male owner in Brown's house, which can be explained by the fact that Brown lived in the lover's house, but there were not many traces of the female owner.

Although Yvonne has everything that is standard for a lady, such as clothes, jewelry, and leather bags, she couldn't find a few books or magazines she was reading.

The [-]th century was not the Internet era with diversified entertainment, and there are not many indoor entertainment methods suitable for women today.

Married women who don't work outside the home are more or less reading about gardening, knitting, cooking, etc., or doing hands-on work to get through the long days.

Yvonne doesn't like social gatherings. What does she usually do at home?

Nor did the maid know that Mrs. Brown liked to be alone in her room.She asked the servants not to clean the room every day, and usually tidy up the room by themselves, but the large-scale cleaning by the servants should be done once a month.

Brown was not surprised by this, "Yvonne has always cleaned the room by herself. It is a habit she developed since she was a child, and she hasn't changed it since she was married for more than [-] years."

Is there anything wrong with working diligently to clean the room by yourself?

This kind of habit, which is different from that of ordinary noble ladies, is really indisputable.

However, even Julian thought of something wrong at this moment.

At the scene of Zapata's death, his room was tidied up.

In the afternoon, the domestic helper went to the police station to make a statement. He cleaned Zapata's house every Saturday and Wednesday, and was not required to work overtime yesterday.

Today is Tuesday, and Zapata was killed.Except for the study, other rooms in his house are very tidy.

Unless Zapata didn't come home at all on Sunday and Monday, it would be impossible to keep the tidiness from the fresh cleaning.

So who did the cleaning?

Zapata himself?Or the lover who went to his house for the night-Yvonne?

The timeline is getting weird.

Today, Tuesday.

Between eight and nine in the morning, Yvonne was killed in the street.

Going back seven hours, from one to two in the morning, Zapata was killed at home.

Judging from the cleanliness of Zapata's house, does it mean that Yvonne visited his house on Monday night?

The workaholic Zapata only works overtime on Monday and Tuesday nights. Is he taking time to accompany Yvonne?

The problem is coming.

How long will Yvonne be at Zapata's on Monday night?Was she connected to Zapata's coma before his death?Is there another face-to-face encounter with the murderer?

Julian immediately asked the maid in Brown's house about Yvonne's whereabouts.

The maid said that the hostess Yvonne did not go out yesterday, especially that no one noticed that the hostess left the Brown House through the main entrance.

However, the door is closed and there are windows.

Sherlock turned out the window and climbed around the outer wall.On the outer wall of the first and a half floors, clues were found on the reliefs.

Not shoe prints, but half palm prints left after wearing gloves.

The size of the handprint is similar to Yvonne's palm by visual inspection, and it can be checked with the corpse later to verify whether it is completely consistent.

Compared with other people in the Brown House, there are two other maids who are also about the size of a palm, but they all deny that they have climbed the window.

Brown's complexion was a little pale, he looked up at the palm prints on the first half of the floor. "Yvonne's room is on the second floor, how did she get down?"

No one answered this question.

The second floor is not too high, and there are decorations on the outer wall of Brown's house that can be used as leverage.It's not a cliff, and with practice you can always learn to climb a wall.

Julian endured the sarcasm that Brown, as Yvonne's husband, knew nothing about his wife's condition.Who forced Yvonne to behave strangely?Brown didn't do it himself, he raised a mistress outside first.

Night, nine o'clock.

In Derby in May, it was already dark.

The detailed inspection of the external environment of the Brown House will not be continued until tomorrow day.

Sherlock went up to the second floor and asked if Kelsey had any more indoor discoveries. "Mr. Bennet, you..."

Step into the room of the Mistress of the Brown House.

Then I saw Kelsey crawling out from under the bed, and her clothes were inevitably stained with a little dust.

No surprises, normal operation.

Detectives are always going in and out of strange places.

However, the scene in front of me made me want to laugh.

Mr. Bennet, a gentleman who has always been elegant and calm, has a small mess of hair, and her dull hair is half bristled but she doesn't know it.

Sherlock suppressed a laugh, "Jerry, your hair is messed up."

"is it?"

Kelsey smoothed her hair, but saw the corners of Sherlock's mouth twitch slightly, and he tried harder to suppress the smile. "Mr. Holmes, when did your sense of humor drop to such a low level?"

Sherlock stared at the dull hair on Kelsey's head.Not only was it not smoothed, but Kelsey fiddled with it to make it even more jumpy, as if it could dance and sway in the wind at any time.

"My dear Mr. Bennet, how could I possibly make fun of you."

Sherlock walked towards Kelsey in two or three steps, stroked her hair, and brushed the dust off her shoulders. "Why don't you understand that the smile I can't restrain at the corner of my mouth is because I can't restrain my joy when I see you."

"Then I really want to thank you!"

Kelsey showed a standard smile, she will wait, she can be sure that Sherlock will have his hair on end one day.

The episode ends when Julian and Brown enter the door a few steps behind.

Kelsey asked Brown seriously in a blink of an eye, "I heard that you and Ms. Yvonne have a son. Wendy Brown is studying at the University of Leeds. I hope you can send a telegram as soon as possible to inform him to go home once."

"What are you doing with Wendy?"

Brown doesn't want to disturb his son's studies. "Wendy has been living outside the school since high school. He doesn't know much about family affairs or Yvonne's affairs."

Julian endured the ridicule, but finally couldn't hold back the ridicule of Brown:

"Yvonne is Wendy Brown's biological mother. When the mother was killed, it is a normal process to inform the son to go home for the funeral. Mr. Brown, no matter how much you want your son not to delay his studies, you can't hide his mother's death about it?"

Brown certainly wouldn't stop his son from attending his wife's funeral, but that's when the official burial happens.

Calling Wendy back now is probably to ask him to cooperate with the investigation to find out what happened to Yvonne's life, but what can the child know.

Sherlock said bluntly, "Mr. Brown, you think that the relationship between the son and his wife is indifferent. That's your opinion. You didn't expect your wife to climb the wall. How can you expect that Wendy Brown doesn't know his mother?" "

Brown was speechless, so he could only reluctantly say, "Okay, I'll send a telegram, but I'm not sure Wendy will be back in a few days."

"The University of Leeds is in Yorkshire. If Wendy cares enough about his mother to find out the truth, he will be able to arrive in Derby the morning after tomorrow at the latest."

Kelsey spoke of the day and night, asking Brown, "When a normal person hears that their mother has been killed, they go home as soon as they can. When you say Wendy isn't sure how long it will take to get back, do you mean that your son is with you?" Is there a rift between your wives?"

"Of course not. There is no quarrel between them."

Brown categorically denied that he had been deliberately framed by the murderer as a suspect in the killing of Zapata, and his son must not be misunderstood for no reason.

Immediately, Brown stopped talking nonsense and quickly went to the study to send a telegram.

There were three people left in the house.

Sherlock looked at Kelsey, "Have you found a clue, something to do with Wendy Booker?"

"It's not related to Wendy, but to be precise, it's related to York City."

Kelsey took the small paper packet from her pocket, and took a small piece of paper from it. "A fragment of an envelope, found under the bed. Postmarked from Yorktown."

Looking through Yvonne's personal belongings, she didn't keep many letters.

Ten social invitations and 27 greetings from son Wendy.

These 37 letters were all collected and forwarded to Yvonne by the porter.

Besides, the concierge had seen no other letters addressed to Yvonne in the last five years.

"Yvonne's social circle does not involve York City, and Wendy has been studying in Leeds in West Yorkshire from high school to sophomore year, and all his letters are sent from there."

Kelsey pointed to the postmark on the shredded paper, "How can there be fragments of the York City envelope from East York in this room?"

Julian stared at the piece of paper no bigger than a thumb, and Kelsey found it at the foot of the bed.

What can this thing explain?The original has not been preserved at all.

Sherlock knew what Kelsey meant.

The envelope came from York City, which is the magical city where Conrad disappeared more than a hundred years ago.

Ashby who finally saw Conrad, his descendant Zapata was killed, and Zapata had several runes of healing spells in his study.

Yvonne and Zapata were neighbors more than 20 years ago, and they are likely to be lovers more than 20 years later.

Does the fragment of the envelope found in Yvonne's room mean that she has something to do with the city of magic?

As of now, Yvonne has some problems that cannot be ignored.

Why is a lady who is supposed to be pampered and pampered so good at climbing walls? Who taught her?

This morning, why did she go out at six o'clock?What did she do one or two hours before going to the scene of the crime?

As a husband, Brown has no answers to these questions.

The maids at Brown's house didn't know anything about the mistress.

Yvonne has no close friends, and her natal family is long gone.

So it was necessary to ask Wendy Brown if she knew any of her mother's little secrets.

Julian didn't know much about it. He looked at the fragments of the postmarked envelope and scratched his head in distress.

"It's a bit bad. This letter was not delivered by the postman to the gatekeeper of Brown's house through the normal process. There are so many post offices in Derby, who knows which one Yvonne chose as the collection point."

It's not that Julian is afraid of trouble and doesn't want to do a blanket search.

Even if she brought Yvonne's photo to the post office and asked, but Yvonne would climb the wall and go out secretly, she must have made a disguise.The staff of the post office may not have seen the true face of the recipient.

What is troubling is that Yvonne's disguised equipment cannot be found in Brown's house.

No matter what investigation is to be done next, we can temporarily conclude a paragraph tonight.

The two detectives detoured the police station and brought the case files and autopsy results back to the hotel to continue their research.

The anatomical results were roughly the same as the predictions.

Zapat took sedative hypnotics and was in a coma when he was beheaded.

Yvonne died from an abdominal wound, no common poisons were detected in her body, and there was almost no counterattack to resist the injury, except for a slight scratch on the palm of her left hand.

Judging from the unhealed condition of the wound, the scratch was caused this morning.

But Watson commented:

"The deceased, Yvonne, was wearing gloves when she died. The gloves were intact and there were no scratches. Because of the abdominal injury, it is estimated that Yvonne used both hands to press the abdomen in an attempt to stop the bleeding, and the gloves were completely stained red with blood."

The above situation means that Yvonne took off the gloves halfway.

Putting gloves back on after hurting your left hand, or carrying another pair with you this morning when you left the house and throwing away the broken glove.

Kelsey sorted out the current known situation, and Yvonne's image can be said to have changed several times.

Yvonne used to be a tutor, but married into a wealthy family.

Yvonne and her old friend Zapata reunited and became lovers, and both were killed.

Yvonne did not integrate into the social gatherings of the ladies' circle, and she always kept the habit of cleaning the room by herself.

Yvonne seems to live a boring life, but she has the ability to climb through windows and walls without being noticed.

How many secrets does Yvonne still have?

"At 03:30 in the morning, we had just entered the house when we suddenly heard the sound of the heels of leather shoes 'tapping' from the street——

Go check it out and see the back of a man.Wearing a gentleman's hat and a windbreaker, he disappeared into the street lights at the corner of the street, and soon there was no sound of footsteps. "

Kelsey perused eyewitness testimony.

Today, near the veterinary clinic where the corpse was dumped.

Nine bar night staff had just arrived home when they heard suspicious footsteps and opened the windows to investigate.

What makes people puzzled is why there is a sudden sound of footsteps, when there was no abnormal sound in the empty street before?

Since you are walking step by step, why don't you hear footsteps soon?The street was very quiet in the early morning, and an echo should be heard.

This means that the suspicious footsteps on the street were deliberately timed by the murderer so as to create witnesses.

Why make eyewitnesses on purpose?

One reason is to use the specious back of the man to frame the blame, and blame Brown for being identified as the murderer of Zapata.

So who is faking it?

Kelsey thought about it and immediately knocked on Sherlock's door next door, "Tom, I want to borrow something from you."

The clock is about to point to eleven o'clock at night.

Sherlock was still flipping through the results of the police investigation near the place where Yvonne was killed, reporting that there were almost no valuable clues.

What made him a little concerned was that four or five people mentioned that they heard a few "bang bang" slight explosions at night in the past two weeks, but they never found out where the sound came from, let alone any abnormal explosions.

At that moment, there was a knock on the door.

Sherlock glanced at the time, it was late at night, what did Kelsey need to ask him to borrow?

"Please lend me a set of your clothes, and most importantly, your shoes."

Kelsey's camouflage clothes are all custom-fit and custom-made, and she needs to verify one thing as soon as possible after four and a half hours, that is, at 03:30 in the morning.

"You want my clothes and shoes?"

Sherlock immediately thought of the testimony of the bar staff, "In the early morning, the street lights, the backs, the witnesses of the employees who got off work late at night after work. You want to determine whether those witnesses can distinguish between real and fake suspects."

"Yes. I also wondered what the sudden and loud noise of leather shoes was about."

"If you're wearing oversized shoes that don't follow the heel, the heel strike will be louder," Kelsey points out.

When do you need to wear plus size shoes?

Dressing up as a man is a possibility.

Sherlock brought the clothes and shoes, and now he was looking forward to the scene in four and a half hours, not just because there might be a breakthrough in the case.

"Jerry, please let me go. Let your dear Mr. Holmes see you dressed as Mr. Holmes. It sounds a bit convoluted, but it's so interesting what you do."

Sherlock: Look!I was right, Kelsey was a lot of fun for him.

Kelsey smiled. What could she say to an excited Sherlock?

This time the disguise was purely for the need to solve the case, it was not intentional to unlock new characters, and she had no weird hobbies.right?