Detective Bennet [Comprehensive novel]

A golden key leads to the secret hidden behind.

Enthusiastic tourists Mr. and Mrs. Smith helped the owners of the smashed sculpture shop to draw half-face portraits of the shop-smashing murderer.

One of them has distinctive features on the left ear, with two bright red blood moles side by side on the earlobe.

"This guy looks a lot like Holly!"

Wendy Brown came to Yorktown as agreed.

How did Yvonne chop off Zapata's head?

And why did he choose to commit suicide and pretend to be a homicide, and how to use the extreme method of using a pig's bladder to send the murder weapon to the sky?

These answers need to ask Hawley to find out.

Wendy disguised herself as an old man and brought her mother Yvonne's old belongings and several letters with Dr. Hawley, hoping to find out the villain who led her mother to a dead end in the magic city.

At the moment, Wendy has no time to be shocked by the detectives' husband and wife disguise roles, and his attention is attracted by the half-face portrait.

"The tallest of the three people who smashed the store is probably 'Doctor Holly'. Although the jaws of the two are different, Holly has a square jaw when he appeared, and this person has a pointed chin, but the position of the blood mole on their left ear is exactly the same, and The height is exactly the same."

Holly approached Wendy and Yvonne by pretending to be a therapist, and he must have done some facial camouflage, so it's not surprising that there is a difference in the way he and the shoplifter appear.

However, the key features remain the same.

This identification result was within Kelsey's expectations.

The beheaded Zapata's study contained ancient books on the healing technique of runes. Assuming that Holly arranged to kill Zapata, both of them may be involved in the ancient mysterious sect.

The purpose of smashing the sculpture shop is to find the golden key hidden in the sculpture, which is also related to the secret library of the mysterious sect.

It is logical that Dr. Hawley is the same person as the store smasher.

"Now we need to determine the specific location of Hawley and others."

Kelsey looked through a dozen letters brought by Wendy. Hawley did not disclose his address, but there were some traces between the lines.

"The road is narrow and winding"

"The buildings on both sides of the trail are very close together, especially the second and third floors. Open the windows and stretch out your hands, so you can hold hands with the residents across the street."

"The convex structure of the second and third floors of the Tudor-style building makes the fence plastered walls on the ground floor rarely wet from rain. But you may not like this place, the smell here is not good"

After half a month of exploring York City, Kelsey memorized the topography of the city by heart.

"These descriptions speak of a street."

Kelsey had a rough guess, and then related to the pig bladder balloon in Yvonne's case, she was [-]% sure of finding Holly's residence.

Wendy hurriedly asked, "Where is it?"

Kelsey announced a place name familiar to Yorkers, "Butcher Street."

Butcher Street has almost completely preserved the style and features of medieval buildings.

True to its name, it is a street that trades fresh raw meat. It has been developed for nearly 800 years, and it is the most prosperous era of raw meat trading.

"Ah! It's that place full of butchers."

Wendy didn't expect Holly to live in that bloody place.

Butcher Street is engaged in the business of raw meat, and each store is naturally equipped with a slaughterhouse.

It is not difficult to imagine that an old street is full of bloody smell all year round, as well as unavoidable problems such as flying insects and flies.

In Wendy's impression, Holly, a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, always looks clean, and the collar and cuffs must be absolutely pure white.

"I don't know if Hawley's penchant for cleanliness is part of his disguise, but given the choice, normal people wouldn't choose to rent on Butcher Row. However, it does explain his familiarity with the use of pig bladders .”

"Making pig bladder balloons requires skilled handling of pig bladder fat. Hawley is likely not only a tenant, but also engaged in raw meat slaughtering related work."

Kelsey decided to go to Butcher Street to find out, "Unless Hawley himself likes butchering pigs and sheep very much, there must be a special reason for him to choose such a place of residence and work."

Before heading to Butcher Row, wait for Sherlock to come back, and hope he gets something out of the chocolate workshop.

Sherlock went to the suburban workshop to find an answer. Who put the golden key in the chocolate statue?

"White Burn was responsible for molding the Nutella, and he has left."

Sherlock said regretfully, "On the day the Nordic Mythology series of chocolates came out, White finished his last job and left, saying he was going home to take care of his elderly grandmother."

The reasons for White's departure are difficult to discern.

The owner of the chocolate workshop said that White has been in York City for five years. He is a Norwegian, he does not like to socialize, and he rarely talks about personal situations to other people.

"It can only be determined that White is distantly related to the owner of a pork shop in York City. The owner passed away last week. White's colleagues said that White was in a bad mood to leave the ministry."

Sherlock suspected that the golden key belonged to the butcher shop owner, and White left to avoid hunting.

Speaking of hunting, Watson sent a telegram from Germany.

Going to investigate the situation in the small town where Zapata Ashby lived for many years, he got a piece of news.

"S·A has been wearing a necklace, and the pendant is a pure gold key. I don't know the full picture yet."

However, detectives did not find a solid gold key necklace at Zapata's home.

This led to further speculation about Zapat's death.

Hawley deliberately approaches Yvonne, who is mentally handicapped, as a psychiatrist, not only asking her to kill her former lover, but also asking her to get the golden key from Zapat.

After killing two birds with one stone, as long as Yvonne is induced to commit suicide and pretend to commit suicide to her husband's mistress, the last person who knows will kill herself.

At this point, multiple clues are merged.

Hawley's side is collecting golden keys, but the total number of keys is not yet known.

What is known is that in order to obtain the key, Hawley and others used all means, such as disguising, assassinating, smashing stores and other means were staged in turn.

Zapat died here, and the death of the butcher shop owner may not be innocent, so will Hawley still stay on Butcher Street now?

The two detectives immediately went to the streets and alleys full of bloody smell, and in the name of the Smiths came to find their elders and old friends, they asked if there was a pork shop owner who died not long ago.

"Oh! Yes! It's a pity you're late. Old Lane, the pig seller, just died last week."

The shopkeepers on Butcher Street knew each other more or less, and Bob, the beef seller, heard about Mr. and Mrs. Smith's visit and pointed them the way.

"The seventh store from the front, the one with the "Happy Pig" sign is Old Ryan's, and it's closed now.Old Lane had no children, and when he died, his pal Whaley helped with the funeral. "

According to Babb, Ryan Sr. had three employees.

In early June, Ryan Sr. felt sick to his stomach and had uncontrolled diarrhea.The disease was so violent that he died within three days.

For residents who live alone and have no children, the nearest church is responsible for their funeral affairs.

The pastor checked the old Brian's body, and nothing unusual was reported, and Whale helped bury his boss from the sidelines.

Kelsey and Sherlock exchanged glances. Old Ryan should be the owner of the golden key, a distant relative of the chocolate workshop employee.

Whaley is most likely Hawley, and he uses the very insidious name change, Whaley → Hawley.

Sherlock asked, "Mr. Babb, do you know where Whaley has gone? We would like to see him, or, what characteristics does he have that will allow us to find him easily?"

"That's not clear. I haven't seen Huili recently. He didn't work in another butcher shop."

Babu recalled Huili's appearance, and shook his head apologetically, "Wheli has been working at Old Ryan's house for half a year, killing pigs in the backyard. It's not very good to say what characteristics he has."

Hyeri's appearance was plain and unremarkable.

Because his work inevitably stained half of his body with blood, no one paid attention to whether there was a blood mole on his earlobe.In terms of height alone, he is the same as the store smasher and doctor Holly.

Babu finally suggested, "Maybe the pastor will know what Huili is doing? Why don't you go to church and ask?"

"Thank you very much for your help and advice, we will ask the pastor later."

Sherlock spoke sincerely, but had no intention of going to church to ask.With the occult organization involved, it's hard to say if the pastor and Hawley/Whaley were secretly colluding.

What to do next?

It's just that he came seven days late, the butcher's owner, Old Ryan, died, and the suspicious guy Huili disappeared.

Overhead, a clear sky.

The butcher shop on Butcher Street is empty.

Fifty kilometers away.

Under the same blue sky in York City, on the side of the chocolate factory in the outskirts of the city, the man with two bloody moles on his left ear looked very pale.

"Resigned?!"

The bloody man glared at his subordinate angrily, "You mean that White Born, who was in charge of chocolate modeling, resigned, and left York City on the day that batch of Nordic mythology chocolates were finished?!"

"Yes, gone. Whiteburn, left the day after old Lane died."

His subordinates were also very helpless. After smashing dozens of statue shops one after another, he received an order not to let go of even the chocolate statues.

There are [-] chocolate production workshops of Nordic mythological figures.

This is to buy all the remaining chocolate statues on the market, and on the other hand, to check if anyone who made the chocolate has any doubts.

After a thorough investigation, only one person resigned.

Whiteburn, it is said, was distantly related to a pork shopkeeper in Yorktown.

Apparently, Old Ryan had concealed the matter well.

The subordinate took a peek at the man with the blood mole. His immediate boss had been working as a butcher on Butcher Street for half a year, and he didn't realize that Old Ryan had kept a hand.

The man with the blood mole was filled with anger in his chest, he didn't expect that Old Ryan would take a risk when things came to an end.

The day before yesterday, he was severely taught by Early and scolded for not thinking about things. He didn't expect that the chocolate statue might hide the golden key.

The news of the key was revealed by Old Ryan himself to the blessing priest before his death.

At that time, Old Ryan didn't say much, he only talked about the Norse god statue and the C product, and normal people would think it was hidden in the clay statue.

Who would have thought that the so-called C production could also be a chocolate statue!

And unlike clay figurines, chocolate figurines are selling well.

The blood mole man was severely reprimanded by Early, and then expanded the scope of the search to chocolate, but found that the difficulty of the search increased significantly.

Nearly two-thirds of the Nordic series of chocolate figurines on the market have been sold. It is not easy to find buyers, and the sellers simply cannot remember so many customer information.

Only a difference of six days.

The chocolate workshop is empty.

Where will the vast sea of ​​people go with the last golden key?

This is three missing one!

Now that he has obtained three keys, the one of old Ryan is missing. Could it be that he just let it sink into the sea of ​​people with the chocolate statue?

The blood mole man was extremely unwilling, he could successfully pretend to be Holly to approach Yvonne, not only tricked the woman into stealing the ancestral pure gold key from Zapat, but also set up a scheme to kill both of them.

It was smooth sailing against Zapat, and after half a year of lurking, it was determined that Old Ryan was the successor of the fourth golden key. Why did he stop at the last step?

'Pooh! '

The man with the blood mole yelled to the sky in his heart, but it was only a few days late, and he couldn't believe that he couldn't find the buyer of the golden key inside the building!

Digging three feet, but also to find people.

Whether it is stealing, robbing or killing, you must get the last golden key.

In June, the summer breeze blows by.

In the city of York, there was an endless flow of people, the market was in full swing, and the seminar was in full swing.

Under the lively and harmonious appearance, the undercurrent is raging, and the claws of evil are rampant.

This magical city.

People who pursue the light of the truth and those who try to open the door of darkness are caught off guard and inevitably meet here.

Right now, taking the initiative to seize the opportunity has become particularly critical.

After the blood mole man missed the clue of the maker of the chocolate workshop, he soon got good news.

A repeat customer came to a certain chocolate shop that he was watching closely. The person who came was very familiar. It was Wendy Brown, who he had deliberately approached.

Wendy asked the shopkeeper about welfare activities such as giving lucky keys to the chocolate statues, which indirectly exposed important clues.

Very good!

The man with the blood mole secretly thought that his luck was overwhelming, and even if the fortune came, he couldn't stop it.

That idiot Wendy sent him to Yvonne's side last time to help him kill two birds with one stone.This time, it was he who inadvertently revealed the trace of the golden key again.

Where is the golden key?

The man with the bloody mole decided it was in Wendy's hands, otherwise he wouldn't have gone to the chocolate shop to ask if the chocolate statue of the God of Daybreak was special.

mid-June.

It was past nine o'clock in the evening, and it was just getting dark in York City.

night fell,

The hotel door is still open.

Wendy went out on time at nine o'clock in the evening to have a drink at a nearby bar just like the previous two days.He will go back to his room to rest around 10:30.

For an hour and a half, Wendy's room was so quiet that it seemed empty of life.

Inside the house, there was only one kerosene lamp with a weak flame, which faintly illuminated a corner of the reception room.

However, there was someone under the bed in the bedroom!

Both Sherlock and Kelsey put on light sportswear and hid under the bed, quietly waiting for the result of the plan to lure the snake out of the hole.Tonight, will the uninvited guest throw himself into the trap?

At this time, the two were lying flat together, breathing and smelling each other.

How would you describe your current mood?Thousands of words may be combined into one sentence, the life of a detective is really colorful!

The two did not sleep on the bed together first, but quickly reached the achievement of drilling the bed together.

Time slowed down a bit.

After an unknown amount of time, a strange noise came from the quiet room.

Listen, there is a change in the door lock!Here comes the thief—