Detective Bennet [Comprehensive novel]

On the eve of April Fool's Day, Turin Cathedral caught fire.

The four people involved in the case died that night, and they were divided into two different methods of death.

The three people who set fire to theft directly seemed to be caught by a demon, and died after struggling desperately.The main messenger did not escape, and died of a sudden heart attack in the hotel.

The sudden serious case caused an uproar in Turin.A planned seminar on the expansion of the Egyptian Museum has been postponed while police search for a suitable coroner.

In Turin, where the magic triangle of black and white meets, it is difficult to find a forensic doctor who is objective and possesses extremely high professional knowledge.

Watson asked himself that he was just an intern doctor, and he didn't volunteer to recommend himself, but stayed in the hotel to watch the development of the situation.I was also secretly glad that the four of Mopley didn't attend the wedding banquet, and even didn't get sick during the church wedding.

"The autopsy has no clue yet, but rumors are going crazy. The four Primos died last night without any guilt. They sold themselves to the devil to destroy the holy things that God left in the world, and they suffered a backlash."

Kelsey shook her finger, leaving aside the cause of the four Primo's deaths, there are loopholes in the logic of the rumors.

"Why is it a backlash? Why must it be the destruction of the sacred objects? Couldn't it be that the sacred objects were stolen and sold, and they were punished by God?"

Because God is merciful, when dealing with sinners, he will not take extreme punishment directly.

Everyone present would answer this question, but most of them remained silent.

Sherlock said it directly, because determining the motive of committing a crime is a key step in solving a case.

"How could it be possible for profiteering cultural relic dealers to destroy the shroud? Stealing and selling is the most likely mode of behavior for Mopley."

It would be naive to say that Primo only wanted to destroy the Shroud.

Setting fire to the church is also a tactic of attacking the west. The burning area and the secret room where the shroud is stored are in different directions, one south and one north.

It was carefully planned for a group to attend a church wedding and not attend the banquet that followed.

Once in decades, the holy relics of Turin Cathedral are rarely displayed to the outside world.They seized the opportunity to step out and determine the possible location of the shroud.In order to avoid long nights and dreams, we will not procrastinate on the same day.

At this time, come to listen to Duke, the heir to the lively antique business, and get a general idea of ​​a series of strange things that happened in the past seven days.From the locomotive being robbed to the dead rat being bombed, the shroud was stolen, and the suspected gang involved in the case died suddenly.

"Wait a moment."

Duke hesitated and said, "You may not be able to use completely normal logic to deduce Primo's actions. He is not a completely rational businessman in private."

Sherlock and Kelsey were a little surprised. Unexpectedly, Duke, who came to join in the fun, brought new clues.

Last time in Dark Castle, Duke didn't have much sense of presence.

The impression left on people is that apart from being beaten up by three Ottoman pirates, there is also a great admiration for the Huaguo Kung Fu who rescued him.

"Please tell me everything!"

Sherlock looked at Duke expectantly, and clues often appeared inadvertently, coming from any inconspicuous person.

Duke was stared at by Zhuo Zhuo, feeling a little pressure and a little pride inexplicably.

He is no longer an heir who is only shadowed by his father's generation, he has also broken through the dark castle of the devil, and more or less participated in the Turin conspiracy.

"Except for the target customers, very few people know that Primo is forging cultural relics."

Duke broke out the inside news, "For example, Edwin, as his opponent, should be kept in the dark. The reason why I heard some news is that I sold the mummy powder provided by Primo."

Mummy powder is a rare commodity in the upper class of Europe, and it has been rare and expensive since the Middle Ages.

Grind the mummy, its powder is used as a pigment, and there is an exclusive color called 'mummy brown'; it can also be used as medicine to treat headaches and brain fever, strengthen yang and nourish the kidney, etc.

In recent decades, with the development of shipping, after Napoleon launched the war against Egypt, the exchanges between Europe and Egypt became more frequent.

The collection of ancient Egyptian cultural relics has become popular in Europe, ranging from sculptures, murals, coffins, steles, etc., including mummies of course.

Some of them don't need a complete mummy, they are after the mysterious mummy powder.

"The price of a real mummy is high. If you get a hard-earned one and grind it into powder, you can just divide it up and lose it."

Duke didn't want to take this terrible medicine powder, he didn't want to swallow the curse of the pharaoh, and he didn't understand why many people flocked to it, but he didn't refuse to make money if there was a market.

"Plimo supplied fakes with real ones to make huge profits. At the beginning, I was tricked three or four times, and I didn't know that most of the fakes were worthless flour."

Later, Duke hired a professional inspector and confronted Primo with the test results to get the compensation.

"After this incident, I will no longer do business with Primo. He wants to continue to make good friends. For example, he will give away real mummy powder to his right-hand assistant. Letting his assistant take mummy powder is the best reward, because that is the reward They remain youthful forever."

"In Primo's view, real mummy powder has miraculous effects and is extremely precious. He argued that the so-called fake powder, that is, has a different proportion, and cannot be called a fake."

Duke was unmoved. He was originally interested in the rigorous quality of Primo Germans, but who would have thought that he would sell fakes.

One has to wonder whether other cultural relics have been falsified besides the manufacture of fake mummy powder.

"The Houston family in Sicily, on the surface, only sells citrus to the other side of the ocean, but secretly also sells cultural relics."

Duke was unable to obtain evidence, but learned that Primo hired the Houston family to rob trains outside. "Who knows if they colluded secretly, one manufactured fakes and the other shipped them to the United States."

To go a little further, let’s talk about Primo’s behavior pattern.

"Plimo does value profit, but he also has a somewhat paranoid recognition of mysterious power. In addition to rewarding his mummy powder, he has a soft spot for Egyptian statues."

Duke witnessed Primo's fanatical worship, "Just as some devout Christians would kiss the statues of Jesus or Mary, Primo would kiss the statues of Egyptian gods."

At that time, Primo also encouraged Duke to visit the statue of Isis together.

"Not only human statues, Primo will also kiss black cat statues, dog-headed human statues and so on."

Duke said about Primo's hobby, "So, he stole the shroud, maybe not just to resell the holy relic for huge profits."

In this way, there are many uncertain possibilities for Primo's motive for stealing the shroud.

Kelsey pondered for a while, and connected with Primo's baldness and his three assistants' weird body struggles, these abnormalities did not happen last night.

It was revealed during the wedding in the church in the morning. Primo specially made up to cover up his face, and his assistants clenched their fists as hard as they could.

"The Primo four may really be cursed."

Kelsey added, "The four people I'm referring to all had abnormalities in their bodies, but instead of thinking in the direction of illness, they decided that it was a curse."

Since he was cursed, he had to find a way to resolve it.

"Plimo worships the Egyptian gods, but in the case of the powerless Egyptian gods, the Turin Cathedral will exhibit holy objects again. What do you think he will do?"

Kelsey deduced logically, "With Primo's style of doing things, he would directly grab the shroud and use the holy object to fight the curse."

However, the relic snatching failed.

In fact, even if Primo succeeds, the Shroud of Jesus cannot resist the curse on him.Because the source of this curse is most likely not an evil force, but human poisoning.

Kelsey looked at Sherlock and nodded slightly to each other. Both of them thought of a situation from Duke's words.

Since Primo decided to rob the train cultural relics, he took the initiative to jump into the death trap specially set for him.Let's call the person who organized the poisoning of Primo A.

A understands Primo's unscrupulous character.He was not willing to fail the bidding, but valued this batch of cultural relics very much, and would definitely snatch the missed Egyptian cultural relics whenever he had the opportunity.

A learns that Edwin is going to hide the old warehouse and transport cultural relics by freight train, and discloses the news to Primo.

The locomotive and the first carriage were then stolen, and the cargo included several mummies and statues of gods.

The Houston family hired to rob the train acted quickly, and Primo received the batch of cultural relics that night.

According to Primo's custom, the mummy was ground into powder and used as medicine, and the idol was carefully placed.Some of the mummy powder is given to the right-hand man as a reward, and he will kiss the newly acquired idol.

Little did Primo know at the time that his habit was being taken advantage of.

The handling of this batch of lost and recovered cultural relics put him and his three assistants on the road to death.As if under a curse, their bodies deteriorated in just seven days.

Just because this batch of cultural relics was poisoned.

Mummies smeared with poison, gods impregnated with venom.

Once its powder is taken, once its surface is kissed, it will be poisoned unconsciously.

In this process, there have actually been important physical evidence hints.The dead rat found in the first car was poisoned.

There are no dangerous goods in the other cars of the train, and the rats are most likely poisoned in the robbed car.

Sesame oil and spices were added to the mummies. Rats were attracted by the scents and died suddenly after eating the poisoned mummies.

It was just a mouse, but it didn't attract the attention of the robbers.

A can't accurately count rats, let alone expect someone to attach great importance to a dead rat and bring it to Turin for autopsy.

Five days ago, if the mouse was successfully detected what kind of poison it was, and then analyzed the time of poisoning, and compared it with whether the goods in other carriages of the train were poisonous, it might be possible to deduce that there was something wrong with the stolen cultural relics.

A well-planned poisonous killing, if it is not fully implemented, it is very likely that it will be abandoned halfway.

After all, A cannot guarantee when Primo will distribute the poisonous mummy powder to his assistants, nor can he guarantee when Primo will kiss the idol.

In short, the longer the time dragged on, the higher the probability that Primo's four would be poisoned.

Faced with the unexpected spoiler, A must stop this autopsy.

In the museum, the corpses of dead rats were blown up, and the only evidence at that time was destroyed.

Primo and his three assistants failed to escape poisoning.

After the four people were poisoned, they had to fight to get the holy object to detoxify, but they all died of the poison last night.

Why can it be determined that the four are not cursed?

Before coming to Italy, Kelsey and Sherlock made preliminary preparations.

What they are facing is a master poisoner who poisoned Jin Meigui, not to mention gangs committing crimes. They must understand the symptoms of people after poisoning.

Primo's three assistants clenched their fists from time to time and couldn't help taking off all their clothes before they died, but they still felt that they were bound by an invisible magic net, and they were struggling desperately to get out of the shackles.

——After arsenic poisoning, it will cause this strange neurological disease.Even naked, it seems that the body is wrapped in heavy foreign objects, and it is more and more powerless to get rid of it.

Primo died of a sudden cardiac arrest, before losing all his hair.

——This is also a symptom of poisoning, among which it is the most difficult to detect the poisoning of benzium.

Although the rat corpses were bombed, the bizarre deaths of the four deceased now make the case clear.

Do a targeted toxicological autopsy on the four people, and then find the batch of Egyptian cultural relics, and compare the two to verify the accuracy of the inference.

If Primo was alive, it would be tricky to do a medical checkup or issue a warrant to search through his collection.

But Primo was dead, with a disgraceful attempt to steal the relic, which made the autopsy and search easier.

Of course, Kelsey and Sherlock did not directly express their inferences, and everything will wait for the autopsy of the four before discussing others.

'Boom boom! '

At this time, two Turin policemen knocked on the door of the hotel, looking for Watson.

"Mr. Watson, on behalf of the Turin Police, we extend a sincere invitation to you."

The Turin police handed over an invitation letter to Watson, "I hope you will conduct an autopsy on the dead involved in last night's theft of holy relics with professional skills."

"I?"

Watson was slightly surprised, and scanned the invitation letter.

This is not the first time such sudden appointments have occurred.

A month ago, Inspector Lestrade had sent him to the Cambridge Forensic Office with a warrant to conduct an autopsy on Rose Gold.

Watson never thought that he would come again after being away from England.

He couldn't help wondering, as an intern doctor, he was so famous?Could it be that the pen name of "The Sharpshooter Who Loves Roses" was exposed, which attracted the secret pursuit of these Turin police?

"Mr. Watson, please believe in our sincerity, and we believe in your professionalism even more."

The Turin police said a long list of compliments without repetition, and added at the end:

"I have called the London side about this matter. Whether it is Scotland Yard who has worked with you or the KS team who recommended you, they have always recognized that you are the most suitable doctor for the autopsy of the suspect."

Kelsey keeps smiling: no thanks.Watson, please don't doubt life, I did my part.

Sherlock is nonchalant: no thanks.Watson, please don't doubt yourself, I recommended you.