Detective Bennet [Comprehensive novel]

The toxicological test results of the four people in Primo came out soon.The efficiency was so high that even Watson, who performed the autopsy on them, was a little confused.

A month ago, the Golden Rose was screened for poison in Cambridge.

Sherlock was lucky and picked four times from a poison list, and the fourth comparison was successful.

This time, Watson borrowed the telegraph of the University of Turin to call London to inform the KS team of the death of the four deceased, hoping to send him a copy of the previous list of poison comparisons.

It would be even better if the KS team can make a prediction and list the most likely poisonous substances at the beginning of the list, and decrease them gradually.

Who would have thought that the least common benzium would be ranked first, it is actually the poison in Primo.

If you guessed right once, you can't guess the second time in succession, right?

Watson tried the second arsenic in disbelief.However, Primo's three assistants died of arsenic poisoning.

Watson handed over the autopsy report to the Turin police, truthfully explaining the extraordinary contribution of the KS team's prediction.

The Turin police were very satisfied, and changed their impatience when they were initially asked to find an experiment to compare poisons, as if all the previous doubts did not exist.

The suspicion that the murderer could not have used a rare poison, and the suspicion that Watson deliberately tossed the police's emotions, all disappeared.

Facing the results of the autopsy, the Turin police could not get in touch with the KS team far away in London, so they praised Watson, who was right in front of them, without dead ends, and bluntly said that they must cooperate again in the future.

From entering the forensic room to leaving, excluding the time of contacting London and preparing comparative reagents, it only took half a day before and after!

Watson returned to the hotel in a daze, with a remuneration order from the police station in the inside pocket of his jacket.

"Why are you back?"

Duke looked at Watson who appeared in the restaurant in surprise, "Don't tell me the police station doesn't provide dinner, and you have to go back and forth to the hotel to eat before going to work overtime? This is too oppressive."

Watson shook his head, "I'll talk to the room later."

Is there something inside?

Duke speeded up his eating, and a dozen scenes had already played out in his mind, such as Watson being replaced by an airborne forensic doctor, such as the corpses of the four deceased being destroyed by an explosion.

The only thing I didn't expect was that Watson had already identified the type of poison, and the autopsy had been successfully completed!

In the living room of the suite.

Duke was so surprised that he didn't know what to say for a moment.

"Hey! What a surprise."

Sherlock didn't feel guilty at all, as if he was just Terrence who came from America innocently. "This is Turin, at the intersection of the magic triangle of black and white, where anything is possible."

To show the persuasiveness of this remark, Sherlock asked: "Mr. Watson, have you ever encountered a locomotive being stolen before?"

Watson shook his head.

Sherlock asked again: "Have you ever had a laboratory bombed before an autopsy?"

Watson shook his head again.

Sherlock asked again: "Have you ever had the privilege of seeing the Shroud of the Relic?"

Watson still shook his head.

"You have admitted it yourself, there have been no strange encounters one after another before."

Sherlock concluded naturally, "Remember what I said when I first came? Turin is located between black and white magic, where good and evil are always vacillating. Maybe it is God's blessing that gave you great luck."

Turin police said similar things.

They were not surprised to be able to quickly determine the type of poison, because the Primo four attempted to desecrate the sacred object, and God would give Watson, who represented justice, some guidance.

Watson pursed his lips, still feeling that his luck was a little weird. "Despite what you all say, I've always felt that my luck was ordinary."

"Don't be overly modest." Kelsey pointed out Watson's extraordinaryness, "How can 'The Sharpshooter Who Loves Roses' be ordinary. "

Ever since the Rose Theater in London announced the adaptation of Adventures in the Alps, it's no longer a secret that John Watson is "The Sharpshooter Who Loved Roses".

The adaptation must be negotiated with the original author.

Of course Watson was happy that his novel could be put on the stage, but the other two authors said they had no time to participate in the production of the script, and finally the burden fell on his shoulders.

The dog blood secretly circulated in the drama industry was not staged.

The beard and the gold-rimmed glasses did not take too much at all. They gave Watson all the share in accordance with the principle of more work and more pay in a very objective and reasonable manner.

When Watson got the contract, he didn't know whether to be happy or sad. Needless to say, the reason for his joy was that more and more people knew about his writing.

For example, the theater owner Brightman, the screenwriter who adapted the script together, the audience who haunted the theater, and some journalists.

Fortunately, John Watson's title is very popular. Even if the news of "The Sharpshooter Who Loves Roses" leaks more or less, as long as Watson doesn't admit it, most people think it's a mistake.

This does not include Smith teachers and students from the United States.

In the train carriage coming to Turin, perhaps the atmosphere was just right, and Watson admitted the other party's guess.

At the moment, Watson didn't hear his pseudonym, but it reminded him of Dark Castle again.

Duke also recovered from his astonishment. When someone mentioned "The Sharpshooter Who Loves Roses", he remembered the serial killing in the castle.From the cliff to the foot of the mountain, all the way through the many traps inside the mountain, the survivors are indeed not ordinary.

"That should not surprise us, Mr. Watson."

Duke said optimistically, "People in the East say that it's a blessing. Before, the train was robbed, and the evidence was bombed. Now it's time to transfer."

Every word you say seems to be telling Watson that it is normal to quickly determine the type of poison.

"You're right, identifying the type of poison is also a good thing."

Watson finally nodded in agreement, but he couldn't figure it out: "It's just a little strange. Looking back now, my luck has changed since last year's Christmas party. In the past twenty years, my life has never, never..."

Watson thought for a while, "I have never been so unexpected, with ups and downs, twists and turns, and thrilling."

"Hahaha--"

Kelsey smiled heartily and waved his hands, "Luck, who can say for sure. Don't mention you, like me, I studied the curses of the pharaohs and found that many so-called curses were carried out by man-made means, but invisible forces cannot be completely negated. The presence."

Kelsey said it sincerely. At this moment, it is only Professor Smith, "Luck is artificially uncontrollable, and we do our best to do what we can, so we have a clear conscience."

Sherlock nodded in agreement, with a look on his face that the teacher was right.right!They all have a clear conscience.

Hua let out a sigh of relief, forgetting about the strange luck.

He said expectantly, "Now that the four people in Primo have been poisoned, the Turin police have also applied for a search warrant to conduct a comprehensive search of the belongings of the four people. Once the specific source of the poison is found, it will be much easier to follow the clues."

Watson specifically told the Turin police about the dangers of it and arsenic, please be careful to take samples and analyze them carefully, I don't know how long it will take to hear the news of the evidence comparison.

In just three days, the Turin police made a conclusive discovery.

The benzium poison comes from the black cat statue that Primo travels with, and the arsenic poison comes from the standing tonic mummy powder in the luggage of Primo's assistant.

The source of the pulverized mummy could not be determined, but the half-arm-sized black cat wood carving came from the batch of looted cultural relics.

This discovery confirmed that Mopley was involved in the train robbery, but the owner, Edwin, was caught by the police before he was happy.

The reason is very simple, the police suspect that Edwin's thief shouted to catch the thief, and he designed the poisoning from the beginning to the end.

Edwin leaked the news that the train was transporting cultural relics, but he had already poisoned the mummies and stone sculptures beforehand.Primo, who thought he had snatched the cultural relics with superior skills, died because of this.

The police's suspicions were well founded.

Although Duke believed that Primo's strange habits had not been exposed to the public, the police believed that Edwin, as his deadly enemy, could find out a thing or two if he tried his best.

Aipu has always had a conflict of interest between the two parties.In addition, Primo acted unscrupulously, robbed the market through improper means many times, and finally aroused Edwin's murderous heart.

Edwin chose to hire a master poisoner, and after poisoning the mummies and stone carvings, he completed this perfect murder effortlessly.

Regarding this, Edwin sneered and denied it completely, and went straight to the Turin police talking nonsense.If the murderer cannot be found, the charges will be placed on those who have a conflict of interest.

Even if Primo's business rival designed poisoning, why not someone else?Those who have been framed by Primo in the past and want to take revenge are not in the minority from Germany to Italy.

Edwin asked the Turin police to stop spreading rumors. He would never admit what he did not do. The police should trace the source of the poison and find the real murderer behind the scenes.

In the past two days, the news in Turin has been overwhelming, and [-]% of them suspect that Edwin is behind the scenes.

For a moment, it was like the past reappearing.

Just as after the death of the golden rose, people speculated that the baroness hired murderers to kill.

'Ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta --'

Sherlock put down the paper.There were only him and Kelsey in the guest room, so he could not hide his bad mood and started pacing back and forth in the room.

"What an astonishingly similar scene."

Sherlock points out the similarity between the Golden Rose and the poisoning of the Primo quadruple:

"A sensational death, the dead were all poisoned with a rare poison, and then a suspect who was most likely the main messenger came into people's sight."

Faced with such two similar poisoning cases, Sherlock could not easily identify Edwin as a suspect.

Coincidence makes people suspicious.

Kelsey also has reservations about the mastermind who murdered the Primo four.

Carter sent news yesterday that Baron Vittorio discovered an underground counterfeiting workshop when he encountered wolves in the nearby forest.There are unshipped fake antiques in the workshop, and the quantity and profit are very considerable, which coincides with Primo's business scope.

It can be seen that Primo did not tell the truth to the Milan police.He met Baron Vittorio by chance in the mountains, not all by chance while hunting.

One possibility cannot be ruled out, that Vittorio broke through the existence of the fake workshop in order to blackmail Primo for a hush money.For the financially tight baron, the windfall will not be let go.

The result was contrary to what Vittorio thought, Primo was not afraid of the baron status.He first pretended to agree, and took advantage of his unpreparedness to lure wolves to kill people.

"Referring to Primo's consistent behavior, I personally support the silence speculation."

Kelsey regretted that both of Puwei died, "It is difficult to completely restore the truth at the time, but at least it proves that the suspicion of the Baroness hiring a murderer to kill Golden Rose is even smaller."

If the Baroness and Edwin both told the truth, and they didn't hire killers, and they had nothing to do with the deaths of Golden Rose and Primo, then who poisoned them?

Is the same gang behind the two poisonings?Is there a gang of professional killers?

"Although rare poisons were used, the methods of committing the two crimes are different. The killing of Jin Meigui was to poison quickly and ruthlessly in public, and the killing of Primo and others was to design traps and wait for them to seek their own death."

Sherlock frowned slightly, similar rare poisons but different poisoning methods, is it because different killers were assigned to commit crimes?

But before leaving London, the two were not 100% sure that it was a professional killer who committed the crime.

The middle-aged woman who poisoned Jin Meigui violated the taboo of some professional killers.

Her misplacement of the murder weapon, the poison umbrella, and the sprinkle of golden roses in letterhead packaging with the logo, were entry-level blunders.

This time there was a similar sense of incongruity.

"The method of murdering the four of Primo is too roundabout, and there is no guarantee that one hit will hit. Although Primo has special habits, no one can guarantee that no, he will never directly sell these looted cultural relics."

Kelsey could think of a better way to poison: "Professional killers have two kinds of colorless and odorless poisons. They can pretend to be shop assistants and take the opportunity to poison. Why do they have to go around a lot?"

This is a bit strange, and it also involved a rat corpse being blown up.

Looking back at the laboratory explosion now, explosives were placed in the vents, and the original target might not have been dead rats.

If the Primo four are not poisoned, they will go to the museum for a meeting soon.

Director Furman also admitted that the laboratory will be used, because the content of the meeting involves some practical exchanges on the restoration of cultural relics.

The explosives were probably prepared for the four of Primo, but they had to be detonated ahead of time due to unexpected evidence of dead mice.

In other words, the murderer behind the scenes made a double arrangement to murder Primo, but there is absolutely no need for professional killers to make such a big circle.

"In the museum, especially the two people who were present on the day of the laboratory explosion, Furman and Chala have nothing to do with Primo."

Sherlock reviewed the results of various investigations. The staff in the museum had very simple interpersonal relationships, and they had never heard of anyone having a grudge against Primo.

Just like the investigation of the death of Jin Meigui, when the source of the poison, the method of poisoning, and even the existence of a poisoning murderer were found out in the case of the Primo four, the real murderer was still unable to be found out.

"Something must have been overlooked."

Sherlock subconsciously reached for the pipe, trying to organize his thoughts through the tobacco leaves, but he found nothing.

I almost forgot, it was Mycroft who set up the characters for the teachers and students of Smith.

The two Americans don't smoke, and they don't even smell of smoke on their bodies, so how can they carry pipes with them.

Sherlock took a deep breath, trying not to insult Mycroft.He could only hold back helplessly, but found a candy box appeared in front of him.

"One?"

Kelsey opened the small tin box, which contained homemade candies in uniform packaging. "Anyway, it's a way to relax. There's no smoke. Do you want sugar?"

Sherlock looked at the candy, then at Kelsey, "I still remember that the last time I tried it was Balk. Mr. Bennet, your homemade strong mint almost made him feel cold. Today you plan to trick me too Come back, let me taste a strange taste?"

"There is no strange taste, I can guarantee that it is all from normal ingredients, and there will be surprises every time."

Kelsey explained, "Don't look at the size and packaging of the candies, but the taste is different, making it impossible to guess what flavor will be next time."

Kelsey took one first and asked Sherlock, "Mr. Holmes, are you sure you don't want to try it?"

Who would try sweets at every turn, as Mycroft did.

Thinking so, Sherlock reached out to choose sugar.He was by no means curious, just a silent confrontation with Mycroft.

Mycroft couldn't do anything wrong, but set Terrence as a non-smoker.

Terrence can't smoke but can eat sweets, and Mycroft, who likes to try all kinds of new sweets in London, has no chance to try them.

Sherlock peeled off the candy wrapper, and it was a milk-brown candy.

He still suspected that there was a fraud in it, so he put it in his mouth, and after a while, the candy tasted really good.

"This candy uses milk, tea and ginger juice as raw materials, and is served with a little syrup. It is not very sweet and not too spicy."

Sherlock nodded approvingly, "The three exist independently and can be perfectly integrated, an amazing combination. Mr. Bennet, your sugar is good this time."

"It's really not easy to get your compliment."

Kelsey smiled and took up the compliment, "It did take me some effort to make the three unrelated things perfectly integrated."

The topic was about to turn to the ratio of the three ingredients when the room suddenly became quiet.

The two of them suddenly remembered something, and their faces became serious.

Kelsey slammed the candy box shut, "Three, it's three."

"Yes, the surprising three."

Sherlock immediately drew a stroke in the notebook, which revealed the hidden clues in the poisoning case that had not been seen for a long time.

On paper, it is a triangle.