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It is a pity that there are no obvious clues on the lawn outside the villa, because the lawn here is made of fake grass. This kind of plant grows most luxuriantly in summer and autumn, with well-developed stolons and strong regeneration ability. On such a lawn, unless it can be trampled, footprints will not last long.
Feng Bujue looked up at the window sill and the outer wall of the villa, and there were no traces left there. But he wasn't disappointed at all, because he wasn't in a hurry to find out the truth at all...
"Before it's dark, I want to survey the outside of the villa, do you want to come together?" Feng Bujue said to Schofield in the window.
"Oh! Okay." Schofield naturally would not give up the opportunity to ask the famous detective for advice. He replied, "Just a moment." Before he finished speaking, he turned and left the window, ran to the door of the room, and followed The police officer standing guard explained a few words. Then he turned back to the window, imitating Feng Bujue's manner, and turned out of that window. This police detective is also careful, he is very careful when he moves, for fear of touching the bloodstain on the window sill and destroying the evidence.
After coming outside the house, Schofield, led by Feng Bujue, patrolled around the villa.
"Mr. Feng, what did you just say... a secret room?" Schofield asked.
"Have you seen "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe?" Feng Bujue asked.
"Uh... no," Schofield said. "I rarely read."
"Okay... Murder in a secret room is one of the so-called 'impossible crimes'." Feng Bujue didn't bother with the other party on literary issues, and said directly, "When you entered the room, you noticed Is the key inserted?"
"Well, yes," Schofield replied.
"There are two ways to lock this kind of door. The first one is...the person inside the door, when the door is closed, turn the copper hat-shaped bolt on the back of the lock counterclockwise; the second one is...the person outside the door, When the door is closed, use the key to turn it around twice." Feng Bujue explained, "Mrs. Carol, who found the body, used the key to open the door because the door was locked and no one answered. of."
Schofield thought for a while, then continued, "In other words... when the body was discovered, the doors and windows of that room were all bolted from the inside."
"In the enclosed space, there is only the deceased, and there is no second person, but the death of the deceased shows that it was not suicide." Feng Bujue said, "In this case, the method used by the murderer constitutes a secret room murder. "
Schofield responded, "Oh..." He paused for a moment, then asked suspiciously, "Wait, in this case... what if the murderer also has a key?"
"Before you came, I already asked everyone a few questions in the corridor, and of course I also asked about this point." Feng Bujue replied, "In this house, each room has two keys. One for regular use and one for spare.
The spare keys are all chained together and kept by the housekeeper, Mr. Henderson. I've already seen that bunch of things, the iron ring is dead, and the keys on it can't be removed alone, it's like a medieval dungeon key...
As Henderson suddenly fell ill and passed out, the spare key is temporarily held by Master Colston. "
"And the common key is a separate one." He said, and took out a key from his pocket, "This is the common key of the guest room I live in. I put it in the drawer of a table in the room. I found it." He paused, then continued, "The maids will clean the rooms that are usually vacant, so they are usually not locked, and the keys are left directly in the house."
While Feng Bujue was speaking, he had already arrived at the back of the villa. After turning a corner, he continued: "Since the common key of the guest room where the crime happened is in the hands of Ms. Carol, there are three situations in which the murderer has the key... One, the murderer was the housekeeper, Henderson; two, the murderer stole the spare key from the housekeeper and returned it to the original owner after killing the man and locking the door; and three, the murderer managed to make a copy of a common key."
Schofield said: "Well... You judge that this room is a secret room, that is to say, do you think these three scenarios are unlikely?"
"Yes." Feng Bujue replied, "First of all, in the first case, Butler Henderson is the murderer." He began to explain one by one, "The possibility of this is almost zero... because the old man immediately killed him after seeing the corpse. Had a heart attack and nearly died. I was right next to him with a doctor. If it was a fake, Mr. Henderson would have an Oscar and Dr. Powell would be his accomplice.
Of course, there is a more extreme hypothesis - schizophrenia. For example... the murderer was another personality of Butler Henderson, and the main personality knew nothing about it. "
"Well... I see." Schofield nodded.
"In the second case, the possibility is also very small." Feng Bujue continued, "Because the risk and difficulty of this method are extremely high, it is fine if you are discovered when you steal the key. If you are discovered when you return the key, you will be killed." All the things were revealed together. Moreover, during the period from when the murderer stole the key to returning it secretly, the butler Henderson may find that the spare key is lost at any time. This period of time happens to be the time when the murderer commits the crime. Once Desen told the police about this situation, there would be no point in arranging a secret room."
Before Schofield could respond, Brother Jue went on to say the next one, "The possibility of the third situation is higher, but..." He suddenly stopped in front of a tree, looked up for a while, and then continued : "...but the Dennis couple come to the villa a limited number of times each year, and the rooms they live in are not fixed each time they come. Because Mrs. Carol is picky, she will choose different room orientations in different seasons.
It is impossible for the murderer to predict which room they will stay in this time, so... if it is the third case, it means... Except for those rooms that are occupied all the year round, the murderer stole the common keys of all other rooms and made a backup .
And his or her purpose is to disguise the room as a secret room one day after killing Dennis. "
"This is indeed a bit unbelievable." Schofield continued.
"Technically, it is feasible, and the risk is not too great." Feng Bujue said, "It's just that the possibility of actually happening is very low, and... its purpose is temporarily a mystery." He turned around the big tree in front of him After a few laps, he glanced at the window on the second floor of the villa, and then continued to walk forward, "To sum up... Let's exclude the case that the murderer has the key, and then think about it, what other methods can accomplish this?" What about the Chamber of Secrets?"
Brother Jue's tone was like a teacher asking a student, but the fifty-year-old police detective in front of him didn't care, and asked reverently, "It must have something to do with the blood on the window sill, right?"
"Actually, the method is very simple. It can be done with a relatively tough thread. Just experiment once or twice, and all the rooms with windows in this house can be played like this." Feng Bujue raised his hand to signal the villa direction, "I've finished reading the outside, let's go inside, and I'll show you." RS
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