The famous detective in the comic world

Chapter 280 Suspicion
"So, so..." Tom swallowed nervously: "Miriam put the key in... Does that mean she is the murderer?"

"I don't think she's the only one. Maggie or Lorenzo...maybe both of them are murderers." He Nan shook his head: "Speaking of which, I have to ask again, the deceased was confirmed to be a discarded piano String strangled, right?"

"The police said it was a piano wire..."

"How do they know it was discarded and not brought by someone?"

"Uh, because there is an abandoned piano in the room next to the living room on the first floor." Tom replied hastily.

"Is there a missing piano wire inside the piano?"

"No... that doesn't seem to be the case."

"That's strange." He Nan frowned: "Since it's not lost, why do you say that there are discarded piano wires in this villa?"

"Because Maggie said she saw it in the utility room on the first floor..."

"...but does it actually exist?"

Tom choked.

He looked bewildered, apparently unaware of this.

"Look, you don't even know if you have it." He Nan sighed, "If this thing exists, it should be a spare piano wire. It is prepared for piano repair... But in fact, you and your wife, and even you My parents... those people who used to come here often, do they all repair pianos?"

"No... no."

"Then who is playing the piano?"

"My father—there's no one in the family who can play the piano after he died."

"Yes." He Nan nodded and told him seriously: "You know, piano wires are not easy to break, and you usually don't need to store spare ones at home. If you need repairs, just call someone to come to your door, and they will prepare for you. Good alternative materials. There is no need to store piano wires in your family at all... In other words, there is a high probability that Maggie is lying, and this piano wire was brought by the murderer. Now, we are almost sure that the three people Whether they were all involved in the murder ... that's to figure out what the second blackout does."

"How do I find out?" Tom asked in bewilderment. "Do I need to ask them any questions?"

"Tell me about the second power outage, what you did after the power outage, and what you noticed." He Nan flipped through his notes and proposed: "You said before that the second power outage occurred at one o'clock in the middle of the night. Happened. Right?"

"Yes—when the power went out, I was waiting for Lorenzo's room on the second floor to drink and chat when he came back from the bathroom. When the power went out, I thought it was a fucking trip again, so I went to the basement Gate—it turned out that the wire had been cut. I thought someone was playing a prank, so I was very angry. I came to the lobby and yelled at the person who was going to do it. Maggie, Miriam and Lorenzo rushed out coming……"

"Where did they come from?"

"The area where you can see the second floor from the lobby is limited! Besides, it was so dark at the time... So I didn't see where Lorenzo was on the second floor, I only saw him coming through the corridor on the second floor at the end, from the hall on the other side. Down the stairs... Miriam and Maggie were already at the railing on the second floor when I returned to the living room."

"Hmm..." He Nan thought for a moment when he heard this, "Ask your three friends this question and see how they answer."

"Okay." Tom hurriedly took out his mobile phone and asked.

Then, get the following response.

Miriam and Maggie said the same thing. They said that they were watching a movie together in Maggie's room. More at ease.Lorenzo was never seen, though, until Tom started yelling back into the living room, and Lorenzo opened the bathroom door and came out.

And Lorenzo said that he had been in the toilet when the power went out, and when he was about to come out, he just heard Tom yelling, so he rushed over.

"...I have to say that Lorenzo's suspicions are getting less and less. This guy is probably not the murderer." He Nan looked at the screen and clicked his tongue: "Judging from his previous performance and clues, The degree of suspicion is relatively low...For example, he knew the deceased through you, he came so early on the day of the incident, he helped clean up, and proposed to update the distribution box equipment, he was not afraid of being suspected...Moreover, the first time the power went out He was the only one in the recollection that didn't include a great deal of detail that Maggie and Miriam both mentioned."

"Then... what do you mean by the second blackout?" Tom asked hastily.

"I think it is to create an alibi and confuse the time of death, as well as to cause panic, so that everyone has the opportunity to find out that Bess has an accident." He Nan said in such an analysis: "It may not cause much fear just like the first power outage. However, cutting off the wires is different. People may think that if they didn’t see Beth, there would be something wrong with her. Once Beth’s body is found, it is easy to subconsciously think that Beth died during the power outage. But In fact, it doesn't make sense, the murderer probably killed her in advance. And the murderer Maggie and Miriam stayed together during the second power outage, proving each other that the other party was within their line of sight, and it was impossible to Murder, in order to transfer the suspicion to others."

"This..." Tom gritted his teeth in annoyance after hearing this, "So...they killed Bess...how did the first blackout happen, and what did they do?"

"Did Miriam and Maggie bring any high-power electrical appliances?" He Nan asked, "They probably sneaked into the villa through the hole in the boiler room in advance, and investigated to what extent it can be overloaded. Find the right time to start it." .”

"I don't remember..."

"Then you didn't know it was brought secretly." He Nan sighed and shook his head: "Logically speaking, Maggie and Miriam are definitely the murderers, and Lorenzo's suspicion can basically be ruled out. The question is, what motivated them to kill Bess? What did they do during the first blackout? I think they must have taken this opportunity to say something to Bess that would cause her to feel uneasy and think that someone came to the villa for her, and Luo Renzo also knew about this matter—or, he didn’t know about it at all, but they unanimously requested to keep it secret, so he hasn’t disclosed it to you so far.”

"Yes." Shirley said at this time: "At this point, I'm afraid I have to ask Lorenzo to find out what he heard... I guess what Maggie and Miriam said at the time is not different from these Big—that is, one person pretended to be terrified and said that he seemed to see where XXX was in the villa just now, and the other person echoed. Lorenzo may know this person, or he may be asked to keep it a secret by everyone... If so, then this person XXX, probably the one Bess killed."

(End of this chapter)