She pointed to the scroll in the miniature model and on the fireplace, "You are too detailed. What is this?"
Jiang Yang's heart was beating wildly!
My black stockings!
This is just like hiding a small piece of paper in your hand when cheating, and then the invigilator asks you what is in your hand.
The watch on Jiang Yang's hand has a heart rate monitor.
He suspected it had exceeded 100 by now.
Jiang Yang dedicated his life's acting skills to Black Silk, "This is a paper twister, do you see the bottom? This is a fireplace. When making a fire, you need to use paper twists to ignite the fire. Only when I do it carefully can I write well, you
Didn’t you see this purple box, it’s more detailed!”
This box is as big as a matchbox.
Sister Chen opened it and found everything inside.
This is a file box. There are a bunch of documents in it, including land deeds, house deeds, lease contracts, loan contracts and other documents——
How come a file box the size of a matchbox can fit so many things and yet Sister Chen can still see it clearly?
Because there is only a piece of paper inside.
Jiang Yang wrote on the paper "Land deed, house deed, letter..."
There is a piece of paper next to it with "evidence" written on it.
Sister Chen was convinced, "You are too meticulous!"
"right."
Jiang Yang thought he was praising himself and was impressed by his handling.
Sister Chen shook her head.
Just as she was about to go to work, Jiang Yang looked around, "Where are my tweezers?"
Sister Chen helped him look for it. After searching around, he saw that next to the cardboard pressed by Jiang Yang's hand were tweezers. They were so shiny that he could easily see them. After Sister Chen pointed them out to him, she complained: "Your big eyes are so beautiful.
It’s good-looking, but it’s white longer.”
Jiang Yang thinks his wife is better.
He could just stare at Li Qingning and say, the night gave me black eyes, and I use them to find light.
Then there was a long kiss.
Sister Chen is out.
Jiang Yang let out a long breath, which shocked him, thinking that Sister Chen had cracked the mystery novel before he even read it.
"The Mysterious Case at Styles Manor" is grandma's first mystery novel, and it is also the first novel in which Poirot appears. When writing this novel, grandma never thought of writing it so long, so as soon as Poirot appeared
He was a little old Belgian man who fled to England because of the war. My grandmother regretted it later. If she had known it could be so long, she should have turned Poirot into a young man.
There are many characters in this book, and their names are difficult to remember. Many of them have criminal motives, and each of them has become a target of suspicion. But if the clues used by the grandmother to confuse readers are removed, the whole story will become simpler.
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The old lady is a stepmother and has two sons. Her husband gave all the inheritance to the old lady. The old lady is extremely rich. Then the old lady has a housekeeper. She has a distant cousin who hooked up with the old lady and got married.
Became a little husband.
It doesn't matter if you have a stepmother, but if you have a stepfather, the two sons will definitely not do it.
The loyal housekeeper refused to do it. She said that the younger husband wanted the old lady's money, so she had a quarrel with the old lady and left.
Then, one early morning when the husband was not at home, the three doors were locked, and the old lady screamed and died of poisoning in the house. It was found that she was poisoned by strychnine, but the poison soon occurred after taking it.
Will wait until early in the morning to have another attack.
Poirot then intervenes in the investigation.
There is a lot of confusing evidence here,
For example, the eldest son's daughter-in-law gave the old lady sleeping pills so that she could enter the room in the middle of the night and look for evidence of her husband's infidelity in the old lady's purple box, etc.
Jiang Yang wrote all these in the book, so there is no need to mention them again.
The younger husband was suspected first.
He was accused by the doctor of buying strychnine toxin. He said he did not buy it himself, but refused to tell when he bought the poison. It means that you should arrest me quickly and prosecute me after arresting me. I will take it out after prosecution.
Proof of alibi, and according to the principle of ne bis in idem, if you sue me once, you can no longer sue me for the same crime, and I will be acquitted——
But Poirot provided the young husband with an alibi, and the young husband was exempted from prosecution.
His good deeds were ruined by Poirot.
In fact, on the day of her death, the old lady and her eldest son had a quarrel because the old lady found out that her eldest son was having an affair with the neighbor's widow. She was so angry that she wanted to change her will and give the property that had been given to her eldest son to her younger husband. She wrote a will
I wanted to mail it out later, but there were no stamps in the room, so I went to her younger husband's room to look for it, and then I found a letter written by her younger husband to her cousin, the housekeeper.
It turns out that the young husband and the housekeeper were lovers, and they conspired to kill the old lady and get the inheritance.
This letter was written by the young husband to reassure the housekeeper not to worry, because the old lady did not take the tonic due to delays in work, and her death was delayed by one day.
Halfway through writing this letter, the young husband was interrupted by the old lady asking him to do something.
I didn't bother to send the letter, so my husband hid it.
So the old lady only read half of the letter. The letter only said that the old lady was delayed yesterday and did not die or anything, but it did not say how to kill the old lady. The old lady was very angry after reading it, so she lit a fireplace in the summer and put the new
The will written in favor of the younger husband was burned.
But the old lady didn't know how the other party killed her.
She was so angry that she went to bed early and drank only one sip of the tonic left.
This tonic originally contained strychnine, but the housekeeper threw away the bromide, leaving most of the strychnine to crystallize and settle at the bottom.
The old lady drank strychnine in one breath and overdosed. Then, when she and her eldest son were arguing, the eldest daughter-in-law heard it. In order to find evidence of the affair in the middle of the night, the eldest daughter-in-law gave the old lady sleeping pills. The old lady was poisoned by sleeping pills.
The time was extended until early morning.
The motive is just that.
If there weren't so many confusing clues and motives, this case would be pretty simple.
Many people may guess that the young husband is the murderer as soon as they read the book.
But Grandma's ability to mislead people is very powerful.
In the process of confirmation, whitewashing, and re-confirmation, many people may have given up their initial suspicions. Then the housekeeper and the young husband have been at odds, and the housekeeper has been shouting that the young husband should be taken away, so it is easy for people to fall into thinking.
Misunderstanding.
Another thing that amazed Jiang Yang was that grandma always portrayed Poirot as someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
When Jiang Yang first read it, he originally thought it was establishing Poirot's personal image. Who knew that this later became a key point in solving the case, that is, the old lady put half of the letter written by her young husband in the purple file box. After her death
, because the contents of the document box were very important, Poirot did not look at the contents, and locked the box very gentlemanly, planning to wait until the lawyer came to look at it.
Being obsessive-compulsive, he also tidied up the ornaments on the fireplace.
In order to get rid of suspicion, the young husband sneaked into the room, pried off the box and got the letter. Just when he was about to destroy it, he heard the sound of Poirot and the others coming, so he tore up the letter, made it into paper twists, and put it on the fireplace.
There is paper twist in the bottle.
When Poirot came in, he found that the box had been pried, and he was very angry. The angry little old man arranged the ornaments on the fireplace again.
Later, Poirot could never find direct evidence.
It was at this point that the wingman role came into play when Hastings accidentally mentioned that Poirot had tidied the things on the fireplace twice.
For a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder, he sorted it out once and sealed the scene. If no one had touched it, he would not sort it out a second time, so Poirot immediately understood that the ornament had been touched!
Then Poirot found the letter, which directly proved that the young husband and the housekeeper were the murderers.
As Grandma’s debut novel, the shortcoming of this book lies in this——
this letter.
Not to mention why I wrote it, after getting the letter, I even ate it.
Jiang Yang had the urge to write that her young husband had mysophobia, so he stopped eating paper and helped Yuanyuan.
But he didn't know whether mysophobia would keep a beard or not.
If the beard is gone again, the housekeeper will no longer be able to pretend to be a young husband to buy medicine.
Jiang Yang thought about it and decided to keep it as it was.
What if this letter paper tastes bad?
Maybe the young husband was in a panic and didn't think about it. After all, the housekeeper came up with this murderous idea.
Grandma explained it very well in the book.
However, there is another point, that is, if readers want to follow the reasoning, they must know the principle of poison and the law of no matter what. Therefore, this novel is a novel that shows the grandma's ability to reason about the queen, but the twist slightly makes Jiang
A novel written by Yang Tangle.
It was a decent debut for Poirot.
This is also the reason why Jiang Yang saw Sister Chen holding a paper twisting tube just now.
That's the answer the big devil is looking for.
I will briefly summarize it myself, and I will not touch upon the plot or word count of the book later.