The pages of the book turned rustling, Karl rubbed the pages with his fingertips, his eyes quickly scanned the words one by one, and began to taste the final truth.
Poirot brought together all the people involved in the case and published his own analysis of the situation.
The case has developed so far, but the core question in Poirot's mind is still, why did ABC kill people?
After this question was raised, Karl, who was reading, also started thinking.
There must be a motive behind the occurrence of any incident, especially this work, which cannot be the most common random killing.
But when the four pieces were arranged together, Karl couldn't think of a reason for a while.
While immersed in reading, Karl seemed to have arrived at the scene where Poirot analyzed the situation.
There are great differences among the several victims. There is no gender or age factor.
Poirot then mentioned one of the more special items.
Betty's method of death was different from other victims. She was strangled with her own belt, which is unavoidable for people to imagine.
Poirot developed some imagination about this. Miss Betty, who loved to flirt with others, met a man on the beach. The man praised her belt, so she took it off. During the teasing, the man wrapped the belt around her
On the neck, he joked that he wanted to strangle the other person, and then pulled hard...
Poirot's detailed and specific imagination caused Betty's boyfriend Don, a man with a bit of green on his head, to stand up with a green face and was interrupted.
Poirot stopped then and turned to discuss the case. When it came to the case, the way of being killed changed to the same one-stick solution as in the first case.
In the fourth episode, the wrong person was directly killed. That was the end of the story. The murderer was arrested and everything seemed to be over.
Here, Poirot made a bold assumption, assuming that Custer was not responsible for the b eucalyptus case, and even went further, assuming that the murderer who committed the eucalyptus case may also be the murderer of all other cases.
The fundamental reason why ABC sent the notice letter was to focus the public's attention on several murders.
As Shakespeare famously said, the forest is missing for the trees, and a needle is the least noticeable on a pincushion.
In the same way, an isolated murder is the least noticeable in a series of related murders!
After reading this, Carl suddenly felt a thunder flashing through his mind.
As a reader, he was just like the characters in the book, completely diverted by the ABC trailer and serial murders.
The difference and irrelevance of the victims made him subconsciously ignore the most fundamental motive when the crime occurred.
What a trick to hide the leaves in the forest! Karl licked his lips excitedly.
What he didn't expect, the mustached detective did. Reading the words in the book, Karl felt as if Poirot was uncovering the truth for him right in front of his eyes.
Looking back at the most fundamental question, who will benefit the most after each incident occurs.
Starting from Incident A, the most likely guilty person is Mrs. Asher's scumbag husband, but it is unlikely that he planned this series of incidents deliberately.
As for case B, Tang had only one motive for killing Betty, which was jealousy, but it was not strong enough. There was an alibi when case C happened.
Finally, coming to the case, Sir Clark was very rich and his wife was seriously ill. So the only person who had the right to inherit after death was Sir Clark's younger brother, Franklin Clark.
Poirot deduced that abc was Franklin Clark!
Clark laughed and retorted upon hearing this, wasn't there a fourth case and the captured Custer?
Poirot continued to output, saying that Custer had already given his account.
Custer had met Clark while playing cards before. Custer suffered from epilepsy and looked crazy and timid, which left a deep impression on Clark.
So he began to fool Custer, saying that you must be a person who can achieve great things, and then asked Custer to start selling stockings.
A large number of silk stockings were sent to Custer, an old hapless man, along with ABC timetables in the same package, as well as a typewriter for printing letters in advance.
After that, every time he committed a crime, Custer was asked to go to a designated place to sell stockings.
This resulted in the phenomenon that every time there was a murder, Custer was always nearby.
Custer also discovered this, and he, who was already sensitive, suddenly became more nervous.
When the fourth incident occurred, Custer was invited to a movie theater. After the murderer finished killing the people, he put the knife into his pocket.
Custer, who was already mentally fragile, found a knife in his pocket. Then he thought that he was nearby every time a murder happened. He happened to suffer from epilepsy and often sleepwalked and lost his memory. Custer subconsciously began to think that he was the murderer.
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The subsequent story revealed that the evidence was conclusive and led to his arrest.
After Poirot finished speaking, Clark shook his head and said that this view was absurd.
At this time, Poirot once again threw out evidence, a piece of used stick, b piece of evidence that someone had seen Betty taking him to the hotel, and two people in Doncaster had seen him in the cinema.
And, most importantly, Clark's fingerprints were on the typewriter sent to Custer.
Clark was silent for a moment, and was about to take out a gun to commit suicide. The trigger was pulled, but the bullet had been stolen.
Scotland Yard police, who had set up an ambush in advance, captured Clark.
After reading this, Carl breathed a sigh of relief.
The wonderful truth is always sweet, and in this work he was led into the murderer's trap from the beginning, so it was even more hearty when everything was revealed.
The final ending was heart-warming. Poirot acted as a matchmaker and brought Don and Betty's sister Megan together; Custer was released and invited to be interviewed by many newspapers and became a celebrity.
The evidence Poirot mentioned before, the most critical fingerprint, was just a deception of Clark.
The ending made Carl couldn't help but smile knowingly after reading it.
Closing the page, Carl stood up and made himself a cup of coffee. There was no doubt that this reading time made him feel amazing, like a piece of silky chocolate.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! This reminded Karl of the recommendation he had written casually before, and now that he thought about it, he felt it was a bit perfunctory.
So Carl opened his blog, took a photo of himself having coffee and a book, and wrote a blog post seriously.
In addition to a long list of thoughts after reading, the last few sentences in Karl Bowen's article gave extremely high praise.
[Karl: It’s quite an amazing work. It made me deeply involved in the situation. I’m looking forward to my next meeting with the great detective Poirot! 】
Karl's recommendation is just a starting point. Not only Karl, several writers also spontaneously posted "ABC Murder" on social platforms.
Coupled with the publicity of the book itself, it immediately attracted the attention of many readers, temporarily allowing "ABC Murder" to surpass the famous book and become the first place on the new book list of foreign book sales platforms.
A very dazzling result. There have been many more comments about this new book on foreign reading rating software.
[I have to admit, I have become a fan of Poirot, this guy is a bit charming!]
[Oh my God, who dares to believe that this is a foreign writer who has been debuting for more than a year?]
[A new work from the creator of narrative trickery, the same wonderful trick, but a different story, five-star recommendation!]
[The characters and the overall layout of the novel are perfect. If it weren't for "Roger's Mystery", this would be the best book of the year!]
【amazing!
It’s hard to imagine that this is a new book this year. With such a wonderful story, I thought I had read a classic.】
[I can’t wait to read the next book in the series! I will definitely buy the new book when it comes out!]
【I want to see the movie adapted from this book!】
[Can you come to Europe and the United States to hold a signing event? 】
The release of "ABC Murder", the promotion of the publishing house, the recommendation of many writers, and the accumulated fan base of the two books have all made this book receive extremely high praise.
The day after the mv shooting ended, Jiang Yuan and others returned home from the sea.
After filming the music video for "Wish Sticky Notes", Jiang Yuan was temporarily free before the Double Eleven party, and only had two or three trips to run a week.
Taking advantage of this time, Jiang Yuan also had some things to prepare.
After looking through the feedback on "ABC Murder" on domestic platforms, I found that the novel has been the most popular recently, and it also scored an astonishingly high score of 9.3 on the 10-point platform.
It may decline over time, but at least for now, the reputation is explosive.
At this time, Yang Chao also excitedly sent a message to Jiang Yuan, which was feedback on domestic and international results.
As popular as it is in China, thanks to Karl's sincere recommendation, word-of-mouth and sales have skyrocketed.
One Book, a well-known book recommendation agency, only recommends one book every week. Yesterday, it updated and directly recommended "ABC Murder".
The mystery novel rating agency also gave this book a high score of 95 points.
It is the second-highest-ranking work this year, after "Roger Mystery" which received a perfect score.
Yang Chao was quite excited and sent more than a dozen messages, which also included pictures of some offline activities.
Jiang Yuan was not too surprised by the feedback sent by Yang Chao. After all, he had already received more immediate feedback from the system before.
The release of "ABC Murder" officially established the Poirot series. So far, it has helped Jiang Yuan obtain a total of 20,000 achievement points and a silver treasure chest.
And after the publication of "ABC Murder", an achievement mission called "The Great Detective" was officially launched.
The task only has a name, and the task conditions are not written.
But according to Jiang Yuan's understanding, it should be to make Poirot a well-known detective on Blue Star.
In this way, Jiang Yuan was still struggling with which new book to publish next, but once this task came out, he naturally no longer had to worry about it.
After briefly replying to Yang Chao's previous message, Jiang Yuan thought about it and sent another message.
"There should be new books coming soon!"
In the bedroom of Yang Chao's home in Shanghai, he stared at the message sent by Jiang Yuan several times, and then howled excitedly, startling Yang Miaomiao who was watching TV in the living room.
In the bedroom, Yang Chao felt as if he was about to faint from happiness.
Yang Chao took several deep breaths and barely suppressed his excitement. After calming down, he typed and asked, "Is it still the Poirot series?"
"Yes." Jiang Yuan replied.
"Sa!" Yang Chao jumped up on the bed again.
After getting excited, Yang Chao hesitated again, "Is it too rushed?"
It's not that Yang Chao feels sorry for Jiang Yuan or that he doesn't want to publish a new book so soon.
Mainly because of the current popularity and reputation of the Poirot series, he still feels that it would be safer to polish the new work more carefully.
However, Jiang Yuan didn't get Yang Chao's intention, and replied, "I have more than ten days of vacation, which is fine."
Yang Chao read Jiang Yuan's reply, hesitated and asked again, "Have you come up with a story for the new book?"
I originally wanted to ask whether the quality was guaranteed or something like that, but I deleted it again.
"I already have a complete idea. It's definitely a very explosive work! It's so amazing, you won't be able to guess it after seeing it!" Jiang Yuan thought for a while and replied.
"Murder on the Orient Express" is a book that cannot be avoided when it comes to mystery works. It is also one of Grandma's masterpieces.
Jiang Yuan is naturally highly respected.
After Yang Chao read Jiang Yuan's new message, he was also shocked by Jiang Yuan's description.
Another work that you would never guess!
This made Yang Chao couldn't help but wonder if Jiang Yuan didn't have any bottlenecks?
"I can send you a new book in the next month or two." Jiang Yuan sent another message to Yang Chao.
Although Jiang Yuan should be able to re-produce "Murder on the Orient Express" during these few days of rest, it is better to be conservative in terms of time.
But for Yang Chao, one or two months is definitely very fast.
"Okay, I will make preparations first." Yang Chao replied.
After "ABC Murder", Jiang Yuan's status can be said to have climbed to a new level, and he is definitely the top author of their company.
Internationally, it is directly called a mysterious supernova in the reasoning world.
At the end of the chat, Jiang Yuan once again asked a question that Yang Chao had not thought of, "How can I win the literature award?"
Yang Chao looked at this question for a few seconds.
On Blue Star, there is only one award that can be called a literary award without the prefix.
It is more appropriate to say it is a literary award than a lifetime achievement award for writers.
The award is awarded once a year to writers in different fields and languages, and the best award of the year is selected.
This award is theoretically awarded once a year, but it is vacant basically half of the time.
Yang Chao was confused when he was asked, if he knew how to win awards, could he still be an editor here?
However, he still replied in wording, "There are several mystery writers in history who have won literary awards."
After Jiang Yuan received the reply, he checked the information and found that the last mystery writer to win an award was ten years ago.
This made Jiang Yuan feel that there was still a chance to do it.
Among the many categories, Jiang Yuan chose to reason and dig deeper, not only because he liked it, but also because it was more suitable.
After all, many well-known literary works in my impression are related to the background and social structure of the times, and are not suitable to be reproduced.
On the other side, Yang Chao watched Jiang Yuan reply "ok" and disappear, and fell into deep thought. Wasn't the question Jiang Yuan just asked him serious?