There was silence in the house, as quiet as death. De Gaulle turned the handle gently and found that the door was unlocked, so he slowly pushed it open.
The smell of blood is real. As soon as I opened the room, the ground was a striking scarlet color.
A man wearing a police helmet was lying in a pool of blood with his back to the window.
His face was turned sideways to the ground, his left hand was on the side of his head, and his right hand was pressed under his waist, in a weird posture.
The female assistant behind her was so frightened that she lost her mind on the spot. The moment before she fainted, she was held back by De Gaulle.
De Gaulle shook the other party's head and asked her to go to the police station to report the crime.
The female assistant was trembling all over, and she instantly forgot that the person in front of her had just claimed to be a "policeman."
When she fled the scene in panic, de Gaulle glanced at Victor and reminded him to be careful where he stepped, and then walked into the murder scene.
He moved to squat down in front of the deceased and looked at him carefully.
Victor also walked in, and immediately felt the icy cold wind blowing into the room, caressing his cheek.
He looked sideways and found a double-leaf window wide open. He suddenly thought of something and hurried over to check, and found a dirty footprint on the window sill.
"The murderer escaped from here!"
De Gaulle was still squatting there and did not react when he heard him calling.
Victor turned around and saw the whole appearance of the deceased.
It's Tom Ross...
"This police uniform can't save your life, Detective Tom..." Although the two sides had a dispute, there was no trace of schadenfreude on De Gaulle's face, and his expression was extremely solemn.
Victor knew very well that Tom was not a real policeman, and he only wore a police uniform to facilitate the investigation. After all, the first two companies refused to provide him with original information.
But what was the reason why he was killed? According to the female assistant downstairs, he only arrived an hour earlier than Victor and De Gaulle.
The murderer was in this room before. Is he the boss of this company?
Victor looked at the wooden desk. There was an overturned black-and-white photo on it, which was of a man fishing in the wild. There was also a line of text in the lower right corner:
Remember the last afternoon before winter.
The name is Francis Lemlang, he should be the person in charge of "Moon Home".
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"He lost too much blood. Someone attacked him from behind and cut the artery in his neck..." De Gaulle glanced at it casually, and then told the cause of Tom's death.
He reached out and touched Tom's skin gently: "The blood has coagulated, but the body temperature is still there. The time of death will be within an hour."
As he spoke, his eyes were still looking around the room.
The entire office was quasi-octagonal. To the right of Tom's body was a curved wooden table with a powered umbrella-shaped desk lamp. He also saw the photo, but said nothing.
Behind the wooden table is a tall cabinet with symmetrical obtuse angles, with a fireplace embedded in the middle, and tall bookcases on both sides, which contain countless brown paper bags.
The ceiling is very low, probably made of partitions, and the middle board is made into a square grid shape, which is a very stylish decorative style.
Of course, the above description is the normal state of this office that should be displayed to outsiders, but now, in addition to a corpse and a large amount of scarlet blood, there are also various information files scattered all over the floor.
De Gaulle picked up a few and glanced at them, and found that they were all personnel registration information of this housekeeping company.
It was so messy, it looked like someone was frantically searching for documents.
"Is he in a hurry? He's so impatient, throwing information everywhere..." Victor also saw this and asked casually with a suspicious tone.
De Gaulle quickly dismissed this possibility.
"It shouldn't be that simple. Even if Tom disguised himself as a policeman, he wouldn't be able to mess up someone else's office so unscrupulously."
After he finished speaking, he stood up and walked towards the double window that Victor had just explored.
He stood outside the window and looked down. This room was on the second floor, but the external structure of the building still supported the murderer from jumping from here, and the height below was not high enough to break the person's legs.
"This is the person in charge's office. He was not here, but Tom died here. The murderer is most likely the boss of this company. He probably jumped from the window and escaped. We have to find a way to catch him.
Maybe the other party is also related to the case of the Berkeley family."
Victor believes that Tom must have discovered some key clues that led to the murder and silence of the other party.
De Gaulle stared at the window sill for a long time, then suddenly turned around and said to Victor: "Sorry, Watson, my idea is exactly the opposite of yours. The murderer did not escape from here, but climbed in from here...
"
Um?
Victor was a little curious when he heard this. The man in front of him could always surprise him beyond ordinary people's thinking.
"The footprints on the window sill are very obvious. Where is the flaw?"
De Gaulle shook his finger: "It's just because it's so obvious, Watson."
"Okay! I'm all ears to hear your reasoning." Victor smiled and waited for the other party's answer.
Confidence appeared on De Gaulle's face again, and he seemed to enjoy explaining his interpretation to Victor.
"Very well, Watson, before I explain, I want to ask you first, what postures and movements would a person make if he jumped out from here? Well, I suggest you try it on the window next to you."
After hearing this, Victor happily walked to another window nearby, pressed both sides of the window frame with both hands, raised one foot, and gestured casually, but did not actually step on the window edge to avoid damaging the scene.
"That's it. Is there any problem?"
After Victor finished speaking, de Gaulle smiled, and then said to Victor: "Very good, then if a person comes in from the outside, what kind of action will he do? You can try it on the cabinet on this side of the wall."
Victor still didn't know what de Gaulle meant, so he walked to the cabinet again, pretending that it was the window sill on the second floor. He squatted down half of his body, grabbed the window edge with both hands, and then rubbed it up...
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As soon as this action was completed, Victor was stunned on the spot.
He already understood what de Gaulle meant.
"I see!"
He gave up and walked to the window sill again to compare the traces.
"I understand, it's the marks on the window frame and dust..."
De Gaulle snapped his fingers and exclaimed: "That's very correct. It seems that being my assistant has also improved your reasoning ability!"
Victor continued his analysis: "Compared with the dust on the window sill next to it, there are obvious traces of being wiped with cloth. If the murderer escaped from here, then there should be shoe prints and dust left on the windowsill. Most people would step on it.
The window frame jumped to the upper cornice of the first-floor window and then to the ground."
"On the contrary, if the person is climbing in from the outside, then the person will first hold onto the window frame with his hands, prop up his body and then crawl into the room, so that the cloth on his knees or elbows will be scratched with large irregular marks."
"The person in charge of this company is lax about the cleaning of the window sill, because there are varying amounts of dust on both sides of the windows, and only the open edge has been wiped off. This excludes the fact that it was left behind when the other party was cleaning.
The possibility of leaving traces.”
After the analysis, Victor immediately contacted the murderer's deliberate arrangement.
Since he came in from the outside and killed Tom, why did he still leave shoe prints on the windowsill? Was it intentional?
"It was indeed intentional." De Gaulle immediately explained without waiting for Victor to ask, "One thing you didn't notice is that the shoe prints are actually Tom's shoe prints."
"Huh?" Victor was a little surprised. He turned around and looked at Tom's shoes. They were really...
"The murderer took off his shoes and deliberately left a mark on the window to mislead us. But she herself had already escaped from the front door..."
Leave through the main entrance?
After hearing this, Victor immediately remembered that the office door was unlocked and the murderer probably walked in from the front...
etc!
He immediately reacted and shouted to de Gaulle: "Why didn't that female assistant bring the police over just now?"