Chapter 543 The detective's business is not ashamed
One of them was Toshiya Tadokoro, a student who went to the storage room to check whether the doors and windows were closed after delivering food.
The other one was the vampire researcher Shuichi Hamura who went to the underground library next to the collection room to check out the classics and returned to the hall after a long time.
Among them, Toshihiko Tadokoro only spent a few minutes checking the doors and windows, leaving him with no time to do anything.
So rule it out...
Gunda Ikumi looked at Hamura Shuichi: "At present, it seems that you are the only one who has time to commit crimes."
Hamura Shuichi was stunned, then pushed up his pince-nez, shook his head and retorted: "There is a hall between the collection room and the study room. I did go to the collection room, but during that time, you were all sitting in the hall, even if
If I had a chance to get the wooden nails, I wouldn't go to the study to commit murder."
"There is more than one way to the study, but the other paths are not so conventional."
Ikumi Gunda walked upstairs and walked to the second-floor window: "If an accomplice lowers the rope ladder from the second floor and helps you climb up from the underground library, you can first get to the second floor, and then follow the roof -
—”
As she spoke, she opened the window in the corridor on the second floor and completed the second half of the sentence at the same time: "——Go to the study."
As the windows opened, in the moonlight, a long roof with a slight slope appeared in front of everyone. One end of it is connected to this side, and the other end is connected to Tokura Daisuke's study. The bricks and tiles are evenly covered with untrodden white
There was snow, and there were no footprints on the snow.
——No one passes by here.
Gunda Ikumi: "..."
She stared out the window in silence for a moment, then raised her hand and closed the window again as if nothing had happened.
...Proposing hypotheses and then verifying them one by one is the basic operation of detectives. Of course it is good if the reasoning is right, but if it is wrong...it is wrong if it is wrong. It is just a hypothesis, there is no shame.
Suzuki Sonoko looked at the corridor, remembered something, and whispered: "The murderer probably didn't pass through the roof - when Mr. Hamura went to the library, I stayed in the corridor on the second floor, and no one passed by here."
Gunda Ikumi was startled and looked at her doubtfully: "What have you been doing in the corridor on the second floor?"
Suzuki Sonoko blushed: "...Look, look at the scenery! It's higher here than on the first floor, and the scenery is better than below."
"..." In other words, another person without an alibi.
Gunda Ikumi began to stare at her suspiciously.
However, looking at Suzuki Sonoko's thin arms and legs, I always feel that it would be difficult for her to carry an adult man like Daisuke Tokura, let alone tie him to a cross.
So a few seconds later, Gunada Ikumi hesitantly looked away from Suzuki Sonoko and looked at Jiang Xia again - I heard from colleagues that this high school detective solves cases as fast as reading a script. Why don't I see him doing anything today?
action?
Is this case particularly difficult? Or are there some indispensable key clues that they have not discovered yet?
...Then she guessed wrong just now, and it is indeed normal. Ikumi Gunada tucked her slightly curly hair behind her ears, nodded secretly in her heart, and felt a lot more comfortable.
At the same time, I decided to relax and continue to reason - make bold assumptions and verify carefully, so that we can find a path to the truth in an impossible crime.
She looked at the window for a moment, then opened it again and looked at the eaves outside.
——Not only on the roof of this section of the corridor, but further on, even on the top of the study room, no footprints can be seen.
In other words, the prisoner should have never been on the roof. In addition, the door of the study was locked, and the only key was with Daisuke Tokura. The floor-to-ceiling windows were located next to the cliff. When she was in the study just now, she had carefully examined the cliff.
Not only is it bottomless, but the protruding parts are also covered with snowflakes, and there are no signs of climbing.
All roads are impassable...it's impossible for the murderer to fly there like a vampire.
The reasoning was briefly in trouble.
Ikumi Gunda had no choice but to change his mind - start with the motivation.
She still felt that from a time perspective, only Hamura Shuichi could commit the crime: "Speaking of which..." She suddenly looked at Hamura Shuichi, "You and Mrs. Tokura are lovers, right?"
"?!"
Tokura Etsuko's heart skipped a beat and she nervously pulled Hamura Shuichi's arm.
Just now, she listened to Jiang Xia's boss talk about a lot of knowledge that sounded very useful. She had just tried hard to digest some of it, and felt that her ability to cover up had improved. Unexpectedly, it didn't take long before she was actually exposed... Hu
Etsuko Kurama glanced at Toru Amuro subconsciously.
Toru Amuro looked to the other side and ignored her.
... He remembered that when he entered Daisuke Tokura's study and saw the horrific corpse, Etsuko Tokura instinctively ran to Shuichi Hamura and grabbed his arm, instead of asking for help from Toshiya Tadokoro who was nearby.
...Normal people can see that something is wrong, let alone a detective like Gunda Ikumi who is not confused. The blame cannot fall on him anyway...
Next to her, Etsuko Tokura panicked for a while, then slowly calmed down: By the way, Daisuke Tokura is dead. Now that he is suspected of cheating, it seems to have nothing to do with it... Wait, speaking of this, who is the murderer?
It can’t really be Shuichi...
Hamura Shuichi is still retorting:
"No matter what my relationship is with Etsuko, I am not the murderer of Daisuke Tokura. If you are looking for a motive, then you should actually look at others - such as Editor-in-Chief Doi."
As he spoke, he looked at the editor next to him who was sweating on his forehead:
"I heard a rumor in college - the content of the novels submitted to the "Terror Times Weekly" will be stolen by Daisuke Tokura. But the misappropriation is quite clever, and their manuscripts have not been published yet. No one can prove that Tokura Daisuke
Kura Daisuke was at fault..."
As Shuichi Hamura's eyes fell on Editor-in-Chief Doi's luggage, Doi sweated even more.
——At this time, what editor Doi had in his bag was indeed the original submissions. Daisuke Tokura had finished plagiarizing them and he was going to take them back.
Although Daisuke Tokura has not published any more vampire novels in recent years, he is still writing them in private. Therefore, Daisuke Tokura's computer may now contain fresh and hot evidence of plagiarism.
Editor-in-chief Doi always felt that if he refused to admit it at this time and concealed the information, then the crime of murder might fall on him...
...We must find someone more suspicious!
Thinking of this, editor-in-chief Doi also decisively dragged people into trouble:
"To be honest, Daisuke Tokura actually gave up his career a long time ago. Seven years ago, I failed in stock trading and owed a large debt. Tokura paid it off for me, but he asked me to hand over the manuscripts I received to him first.
Take a look..."
Having said this, Editor-in-Chief Doi felt that people were looking at him more and more wrongly, and realized that his motive for murder seemed to be sufficient.
So I quickly introduced the topic: "This is not the point! The point is that five years ago, I felt that it was not an option for him to continue copying like this, so I recommended a ghostwriter to him - Tadokoro! The novels published by Daisuke Tokura in the past few years,
In fact, they are all works by Tian Suo, and when it comes to motivation, he is better than me!"