450-word suspense story

1

At the end of the pen meeting, each participant got a box of apples presented by the organizer. On the way back, I heard Chu Yang tell Wang Ting that his fruit knife was gone and he didn't eat the peeled apples, so he gave Wang Ting his box of apples.

They seemed to have a good relationship at that time. Why did Chu Yang kill Wang Ting? I'm curious about it. After all, Wang Ting is my friend. So I turned on the computer and searched for relevant news introductions-

After signing a script writing contract with Wang Ting, Chu Yang rented a suite in a hotel in the city and let Wang Ting stay in the guest room to write the script. Wang Ting stayed in the hotel for two weeks, ordering black pepper steak to take out at noon every day.

The day when Wang Ting was murdered was Monday. At noon, he also ordered black pepper steak and asked the waiter to take the empty plate half an hour later. The surveillance camera in the corridor confirmed that Wang Ting never went out again. At six o'clock in the afternoon, Chu Yang entered the guest room from the corridor. Ten minutes later, Chu Yang left the guest room, stumbling and flustered.

Wang Ting said hello before checking into the hotel and didn't want to be disturbed. At noon the next day, the hotel restaurant called to ask if Wang Ting needed to order food, but no one answered the phone and the staff became suspicious.

The door was a mess, the air conditioner and humidifier were on, books were scattered on the ground, ashtrays were overturned, cigarette butts, pillows and quilts were all over the floor, and there seemed to be traces of fighting. Then the police saw Wang Ting's body in the bathtub with a fruit knife in his chest, but the water in the bathtub was not dyed red with blood.

The handle of that fruit knife is covered with thick cotton. When the blade sank into the chest of the deceased, the blood gushed out was immediately sucked into the cotton. The police analyzed that it was probably because the murderer was worried that the blood sprayed during the crime would stain the clothes, so he handled the murder weapon.

Chu Yang became the prime suspect, and at the same time, Chu Yang's fingerprints were also found on the handle.

The police also found some candid photos of Chu Yang and a young woman in Wang Ting's computer. It was verified that the woman was Wang Ting's wife. The shooting date was a few days before Wang Ting was killed. It can be inferred that under the arrangement of Chu Yang, Wang Ting stayed at the hotel to write, while his wife took the opportunity to have a tryst with Chu Yang.

According to Wang Ting's mobile phone records, he contacted a private detective a few days ago. The private detective admitted to the police that Wang Ting paid him to take pornographic photos, probably to investigate his wife's extramarital affairs. The police speculated that Wang Ting was killed when she showed her cards to Chu Yang.

Strangely, although the police have sufficient evidence, Chu Yang insisted that he didn't kill anyone. He kept saying that he didn't see Wang Ting after he entered the room. He stayed in the room for ten minutes because he read the script manuscript that Wang Ting left on the table. But he couldn't explain why he looked flustered when he escaped from the guest room.

2

After reading this news, I found a new email in my mailbox. I've been busy writing these days, and I haven't opened my email for a week. That email was sent from a strange mailbox on Monday morning.

Teacher Zhuang: I will be murdered by Chu Yang at six o'clock this Monday afternoon. He would stab me to death with a fruit knife and then push me into a bathtub full of water. —— Wang Ting

This email was sent to me by Wang Ting, and it was sent at noon on the day he was killed!

This is simply a murder case announced in advance and executed on time. It was the deceased himself who sent the notice!

If so, he can completely avoid it. Is the person who sent the email the murderer himself?

Half an hour later, a police car stopped at my downstairs. Joo Won?, deputy head of Interpol Brigade, said after listening to my account, "I know that mail can be sent regularly, but the time can only be postponed. However, this email is probably sent to you by the murderer in the name of Wang Ting. "

I can't help asking, "Why did the murderer send this email? Do you want to blame Chu Yang? "

Joo Won? shook his head and said, "I don't think so! Autopsy results show that Wang Ting died at six o'clock in the afternoon when Chu Yang came to the hotel room, with an error of no more than ten minutes. We found traces of fighting in the guest room and a broken alarm clock, which just stopped at 6: 02. "

"But ... in that case, why did Chu Yang always deny killing people? How did he explain the signs of fighting? "

"Chu Yang said that when he entered the room, the room was like this. Wang Ting is a slovenly writer. When Chu Yang came to the guest room to check the script writing a few days ago, it was the same in the room, so there was no doubt. "

"What about the fingerprints on that handle?"

"Chu Yang said that a few weeks ago, his fruit knife mysteriously disappeared. He suspects that the murderer stole the fruit knife with his fingerprints on it to frame him. "

I couldn't help laughing: "Unless Wang Ting stole the fruit knife and then committed suicide to frame him. The motive is to put the adulterer in prison after suicide, but also to discredit his wife. "

Joo Won? also smiled: "We also considered the possibility of Wang Ting committing suicide. He took out life insurance six months ago, and if someone else killed him, the beneficiary could really get high compensation. However, the beneficiary of the policy is his wife. Wang Ting has received photos of his wife's derailment a few days ago. "

"Maybe that policy was secretly operated by Wang Ting's wife," I retorted.

However, Joo Won? told me that the agent of the insurance company confirmed that Wang Ting personally handled the insurance policy six months ago. This also shows that Chu Yang has a motive to kill-if Wang Ting is killed, the compensation will fall into the lover's hands.

three

After listening to this, I suddenly realized something and said, "Officer Zhou, I want to stay in a hotel. I will stay in the room where Wang Ting was killed. Anyway, no one dares to live after the murder. "

"Do you want to play an amateur detective?" He sneered.

Two hours later, I came to the guest room where Wang Ting was killed.

The room has been cleaned, and it has lost the significance of on-site investigation. It may be because when Wang Ting wrote the script here, the air conditioner and humidifier took a long time, the wall was a little wet, and the wall paint also showed signs of peeling.

In the process of thinking in the guest room, I also asked the takeaway to send a black pepper steak set meal. However, this steak is still bloodshot, and soon after eating it, my stomach began to feel uncomfortable. I walked into the bathroom and found that the toilet was blocked.

I called the front desk. After a while, the maintenance man came and soon found the reason for the jam. Someone threw the meat into the toilet.

I suddenly froze. A strange idea came to me. ...

four

I called Joo Won?.

After he sat down, I said, "These pieces of meat can prove that the time of Wang Ting's death determined by the police is inaccurate. If Wang Ting didn't eat the steak set meal at noon the day before her death, but stayed until the next morning. The steak delivered at noon on the day of the incident was thrown into the toilet and washed away. So, can it be accurate to determine his time of death according to the semi-digestion in the stomach? "

I will continue to explain. Judging from the number of pieces of meat fished out now, it is exactly the amount of meat provided by a steak set meal.

"About the traces of fighting and the broken alarm clock-maybe Wang Ting was unkempt at that time, even if the home was messy like a murder scene, Chu Yang did not get suspicious. As for the broken alarm clock, as long as Wang Ting first adjusts the time to 6: 02 and then throws it on the ground. "

Joo Won? had nothing to say, and then he said, "The surveillance camera caught Chu Yang panicking when he left the guest room. If he really watched the script in the house for ten minutes, he shouldn't have this reaction! "

"Maybe what he saw in the room was not a script, but something that frightened him-such as pornographic photos of his tryst with his lover." I answered happily.

"How to explain his fingerprints on the fruit knife? It is difficult for people who commit suicide to have such courage to make such great efforts. "

I replied, "I think Chu Yang probably gave Wang Ting's wife the key to her home. If Wang Ting knew in advance who his wife was having an affair with and found a strange key in his wife's key ring, he would immediately know which door that key could open. "

As long as Wang Ting matches one, she can steal a fruit knife with fingerprints from Chu Yang's house. At the pen meeting, I once heard Chu Yang say that the fruit knife was missing. He shouldn't lie to me as an outsider.

"Teacher Zhuang, you haven't explained why Wang Ting stabbed herself in the chest to commit suicide?"

I nodded and said, "If you lean the handle of the fruit knife against the wall and then lean your chest against the tip of the knife, as long as your body leans forward at an extremely fast speed, the blade will pierce your chest under the impact of your body." I paused again and added, "There is a lot of cotton on the handle of that fruit knife, and even the bottom of the handle is covered with cotton. I think these cotton can not only absorb the blood gushing from the wound, but also play a buffering role when the handle leans against the wall to prevent the handle from leaving traces on the wall. "

"Teacher Zhuang, I admit that what you said is very reasonable, but everything comes from your imagination and lacks evidence."

I smiled and said to the young police officer Joo Won?, "Why don't you ask the police evidence department to check the cotton wrapped at the bottom of the handle again to see if there is any wall paint on it?" I touched the bathroom wall. "When Wang Ting wrote the script in the room, the air conditioner and humidifier were always on, and the wall paint on the bathroom wall was a little wet and fell off."

five

Joo Won? called the evidence section, and I continued to analyze.

Regarding the insurance policy, it was indeed Wang Ting who handled it herself six months ago. At that time, he already knew that his wife was having an affair with Chu Yang, and deliberately wrote the beneficiary as his wife's name, just to make the police more convinced that Chu Yang had a motive to kill-to kill her husband to cheat insurance.

Let the police investigate Wang Ting's phone records six months ago to see if he has any contact with other private detectives. The police can also search Wang Ting's house carefully to see if they can find another key to Chu Yang's house. If we can find the key, maybe it has Wang Ting's fingerprints on it.

The next day, I got the result from Joo Won?-my reasoning was completely correct.

As for the email that Wang Ting wrote to me, I also know the reason. Wang Ting is a writer of mystery novels. He personally designed this perfect suicide plan. If no one appreciates it, he will be disappointed as a writer.