惊魂马戏团(悬疑故事)
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威尔逊马戏团发生了一起命案,团长索普死了。
哥尼侦探和助手马特迅速赶到马戏团调查。
当他们赶到的时候,已经介入调查的杰夫警官向他们汇报了的案情:
“事情太蹊跷了!凶案发生的时候,死者的手枪里射出了三发子弹。
都是点32口径的空包弹,枪是马戏表演上使用的枪。
三声枪响发生在十秒钟内。
出现的地方,是马戏团正在整修的二号马戏场。
案发的时候,绝大多数工作人员都在数十里外的一号马戏场里。
二号马戏场五十英尺外的员工楼里,当时只有三个工作人员,他们同时听到了枪声。
也是他们报的案。
”
接下来,哥尼率领他们二人一起进行实地勘查:团长的尸体靠在主马戏场通往外界的双开门附近。
双开门敞开着,紧靠墙壁。
墙壁旁边还有一扇小门,团长的尸体靠在这扇小门上,面部表情痛苦的他紧紧握着枪,看起来很像自杀,但也不排除他杀后布置现场的可能性。
哥尼侦探说:“哪个傻瓜会在自杀的时候先朝天空发出两发空弹,然后再用第三颗子弹射中太阳穴呢?等候指纹鉴定结果的这段时间里我想了解一下死者的情况。
”
杰夫警官告诉他们,这名死者是该马戏团新上任的团长。
他是个急功近利的人,对员工和动物都很刻薄。
为了追求自己银行账户的数字,他常常要求大家表演尚不成熟的高难度动作。
工作人员出现过失,他就扣钱加责骂,动物不配合的时候他就命令驯兽师严刑拷打。
杰夫警官指指马戏场畜棚里的动物,再指指交头接耳的工作人员。
显然,没有人为这位团长的死而悲哀,大家脸上都写着幸灾乐祸。
“这么说来,他杀的可能性很大了?”助手马特说,“我听说马戏团如今正是盈利状态。
团长在未来的巡演季将会有50万英镑进账,他在不久前保险组织的体检中显示身体良好,家庭也还算幸福。
这么好的生活状态,我想他才舍不得自杀呢!”
杰夫警官说:“我询问了最早听到枪声的三个工作人员,他们虽然在一栋楼里,却在不同的楼层。
没有人能为其他两个人提供不在场的证明。
也就是说,这三个人都有可能是犯罪嫌疑人。
”
三个人正在进行推理和讨论的时候,一只大象远远地向他们走来。
一个工作人员看到这一幕,连忙用象钩将大象赶回原位。
正在整修的二号马戏场秩序有些混乱,在这个表演季节不用上场的十来只动物,被散养在这里。
除了具有攻击性的两只老虎被锁在笼子里外,一只温驯的大象、两只鹿、五六匹马都散养在畜棚里。
畜棚的栅栏不高,对于高大的动物来说,跃出来并不困难。
“你看,这些动物,不但脏而且脱了毛,还有血渍,它们的日子一定很惨。
”哥尼侦探平日里是个动物保护主义者,他皱着眉头,盯着团长的尸体,“也许案子比我们想象的都简单。
”
哥尼侦探指着尸体所靠着的那扇小门问杰夫警官:“这扇门后面是什么?”
“是一条走廊,book.
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com我来的时候这扇门就是这样闩上的。
小门闩得很紧,我费了好大力气才打开。
拍照之后,我又把门重新闩上,等你们来。
”
哥尼侦探沉思了片刻,他对自己的助手低声说了几句话。
助手马特连忙出去了,杰夫警官问哥尼:“您需不需要对三个犯罪嫌疑人进行单独的问话?我可以帮您整理出他们的相关材料?”
哥尼侦探笑了:“稍等片刻,或许你遗漏了最重要的犯罪嫌疑人,或许根本不是人。
”
正在杰夫警官感到莫名其妙的时候,马特走了过来,他冲着哥尼侦探会心一笑,竖起了大拇指。
看到这一幕,哥尼侦探兴奋起来,他清晰地揭开这宗命案的来龙去脉:“凶手就是这只大象。
你看,这只大象并没有被锁起来,它完全可以跃出棚栏自由活动,就像我们刚才看到的那一幕。
案发的当时,驯兽师不在场,独自在二号马戏场里的团长显然没有携带象钩。
大象也许是想到了自己受尽虐待的可怕场景,你看,它看到仇人多么眼红,不顾一切地从双开门进入,扑了过去……
“团长看到这一幕,他的第一反应是冲大象开空枪来吓唬它。
这一招对大多数动物是有用的,然而对血海深仇的大象而言,却是火上浇油……大象步步紧逼,团长退到了唯一可逃生的小门前,当他发现这扇小门被紧紧拴牢的时候,他知道自己的死期到了。
“你猜,被一只大象杀死是什么感觉?它也许会抬起脚来将你的骨头压得粉碎,它也许会用尖利的象牙戳穿你的肚腹。
团长这样的刽子手最知道这是多么可怕,所以他做了一个还算聪明的决定──趁着一切还未发生之前,将一发子弹留给了自己。
“整个过程只持续了10秒钟。
当大象通过嗅觉发现团长死了的时候,它知道结束了。
在三位工作人员赶到这里之前,它回到了畜棚,然后一切恢复正常……大家将犯罪嫌疑归到了这三位工作人员的身上。
”
杰夫警官瞪大了眼睛,他觉得这一切太不可思议了。
最终让他彻底接受“大象杀人的事实”的,是助手马特拿出的两份报告:
一是指纹鉴定,案发现场附近没有除团长外任何人的指纹。
二是石蜡检测,结果显示大象的鼻子上果真有火药的痕迹。
这起匪夷所思的杀人案件水落石出,全英国涌起了一轮动物保护的高潮。
也难怪:兔子逼急了尚且咬人,更何况是大象?
Introduce:Wilson is circus wagon produced a case involving the killing of a person one case, colonel alls alone general died.
Detective and assistant horse drive elder brother Buddhist nun to especially quickly circus wagon investigation.
When they arrive, had intervened the Jeff police officer of investigation reported bizarre details of a case to them: "Thing too odd! When fierce case happens, 3 hair bullet was fired in the dead's handgun.
It is the blank cartridge of bit of 32 caliber, the gun is the gun that uses on circus performance.
3 guns noise happens inside 10 seconds.
The place that the body appears, it is circus wagon the 2 circuses field that rebuilding.
Case hair when, great majority staff member is in the field of a circus of tens of inside and outside.
2 circuses field in 50 feet of employee dormitory buildings outside, there are 3 staff members only at that time, they heard report of a gun at the same time.
Also be the case that they sign up for.
" next, elder brother Buddhist nun leads them 2 people undertake on-the-spot perambulate together: The body of colonel relies on to be in advocate what circus field leads to the outside is double open the door around.
Double open the door opening wide, rely on wall closely.
There still is a wicket on the side of wall, the body of colonel leans on this wicket, he of countenance anguish is holding a gun closely, look very like the suicide, but the possibility that the spot decorates after also excluding homicide.
Detective says elder brother Buddhist nun: "Which goofy meeting gives out two hair to be played for nothing toward the sky first when commit suicide, next reoccupy is quiver of the 3rd bullet temporal? I want to understand the dead's situation in this paragraph of time that expects fingerprint identification result.
" Jeff police officer tells them, this dead is this circus wagon new the colonel that assume office.
He is the person of an eager for quick success and instant benefit, very acerbity to employee and animal.
To seek the number of him bank account, he often asks everybody demonstrates still immature tall difficulty movement.
Staff member occurrence error, he buckles money to add scold, when the animal does not cooperate, he commands beat of cruel torture of wild animal trainer.
Jeff police officer points to point to the animal in canopy of circus field cultivate, point to the staff member that points to whisper to each other again.
Apparent, what be this colonel without the person is dead and sad, everybody is being written on the face take pleasure in other's misfortune.
"So say, is the possibility of homicide very large? " assistant horse says especially, "I hear of circus wagon nowadays is gain condition.
Colonel performs season to will 500 thousand pound enters Zhang in prospective make one's rounds, he shows in the check-up that insurance company of not long ago organizes in good health, the family still also calculates happiness.
So good life position, I think he just hates to part with the suicide! " Jeff police officer says: "I asked 3 staff members that hear report of a gun the earliest, although they are in in a building, be in however different floor.
Can be without the person other two people offer not attendant proof.
That is to say, these 3 people are guilty suspect likely.
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