Chapter 21 second scene

Even Hamlet, the most secluded and usually peaceful place, became uneasy that night.The rain continued to fall, followed by bursts of chill that pierced through the clothes.Towering above the Hudson River and standing on the top of the cliff, Hamlet Hill is shrouded in layers of gray mist, with nothing below it, and ghostly clouds above it, like a terrible Edgar Allan Poe-style ruin. . It was a night fit for a fire, and old Quissie had started a great fire in the great fireplace in Wren's living room.The house was warm and comfortable, and after a simple supper, Rain collapsed on the raw fur hearthrug and closed his eyes, the firelight dancing on his eyelids.The old hunchback walked in and out of the room worriedly and timidly.Most of his worries came from his seasoned ability to perceive words and emotions, he squinted his eyes to observe his master from time to time, blinking with the beating of sparks.Once he slipped onto the hearth rug to touch his master's arm, and Rain's gray-green eyes, sleepless and thoughtful, looked at him wide open. "What's the matter, Mr. Wren? Are you unwell?"

"I'm very good." After that, Quesy retreated to a chair in the corner and sat hunched over without moving, his eyes never leaving the still figure lying before the fire. At nine o'clock, that is, after being so still for an hour, the figure moved a little and stood up, "Kuixi." "Yes, Mr. Wren!" The old man jumped up immediately, like a dog flattering his master, with his tongue half stuck out and his expression eager. "I'm going into the study, don't be disturbed, understand?" "Yes, Mr. Wren." "If Fritz Hof or Koroputkin come to me and say I'm asleep. They're worrying about a play, it's all right, I'll see them tomorrow morning."

"Yes, Mr. Wren." Ren patted the old hunchback's bald head, slapped his hump, and urged him to go out. Old Kuisi hesitated again and again before shuffling away. Ren then locked the door, and walked to the next room with sure steps. study. He went to the old carved walnut desk, turned on the lamp, and opened a drawer.He pulled out a sheaf of papers on which he had copied the contents of the yellowed manuscript he had found in the chimney hole of Hatter's house.After sitting in the leather chair in front of the table, he spread out the paper, his eyes were dull and his face was gloomy.Then, slowly and intently, word by word, he began to study the outline he had hastily copied that afternoon.In the still night, those words seemed to take on a new look.He was engrossed in it...

detective story outline Book title (scheduled): "Vanilla Murder Mystery" Author: Think of a pseudonym.Terry's team? H．York?Louis Pastor? The scene: Gramercy Park, New York City?like my own house. Time: Modern. Method: first person.I am a criminal myself. character list York (myself) - Y.criminal.the victim's husband. Emily - the victim.old woman.Bossy character. (Just like a real person.) Louisa - deaf, dumb and blind daughter. (Y's stepdaughter - helps motivation.) Conrad - married son, childless, unnecessary. Martha - his wife. Barbara - daughter. Y and Emily's oldest child.Maintain your identity as a writer.Psychological suspect?

Jill - Y and Emily's youngest child.daughter. Trevitt - the one-legged neighbor.Has love for Louisa. (Going too far?) Gurley - son's business partner. other characters Louisa's nurse, housekeeper, chauffeur, maid, family doctor, family lawyer, Jill's suitor? Notice!Fake names for all the above characters! first crime Attempt to poison Louisa. Fact: It is a tradition in the family that the housekeeper will prepare a glass of eggnog milk for Luisa every day, and put it on the table in the dining room at 2:30 pm. Details: One day, Y (the criminal) waited until the housekeeper put the eggnog milk on the table in the dining room; The library next door. Y obtained the poison strychnine from bottle number 9 on the laboratory chemicals shelf in his upstairs laboratory, from which he took three tablets.No one knew about it.

After putting the poison into the eggnog milk, Y stays in the library waiting for Louisa to drink the eggnog milk. Just as Louisa was walking all the way and was about to enter the dining room, Y came out from the library.Just when Louisa was about to drink the eggnog milk, Y entered the restaurant, picked up the eggnog milk, said that the eggnog milk didn't look right, and took a sip. Y immediately became ill. (Y designed this trick to make the suspicion fall on others around him.) Note: This makes everyone think that someone is trying to poison Louisa; however it must not be Y, because how could the person who poisoned drink his own poison?And it also prevents Louisa from actually being poisoned to death - which is very important to the whole plot.

second offense The second "attempt" to poison Louisa, during which the old woman Emily, Y's wife, is murdered. When: Seven weeks after the first poisoning. Details: At night, around four o'clock in the morning, everyone is still asleep, Louisa and Emily are also sleeping in their bedroom (mother and daughter share a room, each with a single bed), Y Second crime. The idea this time was to poison a pear and place it in a fruit bowl on the bedside table between Louisa's and the old woman's beds.Pears are used because everyone knows old Emily never eats pears.Putting poison in the pear would make it look like someone was trying to poison Louisa again, but Louisa wouldn't eat the pear either.Because Y knows that she never eats rotten or decayed fruit, Y deliberately picks (maybe steals from the kitchen) a rotten pear and brings it into the room, injecting a syringe full of the poison mercuric dichloride , the poison was taken from the laboratory - vial No. 168.

Y gets the syringes from his laboratory iron filing cabinet, where he has a whole box of syringes. In addition, before entering Louisa's bedroom, Y stole a pair of old white shoes that Conrad wore in the summer.Also, when he was filling the syringe with mercuric dichloride in the laboratory (that is, shortly before entering Louisa's room in the middle of the night), he intentionally poured some poison (bottle number 168) on one of Conrad's white shoes . Action: Y sneaks into Louisa and Emily's bedroom.Go to the night table and put this pear in the fruit bowl.Hit Emily on the head with a blunt weapon to kill her. (This is the true purpose of the plot, but it would appear as if Emily was killed by mistake, as if she woke up in the middle of the night and the killer had to kill her to silence her.)

Note: Killing Emily is the main purpose behind the whole plot. The act of poisoning Louisa was just to make the police think that Louisa was the intended murder target.So the police would only suspect people who had a motive to kill Louisa, not Emily.In the story, Y and Louisa are very friendly, so he won't be suspected. False clue explanation: "Y deliberately poured mercury dichloride on Conrad's shoes. After he came out of the bedroom, he put the shoes back in Conrad's closet. The police found the shoes stained with poison, which made them suspect that Conrad Ladd was the poisoner, Conrad hated Louisa, that was well known.

The clues that lead the police to the right answer: Louisa is deaf, dumb and blind.The idea here is that when Y is killing Emily, Luisa wakes up and smells the vanilla scent of Peruvian balm on Y's arm—smell is her sharpest sense, and this helps the police build a lead.She later testified that she smelled vanilla, and the protagonist detective followed the clues to follow up and so on, until she found the truth, it turned out that Y was the only person with vanilla smell. the fire In the middle of the night after the murder, Y set fire to the laboratory (which also served as his bedroom).He first left a bottle of carbon disulfide (bottle number 256) on a large table in the laboratory, a chemical that explodes when heated.Then he lit a match and set fire to his own bed.

Purpose of the arson: The arson and ensuing explosion would make it look like someone also intended to kill Y.This can add another false clue and at least make Y appear innocent. third offense Two weeks after the murder, Y made another "attempt" to "poison" Louisa.This time he used a poison called physostigmine, a white liquid taken from bottle number 220 in his experimental shelf.Louisa drank a glass of skim milk every night an hour after dinner, putting fifteen drops into her skim milk from an eye dropper.Again, Y either draws her attention to something wrong with skim milk, or somehow keeps Louisa from drinking the toxic skim milk. Purpose: At no point was Louisa's death intended by this ploy.This third attempt after the old woman's death is just to continue to convince the police that the killer still wants to kill Louisa, so the police will investigate those who have a motive to kill Louisa instead of Emily. General Notes (l) Remember Y wore gloves every single time, so he didn't leave fingerprints on anything no matter which crime. (2) Draw up the main plot in detail. (3) Draw up in detail how the protagonist detective will finally solve the case. (4) Y's motivation: hating Emily - she ruined his career - his health - controlled and destroyed him... Enough to trigger a real murder! This last comment, irrelevant to the novel and sardonic, has been heavily penciled out of the manuscript (which Wren has copied faithfully from the original); but it is still legible.The novel outline ends with two remaining notes. (5) Be sure to disguise the appearance of all characters so that they look like virtual characters.If a pseudonym is used, and all the characters use pseudonyms, the general public should not recognize it as my family.Perhaps the background is changed to another city, such as Chicago or San Francisco. (6) What is the character of the protagonist detective?Is it a doctor because herbs and chemicals are involved? Y's friend?Not an ordinary detective.Using deductive method-intelligent detective; perhaps has the appearance of Sherlock Holmes, Poirot's demeanor, E. Q．The deductive method of ... makes the laboratory prominent in the investigation ... draws up a clue by the number of the laboratory bottle.Shouldn't be too hard(?) Lane's thin face was tense, and he let down York Height's disorganized detective story outline wearily, and buried his head between his hands.Meditate in silence. Fifteen minutes passed like this, and there was no sound other than his barely audible snort. Finally he sat up straight and stared at the calendar in the corner of his desk.His lips moved slightly.two weeks... He picked up a pencil and, with heavy, almost desperate strokes, circled the eighteenth of June.