Chapter 23 part two

Ellery Quinn became more and more discouraged. His mind was full of all kinds of classic knowledge, but at this time he found that the ancient philosophy of Greece and Rome could not relieve him.Ellery felt helpless.Seeing the days go by, there is a feeling of melancholy that is deepening day by day, and there is no joy in the mood, just bitterness and pain. However, for others, this week has been very lively.Sloane's suicide and burial were like opening the floodgates.Large and small newspapers, full of vivid stories, seized on Gilbert Sloan's life experience and made a big fuss. They insulted the dead man in every possible way, and they didn't even bother to elaborate and modify the insulting words, so that they contradicted each other and were full of loopholes, which made Sloane's reputation discredited and notorious.This wave also spread to his family members, and Tefina Sloan was the first to bear the brunt, and a large number of articles were also written on the widow.The house in Khalkis has become a majestic lighthouse, attracting a large number of unrelenting and courageous journalists.

A tabloid, which might have been called the Big Business--but it wasn't called that--offered to the widow a large sum of money if she would allow a set of articles to appear in her Published under an autographed headline, under the general title of the editorial department: Tefina Sloane's Confessions of Living Together with a Murderer.She was too angry to speak when such a generous offer was met with blind glances, but the paper, a model of journalistic impudence, had unearthed certain private details of Mrs. Sloane's first marriage, and had It is a great achievement to make it public and public, as if it has made a brilliant discovery in archaeology.

A young Aaron Cheney beat up one of the tabloid's reporters, left him with a bruised eye, and went back to the paper's local news editor in dismay; The power of mediation finally kept Alan from being accused of murder by the report, and he was not arrested and brought to justice. During the period when these boring literati were crowing like crows around carrion, the police headquarters was rarely so quiet.The Inspector was back to his less vexing routine, only now and then a little clarification on this or that point was required in order to round out the official papers of the Khalkis-Greenshaw-Sloan case, the general newspaper. That's how the case was called.Dr. Brody's thorough and sloppy examination of Gilbert Sloan's autopsy showed no sign of murder; no trace of poison or violence; A bullet wound from a man who had shot himself in the temple; the medical examiner's office then granted Sloane's body release.Let it rest in a flower-surrounded grave in a suburban cemetery.

As far as Ellery Queen was concerned, the only morsel of grudging truth was that Gilbert Sloan was instantly killed.And yet, by Ellery's own admission, he couldn't see, by his own admission, that this fact would solve anything in the fog. At this moment, in the gloom, he did not know that the fog would soon disappear; the fact that Gilbert Sloane was instantly dead was about to become a clear and visible signpost.