48 Hours a Day

Zhang Heng and Holmes walked into the living room and, as Mrs. Hudson said, today's 221B Baker Street is particularly lively.

Apart from a group of familiar faces such as Gregson and Lestrade, even a deputy director of the police station arrived, he could see that his mood was not very beautiful, he didn't even sit down, he kept walking by the window, he saw his superiors like this, no one else naturally had the reason to sit down.

So a bunch of people were standing in the living room, obviously somewhere, and nobody sat down. The scene looked ridiculous, but nobody could laugh. The Scotland Yard officers looked serious.

People were relieved when they saw Holmes walking in.

“Looks like you haven't slept well in days.” Holmes Road, “Lestrade, your oats and fried eggs for breakfast? ”

“It's time for you to stop making fun of us.” The short officer laughed bitterly.

The deputy commissioner of police looked up at Holmes like a drowning man staring at the only straw around him, and he walked up and reached out, “Mr. Holmes famous, Lestrade, Hopkins, etc. often talked to me about you as the most talented and brilliant detective in London and Europe as a whole, and besides, we haven't had time to thank you for your help in the case of the Jane Doe on the Thames before. ”

“The district is small and lacks teeth.” Holmes shakes hands with the deputy commissioner and then shows him sitting on the couch.

When I saw my superiors take their seats, the Scotland Yard officers were finally able to take their place.

Zhang Heng asked Mrs Hudson to move a few more chairs out of the dining room and sit down beside Holmes herself.

The deputy commissioner seemed to have done a lot of homework before coming to Baker Street. He knew that there had been an Oriental detective around Holmes recently, so he didn't say anything in the letter of sight. He couldn't wait to go straight to the subject and looked at Holmes Road, “I'm sure you know why we came to the door. ”

“For serial killings around the White Church.” Holmes smiled and touched his pipe again, "I saw the news in the paper.” He paused and said, "Left-handed men, between the ages of 30 and 40, are not strong enough and unstable, while ideological traditions are conservative. ”

“How do you see this?” The deputy commissioner snorted, “it seems we haven't started introducing you to the case, or have you seen it secretly on the scene before? In fact... the information in the newspaper is somewhat modified, not to conceal the truth, but mainly to fear that it will cause unnecessary panic again among the population. ”

Holmes pointed to a photograph of a newspaper letter with a pipe, “The story may have been modified, but the photograph was always true, and the above reasoning was not based on the description in the newspaper, but on the letter sent to the newspaper. ”

“Oh?” said the deputy commissioner, somewhat surprised. "Can you tell so much from the handwriting? ”

“Of course, it's like an art.” Holmes, “a good handwriting scholar should be able to see far more information than literally. ”

Seeing the deputy director look suspicious, Mr. Detective took the initiative to explain, “Age is not to say, this part is too troublesome, if you really want to understand, you can see a paper I published two years ago, there is a clear difference between the letters of the young and the elderly, in theory, the age and size of the writer can be seen in the vast majority of the letters, of course, this ability needs to be exercised, the handwriting of men and women is also very recognizable, the aesthetic deviation of different genders, the left-handed words are even simpler, have you noticed the ink marks in the letter, because it is left-handed writing, the palm of the hand is easier to scratch the letter, so this letter spends more space. ”

“How can ideological traditions be seen when character is not strong enough and unstable?” The deputy commissioner wondered.

“Notice that the long letters in this letter are no higher than the ordinary letters, you can see that his d is written like a, I and e tall, and the strong character is always distinguished no matter what the environment, the short and tall letters are, on the contrary, naturally this is the case now, similarly, you can see that the letter k is written in different sizes, which indicates that his character is unstable, but the capitalized letters in the letter are fairly neat, which indicates that his mind is conservative. ”

Holmes said, "This is the information I found in the handwriting, but your suspicions are not unreasonable, and there is no evidence that the person who wrote this letter is the murderer, and at this time, it cannot be ruled out that someone is messing with the police by touching fish. ”

Mr. Deputy Commissioner seems to be quite frank, “You have proven yourself to be a competent person on more than one occasion, and this case does not hide from you that there is a lot of pressure on our part of the police, not only on the side of the council, even Her Majesty the Queen has released a statement asking us to solve the case within the deadline, but so far we do not have many ideas, you know where the East Side is, the situation is complicated, and the fish dragons are mixed, Gregson they have locked some suspects in succession, but then they have ruled out the suspects, we now… there is no better way, so we can only ask you for help, if we can solve the case on time, the police must also thank you. ”

“You're too kind.” Holmes, “I myself happen to be interested in the case, even if it doesn't pay much. ”

The deputy director heard Big Happy, “Great! This is the only good news I've heard today, it's almost noon, I've booked a place in the restaurant, you and your friends..."

Holmes interrupted the other side and said, "When I get to work, I forget everything else completely, so I don't have to eat, and if I can, let's start right now. ”

“That's better, that's better.” The deputy director even nodded, "I hear you and Lestrade both know each other, and there's nothing you need to tell them, so long as the police are within their power, it's unconditional. ”

Lestrade et al. are somewhat embarrassed, they are all good detectives in Scotland Yard themselves, but now they can only fight Holmes. Although they have not asked Holmes for help before, this scene is somewhat embarrassing, as if they have publicly admitted the incompetence of the London police, and of course, some deputy commissioner seems to be able to hear from it.

Holmes didn't say anything, but got up and said, "In that case, gentlemen, let's get to work. ”