Detective Bennet [Comprehensive novel]

A blood-stained human tooth inlaid with silver was found in the animal taming area.

The lions, wolf dogs, and bears domesticated by the circus must eat raw meat for three meals a day, which makes the animal training area always have a faint smell of blood.

At present, none of the members of the circus in the camp is missing a tooth, and no spectator has ever heard of a tooth loss in the past two days.

This inevitably leads to a terrible conjecture, where is the owner of this tooth?still alive?

How did he/she lose a tooth? Has he/she ever had a conflict with the predators in the taming area?

It is impossible for the members of the circus to answer these questions honestly, but they also cannot guard against the side inquiries of the detectives.

Enter the third day of the circus.

Sherlock approached Merton, who thought he was smart, and was not worried about arousing this person's vigilance, because Merton handed over the excuse on his own initiative.

Last night's flower delivery incident stimulated Vasilyski, who went to the magician Merton to complain about the pain of being the neglected side of the group.

The throwing knife performance is obviously a joint performance of two people. Why do the audience only look at the radiant thrower and ignore the kidnapped as the target?

"Those who suffer and suffer are neglected."

Sherlock brought the topic to Anna, the previous knife-throwing performer in the circus.

"Just like the Anna before, you said that she had her ears cut off this time, and I don't know when I will be as unlucky as her."

"Don't be too pessimistic. Anna had a conflict with Stephen. The accident happened when the two practiced their emotions."

Merton comforted, but then said, "Of course, the best way to avoid danger is to stop being the one who is tied up. In fact, it's always bad for women to play with knives. You might as well change it! You can also gain more audiences, You don’t have to be as scared as you are now.”

"How about that!"

Sherlock categorically denied Merton with Vasilisky's bluntness, "No matter how unhappy I am, I can't hurt my wife. You also have a dangerous part in performing magic watches. Are you willing to let your partner take risks?"

Merton: Then there is no reluctance, just replace one after death, but this kind of truth cannot be said.

And facing the straightforward Russian guy, he always felt that something was stuffed into his mouth—it was so sweet that it made people feel uncomfortable.

Sherlock pretended not to see Merton's expression, and touched the scar on the side of his face. "Do you know how it got here?"

Merton wanted to say that he was not interested at all, but he was sent to win over and observe the Tsarist Russian flying knife fighters, so he could only pretend to nod enthusiastically.

"Haven't you ever wondered why my wife was injured in the same position as me, and the scars are all crosses?"

Sherlock gave an affectionate setting written by Watson, "Because of my scar, I scratched it on my own initiative."

Next, Merton solved the doubts in his heart while passively bearing the second critical attack.

A Tsarist Russian couple who eloped had to perform knife-throwing performances in order to survive.

Vasilisky was originally the knife thrower, but accidentally injured his wife during practice, leaving a scar on her face.

And the throwing knife practice will not only miss once, and the second miss will cause Mrs. Vasiliski to add a new injury to the side of the face, which becomes a cross scar.

Elopement couples have to bear a lot of psychological pressure.

Vasilyski was afraid that his half-disfigured wife would think wildly, so he made the same scar on his face, and volunteered to change from a knife thrower to a kidnapped one.

"I've heard about the injuries of many throwing knife actors along the way. I don't think my choice could be more correct."

Sherlock naturally used Anna as an example, "Let's not talk about it, let's talk about the Anna you know. This time she had a conflict and hurt her ear, but I heard that her mouth was also seriously injured, and even a piece of tooth was missing. Don't To say that is simply bad luck.”

None of the members of the circus disclosed the specific injuries of Anna.

Right now, Sherlock deliberately mentioned that Anna's tooth was broken, just to take advantage of the opportunity to defraud Merton.

Merton was very uncomfortable with the love story of the Tsarist Russian flying swordsmen, and the feeling of being slapped with sugar couldn't make him happy.When talking about how unlucky Anna is, he can be in a good mood, and he can't help but want to say a few more words.

"Hmm... how should I put it? Anna wasn't hit by a flying knife when she smashed her teeth."

Merton tried to hide his schadenfreude, "It's because she didn't have enough guts. During the rehearsal before the performance in New York, her legs were weak, she fell on the horse when she got off the stage, and she had to find a dentist to fix her teeth."

"New York".

Sherlock remembered this, and saw Merton's face suddenly changed.

"Is there anything wrong?"

Sherlock was simply puzzled, "The dentist Anna is looking for is a quack doctor? By the way, I remember Captain Andre said that Anna plans to marry a certain doctor. Could it be that dentist?"

"There's nothing wrong with it, I just think that medical bills are very expensive, especially dentists charge a lot."

Merton obviously didn't want to mention the dentist. "Who knows? We don't know what connection Anna has with the outside world. It's been almost half a year since she had her teeth filled. I haven't heard her mention the dentist."

This is said to be self-evident.

Sherlock even determined the time when Anna was injured - half a year ago.

Location: New York

Time: Half a year ago, the eve of the Moon Bay Circus performance

With the time and place, combined with Anna's appearance and her general injury, it is possible to find a dentist for her in New York.

Merton was forced to say something sweet and didn't want to talk about Anna, so he left first on the grounds that he wanted to practice.

Now, Merton doesn't care about telling Anna's injury.

After his two days of observation, the Tsarist Russian flying swordsman did not leave the circus camp.If you don't go to the town, there is no possibility of connecting with anyone.The pair of flying swordsmen didn't do anything sneaky, they didn't look like spies at all.

What's more, may I ask which family spy will be full of love?

Why don't you want your partner to get hurt, why do you draw the same cross scar on your face, what kind of mental retardation are those?

Spies must be ruthless!

Merton is very confident in his own standards.

He agrees with what Andre said that the Flying Swordsmen have a clean background, but he doesn't agree with admitting them into the circus. The Moon Bay Circus doesn't need people with deep affection.

On the other end, Kelsey, who was deemed innocent of any sneaky behavior, went a little further today.

She didn't go to the town where Andre said she could relax, and she didn't go in the direction where the circus usually went to fetch water, but explored the other side.

The circus camped out on the outskirts of the woods.

At present, there are no traces of man-made conflicts in the camp.

Assuming that some kind of mutilation is to be done, beasts can handle human flesh, and the forest is a natural place for bones to be disposed of.

The woods may not be just a drop point, but a junction point for some kind of covert operation.

Why is Alisa crazy?Where did the missing little sister Peter go?Did Anna just have her ears cut off and go to the city for medical treatment?

Kelsey doesn't believe what the members of the Moon Bay Circus say.

The circus performers are all very good, they can successfully amuse the audience, and they can also tell seven parts of the lie and three parts of the truth - this kind of lie that is the most difficult to tell the truth from the false.

Words can whitewash the peace, but the truth will not be changed.

Without saying a word, Kelsey took a detour into the woods.

Animals are less active in winter.Even if she went deep into the woods, she didn't see many animals, and there were no traces of humans at this stage.

Because the investigation time in the morning was limited, I planned to withdraw to the camp without finding any signs of buried bones along the way. When I looked up on the return journey, I found some familiar hairs on the trees.

Brown hair, slightly coarser in texture than whiskers.

This is not exactly the so-called werewolf in the mirror, the hair left on the branches around Lexi's villa.

As mentioned earlier, Villa Lexie and Moon Bay Circus are at opposite ends of Chicago.

How did werewolf hair appear in the woods?Did he go into the woods before he escaped from the circus, or did he sneak back around the camp recently?

I searched the woods again with doubts, but unfortunately no trace of the werewolf was found.

This may be because the werewolf is careful, or it may be because he is used to moving in the trees, like apes can use vines to swing through the bushes.

"No matter what the possibility is, under normal circumstances, members of the circus will not go deep into the woods."

Kelsey returned to the tent with the wolf fur and exchanged today's discovery with Sherlock.

"Combining the weird atmosphere of the Moon Bay Circus and what I know so far, I have a bold guess. Maybe Lexie encountered the werewolf in the mirror, which was a supernatural event deliberately created by the werewolf."

On October 26, bloody clashes broke out that night.Anna was seriously injured by Stephen, and the werewolf may have been involved, and he sided with Anna.

Anna likely died or was disposed of instantly, while the werewolf escaped from the circus and fled across Chicago.

The so-called Stephen took Anna to see a doctor, but in fact, the circus sent someone with excellent force value to hunt down the werewolf.

According to common sense, the werewolf would escape as far as possible.

The werewolf incident in Lexie's mirror just gave evidence that there are werewolves haunting the other side of Chicago, which will definitely attract Steve's attention.

East and West.

The werewolves were able to return to the side of the circus.

"The most dangerous places are sometimes the safest places."

Kelsey thought that the werewolf was wandering nearby, "Nothing happened in the circus these three days, but the freak show actors will come at noon tomorrow. The werewolf is also a freak show actor. Does he have anything that must be done? Back to the circus."

"There is a high probability that this inference holds true."

Through the conversation with Merton in the morning, Sherlock has confirmed one thing by looking at Merton's expression. It is not easy for Anna to be injured.

"Three points are true and seven points are false. When Merton first talked with me, one thing was right. There is no tenderness in the circus, only he is in love with the opening dancer."

The so-called Anna is going to marry a doctor does not exist.

Anna and the doctor did have close contact, but their relationship is probably not a couple, but a shared secret.

Steve finds out about the shared secret, and Anna is murdered by her partner.

Whether the facts are speculative or not, it is best to find a New York dentist to confirm.

After the performance at night, the secret letter of the question to be verified was handed over to Edwards who came to send flowers again.This time he changed into another attire. He was completely different from yesterday's audience, and he would not arouse the suspicion of the circus at all.

If it goes well, we can get one or two news feedback as soon as tomorrow night.

Tomorrow is undoubtedly a turning point, with the arrival of the freak show actors.

They rested for the night and performed during the last three days of the circus, this time perhaps with the fabled mermaid.

Whether the mermaid is true or not remains to be seen.

Tonight, something happened that was beyond Kelsey's expectation. A man who had been searching for a long time but disappeared from the auditorium came up.

—Paul Goodman.

The man who appeared in the original body's dying memory was the one who defrauded the original body of almost all of his savings. It can be said that he was the driving force behind the original body's death.

Right now, the inside story of the Moon Bay Circus is complicated.

Goodman obviously disappeared in the gang fight outside the New York casino, how could he appear here after a few years?Could it be that they simply came to see the circus?

Suspects one after another.

Kelsey was also thinking about how to share this discovery with Sherlock?

Will Sherlock Holmes, who is so clever, develop a diffuse association from this?