[Comprehensive] Sherlock's Secret

Sherlock laid out the newspaper and read: "'My husband didn't travel very often before, because he was promoted last year, so she got busy with work and went out a lot, but every time he told me where he was going, I have never been missing for several days without news like this time...' He traveled frequently about a year ago, but he was doing clerical work in the company, and he didn't need to travel often. He was obviously deceiving his Wife, and this..."

Su Fu took the paper that he handed over, it was a consumption statement, on which an account of [-] pounds was ticked, the time was exactly one year and three months ago, and the previous account, There is a large time span between them, and the amount is small.

"This is one of Tyler Irwin's favorites. Judging from his usual spending situation, he doesn't use this card very often, but what prompted him to suddenly use a card that he hardly uses? Of course, he didn't want to let it go. His wife knew, so—”

Su Fu folded up the newspaper and the account statement and returned them to him, muttering, "No wonder when Detective Inspector Lestrade came to see you for the first time, you just glanced at the newspaper and said that he was cheating..."

"There is another doubt." Sherlock ignored her words and continued, "Although Taylor Erwin is a department manager, he is a clerical worker, and his monthly salary is not enough to support him to buy an apartment in the city center, or All kinds of expensive luxuries are given to his lover, you will know by looking at his previous consumption records."

"Then where did his money come from?" Su Fu also asked,

Sherlock casually threw those pages by the sofa: "Go to Alfred Green's office tomorrow, maybe there will be something to gain..."

Su Fu silently picked up the messy stack of papers and threw them into the trash can.

After a few minutes, he stood by the window and kept looking down. He didn't know what he was looking at in the middle of the night. Su Fu went over and poked him on the back: "Aren't you going to sleep?"

He didn't realize it.

"What are you looking at—" Su Fu was puzzled, just as she was about to lean over, Sherlock suddenly closed the curtains and turned to smile at her, "Sleep."

The next day.

Alfred Green's company - Sherlock entered Green's office unimpeded by relying on the secret that he did not know where. Green's secretary looked at Sherlock in her boss's office with a confused face. There was a flurry of rummaging on the table, and every time a receipt or ticket was laid out, a long list of information that he could not possibly know was revealed.

The secretary was very skeptical about her life. She didn't know if she was the boss's secretary, or if this handsome and young detective was the boss' secretary...

"Minneapolis—do you have many American customers?" Sherlock pushed a ticket to the edge of the table and asked suddenly.

"Uh...you're asking me?" The secretary pointed to himself, and said with some inexplicable guilt in Sherlock's eyes looking at the idiot, "Yes, there are a few, but not many..."

"What about Southeast Asia or the Middle East?" He said as he moved a stack of folders to the side, and stared at the secretary with beautiful blue and green eyes, but the secretary stopped suddenly and was speechless for a while.

"Sherlock—"

"Huh?" He turned his head and saw that Su Fu had opened up the stack of folders that he had removed just now and spread them out on the other side of the desk. His fingers quickly scratched across the paper pages inside, and his sharp eyes followed her. She quickly scanned the document with her fingertips. She turned a page and looked up: "There is a problem with this contract."

She held the folder in front of Sherlock, pointed to a certain place in it and said, "The contract was delivered a month ago, so it came into effect a month ago, and the bid is huge.

Green's company is the seller, the buyer is a Swedish man doing business in India named Abbrand Waller, and the carrier is the ocean shipping company that Erwin works for.

However, the ocean shipping in Harpersley mainly focuses on FOB cargo, and what is stipulated in this contract is CIF cargo—that is, all expenses during the shipping are borne by the seller. This term is not used in actual shipping operations. Many, because the seller's responsibility is too heavy, and the cost of the two parties is unbalanced. Therefore, many large international shipping companies, such as Maersk and CMA CGM, mainly use FOB cargo.

Of course, this contract does not rule out that Green and the buyer agree to change the shipping term, but why not find a shipping company for CIF cargo, but Harpers? "

As she spoke, she pushed the other contracts to the front: "Except for this one, the rest of the recent contracts are all in cooperation with an inland river shipping company named Surrey, and there are very few overseas trade contacts. Yes, and the amount of each bid is even less than one-fifth of the amount signed with the Swedes, so—"

"Miss Secretary?" Sherlock called after her words.

The secretary was stunned by the roll call, and then quickly agreed: "Well, Mr. Detective, you—"

"Show me your company's total production and operation statistics for the previous year and the recent balance sheet, thank you."

When the information was brought, Sherlock glanced at it roughly, squeezed out a fake smile and said, "The difference is so big that it's unbelievable."

Su Fu glanced at the dense numbers, then returned the form to the secretary, and said to Sherlock, "I think... I probably know what this Mr. Green has done."

It was around noon when Sherlock and Su Fu came out of Alfred Green's company. Sherlock and Su Fu had lunch at a restaurant on the corner of the street. The classmate rejected this magical idea of ​​using Piyazi (that is, onion, as the Xinjiang people say) to make soup.

Su Fu was calling Detective Inspector Lestrade, she covered her mouth and kept her voice low.

"...Yes, Mr. Green is committing fraud in shipping contracts, and I'm not sure whether Erwin, the carrier, is an uninformed and bona fide counterparty. Hey, no one understands contracts? Doesn't Scotland Yard have an economic investigation department ( Economic Crime Investigation Section)? Even if you don’t understand some terms, if you compare the target amount, you will find something tricky, right?

— Sherlock?He sat right in front of me, and we went to Mr. Green's company in the morning, why shouldn't you thank him?This is obviously your case and he is helping you to solve it, forgive me—uh..."

She took the phone over and glanced at it, and said halfway: "Hang up the phone if you don't agree with each other, young people nowadays are really impatient."

"Our detective just doesn't want to lose face in front of you," Sherlock said sarcastically, "after all, none of them can understand that shipping contract."

Su Fu shook his head helplessly.

"But you can understand," Sherlock said suddenly. He pushed the plate in front of him aside and put his elbows on the table. There is a loophole in the contract, but I remember that you graduated from the Broadcast Journalism Department of the University of Sheffield and have no connection with commercial trade."

"Oh," Su Fu said, taking a sip of lemon tea, "I still remember that you graduated from the Chemistry Department of Cambridge University. Does this have anything to do with criminal investigation?"

"Also," without waiting for Sherlock to speak, she continued, "There are many types of international maritime cargo transportation, I know it's not surprising at all..."

Sherlock frowned: "A lot?"

Su Fu nodded: "For example, international maritime cargo transportation is divided into bill of lading transportation, voyage charter transportation and liner transportation - international cargo trade also includes international air transportation, international railway transportation and international cargo multimodal transportation, which also involves Cargo damage identification and insurance claims, etc., marine cargo transportation insurance is divided into—”

"Stop!" Sherlock interrupted her irritably, "What's the use of keeping these things in your head? It's just taking up space—"

Su Fu gave him a cool look, and said, "Maybe it's similar to the labrador cold current at the intersection of yellow and red."

Sherlock: "..."

Su Fu really didn't want to touch the bowl of onion soup, so he kept flipping it to the side. As a result, someone happened to pass by, and the soup bowl almost fell on him. Su Fu quickly pulled the bowl back, and raised his head to give it to the person. Apologizing, only to find that the hurried guy had returned to his seat.

The waiter came to serve the food, something seemed to be wrong, the boss followed and they talked for a while before giving up.

The boss turned around and smiled at Sherlock, and asked jokingly, "Is there anything else I need?"

"No," Sherlock smiled, "Thank you."

Su Fu asked: "There should be nothing to do later, should we go back?"

"Ah."

==

Detective Lestrade applied for a search warrant to search Alfred Green's office, and took away a lot of evidence documents. After comparison by professional legal professionals, it was found that among the signed contracts, there were several There are loopholes that are not easy to detect, that is to say, it is no longer a matter of Green's implementation of contract fraud.

The contract signed with the Swede Waller was especially picked out, and several parties involved in the contract were investigated.

At night, when Su Fu was sweeping the floor, he heard Sherlock keep chanting a name. He sometimes stared at the computer screen, sometimes clasped his hands together, and sometimes quietly glanced at the window, looking very nervous.

Su Fu finally couldn't bear to ask: "Who is Paul Holt? Worthy of your concern?"

"The captain of the Natasha—" he said as he turned the computer to face Su Fu, and the webpage displayed the ship status inquiry page.

"This 22-ton cargo ship belonging to Harpersley Ocean Shipping Co., Ltd. departed from the Port of London two months ago, with the destination of Mumbai. It is obviously the cargo that Green and Waller signed. Think about Sue, this fraud Those involved in the contract, Alfred Green, Tyler Irwin, his wife and even his mistress, were all killed in the same way, and the remaining captain seemed to be safe and sound—”

As he spoke, he stood up suddenly: "Su, call Lestrade and ask him to find Paul Holt immediately!"

"You mean—Valer?" Su Fu hurriedly took out her mobile phone to make a call, and after two busy tones, she said, "Detective! Sherlock told you to go to Paul Holt—what? Die... …died?"

She put the phone away from her ear, looked up and said, "Paul Holt is dead, he was found an hour ago."

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