[Comprehensive Anglo-American] A genius report on love

Chapter 19 Lady Congreve

The unpleasant get-together that night seemed to be forgotten after a night of sleep, and the two of them had a tacit understanding and neither of them mentioned it again.

It was the strange way Mycroft looked at them the next day.

It was no longer expressing disappointment at Sherlock's failure, but looking at him with a hesitant attitude.

"Sherlock, are you..."

"What?" Mycroft hesitated when he spoke.

"Forget it, it's nothing." Mycroft knew that even if he asked this question, he would not get any answer, so he turned to look at Mia, "Can we talk for a while?"

Mia shrugged indifferently, and walked to the corner of the room farthest from Sherlock, "What does Brother McCoff want to ask?"

"Forgive me for asking, my brother Sherlock, does he have some...something..." Although he didn't finish speaking, his tone was meaningful.

Mia: "..."

Can the world get better!

Does your brother have any questions? You ask me. Who am I to ask?

But having said that, the fundamental reason why Mycroft is so skeptical is...

"I said, you're so worried about this issue, shouldn't it be that your brother is in his 30s, so he's still a virgin?" Mia smiled like a child who got candy when she asked this question.

At this moment, Sherlock cast a puzzled look in this direction as if he had a tacit understanding.

If he knew what his brother and Mia were talking about right now...

Find Sherlock's psychological shadow area.

When McCoff faced Mia's question, he naturally didn't give any answer, but his facial expression was very exciting, a little helpless, and a little bit uncontrollable, matched with his slightly frowning forehead lines, this kind of subtle expression It feels like Mia is really indescribable.

Although Sherlock couldn't hear, let alone guess, the content of their conversation, but judging from the ever-changing and rich facial expressions, he could feel a kind of chilly malice from behind inexplicably.

He simply walked over. Mia had her back facing the direction Sherlock was coming from, but she could still see something in Maggie's eyes, and immediately changed the subject, "Actually, I'm fine here, and there's nothing wrong with it." Habit, if I need anything, I will let your subordinates notify you, thank you for your concern."

"You can go." Standing behind Mia, Sherlock said, with a hint of impatience in his tone.

"Let's go? Where are you going?" Did you find a new clue?

"Mycroft's people have gone to Congreve's house and found the letters that O'Connor mentioned, as well as some other documents. You are better at handwriting identification. Go and see what's new. Discover."

"Ok."

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I have to say that McCoff's work efficiency is very fast.

After hearing O'Connor's narration in the hospital ward that day, Mycroft sent his own agents to Lou Congreve's home, and also went to the homes of several other deceased people, including O'Connor, to retrieve some text file for comparison.

In fact, such things as handwriting identification do not have to be seen by Mia, and from the contents of these letters, there is no need for forgery. Mia can easily confirm that the letters are indeed from the deceased The content written by Mr. O'Connor's ancestors is not much different from O'Connor's narration on that day.

There were no mailing addresses for the letters, but the sent agents still found something similar to an address book. It seems that the old Congreve sent letters to several partners according to this address.

Although after so many years, those addresses have long been empty, but with the names, Congreve should only need to spend some effort to investigate the whereabouts of several people.

What's strange is that there are only four addresses in the address book, including Anthony who died at the beginning, and even the sixth person who has never appeared in the letter mentioned the future plan, but only said in a certain letter To a nickname called Cassie (cassie).

"That Casey has a special identity?"

"Kathy...cassie...cassandra..." Sherlock kept muttering, searching his memory palace.

Mia has long been used to his way of thinking, and turned around to go about her own business, trying not to disturb him.

"Oh, yes, it's her! I should have thought of it earlier." Sure enough, within 2 minutes, Sherlock suddenly exclaimed again in a high tone.

"Who is it?" The deeper the case got, the stronger Mia's curiosity actually became, but she still tried to keep calm in front of outsiders.

", that is, Kathy called in the letter, she was actually with the old Congreve at that time. Although the information shows that the spouse of the old Congreve was a woman named Flora (Flora), But I remember that on Congreve's birth certificate, the mother's column was filled out by Katharina Congreve, so naturally she didn't need to send a letter, and the rest of the people would not specifically mention her later life. place."

"So has her copy of the code been stolen by the murderer in the hands of Congreve, or..."

"I'm afraid not. If Congreve had two passwords in his hand from the beginning, he should have known that the sixth person was his biological mother. I'm afraid she and old Congreve separated soon after being together."

"Now that you know that the last person is his mother, let's find her as soon as possible! I'm afraid that the murderer may have already guessed her identity."

Although the murderer hadn't appeared since that day in the small hotel on the outskirts of the city and there was no news about it, Mia always had an intuition that he seemed to know everything about herself and Sherlock.

Sherlock strode to the door of the house, and said to the guards outside: "Notify Lestrade and Mycroft, and immediately find Congreve's biological mother, Catherine Congreve!"

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Sure enough, at almost the same time, Moriarty had already sent an address to a certain man's cell phone.

Nick Swinburne (nick·), he is the chairman of a group company, mainly engaged in real estate development, and now lives in Hong Kong.

When Sherlock also learned the name, it was already in the evening of that day.

But fortunately, under the leadership of Maggie, MI[-] agents flew to Hong Kong immediately. When they broke into the door, they met the murderer who was trying to kidnap Nick Swinburne.

After a fight, the agents sent by Mycroft had the upper hand because they had more enemies than few, but the other party seemed to be prepared for it, and even dropped a gun and jumped out of the windows on the tenth floor, waiting for those The agent chased to the window only to find that he had already escaped along the prepared rope and disappeared.

Swinburne was terrified at the time, but had no idea what had happened.

He does have a lot of family property, and he also knows that in recent years, there have been frequent kidnappings of wealthy businessmen, so the security around his house is very tight, and two or three bodyguards follow him in and out every day, but the murderer does not seem to be here for money at all. , kept asking about his mother.

Mr. Swinburne received only two punches and was not seriously injured, and the dispatched agents began to question him about "Nights in Paris" and Katharina's relics.

Obviously, Swinburne knew nothing about it.

The story between Catherine and Congreve is no longer known, but she was never married after leaving Congreve, and she never had any contact with the Congreve family. Nick Swinburne was her The adopted son was over fifty years old.

However, the relationship between the mother and son was really good. In the end, Katharina left all her inheritance to this adopted son, without mentioning that she had a biological son.

Katharina was already old when Swinburne came to Hong Kong to develop his career. Although he hoped to bring his mother to Hong Kong to take care of him, Katharina finally refused.Fortunately, he knew that his adoptive mother had always had a jewelry box that she liked very much, and she never let anyone see it.

When the agents conveyed the news to Sherlock, Sherlock was absent-minded and confused for a few seconds, but he immediately realized the crux of the problem.

"Shit!" he called into the phone. "Where was the last place Nick Swinburne's adoptive mother lived? Is it in London?"

"No, but . . . not far, in Manchester."

Unexpectedly, they were one step too late.

When they arrived at Katharina's old house in Manchester, all they got was a note that also said "?".

Mia looked at the second note in Sherlock's hand, recalled the scene in the hotel room not long ago, and couldn't help asking, "What does Moriarty want?"

"He just wants to prove that he can beat me." Sherlock pocketed the note, turned and walked out of the room.

It could be seen that with Moriarty's participation, Sherlock obviously attached more importance to this case, but this enthusiasm was inevitably mixed with some tension.

Thinking about it, Moriarty did put a lot of pressure on Sherlock back then.

"It's his intention to let us go to Nick Swinburne?" Mia slowly understood Sherlock's sudden roar on the phone at that time.

"Yes, after Katharina's death, all her estates are in Nick's name. Because of the previous deceased, we will naturally go to Nick at the first time. Moriarty will find someone to pretend to try to The murderer who attacked Nick made us more convinced of the direction of the investigation. In fact, we all forgot one of the simplest things. Congreve did not find Nick, so he could not have known about the diamond. From the very beginning, we should turn the direction of investigation to the place where Katharina lived, not Nick."

"So, Moriarty successfully delayed the time, allowing the real murderer to avoid our investigation and come here to take the last piece of clues?"

"That's right."

"So now he has five passwords, and we have four passwords and diamonds. If the final answer is that all the clues must be gathered to solve it, then now..."

"Now..." Sherlock smiled smugly, "I think I know how to find him."

"It seems that you suddenly want to understand a lot of things?" Working with this great detective, it's not easy to understand what he wants to do if you don't think fast enough.

"From the very beginning, we thought that the murderer didn't know the identity of each insider, so he deliberately left the diamonds at the scene, and also deliberately sold the diamonds at the auction house, but now we know that the identities of each of them have long been in Congreve's The letter revealed that O'Connor's death was faked and the murderer had already grasped it. So apparently the murderer wanted to lure O'Connor, but in fact...it was for me.

Moriarty just wanted to prove that he was better than me for so many years, so letting the murderer publicly auction this diamond was just to arouse my idea and let me participate in this case.

In fact, he has already told us the identity of the murderer! "

"who is it?"

"The items sent by the customer to the auction house will be appraised and appraised by a special person before deciding whether to display them as official auction items?"

"Of course." Mia paused, "What do you want to say?"

"I still remember the words engraved in 'Nights in Paris', narciso. If the diamonds are appraised normally, there is no reason why these letters cannot be seen? But no matter whether it is the introduction of the auction or the auction site, no one has mentioned this. something..."

"So..." Mia suddenly realized, "You mean, the murderer is the appraiser of the auction house?"

"It's more than that. Remember we said that O'Connor will send people to the scene to take pictures of the diamonds and observe the situation at the scene. The murderer will also pay close attention to the situation at the scene, but we didn't find any suspicious people other than Langman that day. , but in fact he was there.”

"Is that the manager of the auction house who personally introduced the 'Paris Night'? I remember, his name seems to be... Alan?" Among the staff present that day, only the manager could intervene and participate in the diamond auction. Approved.

"That's right. Call immediately to check to see if he personally identified the diamond, and if it is confirmed, investigate his identity."