Lord of the Silver Crow

A young man wearing a black single-button morning dress, a top hat and holding a simple walking stick appeared at the door.

"Hello, I'm Detective Garlin, how can I help you?"

The round-faced youth greeted him with a smile, and politely extended his hand.

And the other party also stretched out his hand.

A right hand wearing black gloves.

And, there seems to be some mark on it.

Professionally and habitually, Garlin's eyes scanned every detail of the opponent's appearance and actions.

The black gloves worn on his hands would naturally not be ignored by Garin.

At this time, the other party responded:

"I want to entrust you with an investigation."

"Ok."

Garin retracted his gaze, turned his left hand to the side, and motioned to the two opposing sofas where the other party was receiving guests.

"Please sit down, we can talk slowly."

"If you have enough time." Garin added.

When passing by the coat rack, the young man did not take off his hat and coat, and sat directly on the inner sofa, while Garin turned to sit on another sofa.

When both of them were sitting down, Garlin took out the pen and paper and began to inquire about the content of the commission:

"What do you want to entrust?"

"A person whose identity I can't confirm either."

The young man said so.

"Do you want to find out?" Based on past experience, Garin made a guess, "Is there any more detailed information?"

"I can't be sure."

The young man asked with a slightly worried expression:

"I'm not an eyewitness, but someone else saw it."

This kind of response made Garlin feel a little confused. After looking at Ou Xing next to him, he continued to ask:

"What kind of person?"

"It was in the cloakroom, a statue displayed as clothing."

statue? Costume doll? Garin organized the information in his mind, and at the same time, wrote the key words "clothing dolls" on the paper.

"They said that the costume doll will disappear at night, and will reappear in another clothing store during the day."

The young man spoke vividly.

Galin didn't have any special reaction. The hypothesis of stealing and mischief using costume model dolls as disguise came into his mind, and he recorded it carefully. However, Orsin, who was preparing tea, turned his head to look at him. Past.

"A cloakroom? Which cloakroom? Did you lose any belongings?"

Garlin, who suspected that he was gradually leaning towards "theft", asked.

"Lost property? Actually, I suspect it might be theft or something, but I didn't find anything missing. It shouldn't be." The young man shook his head, and then said the names of several clothing stores.

"I want to entrust you to investigate what the situation is about this matter. If possible, it would be better to catch this person."

With that said, he stood up, walked a few steps towards the desk, put his right hand in his pocket, turned around, and said to the round-faced young man:

"It doesn't matter if you can't catch a person. You can determine the person's identity. You don't care about the rest. How do you charge?"

Galin thought for a moment, frowned slightly, and asked: "Is this commission urgent? How long can we investigate? If it is within a week, 10 gold."

The young man responded: "The sooner the better, so be it. If the investigation is found within a month, I can pay you 10 gold, and if someone is caught, I can pay you 15 gold."

"For more than a month, as long as the news can be investigated, I will also pay 5 gold."

In this case, Garin smiled:

"Deal! Then, sir, as a deposit, you need to pay 1 gold in advance..."

"No problem, as long as you can do it." The young man put his cane against the desk, took out a golden rose from his chest with his left hand, and lightly patted it on the table.

"I hope you can bring me good news soon."

Holding up the cane again with his left hand, the young man turned and left the room with the "Garlin Detective Agency" hanging on the door.

Watching the youth leave, the round-faced youth Galin immediately walked to the table, took the golden rose in his hand, tapped his finger lightly, and then blew into the gold coin and put it to his ear.

However, at this time, he noticed his good partner, Ossin seemed to be thinking something, and asked:

"Osin, what are you thinking?"

"Oh, nothing." Orsin, who recovered from Garlin's voice, glanced at the gold coin in his hand, and then said, "I'm just thinking why you only received a deposit of 1 gold."

For a commission of about 10 gold, the deposit is about 2 to 3 gold.

Hearing these words, Garin smiled:

"The several cloak and hat shops he mentioned are all high-end cloak and hat shops, and there is also a luxury shop that also sells and custom jewelry."

"The black gloves that the man was wearing should be the gang's'black gloves' near Qiangwei College, that is, the sign of the black hand gang, and they are somewhat different from the signs of those people I have seen."

"The morning dress on his body is the ‘Scarpol’ of the Stein Group."

"I didn't recognize the top hat, but it must be a silk product."

"The shape of his cane is a bit special. Didn't we investigate when we went to the winery? That dead man was the host of an auctioneer. He had handled several auctions of antiques from the Hundred Days Dynasty, except In addition to gold coins and vases, there is a special cane sword."

"If it's right, that person should be a middle and high-level person in the gangster."

Based on the details he observed, Garin made an inference.

"Those gangsters, even though they are villains, pay much attention to etiquette and credibility. However, if they accidentally provoke them, the consequences will be disastrous."

Garlin responded by tossing the Golden Rose up and down.

The reason for the advance deposit is reputation. If the other party does not pay the reward after completing the entrustment, they will lose money, but the gangsters...

There is no need to charge 2 gold.

After finishing the explanation, Garin smiled and said, "Go now? Go to those cloakroom shops?"

Hearing these words, Ossin also nodded, but then he said:

"Okay, I'll go upstairs to get something."

After Garin nodded, Orsin walked to the side stairwell and walked all the way upstairs to his room on the third floor.

When he took out the key to unlock the door, he found that the door was not locked.

After noticing this, Orin's eyes changed slightly with a puzzled expression, and then he stepped into the room cautiously.

Looking around, he came directly to a small box beside the bed.

The lock was opened! ?

The moment he discovered this, Ou Xing's eyes suddenly revealed a dangerous aura.

He quickly lifted the lid of the box.

There are some paper notebooks in the box, but there are no traces of being turned over, they are neatly stacked...

Osin carefully counted, and found no notebook or paper taken away...

After confirming, Osin closed the lid slightly suspiciously and locked the lock.

And inside the box, in a notebook that seemed to record the contents of the autopsy, some words were written on one page of paper that was different from the other pages:

[Bone picker: 1 part of osteoarthritis, 6 parts of ghost grass, water of dissolving spirit...]