Title: A Study of Blood Characters
Author: Conan Doyle (UK)
Genre: Novella mystery novel
Referral Index: ★★★★★
Synopsis:
Watson was a military medic who served in the British army in India. He was wounded in a battle in Afghanistan and contracted typhoid fever, leaving him devastated and weak, and was soon sent back to England to recuperate. To earn money, he shared a house on Baker Street with a young private investigator, Holmes. In the common life, Watson found that Holmes was proficient in anatomy, medicine, chemistry, traces, sharp eyes on the hooked nose of the eagle, had a strong sense of observation, was a genius criminologist, and this emaciated and capable man also played a good violin.
Early one morning, Gleason, a detective from the Metropolitan Police, wrote to ask Holmes to help him scout for a murder. The case took place in an uninhabited house at three Garden Street in Lauriston. The deceased was dressed neatly and unscathed, and it was learned from the business card in his pocket that his name was Cone bo and that he was an American.
Holmes invited Watson to the scene of the accident. He carefully observed the rutted marks on the road, the footprints on the grass, the environment outside the house, and the layout inside the house, before finally looking at the corpse. The corpse's stiff face was filled with horror, and Holmes sniffed the dead man's lips and looked again at the soles of his boots. He found that there were seven pounds of money on the deceased's body, as well as two letters from the steamship company informing the ship of the voyage to the United States. The recipients were Cymber and Stan Jieson. During the examination, another wedding ring was rolled off the deceased's body. In addition, the police found the word rache written in blood on the wall. Holmes asked the policeman who had found the body last night. The police said he had come in last night to see the lights in the uninhabited room, saw a corpse, and came out to call out to his companions when he saw a tall drunkard.
Holmes told Gleeson and his companions that he thought the deceased had been poisoned and that the murderer was a man, more than six feet tall and with a red face, who had come here in a carriage with the deceased, and was probably the drunkard. Holmes thought the ring was an important part of the case, so he put up a lost and found advertisement in the evening newspaper that day, asking for a wedding ring found on the road. Sure enough, soon an old woman came to claim it, and Holmes followed the old woman, but on the way she fled at a healthy pace, which turned out to be a young man pretending to be a young man.
Early the next morning, Gleeson gleefully told Holmes that he believed the killer was Xia Mingjie, the son of Cone's original landlord, because Cone had been threatened by Xia Mingjie shortly before his death. However, his colleague brought new news that Stan Jieson, the secretary of Coneber, had been stabbed to death in the heart in a small hotel, with a lot of money on his body, and his face was written with a rache in blood: there was a small box next to the bed with two pills. Holmes said that this was the poison that caused the death of the cone, and he gave one of them to a dog after dissolving in water, and the dog immediately fell to the ground and died.
After on-site observation, the study of blood characters and the comprehensive analysis of the situation, Holmes has become more certain at this moment. He told the helpless detective around him that he already knew who the killer was. Holmes said he was going to go far, hired a bunch of street boys, and found a carriage. When he waited for the hired carriage to come to the residence, he immediately took out a box, and the coachman bowed down to lift the box, only to hear a click, and Holmes flashed the coachman in handcuffs. The man rushed furiously to the window, and after some fighting he was subdued. Holmes said that the coachman Houbo was the murderer.
Hou Bo was a tall red-faced man, and he did not expect that he would be arrested. At this moment, there is no hope of escaping, so he is quiet, and he has no secret about his killing. He laughed and said he killed in retaliation, and then he told his story.
In May 1847, in the vast wilderness of the central United States, a weathered traveler with a five-year-old girl whose parents had died walked a deserted mountain road, with no food or water, and finally fell hungry and thirsty by the rocks waiting for death to come. They had been a large group of immigrants who had died one by one during the long journey due to fatigue, illness and starvation, and now there were only two of them left. Later, they were spotted by a motorcade of passing Mormons, who promised to join Mormonism, were taken in by the group, and followed the convoy to a valley in Utah where they settled.
The traveler,Whose name was John, was shrewd and capable, and twelve years later he became a wealthy local household, and the little Lucy he led at the time grew into a beautiful maiden. By chance, she met Hou Bo, a cattle herder from out of town. Although he was not a Mormon, Lucy had a passionate love affair with him, which of course violated Mormon rules, because Mormons did not allow marriage to foreign people, but men in Mormonism could marry several wives.
Soon, Lucy's love affair with Hou Bo was discovered by the Mormon elders. One day, the leader of the Mormons came to inform John and ordered his daughter Lucy to choose one of the sons of two Mormon elders, Chowber and Stan Jieson, to be her husband, and to give her a month to consider. Both young men already had several wives, and John did not want his daughter to marry them as a concubine, so he asked someone to bring a letter to Hou Bo to come back and rescue them.
It was not until the evening of the last day of this deadline that Hou Bo rushed to John's house from a distant mine. He prepared his horses and secretly led his father and daughter out of the heavily guarded Mormon-controlled area, and after more than a day of arduous trekking, they reached a steep canyon. They decided to take a break, and Hou Bo went to the nearby woods to hunt for food. Just then, when Hou bo returned from hunting, he found that the Mormons had caught up with them, John was executed, and Lucy was snatched away.
Grief-stricken, determined to take revenge and watching from the sidelines, waiting for his chance. Later, he found out that Lucy had been snatched by the cone and became a relative, and died of depression after only a month. On the eve of burying Lucy, Hou Bo sneaked into The Uncle's house to take one last look at Lucy, whom he loved dearly, and removed the wedding ring from her hand. Determined to take revenge, he left the place temporarily and went to the mines to earn a living.
Later, Hou Bo returned to Salt Lake City and found that his enemies, Chobel and Stan Jiesun, had both left Mormonism and left Utah because of the sect's internal strife.
Hou Bo was determined to find them even if he traveled all over the United States. After countless searches, they were finally found in Cleveland City, but as soon as they met, they recognized Hou Bo, and he set up a ruse to put Hou Bo in prison. After Hou Bo was released from prison, Cymbeuble had fled to Europe with his secretary Stan Jieson.
So Hou Bo came to Europe again, and it was not until London that he caught up with them. In order to make a living, Hou Bo became a coachman, so that it was convenient to track down his enemies. But Cymber and Stan Jiexun were very guarded, never going out alone, and he couldn't do it. Until that night, when Cymber and Stan Jiesson wanted to leave London for the train to Liverpool, they missed the train at eight o'clock that night and had to wait for the next train. Cone bo got drunk, left his secretary Stan Jiexun, returned to the residence alone, flirted with the landlord's daughter, and was just bumped by the landlord's son Xia Mingjie, who beat him badly and drove him out of the door.
Cone Bo fled in a daze and just happened to hire Hou Bo's carriage. Hou Bo took the drunken Cone To the empty house on Garden Street and took out two pills, one poisonous and one non-toxic. He asked Cone to pick one first, he took the remaining one himself, and then both of them swallowed it, letting the heavens decide their fate. As a result, tianzhi was willing, and the cone swallowed a poisonous pill and soon died in a painful spasm.
Hou Bo also shed a lot of nosebleeds in excitement, in order to confuse the police, Hou Bo used his own blood to write the German word "rache", which means "revenge". However, he lost the wedding ring. When he returned to look for him, he met the policeman, and he had no choice but to pretend to be drunk and deceive the policeman at the time.
In the early morning of the next day, he went to the hotel where Stan Jieson was staying, climbed into Stan Jiexun's room with a ladder, and wanted to use the same method to deal with him, but Stan Jiexun not only refused to swallow the pill but also pounced on Hou Bo, and the angry Hou Bo had to kill him with a knife in a hurry.
Hou Bo was already seriously ill at this time. But the revenge of his lover has been repaid, and he said: "Although there is no regret in death!" Soon he died in prison from a ruptured hemangioma.
Reason for recommendation: This is the first novella written by Conan Doyle when he was 26 years old, and the novel is the first time that Sherlock Holmes is the protagonist, and it can also be said that Sherlock Holmes opened. Conan Doyle does not need to be introduced, he is the world's recognized pioneer of detective mystery novels, but also the master, he created the image of Sherlock Holmes detective has long become synonymous with the world's recognized detective.
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