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The Deadly Tealights　致命蠟燭

The death of yoga teacher, Tim Leng, was brought to our attention by his flatmate, Scott Bevan. Leng had been found lying, dead, in a bath but he hadn't drowned. He'd been asphyxiated. In a locked room. And we know how much Sherlock likes locked room mysteries.

Tim Leng，一位瑜珈老師死亡的事件，被他的室友Scott Bevan帶到我們面前。Leng的遺體被發現躺在浴缸裡，不是溺死，是密室缺氧而死。大家都知道，Sherlock有多愛密室之謎。

Bevan had already called the police but, as a reader of my blog, he believed that Sherlock would be more likely to solve the mystery behind his friend's death.

Bevan有通知警方，但作為本部落客的讀者之一，Bevan相信Sherlock更能夠解開他好友的死亡謎底。

It took Sherlock precisely 36 seconds to work it out. Here are the facts if you think you can beat that. (Scroll down for the answer, as it were!) I didn't time him by the way, that would be weird. No, he told me. Afterwards. He did like showing off.

而Sherlock花了36秒就找到了答案。接下來我會將線索陳列在下面，看看你們能不能也在36秒內解開。（答案在本網頁最下方，往下捲就看到了）我沒有幫他計時，計時也太奇怪了－－36秒是Sherlock自己告訴我的。總之，他就是愛炫耀。

Apparently, the deceased had liked candles. And long baths. I'm not judging. There's a possibility I might enjoy a long bath myself occasionally. When Sherlock was alive I did a lot of running and fighting and sometimes I needed to relax and recuperate. And a bath is good for that. That's a medical fact. So it makes sense. And essential oils and candles help with the whole relaxing thing. People might laugh. People did laugh when Sherlock told them I enjoyed having baths but I was fine with it. I'm still fine with it. Baths are good.

顯然死者非常喜歡香精臘燭及泡澡。我沒有批判的意思。我也偶爾喜歡泡泡澡。Sherlock還活著的時候，我常需要跑步或者打鬥，有時候我也需要放鬆養傷一下，泡澡就是個好選擇，這是經醫學証實的。所以這很合理。精油和蠟燭泡澡時常見的配件。大家可能會覺得好笑吧。事實上當Sherlock把我喜歡泡澡的事講出來的時候大家確實是笑了，不過我沒差，真的沒差，泡澡好。

So basically, Sherlock walked through the front door, into the hallway and pointed out a damp patch just underneath the bathroom door. He then went out onto the balcony where he found a few towels hanging on a dryer. He walked back into the flat, went up to Bevan and said, and I quote:

好，基本上，Sherlock從前門走進來，穿過前廊，指出了一塊浴室門下方的濕痕，然後走到陽台，找到一些還沒乾的毛巾，再走回起居室的時候，對著Bevan說了下面這段話：

The answer...　答案就是...

"Your flatmate likes long baths. As does mine. So he goes and has a bath and lights all his candles. It's a small bathroom with no ventilation. Wet towels are taped around the door frame from the outside - there's a tiny bit of tape still here. The flames from the candles use up all the air and he slowly suffocates. Just like falling asleep. The wet towels are removed and the murderer contacts my assistant because he thinks he's cleverer than me and wants to show off a bit. Which I can understand. I like showing off. Who doesn't?"

「你的室友喜歡泡澡，跟我室友一樣。所以他進了浴缸，點了蠟燭。這是個很小又沒有通風口的浴室。濕毛巾從外面被貼在門上－－這邊還有膠帶貼過的痕跡－－阻隔了外面的空氣，當蠟燭漸漸用掉浴室裡的空氣，Tim也就不知不覺地缺氧了。感覺就像睡著了一樣。濕毛巾被拿走之後，兇手聯絡了我的助手，因為他覺得自己聰明得可以騙過我，想趁機炫耀一下。我了解，我也愛炫耀，誰不愛呢？」

So the flatmate had done it. And Sherlock worked it out in 36 seconds. Bevan had thought he could outwit Sherlock. But nobody ever really outwitted Sherlock.

所以，Bevan殺了他室友。Sherlock只花了36秒就解決了。Bevan以為自己可以贏過Sherlock，但是沒人能真的贏過Sherlock。

Not until the end.

直到最後最後，都沒有人能贏他。

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