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Murder at 'The Orient Express' 『東方快車』謀殺案

在譯之前多嘴一句，請沒看過克莉絲蒂《東方快車謀殺案》的人三思，看完本篇等於把那篇劇透完了，《東方快車謀殺案》是克莉絲蒂經典之作，人生沒看過原著就被不擅行文的華生醫生用不到原作兩百分之一的字數雷光真的很可惜阿～

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When the owner of a Knightsbridge Chinese restaurant was found lying face down in a plate of noodles, Lestrade came to see Sherlock. The man, Terry Wong, had choked to death and, at first, it appeared to be an accident. But bruising on Wong's face suggested that he'd been attacked at some point on the evening of his death.

Lestrade帶來了騎士橋中餐館老闆的死亡案件來找Sherlock，死者Terry Wong是一頭栽在麵堆裡窒息而死的。初看會覺得是個意外，但死者臉上的淤傷顯示在當天下午他曾遭到攻擊。

But the victim had never been alone that night. Staff and customers all confirmed that he'd been constantly surrounded by people. A killer needs both opportunity and motive. And with there being no apparent opportunity, we decided to focus on motive. Who would want Terry Wong dead and why?

但死者死亡當晚從來沒有落單過。餐廳員工及顧客眾目睽睽都可以作證。一個兇手需要動機和機會才能作案。顯然在這個案子裡兇手沒有機會，於是我們決定從動機開始調查，究竟誰希望Terry Wong死？為什麼？

And the answer, it seemed, was most of London! He'd not been a nice bloke, by all accounts, so plenty of people might have had a motive but there was simply no way for any person to have attacked him that night without anyone else seeing. And so we were straight back to opportunity!

結果，這真的是個全倫敦最難的問題！這傢伙在各方面都不是個好人，有一卡車的人希望他去死，但看起來沒人有辦法在他死的那晚動手卻沒讓人看見。於是，我們又重新回到了動手時機的問題上。

The police coroner confirmed that Wong had died at around midnight so we spoke to everyone who had been in the restaurant in the hour leading up to his death. There'd been nine customers, two waiters and two kitchen staff. Each of them confirmed that Wong had been alive at the time they left the restaurant. And every single one of them denied seeing anyone attack him. Nearby CCTV confirmed the times that each customer and member of staff said they left the restaurant - each of them leaving between 11pm and just after midnight. And nobody else seems to have gone near the restaurant at any point after that.

警方法醫判定Wong大約在午夜死亡，我們約談了每個在他死亡時間附近在騎士橋餐館的人，共有九位顧客、兩個外場侍者及兩位廚房員工。每個人都作證Wong在他們離開餐館時依然活著，也沒有任何人看到有人攻擊他。附近的閉路電視也都證實了所有人離開餐館的時間－－每個人都大約在十一點多左右離開，或者在十二點之後才走。也沒有任何人在之後有折回來的。

Sherlock worked it out by breaking it down to the simplest facts.

Sherlock列出以下幾個要點，解開了本案。

a) Terry Wong was murdered at around midnight.

1) Terry Wong 在午夜被殺

b) Nobody in the restaurant had seen anything.

2) 在餐館的所有人沒有人有發現異狀

c) Therefore some or ALL of them were lying.

3) 所以，有某些人，或者「所有人」撒謊

They'd all done it! The customers and staff, all apparently random people, each had a motive for killing Wong. Sherlock had found online how they were all connected. An ex-member of staff had tweeted about how Wong had unfairly sacked him. Someone had replied saying that he'd been attacked by Wong years earlier. Someone else had replied... and so on and so on. A group of seemingly random people, all connected online.

原來他們全都串通好的！包括顧客和餐廳員工，所有看起來不相關的人，每個人都有動機想殺了Wong。Sherlock找出了他們在網路上的通聯紀錄。一個餐廳離職員工在推特上抱怨Wong對他如何苛刻，然後有人回覆自己幾年前被Wong攻擊的經歷，另一個又再回覆...積怨越滾越大。這個表面看起來不相干的組成人員，其實在網路上都是有聯繫的。

There was no proof, of course. No taped meetings where they planned and plotted. And, after reading about some of the things Wong had done, Sherlock was quite happy to let it go. He was actually impressed by what they'd pulled off.

但當然，沒有證據。網路上沒有留下他們相約碰頭的紀錄策劃行兇的紀錄。在Sherlock發現一些Wong做過的事以後，他就開開心心地放掉了這個案子。但對於這個案子的真相他印象深刻。

He had an odd sort of justice. For all that he claimed to be cold and uncaring, he had his own sense of right and wrong.

他有一種奇怪的正義感。雖然他總是說自己不帶感情，不關心任何事；但他對於是非對錯的確有他自己的一把尺。

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