“It might even be coincidence,” Jake said. “One of them is Oscar Q. McOscarvitz from Australia, and the other one is Richard Roe from Sturgeon’s Bay. For reasons best known to themselves, they both decide to change their names, and pick names out of books. Both of them happen to read the same book, and so we have two Gerald Tuesdays. Then both of them get murdered, and by the long arm of coincidence—way back in 1921—”
海伦尖刻地说：“巧合的手臂很长，但没那么多弯。其中一个人塞给马龙一把标着 114 的钥匙，而他马上就喝醉了把钥匙丢了，另一个人在死前试图给马龙打电话，手里还拿着一张写着 114 的纸。他们俩都是被刀以完全相同的方式杀死的……”
Helene said acidly, “Coincidence has a long arm, but not quite that many elbows. One of them slipped Malone a key marked 114, which he immediately got drunk and lost, and the other one tried to telephone Malone before he died, and had a paper with 114 written on it in his hand Both of them were killed in exactly the same manner with a knife—”
“或者可能是卢埃拉·怀特的一根织针。”杰克插嘴道。
“Or maybe one of Louella White’s knitting needles,” Jake put in.
她没理他。“马龙，那把刀怎么了？凶器在哪里？”
She ignored him. “Malone, what’s happened to the knife? Where’s the weapon?”
“凶手拿着它。”马龙说完，喝光了他的杜松子酒。“他留着它呢。”
“The murderer kept it,” Malone said, finishing his gin. “He’s saving it.”
“留着干什么？”
“What for?”
“为了再杀更多的杰拉尔德·图伊兹。穿上你的外套，我们去我的办公室。不管有没有谋杀案，我都得给大楼管理员写一封漂亮的信，承诺有一天会付房租。”
“To murder more Gerald Tuesdays. Put your coat on, were going to my office. Murder or no murder, I’ve got to write a nice letter to the building manager promising to pay the rent some day.”
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