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The Wakamatsu that Gosho used to identify the suspects in the boxes is 若松. Part of the Wakamatsu that Serika used to sign the confession letter was different: instead of 若 there was a different character. Was Serika looking up how to spell her own family name because she forgot how to write the rest of the character under the ? If one of them knew she would look up her own name, the dictionary trick would go off perfectly because of her finger-licking-to-turn-the-pages habit.
^^^ Nevermind. Abs. told me it was cursive and thus the same character. Never liked cursive, English or otherwise.
I will be revising the solution later today and adding it to this post later today.
She was wearing the watch though, the clock face was facing inside though so you might have thought it was a bracelet. And she checked it when she said her train might be leaving soon...
Terry Pratchett wrote:
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
bash7353 wrote:I kind of always assumed that Haneda's parents might've had names.
Ouh...too lazy to read all 19 pages, so...I just put in some random thoughts.
The majority seems to suspect the housekeeper. So far I've got the impression that these kind of characters are rather seldomly the culprits, but then again, this doesn't have to mean anything.
Apparently, she seems to be the master's illegitimate daughter (either her or possibly the secretary?), but that wouldn't automatically make her the culprit. (Heck, in my view, this would nearly rule her out. xD But my logic is probably too twisted.)
Concerning the murder of the wife, it has apprently something to do with the finger-licking (which I found suspicious enough to be depicted in particular in an earlier panel) and also her hate for Windows PCs? =D
I'm not really sure what's up with the watches an stuff...But from my gut-feeling, I'd either go for the secretary or the senior managing director as the culprit. I found there to be some "culprit flags" for Shiina, what with him being a childhood friend and being the only one not to get a wristwatch but a pen instead... The pen is also one thing that would be suitable to trigger a certain action, e.g. if it runs out of ink or just in some way keeps her from writing. That isn't anything more than a hunch though. =/
On the other hand...that the secretary is actually wearing he wristwatch "the wrong way round" might be some hint, too. Also, on the last page, she seem rather surprised, that the last train's already left. Couldn't she see that from looking at her own watch?
But that's the significance of the bottle-opening? =/ You can't even see their watches, so what's the point there? Agh.
Knowing my abilities...both are probably wrong. =D
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Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it.
("Macbeth")
Wouldn't it be good if, as long as the housekeeper turns out not to be the culprit, she becomes a reccuring character? Just thought of that, since she appears to be quite keen and observative
a way to murder the wife just struck me
i am certain that this is a wrong one but still here goes
the culprit while questioning used a timer to send a message (sms or voiceor email) to wife to check a kanji.
so wife in middle of her work stood up took out the dictionary and got poison on index finger.
then she opened the wa page licked index finger to make it is easy to flip page and got poison in her mouth. and died with dictionary down.
of course the proof can't be found, more over what it has to do with watch or anything is still a mystery for me.
what makes me uneasy is if she(secretory) had a watch and was anxious to go then why was not she checking it frequently.
PS: Gosho is definitely sadist to take break now
anybody knows why wife became mistress in the file 785
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red.orchid wrote:
It's a polite way to address her unless they are not synonyms in your languague.
they are not synonyms. if you are married to her , she is your wife .if you have affair then she is your mistress.
however the wife was wife not mistress.
red.orchid wrote:
It's a polite way to address her unless they are not synonyms in your languague.
they are not synonyms. if you are married to her , she is your wife .if you have affair then she is your mistress.
however the wife was wife not mistress.
mis·tress
–noun
1. a woman who has authority, control, or power, especially the female head of a household, institution, or other establishment.
2. a woman employing, or in authority over, servants or attendants.
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? If one of them knew she would look up her own name, the dictionary trick would go off perfectly because of her finger-licking-to-turn-the-pages habit.
