The Ghost in the Dark Night: The Ultimate Revenge Strategy

The Office of the Serious Crime Unit of Scotland Yard

It is inevitable that the police suspect Margaret Wilson. The case itself is not complicated. Under the layers of protection by the police, John Wilson died in bed, and it was impossible for an outsider to break in. That is to say, if there really was a murderer, it must have been someone in the villa that night.

In addition, when John died, only Margaret was at the scene. If they don't suspect her, who else could they suspect?

At the beginning, due to limitations in thinking, the police might not have thought of it. But after careful analysis, there's no reason they couldn't figure it out.

However, it was Victor Black who was actually the Ghost, and it seemed that he had been staying out of the matter from start to finish. So, what on earth was going on?

A long time ago, Victor had been constantly thinking about how to commit the perfect crime, how to kill someone while ensuring his own safety. After a long period of thinking, he came up with many methods. The murder of John Wilson was just one of them - the easiest, simplest, and safest way.

To kill John, only two conditions needed to be met:

First, ensure that John appears at the designated place, at the specified time, and does the specified thing.

Second, force Margaret to follow his plan and take action to kill John.

In order to meet the first condition, he issued a murder notice. In this way, the police would definitely take action and send people to protect John. Thus, John was confined to his home.

Of course, if the police had protected John in the police station, Victor would have given up this murder and planned anew. Fortunately, such a situation did not occur. In short, with John being protected at home, the first condition was met.

As for the second condition, which was also the core of this murder, Victor had already made all the preparations a month ago.

In order to get Margaret to cooperate, he found three reasons for her to kill her husband:

First, if John died, she would receive a huge amount of inheritance and be able to live freely.

She wouldn't have to stay at home doing nothing every day, being beaten and scolded at the slightest carelessness.

She wouldn't have to pretend not to know that her husband had a mistress and grieve alone.

She wouldn't have to look at other people's faces for everything, living a humble and lonely life.

Second, he prepared a way for Margaret to kill John without getting caught.

After learning this method, most of Margaret's concerns disappeared. She understood that even if she killed John, she would be fine.

Third, Victor told Margaret that if she didn't cooperate, he would kill her child - that primary school student whom she loved deeply.

In fact, the relationship between Margaret and John had long since broken down, and she had always wanted a divorce. The main reason she hadn't mentioned it and had pretended to get along harmoniously with John was this child. She knew that if she divorced John, she would definitely not get custody of the child, which was why she had endured until now.

It can be seen that she loved her child very much and didn't dare to ignore Victor's threat.

With these three reasons given to Margaret, she finally chose to cooperate.

If she cooperated, John would die, she would get the inheritance, live a free life with her child, and not be punished.

If she didn't cooperate, she would get nothing, and her own flesh and blood would be in constant danger, with an uncertain outcome.

In comparison, it was obvious which choice to make.

Of course, although the whole layout seemed simple, it was actually not easy. There were two particularly crucial points:

First, all his communication with Margaret was done online, and he used an anonymous account. The communication platform was also on a temporarily set-up website.

By now, that website had been cancelled. That is to say, the chat records could not be traced. At the same time, Margaret knew nothing about Victor, except that Victor called himself the Ghost.

Second, the method given by Victor must ensure that Margaret could escape punishment. Otherwise, Margaret would not take the risk.

And this was the plan:

First, Margaret made herself ill and went to the pharmacy to buy penicillin. However, after buying it, she didn't take it. Instead, she secretly processed it and hid it.

Then, Victor issued the murder notice, and the police protected John, which meant that every night, Margaret had to sleep with John.

Finally, just last night, Margaret seduced John, and since John was pent-up and needed to release his energy, they had a wild session in bed.

John especially liked breasts and would always suck them hard. This habit was the fatal poison.

Margaret applied the penicillin she had prepared in advance to her breasts. As a result, John died suddenly from an excessive inhalation of penicillin. (Incidentally, this method of murder has a real-life prototype and is based on a true case.)

In fact, John died before eleven o'clock last night.

At that time, Margaret quickly went to take a shower and destroyed the only piece of evidence. After washing up, she went back to bed and pretended to be asleep.

For Victor, the entire murder was a calculation.

He calculated the police's reaction, Margaret's reaction, and even John's reaction.

He was like the mastermind behind the scenes, leading the direction of the whole thing, yet he had never shown up.

In the Interrogation Room

James Morrison and Thomas Wilson faced Margaret with solemn expressions. Several documents were placed on the table in front of them. Margaret was very nervous, with cold sweat faintly breaking out on her forehead, but she still looked fairly calm.

"Why did you kill John?" James said calmly, his tone quite determined and his manner imposing.

Upon hearing this, Margaret's expression froze, her eyes widened, and her body trembled slightly, but she quickly regained her composure.

During her previous communication with Victor, Victor had told her that the police would definitely suspect her and even be certain that she was the murderer. But it didn't matter. As long as she firmly denied killing anyone and followed the pre-planned statement, she would definitely be fine.

So, after being stunned for a moment, she said loudly, "I didn't kill anyone!"

As she spoke, her expression turned angry. "Mr. Police officer, I don't know what you mean. The murderer is clearly that person called the Ghost. Now you're saying that I killed my husband. Could it be that since you can't catch the real murderer, you're going to frame me?"

James and Thomas were very calm in the face of Margaret's outburst. As experienced detectives, they had that much self-control.

Thomas sneered, "Margaret, do you think your plan is perfect and we can't do anything to you? Humph! Don't be naive. I advise you to confess honestly. Maybe you can get lenient treatment. Otherwise..."

"I don't know what you're talking about. I'll emphasize it again. I didn't kill anyone."

James threw a document at Margaret and said calmly, "This is the autopsy report. John died of sudden death due to excessive inhalation of penicillin. And we found penicillin residues on the water cup in your bedroom. This is conclusive evidence, and you can't deny it."

Margaret, who had been a bit nervous at first, instantly relaxed upon hearing this and said coldly, "That's my water cup. I've been sick recently and needed to take medicine before going to bed. The penicillin residues you mentioned might have been left then. If you don't believe me, you can check. There definitely won't be my husband's fingerprints or DNA on that water cup."

At this point, James and Thomas could basically conclude that Margaret was the one who killed John. Margaret was acting too calmly and handling the interrogation too smoothly.

But at the same time, the two of them also realized one thing: Margaret was well-prepared, and it would probably be very difficult to make her admit her guilt, unless they could produce conclusive evidence.