Review: You Can Observe A Lot Just By Watching!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 19, 2014
This is another locked room case in which Inspector Zhang is called in by the Special Commissioner to assist a pretty young Inspector in a case involving ten kilos of heroin that disappeared from a locked apartment that was under her surveillance.The Inspector begins his investigation by questioning Inspector Kwok. She states that a drug sniffing dog on another assignment was alerted by a container with a mixed consignment of goods such as furniture and cardboard boxes with 100 kilos of Burmese heroin. Inspector Kwok's drug squad followed the container which was delivered to an importer who then broke out 10 kilos for delivery to an apartment as he had done on four previous occasions.On this the 5th occasion, Inspector Kwok set up a surveillance with videos of the delivery. She then waited seven days to catch the ones whom she thought would come to pick up the drugs.When nobody came she checked with the commissioner and was directed to open the apartment and retrieve the drugs. But the drugs had disappeared.Inspector Zhang and Sgt. Lee carefully searched the entire apartment and re-enacted every act of the delivery and departure. They then went to the importer, Mr. Yin, and asked for his cooperation in re-enacting his delivery of the ten boxes to the apartment. He cooperated ...up to a point.Inspector zhang usually uses "astute conversation" to solve his mysteries but in this case he used what is known as a Yogi Berra" rule which is." You can observe a lot..just by watching" and that's how the case of the disappearing drugs was solved.That's right dear readers, you're going to have to read the ending to find out what clue The Inspector Observed that nailed the culprit.Reviewed by Roger Shepherd