Tong Shuxue: Who killed the rooster Robin?

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This illustration comes from "Rooster Robin" published in 1891, depicting the story of the nursery rhyme cock Robin. In the picture, the little boy and the little girl are attending the funeral of the rooster Robin with a group of animals.

This nursery rhyme is actually a crime reasoning story. The rooster was originally loved by all the birds, but one day was killed. So who killed it? The birds started a trial spontaneously: the flies were witnesses, the fish took away the blood of the rooster, the beetle made it for it, the owl digs the tomb for it, the crow is a priest, the lark is a deacon, the red bird holds the torch, the thrush sings For praise, Niu Er sounded the funeral ... Finally, the nursery rhyme said that the trial of the next round of trial was a sparrow. So the question is, who killed the rooster? Many people speculate that the murderer is the sparrow, because at the beginning of the nursery rhymes, the sparrow said that I killed the rooster with bow and arrow.

Many reasoning works have quoted this allusion. The most famous was Van Dan's work "Bishop Murder" in 1929. Fan Dan is one of the best reasoning novelists in the world. The "Code of the 20th Inference Novels" he wrote has become the "criterion" of reasoning novels. And this "Bishop Murder" is also known as his best work.

In this novel, the first deceased was shot through the heart with an arrow, and the second deceased was shot through the head, and the third deceased fell to death from the high wall ... Every time the murder case was with "Rooster Robin" Completely consistent, and this nursery rhymes have penetrated throughout the story, adding a black horror.

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