The Vanishing Gold [Chapter 1]

It was the 1st of January 2021, 10 AM. I was sitting in my chair enjoying the fragrance of flowers sifting through the air and the birds chirping. I was in my office waiting for my first case. I had recently set up my office and had high hopes for the town that I had shifted to. I was thinking about my hometown and wondered how my business would have been over there when I heard a few faint footsteps. By the looks of it, I knew I didn’t have to wait long before a mystery came. I heard the doorbell ring. When I opened the door, I saw a young man and let him in. He had glasses and a cap covering his hair. His hands looked pale and he wore a black coat with a grey scarf and his rings were adorned with jewels mostly diamonds.

      He looked wealthy but anyone could derive from his manners that he wasn’t from a wealthy community. He seemed very protective of his identity. I served him some tea and asked him who he was and what was the reason for his visit. He said that his name was john and he was very poor when found out that he had a rich relative who had no other family except for him. his relative had grown old and wanted to retire to be away and isolated from everyone and finally be in peace. so he had written all of his assets to john and went away. John had recently sold all of the properties and transformed them into gold biscuits. Recently, he had all his gold hidden in a secret room in his mansion. Five days later, he found that all of that gold was stolen. So, he had come to me. That was the first case I had gotten in weeks. I immediately went to his mansion.

     The mansion had short security walls but they were big enough to make it hard to climb. The mansion was by my memory 210 by 210 feet and 14 feet high the garden around was 270 by 270 feet. I knew that before I got to the crime scene I needed to first know where it was so I asked john where the room was. he told me that it was underground. Its length was 30 by 30 feet and its height was 10 feet. he said that only he could have accessed the vault as it had an eye scanner and a fingerprint scanner which only john could activate. John also told me that only 30 people knew about the vault saying that he gave me a list I checked the entire mansion and the vault

      This was a clever thief he left not a single sign of breaking in my suspicion is that either the thief was a hacker, had good computer skills or the thief was working with a hacker or a person with good computer skills so I narrowed down the list to 20 people out of these 20 people, out of these 20 people 4 were good friends with hackers and 3 looked very scared or suspicious. I continued looking for more clues. I started by questioning and crosschecking their locations on that day and on that time using the results I narrowed down the list even more to 15 people out of these people I started checking their houses and all the lands that they own or any place they often go to without their knowledge under the pretense of a friendly visit that way I narrowed it down to 5 people I found out that two of those people were soon shifting to the UK which felt a bit suspicious so I started following them.

      I soon found out that it was those two who stole the gold together but it was a bit too late as they had already boarded the ship to the United Kingdoms. I immediately booked a ticket on the same ship with the help of john and started running towards it. I luckily made it on time and started searching the ship for those two people their names were Antony and James I was certain they hid the gold with themselves on the ship I carefully checked each compartment of the ship with the permission of the staff. after a few hours of searching, I finally found the gold this was proof enough for the manager of that ship to call those two people for intense questioning after a few hours they broke down and admitted to everything I took them back after a lot of legal procedures as they were not in any country. I finally returned the gold handed them over to the authorities and went back to my cozy little office after that tiring journey.