馬龍探案卷四 之 正確的兇案 九

莫娜·麥克萊恩坐在壁爐旁的一把高背椅上，頭向後靠在靠墊上，眼睛閉著。她的衣服有點奇怪的中國風格，長長的直袖子，高領緊身的領口，還有那厚重錦緞絲綢的深藍色。她戴著一個精雕細刻的白色玉質圓形飾物，掛在一條細長精緻的銀鏈子上，還有十幾只纖細的白色玉手鐲。她的黑髮剪得很短，厚厚的劉海垂在她蒼白的額頭上；在劉海下面，她那頑童般的臉非常蒼白，只有那形狀奇特的寬寬的猩紅色嘴巴很顯眼。

ona ne sat a high-backed chair near the firepce, her head thrown back agast its chions, her eyes closed there was thg oddly chese about her dress, with its long, straight sleeves, its high-throated, close-fittg lr, and the tense be of its heavily brocaded silk she wore an exisitely carved white jade dallion on a long, delicate silver cha, and a dozen slender, white jade bracelets her bck hair was cut short, with a heavy bang fallg over her pale forehead; below the bang her ga face was very white, save for the wide, odd-shaped scarlet outh

起初馬龍以為房間裡只有她一個人，便朝她走去。他走到地毯中間的時候，一個響亮的聲音嚇了他一跳。

at first alone believed her to be alone the roo and walked toward her he was halfway across the rug when a loud voice startled hi

“嘿，你。別擋道。”

“hey, you keep out of the way”

他抬起頭，看見一個年輕人平趴在一個巨大的書架頂上。年輕人惡狠狠地瞪著他。

he looked up, and saw a young an lyg ft on his stoach on of one of the assive bookcases the young an gred at hi balefully

“你就站在那兒，不管你是誰。”

“you stay right there, whoever you are”

“我是約翰?j?馬龍。” 律師說，“我很樂意站在這兒，但是為什麼呢？”

“i’ john j alone,” the wyer said, “and i’ll be gd to stay right here, but why?”

“因為我在給她拍照，這就是為什麼。” 上面傳來的聲音告訴他。他把馬龍見過的最小的相機對準了莫娜?麥克萊恩。

“becae i’ takg her picture, that’s why,” t