馬龍探案卷三 之 錯誤的兇案 三十一

他們剛走出大樓，傑克就憤怒地轉向那個小個子律師。

they were barely out of the buildg before jake turned furioly on the little wyer

“什麼意思？馮?弗拉納根可能會成功追查到那把槍的所有者。”

“what’s the idea? von fnagan ay sueed tracg the ownership of that gun”

“這並不會讓我感到意外，” 馬龍說。

“i wouldn’t be surprised,” alone said

“但如果他追查到了，而那把槍屬於莫娜?麥克萊恩……”

“but if he does, and if the gun belongs to ona ne-”

“那他就會發現槍屬於莫娜?麥克萊恩，” 馬龍冷靜地說，“這有什麼大不了的嗎？”

“then he’ll fd out that it belongs to ona ne,” alone said cally “what the hell of it?”

“假設彈道測試的結果顯示，這把槍就是殺死約書亞?岡布里爾和弗雷特?桑德斯的槍……”

“suppose the ballistics tests show it’s the gun that was ed shootg joshua gubril and fleurette sanders”

“就算是這樣，” 律師自滿地回答。

“suppose it does,” the wyer said pcently

“該死的，馬龍。如果我要贏下那個賭約……”

“dan you, alone if i’ gog to that bet-”

馬龍惱火地說：“我知道我在做什麼。”

alone said crossly, “i know what i’ dog”

傑克低聲嘟囔了幾句憤慨的話。

jake uttered thg dignant under his breath

“而且，” 馬龍指出，“就算馮?弗拉納根能做到這些，我想他會做的，他也不會知道謀殺的動機，跟我們一樣不清楚。而且，就像我之前指出的，這是一起出於動機的犯罪，而不是出於方法的犯罪。”

“besides,” alone poted out, “even if von fnagan does all that-and i iage he will-he won’t know anythg about the otive for the urders no ore than we do and as i’ve poted out before, this is a cri of otive, not thod”

“說得好聽，” 傑克咆哮道，“但他會認為自己有足夠的證據採取行動，並且很可能在午夜之前就能拿到。除非在此期間我能揭開那個動機，否則我就要失去一家很不錯的夜總會的所有權了。”

“very pretty,” jake growled, “but he’ll thk he has enough t