馬龍探案卷四 之 正確的兇案 三
一月2日星期四11點30分，當約翰?j?馬龍到達辦公室時，他臉色蒼白，有點顫抖，但除此之外並無大礙。
it was thirty utes past eleven on thursday, the send of january, when john j alone arrived at his office, pale and a trifle shaken, but otherwise none the worse for wear
把兇殺組的丹尼爾?馮?弗拉納根隊長從法律的束縛中解救出來頗費一番周折。跨年夜離開辦公室時，這位警察官員特意從口袋裡拿出了他的證件和其他身份證明，還向馬龍解釋說如今警隊裡到處都是他的親戚，你永遠不知道會發生什麼事。後來給他們做登記的值班警官沒有認出這位警長，但馮?弗拉納根立刻認出他是他姐夫的一個朋友，並自稱是阿肯色州小石城的尤尼烏斯?麥吉利卡迪。
extricatg capta daniel von fnagan of the hoicide sad fro the ctches of the w had taken a little dog on leavg his office that new year’s eve, the police official had carefully reoved his credentials and other identification fro his pockets, expg to alone that the force was fairly crawlg with his retives nowadays, and that you never knew what ight happen the desk serant who had booked the had failed to regnize the officer, but von fnagan had spotted hi idiately as a friend of his brother--w, and had announced hiself as one juni p cgillicuddy of little rock, arkansas
另一個與馮?弗拉納根妻子家沒有任何私人關係的值班警官拒絕接受任何進一步的解釋。他說馮?弗拉納根已經是那晚第十四個自稱是警察部門官員的人了。
another desk serant with no pernal nnections with von fnagan’s 妻子’s k, had refed to aept any further expnation he stated that von fnagan was the fourteenth guy that night who had cid to be an official of the police departnt
結果是兇殺組組長一直被關在監獄裡，直到馬龍設法找到既能讓他獲釋而又不會使他陷入罪責的身份證明，特別是在他妻子的那些親戚眼中。
the result had been that the chief of the hoicide division had reaed jail until alone anad to locat