Then Conan saw it. The grandfather clock in the corner. Its pendulum was swinging, even though the clock was broken. Impossible.
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The fourth heir was Reiko, the late Mr. Shindo’s personal nurse. She was a gentle woman with sad eyes. “He was like a father to me,” she whispered. Then Conan saw it
Conan observed each one. Koji kept adjusting his tie—nervous. Mika’s paint-stained fingers tapped a rhythm. Shin looked at his watch every ten seconds. And Reiko… Reiko smiled when she thought no one was looking. Impossible
The lawyer was killed in the dining room, not the study. After knocking him unconscious with the brass clock, the killer carried him into the study, locked the door from the inside using the clockwork bolt, then escaped through a hidden passage—the grandfather clock. The clock’s rear panel opened into a narrow service corridor.
“Because you weren’t just his nurse,” Conan continued. “You were his secret daughter. The will hidden in the clock compartment named you as the sole heir. Mr. Tanida discovered this and tried to blackmail you. So you silenced him.”