Bonjour,
This story took place during the cold war
“A distingu
ished scientist, Mr.
Topoleiv, joined us"
was headlined in the Times
a few months before the event. The article described how the famous scientist (known for his work about post-combustion during WW2)
succeeded in running away to
the West …
Some months later Mr.
Topoleiv was in the subway and just before his final station he felt a bite in his leg. He hadn’t the time to realized that he had been
hit by a strange man with an umbrella
when he
fell down
struck to death.
Mr.
Topoleiv had been
shot down
dead by the man with the umbrella and the first thing is that Mr.
Topoleiv had succumbed to a
heart attack.(??)
But
a few days later newspapers expressed the possibility of a murder by a soviet agent.
The investigation revealed that several eyewitnesses
had seen a
shadowy man with an umbrella inside the subway before the scientist’s death and they
drew up an identikit
picture.
The conclusion of the autopsy confirmed the argument of a
murder by poison, probably injected by a Bulgarian umbrella.
Three weeks later the officer
on duty in the police station received an anonymous call telling him to go to the corner of
560 Riverside and
51st streets.
Then the police discovered a dead body that seemed to have fallen in the staircase.
The man was in fact the
one who was wanted by the police about the scientist’s murder.
After the investigation the police couldn’t
determine if it was an accident or if somebody helped him to fall in the stairway like somebody
had helped Mr.
Topoleiv to run
away to
the West
a few months ago…
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Entre autres choses, tu sembles ignorer que seule l'initiale d'un nom propre prend la majuscule.
