Dupu Detective Collection

Jin Mantang, a great philanthropist in Jiangcheng, died in his study room with a black palm mark on his chest. An examination of his body showed no injuries. The monk said it was "ghost hands that seek life." Du Pu accepted the lucrative job, only to find that Feng Lu had obtained a pawn ticket from Jin's pawnshop - Jin Mantang had pawned an iron Buddha with his own hands a month ago. Du Pu went to Jin's house to see the body. The palm prints had wrong lines, as if they had been stamped on later. The second aunt of the Jin family hinted that the eldest wife was harmful to others, and even after wiping her eyes with tears for a long time, they were still dry. Du Pu asked Feng Lu to go to the casino to inquire. Feng Lu was knocked unconscious and thrown at the door of the questioning hall that night, with the head of the Iron Buddha stuffed in his arms. The Buddha's head is empty, and there is an account book hidden inside, which records Jin Mantang's twenty years of money exchanges. The last transaction was "five hundred taels of atonement silver, donated to the ruined temple in the west of the city." When Du Pu went to ruin the temple, the old monk said that the money was stolen by a thief that night. The thief later "reformed his evil ways" and became a good person in the city.