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"As all lines of enquiry have been exhausted, the case has been filed pending further information coming to light," press officer James Walker wrote in an email.
新聞官詹姆斯·沃克在一封電子郵件中寫道：“由于所有的調查線索都已用盡，案件已經立案等待有更多的信息曝光。”
When I contact the Hertfordshire Constabulary, which supposedly had taken over the investigation into the encounter between train store owner Price and "Jamie,"
當我聯系赫特福德郡警察局時（該局本應負責調查火車商鋪老板普萊斯和“杰米”的邂逅），
department spokeswoman Rebecca Choules says she's unaware of the incident and the Gravesend heist
警局女發言人麗貝卡·喬利斯表示，她不知道這起事件和格雷夫森德搶劫案，
and can't find any mention of Price or his store in the constabulary's records.
在警察局的記錄中也找不到任何關于普萊斯和他的商店的信息。
"I have done everything I can," she says. "I'm afraid it's very much a needle-in-a-haystack situation."
“我已經竭盡所能，”她說，“恐怕這是大海撈針的局面。”
With the case in danger of going colder and inspired by Filley's doggedness, I take a shot at solving the mystery.
由于案件有可能會變得無人過問，以及費利的一再堅持，我嘗試著去解開這個謎團。
I force myself to listen to several of my dad's soliloquies on the primacy of "Kughn-era technology" at Lionel.
我強迫自己去聆聽父親關于萊昂內爾“庫恩時代技術”重要性的幾段獨白。
I also study Michael Crichton's The Great Train Robbery, as well as the 1978 film version with Sean Connery
我還研究了邁克爾·克里頓的《火車大劫案》，以及1978年與肖恩·康納利合拍的電影。
(which, coincidentally, is set in Kent and chronicles a heist worth £25,000 aboard a steam train that looks just like the Mayflower).
（巧的是，這部電影以肯特郡為背景，記錄了一起價值2.5萬英鎊的劫案，搶劫的是一輛看起來像五月花號的蒸汽火車）。
My plan is to review all of Filley's clues with the help of a private eye.
我的計劃是在私家偵探的幫助下審查費利提供的所有線索。
With 11 five-star reviews on Google, Kent Private Investigator's Andy Punter seems like a surefire bet.
肯特私家偵探安迪·普特在谷歌上有11條五星級評價，他似乎是可以幫助我們破案的人選。
("A true godsend," one review raved. "He managed to confirm all my worries and suspicions that my husband was lying about his whereabouts and having an affair.")
一條評論對他贊不絕口，“真正的天賜之人”。“他設法證實了我所有的擔心和懷疑，即我丈夫對他的行蹤和外遇撒謊。”。
His website features the hallmarks of a modern-day Sherlock Holmes—eyes peering through binoculars, a motorcycle trailing a suspect's vehicle
他的網站上有著現代夏洛克·福爾摩斯的標志性圖像，雙眼凝視雙筒望遠鏡，追蹤嫌疑犯車輛的摩托車。
—but when I reach him by phone, he refuses to take on the case, though he does offer guidance.
但當我通過電話聯系到他時，他拒絕接手此案，不過他確實提供了指導。
Given the nature of the crime, Punter says "100% no" to it being an inside job, nor were the thieves pros.
鑒于犯罪的性質，普特說“百分之百不是”監守自盜，也不是職業盜賊。
"If they stole the trains the night before, I can't see 'em selling 'em the next day—that doesn't make sense if they're professionals," he says.
他說：“如果他們前一天晚上偷了火車，我沒看到他們第二天就把火車賣了，如果他們是專業盜賊的話，這說不通。
"There are so many close-knit model-train clubs. It's like a little cult."
有很多組織嚴密的火車模型俱樂部，這就像一個小邪教。”
