日期：2024-12-17 Three RECONSTRUCTION The afternoon sun shone into the laboratory at Handcross Manor. Some easy chairs and a settee had been brought into the room, but they served more to emphasize its forlorn aspect than to furnish it. Slightly embarrassed, pulling... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-17 BOOK THREE One CONCLUSIONS Carla Lemarchant looked up. Her eyes were full of fatigue and pain. She pushed back the hair from her forehead in a tired gesture. She said: Its so bewildering all this. She touched the pile of manuscripts. Because the ang... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-17 Narrative of Angela Warren Dear Mr. Poirot, I am keeping my promise to you and have written down all I can remember of that terrible time sixteen years ago. But it was not until I started that I realized how very little I did remember. Until the thi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-17 Narrative of Cecilia Williams Dear Mr. Poirot, I am sending you an account of those events in September, 19actually witnessed by myself. I have been absolutely frank and have kept nothing back. You may show it to Carla Crale. It may pain her, but I... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-17 Narrative of Lady Dittisham I have set down here the full story of my meeting with Amyas Crale, up to the time of his tragic death. I saw him first at a studio party. He was standing, I remember, by a window, and I saw him as I came in at the door.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-17 Narrative of Meredith Blake Dear Mr. Poirot, As I promised you, I have set down in writing an account of all I can remember relating to the tragic events that happened sixteen years ago. First of all I would like to say that I have thought over care... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-17 BOOK TWO Narrative of Philip Blake (Covering letter received with manuscript) Dear Mr. Poirot, I am fulfilling my promise and herewith find enclosed an account of the events relating to the death of Amyas Crale. After such a lapse of time I am bound... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-17 Ten THIS LITTLE PIG CRIED WEE WEE WEE Angela Warrens flat overlooked Regents Park. Here, on this spring day, a soft air wafted in through the open window and one might have had the illusion that one was in the country if it had not been for the stea... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-17 Nine THIS LITTLE PIG HAD NONE May I ask why, Mr. Poirot? Hercule Poirot considered his answer to the question. He was aware of a pair of very shrewd grey eyes watching him out of the small wizened face. He had climbed to the top floor of the bare bu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-17 Eight THIS LITTLE PIG HAD ROAST BEEF The house in Brook Street had Darwin tulips in the window boxes. Inside the hall a great vase of white lilac sent eddies of perfume towards the open front door. A middle-aged butler relieved Poirot of his hat and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-17 Seven THIS LITTLE PIG STAYED AT HOME Hercule Poirot was not a man to neglect details. His advance towards Meredith Blake was carefully thought out. Meredith Blake was, he already felt sure, a very different proposition from Philip Blake. Rush tactic... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-17 Six THIS LITTLE PIG WENT TO MARKET Philip Blake was recognizably like the description given of him by Montague Depleach. A prosperous, shrewd, jovial-looking manslightly running to fat. Hercule Poirot had timed his appointment for half past six on a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-17 Five THE POLICE SUPERINTENDENT Ex-Superintendent Hale pulled thoughtfully at his pipe. He said: This is a funny fancy of yours, Mr. Poirot. It is, perhaps, a little unusual, Poirot agreed cautiously. You see, said Hale, its all such a long time ago.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-17 Four THE OLD SOLICITOR Mr. Caleb Jonathan lived in Essex. After a courteous exchange of letters, Poirot received an invitation, almost royal in its character, to dine and sleep. The old gentleman was decidedly a character. After the insipidity of yo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-17 Three THE YOUNG SOLICITOR George Mayhew was cautious and non-committal. He remembered the case, of course, but not at all clearly. His father had been in chargehe himself had been only nineteen at the time. Yes, the case had made a great stir. Becau... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-17 Two COUNSEL FOR THE PROSECUTION Guilty as Hell, said Mr. Fogg succinctly. Hercule Poirot looked meditatively at the thin clear-cut face of the barrister. Quentin Fogg, K.C. was a very different type from Montague Depleach. Depleach had force, magnet... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-17 BOOK ONE One COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENCE Do I remember the Crale case? asked Sir Montague Depleach. Certainly I do. Remember it very well. Most attractive woman. But unbalanced, of course. No self-control. He glanced sideways at Poirot. What makes you a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-17 Introduction CARLA LEMARCHANT Hercule Poirot looked with interest and appreciation at the young woman who was being ushered into the room. There had been nothing distinctive in the letter she had written. It had been a mere request for an appointmen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-11-06 III To Hercule Poirot, sitting on the ledge overlooking the sea, came Inspector Colgate. Poirot liked Inspector Colgate. He liked his rugged face, his shrewd eyes, and his slowunhurried manner. Inspector Colgate sat down. He said, glancing down at t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-11-06 II Hercule Poirot sat on the turf on the summit of the island. A little to his left was the beginning of the steel ladder that led down to Pixy Cove. There wereseveral rough boulders near the head of the ladder, he noted, forming easy concealment fo... 阅读全文>>