日期：2025-03-18 Agatha Christie Cat Among the Pigeons A Hercule Poirot Mystery Prologue SUMMER TERM IIt was the opening day of the summer term at Meadowbank school. The late afternoon sun shonedown on the broad gravel sweep in front of the house. The front door was... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Twenty Hercule Poirot paused a moment at the big wrought iron gates. He looked ahead of him along the curving drive. The last of the golden-brown leaves fluttered down from the trees. The cyclamen were over. Poirot sighed. He turned aside and rapped... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Nineteen The chief constable and Inspector Bland looked up with keen curiosity as Hercule Poirot was ushered in. The chief constable was not in the best of tempers. Only Blands quiet persistence had caused him to cancel his dinner appointment for th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Eighteen The sun was setting when Poirot came to what was called officially Mill Cottage, and known locally as the Pink Cottage down by Lawders Creek. He knocked on the door and it was flung open with such suddenness that he started back. The angry-... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Seventeen After leaving Nasse, Poirot went to the village where, by inquiry, he found the cottage occupied by the Tuckers. His knock at the door went unanswered for some moments as it was drowned by the high-pitched tone of Mrs. Tuckers voice from i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Sixteen I Hercule Poirot sat in a square chair in front of the square fireplace in the square room of his London flat. In front of him were various objects that were not square: that were instead violently and almost impossibly curved. Each of them,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Fifteen It was a fortnight later that Inspector Bland had a long and unsatisfying interview with the Chief Constable of the County. Major Merrall had irritable tufted eyebrows and looked rather like an angry terrier. But his men all liked him and re... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Fourteen I Inspector Bland sat in Helmmouth Police Station. Superintendent Baldwin, a large comfortable- looking man, sat on the other side of the table. Between the two men, on the table, was a black sodden mass. Inspector Bland poked at it with a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Thirteen After Mrs. Masterton had left, Poirot went out and strolled through the woods. His nerves were not quite what they should be. He felt an irresistible desire to look behind every bush and to consider every thicket of rhododendron as a possib... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Twelve Hercule Poirot came down to the breakfast table on the following morning to a depleted table. Mrs. Oliver, still suffering from the shock of yesterdays occurrence, was having her breakfast in bed. Michael Weyman had had a cup of coffee and go... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Eleven I Mrs. Folliat was at that moment being talked to by Hercule Poirot in the big drawing room. He had found her there leaning back in a chair in a corner of the room. She had started nervously when he came in. Then sinking back, she had murmure... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Ten I He kills people, Inspector Bland repeated. I dont think you ought to take it too seriously, said Sir George. She kept repeating it and saying, He kills people, but she couldnt tell me who he killed or when or why. I thought myself it was just... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Nine I Although he had none of Constable Hoskins ingrained prejudice against foreigners, Inspector Bland took an instant dislike to Etienne de Sousa. The polished elegance of the young man, his sartorial perfection, the rich flowery smell of his bri... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Eight Got a sharp tongue, she has, Hoskins said when he returned. Nags her husband and bullies her old father. I daresay shes spoke sharp to the girl once or twice and now shes feeling bad about it. Not that girls mind what their mothers say to them... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Seven Detective-Inspector Bland sat behind a table in the study. Sir George had met him on arrival, had taken him down to the boathouse and had now returned with him to the house. Down at the boathouse a photographic unit was now busy and the finger... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Six Lunch was an early and quickly snatched affair of a cold buffet. At two-thirty a minor film star was to open the fte. The weather, after looking ominously like rain, began to improve. By three oclock the fte was in full swing. People were paying... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Five I In a mood of exploration Poirot went through the front gates and down the steeply twisting road that presently emerged on a small quay. A large bell with a chain had a notice upon it: Ring for the Ferry. There were various boats moored by the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Four You must come and see the clues and things for the Murder Hunt, M. Poirot, said Mrs. Oliver breathlessly. Poirot rose and followed them obediently. The three of them went across the hall and into a small room furnished plainly as a business off... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Three It was Mrs. Folliat who led the way into the house and Poirot followed her. It was a gracious house, beautifully proportioned. Mrs. Folliat went through a door on the left into a small daintily furnished sitting room and on into the big drawin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Two There was a moments silence as Poirot stared at her. Then he asked sharply: Something wrong? How? I dont knowThats what I want you to find out. But Ive feltmore and morethat I was beingoh!engineeredjockeyed alongCall me a fool if you like, but I... 阅读全文>>