日期：2024-02-23 VI Dr. Armstrong was driving his Morris across Salisbury Plain. He was very tired Success had its penalties. There had been a time when he had sat in his consulting room in Harley Street, correctly apparelled, surrounded with the most up to date app... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-02-23 V General Macarthur looked out of the carriage window. The train was just coming into Exeter, where he had to change. Damnable, these slow branch line trains! This place, Soldier Island, was really no distance at all as the crow flies. He hadnt got... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-02-23 IV In a non-smoking carriage Miss Emily Brent sat very upright as was her custom. She was sixty- five and she did not approve of lounging. Her father, a Colonel of the old school, had been particular about deportment. The present generation was sham... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-02-23 III Philip Lombard, summing up the girl opposite in a mere flash of his quick moving eyes thought to himself: Quite attractivea bit schoolmistressy perhaps. A cool customer, he should imagineand one who could hold her ownin love or war. Hed rather l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-02-23 II Vera Claythorne, in a third-class carriage with five other travellers in it, leaned her head back and shut her eyes. How hot it was travelling by train today! It would be nice to get to the sea! Really a great piece of luck getting this job. When... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-02-23 One I I n the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in The Times. He laid the paper down and glanced out of the window. T... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 II I must mention a visit we had from Mr. Alexander Bonaparte Cust a few days later. Afterwringing Poirots hand and endeavouring very incoherently and unsuccessfully to thank him, Mr. Cust drew himself up and said: Do you know, a newspaper has actua... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Thirty-five FINALE II am sorry to relate that as the door closed behind Franklin Clarke I laughed hysterically. Poirot looked at me in mild surprise. Its because you told him his crime was not sporting, I gasped. It was quite true. It was abominable... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Thirty-four POIROT EXPLAINS We were sitting in a state of tense attention to listen to Poirots final explanation of the case. All along, he said, I have been worried over the why of this case. Hastings said to me theother day that the case was ended... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Thirty-three ALEXANDER BONAPARTE CUST I was not present at the interview that took place between Poirot and that strange manAlexanderBonaparte Cust. Owing to his association with the police and the peculiar circumstances of thecase, Poirot had no di... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Thirty-two AND CATCH A FOX During the next few days Poirot was very busy. He made mysterious absences, talked very little,frowned to himself, and consistently refused to satisfy my natural curiosity as to the brilliance Ihad, according to him, displ... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Thirty-one HERCULE POIROT ASKS QUESTIONS It was a clear November day. Dr. Thompson and Chief Inspector Japp had come round to acquaintPoirot with the result of the police court proceedings in the case of Rex v. Alexander BonaparteCust. Poirot himsel... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Thirty NOT FROM CAPTAIN HASTINGS PERSONAL NARRATIVEMr. Cust stood by a greengrocers shop. He stared across the road. Yes, that was it. Mrs. Ascher. Newsagent and Tobacconist In the empty window was a sign. To Let. Empty. Lifeless. Excuse me, sir. Th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-nine AT SCOTLAND YARD Conference again. The Assistant Commissioner, Inspector Crome, Poirot and myself. The AC was saying: A good tip that of yours, M. Poirot, about checking a large sale of stockings. Poirot spread out his hands. It was indi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 II Mr. Cust put the receiver back very gently on the hook. He turned to where Mrs. Marbury was standing in the doorway of the room, clearly devouredwith curiosity. Not often you have a telephone call, Mr. Cust? Noerno, Mrs. Marbury. It isnt. Not bad... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-eight NOT FROM CAPTAIN HASTINGS PERSONAL NARRATIVEIInspector Crome was in his office at Scotland Yard. The telephone on his desk gave a discreet buzz and he picked it up. Jacobs speaking, sir. Theres a young fellow come in with a story that I... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-seven THE DONCASTER MURDER Coming in hard on Poirots heels, I just caught the fag end of Inspector Cromes remark. Both he and the Chief Constable were looking worried and depressed. Colonel Anderson greeted us with a nod of the head. Glad you... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-six NOT FROM CAPTAIN HASTINGS PERSONAL NARRATIVEInspector Crome was listening to the excited utterances of Mr. Leadbetter. I assure you, inspector, my heart misses a beat when I think of it. He must actually have beensitting beside me all thr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-five NOT FROM CAPTAIN HASTINGS PERSONAL NARRATIVEMr. Cust came out of the Regal Cinema and looked up at the sky. A beautiful eveningA really beautiful evening. A quotation from Browning came into his head. Gods in His heaven. Alls right with... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-four NOT FROM CAPTAIN HASTINGS PERSONAL NARRATIVEBelow his breath Mr. Leadbetter uttered a grunt of impatience as his next-door neighbour got upand stumbled clumsily past him, dropping his hat over the seat in front, and leaning over toretrie... 阅读全文>>