日期：2024-01-30 Five MARY DROWER I think that I can date my interest in the case from that first mention of the A B C railway guide. Up till then I had not been able to raise much enthusiasm. This sordid murder of an old woman ina back-street shop was so like the u... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Four MRS. ASCHER We were received at Andover by Inspector Glen, a tall fair-haired man with a pleasant smile. For the sake of conciseness I think I had better give a brief rsum of the bare facts of the case. The crime was discovered by Police Consta... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Three ANDOVER I had been impressed at the time by Poirots forebodings about the anonymous letter he hadreceived, but I must admit that the matter had passed from my mind when the 21st actually arrivedand the first reminder of it came with a visit pa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Two NOT FROM CAPTAIN HASTINGS PERSONAL NARRATIVEMr. Alexander Bonaparte Cust rose from his seat and peered near-sightedly round the shabbybedroom. His back was stiff from sitting in a cramped position and as he stretched himself to hisfull height an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 One THE LETTER It was in June of 1935 that I came home from my ranch in South America for a stay of about sixmonths. It had been a difficult time for us out there. Like everyone else, we had suffered fromworld depression. I had various affairs to se... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Foreword by Captain Arthur Hastings, O.B.E. In this narrative of mine I have departed from my usual practice of relating only those incidentsand scenes at which I myself was present. Certain chapters, therefore, are written in the thirdperson. I wis... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-nine LENVOI There isnt really any more to say about things. They got Father Lavigny and the other man just as they were going to board a steamer atBeyrouth. Sheila Reilly married young Emmott. I think that will be good for her. Hes no door-ma... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-eight JOURNEYS END Poirot looked round. Every eye was now fixed upon him. There had been a certain relaxationaslackening of tension. Now the tension suddenly returned. There was something coming .?.?. something .?.?. Poirots voice, quiet and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-seven BEGINNING OF A JOURNEY Bismillahi ar rahman ar rahim. That is the Arab phrase used before starting out on a journey. Ehbien, we too start on a journey. A journey into the past. A journey into the strange places of thehuman soul. I dont... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-six NEXT IT WILL BE ME! It was rather horrible. Dr.?Leidner looked as though he were going to faint and I felt a bit sickmyself. Dr.?Reilly examined it with professional gusto. No fingerprints, I presume? he threw out. No fingerprints. Dr.?Re... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-five SUICIDE OR MURDER? I hadnt time to ask Poirot what he meant, for Captain Maitland was calling up to us and asking usto come down. We hurried down the stairs. Look here, Poirot, he said. Heres another complication. The monk fellow is miss... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-four MURDER IS A HABIT We all went to bed early that night. Miss?Johnson had appeared at dinner and had behaved more orless as usual. She had, however, a sort of dazed look, and once or twice quite failed to take in whatother people said to h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-three I GO PSYCHIC The funeral was, I thought, a very affecting affair. As well as ourselves, all the English people inHassanieh attended it. Even Sheila Reilly was there, looking quiet and subdued in a dark coat andskirt. I hoped that she wa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-two DAVID EMMOTT, FATHER LAVIGNY AND A DISCOVERY Turning abruptly away, Carey strode off with long, angry strides. Poirot sat looking after him and presently he murmured: YesI see. .?.?. Without turning his head he said in a slightly louder v... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-one MR.?MERCADO, RICHARD CAREY They work in two separate places, I see, said Poirot, halting. Mr.?Reiter had been doing his photography on an outlying portion of the main excavation. Alittle distance away from us a second swarm of men were co... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty MISS?JOHNSON, MRS. ?MERCADO, MR.?REITER I dont mind confessing that the idea came as a complete shock to me. Id never thought ofassociating Miss?Johnson with the letters. Mrs.?Mercado, perhaps. But Miss?Johnson was a reallady, and so self-con... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Nineteen A NEW SUSPICION We couldnt say any more just then because Dr.?Reilly came in, saying jokingly that hed killedoff the most tiresome of his patients. He and M.?Poirot settled down to a more or less medical discussion of the psychology andment... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Eighteen TEA AT DR.?REILLYS Before leaving, Poirot made a round of the expedition house and the outbuildings. He also asked afew questions of the servants at second handthat is to say, Dr.?Reilly translated the questionsand answers from English to A... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Seventeen THE STAIN BY THE WASHSTAND Mrs.?Leidners body had been taken to Hassanieh for the postmortem, but otherwise her room hadbeen left exactly as it was. There was so little in it that it had not taken the police long to go overit. To the right... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Sixteen THE SUSPECTS Dr.?Leidner sprang to his feet. Impossible! Absolutely impossible! The idea is absurd! Mr.?Poirot looked at him quite calmly but said nothing. You mean to suggest that my wifes former husband is one of the expedition and that sh... 阅读全文>>