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日期：2024-11-06 IV On his way home, Poirot called in at the Glengowrie Court Hotel. As a result of that visit he rang Japp up very early the following morning. Bonjour, mon ami. The inquest is today, is it not? It is. Are you going to attend? I do not think so. It... 阅读全文>> 日期：2024-11-06 III Three-quarters of an hour later Hercule Poirot came out of the underground station at EalingBroadway and five minutes after that he had reached his destinationNo. 88, Castlegardens Road. It was a small semidetached house, and the neatness of the... 阅读全文>> 日期：2024-11-06 II Hercule Poirot sat at his handsome modern desk. He liked modern furniture. Its squareness andsolidity were more agreeable to him than the soft contours of antique models. In front of him was a square sheet of paper with neat headings and comments... 阅读全文>> 日期：2024-11-06 FIVE, SIX, PICKING UP STICKS I Twenty-four hours later Japp rang Poirot up. His tone was bitter. Washout! The whole thing! What do you mean, my friend? Morley committed suicide all right. Weve got the motive. What was it? Ive just had the doctors re... 阅读全文>> 日期：2024-11-06 IX Miss Sainsbury Seale was in the dimly lit lounge of the Glengowrie Court Hotel having tea. She was flustered by the appearance of a police officer in plain clothesbut her excitement wasof a pleasurable nature, he observed. Poirot noticed, with so... 阅读全文>> 日期：2024-11-06 VIII Alistair Blunt had never loomed large in the public eye. Possibly because he was himself a veryquiet and retiring man. Possibly because for many years he had functioned as a Prince Consortrather than as a King. Rebecca Sanseverato, ne Arnholt,... 阅读全文>> 日期：2024-11-06 VI When Alfred had gone out of the room, Japp said sharply: Dyou think it wise to suggest murder to that lad? Poirot shrugged his shoulders. I think soyes. Anything suggestive that he may have seen or heard will come back to himunder the stimulus, a... 阅读全文>> 日期：2024-11-06 VII Japp put down the telephone receiver. His face, as he turned to Poirot, was rather grim. He said: Mr. Amberiotis isnt feeling very wellwould rather not see any one this afternoon. Hes going to see meand hes not going to give me the slip either!... 阅读全文>> 日期：2024-11-06 VAlfred was divided between nervousness, enjoyment, and a morbid fear of being blamed foreverything that had occurred! He had only been a fortnight in Mr. Morleys employment, andduring that fortnight he had consistently and unvaryingly done everythi... 阅读全文>> 日期：2024-11-06 III Tall and grim, Georgina Morley listened to what the two men had said and answered theirquestions. She said with emphasis: Its incredible to mequite incrediblethat my brother should have committed suicide! Poirot said: You realize the alternative... 阅读全文>> 日期：2024-11-06 IV Gladys Nevill was a tall, fair, somewhat anemic girl of about twenty-eight. Though obviously veryupset, she at once showed that she was capable and intelligent. Under the pretext of looking through Mr. Morleys papers, Japp got her away from Miss... 阅读全文>> 日期：2024-11-06 II It was a police constable who opened the door of 58. He said respectfully: M. Poirot? Its I, myself. The Chief Inspector is upstairs. Second flooryou know it? Hercule Poirot said: I was there this morning. There were three men in the room. Japp l... 阅读全文>> 日期：2024-11-06 THREE, FOUR, SHUT THE DOOR I It was a quarter to three when the telephone rang. Hercule Poirot was sitting in an easy chair happily digesting an excellent lunch. He did not move when the bell rang but waited for the faithful George to come and take... 阅读全文>> 日期：2024-11-06 VI There are certain humiliating moments in the lives of the greatest of men. It has been said that noman is a hero to his valet. To that may be added that few men are heroes to themselves at themoment of visiting their dentist. Hercule Poirot was m... 阅读全文>> 日期：2024-11-06 V Hercule Poirot descended from his taxi, paid the man and rang the bell of 58, Queen CharlotteStreet. After a little delay it was opened by a boy in page boys uniform with a freckled face, red hair,and an earnest manner. Hercule Poirot said: Mr. Mo... 阅读全文>> 日期：2024-11-06 IV The meeting of the Board of Directors was over. It had passed off smoothly. The report was good. There should have been no discordant note. Yet to the sensitive Mr. Samuel Rotherstein there hadbeen something, some nuance in the chairmans manner.... 阅读全文>> 日期：2024-11-06 III At the Glengowrie Court Hotel, South Kensington, breakfast was over. In the lounge, MissSainsbury Seale was sitting talking to Mrs. Bolitho. They occupied adjacent tables in the diningroom and had made friends the day after Miss Sainsbury Seales... 阅读全文>> 日期：2024-11-06 ONE, TWO, BUCKLE MY SHOE I Mr. Morley was not in the best of tempers at breakfast. He complained of the bacon, wonderedwhy the coffee had to have the appearance of liquid mud, and remarked that breakfast cereals wereeach one worse than the last. Mr.... 阅读全文>> 日期：2024-11-06 II At the Savoy Hotel Mr. Amberiotis was picking his teeth with a toothpick and grinning to himself. Everything was going very nicely. He had had his usual luck. Fancy those few kind words of his to that idiotic hen of a woman being so richly repaid... 阅读全文>> |
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