日期:2024-01-30 Nineteen BY WAY OF SWEDEN Poirot returned to his seat and sat humming a little tune to himself. Unfortunate that she is so intelligent, he murmured. Who? Megan Barnard. Mademoiselle Megan. Words, she snaps out. At once she perceives thatwhat I am sa... 阅读全文>>

日期:2024-01-30 Eighteen POIROT MAKES A SPEECH Franklin Clarke arrived at three oclock on the following afternoon and came straight to the pointwithout beating about the bush. M. Poirot, he said, Im not satisfied. No, Mr. Clarke? Ive no doubt that Crome is a very e... 阅读全文>>

日期:2024-01-30 Seventeen MARKING TIME With the murder of Sir Carmichael Clarke the A B C mystery leaped into the fullest prominence. The newspapers were full of nothing else. All sorts of clues were reported to have beendiscovered. Arrests were announced to be imm... 阅读全文>>

日期:2024-01-30 Sixteen NOT FROM CAPTAIN HASTINGS PERSONAL NARRATIVEMr. Alexander Bonaparte Cust came out with the rest of the audience from the TorquayPalladium, where he had been seeing and hearing that highly emotional film, Not a Sparrow. He blinked a little as... 阅读全文>>

日期:2024-01-30 Fifteen SIR CARMICHAEL CLARKE Churston, lying as it does between Brixham on the one side and Paignton and Torquay on theother, occupies a position about halfway round the curve of Torbay. Until about ten years ago itwas merely a golf links and below... 阅读全文>>

日期:2024-01-30 Fourteen THE THIRD LETTER I well remember the arrival of A B Cs third letter. I may say that all precautions had been taken so that when A B C resumed his campaign thereshould be no unnecessary delays. A young sergeant from Scotland Yard was attache... 阅读全文>>

日期:2024-01-30 Thirteen A CONFERENCE Conferences! Much of my memories of the A B C case seem to be of conferences. Conferences at Scotland Yard. At Poirots rooms. Official conferences. Unofficial conferences. This particular conference was to decide whether or not... 阅读全文>>

日期:2024-01-30 Twelve DONALD FRASER I felt sorry at once for the young man. His white haggard face and bewildered eyes showed howgreat a shock he had had. He was a well-made, fine-looking young fellow, standing close on six foot, not good-looking,but with a pleasa... 阅读全文>>

日期:2024-01-30 Eleven MEGAN BARNARD As I said, Megan Barnards words, and still more the crisp businesslike tone in which they wereuttered, made me jump. Poirot, however, merely bowed his head gravely. A la bonne heure, he said. You are intelligent, mademoiselle. M... 阅读全文>>

日期:2024-01-30 Ten THE BARNARDS Elizabeth Barnards parents lived in a minute bungalow, one of fifty or so recently run up by aspeculative builder on the confines of the town. The name of it was Llandudno. Mr. Barnard, astout, bewildered-looking man of fifty-five o... 阅读全文>>

日期:2024-01-30 Nine THE BEXHILL-ON-SEA MURDER I still remember my awakening on the morning of the 25th of July. It must have been about seven-thirty. Poirot was standing by my bedside gently shaking me by the shoulder. One glance at his facebrought me from semicon... 阅读全文>>

日期:2024-01-30 Eight THE SECOND LETTER Well? I demanded eagerly. We were seated in a first-class carriage which we had to ourselves. The train, an express, hadjust drawn out of Andover. The crime, said Poirot, was committed by a man of medium height with red hair... 阅读全文>>

日期:2024-01-30 Seven MR. PARTRIDGE AND MR. RIDDELL Inspector Glen was looking rather gloomy. He had, I gathered, spent the afternoon trying to get acomplete list of persons who had been noticed entering the tobacco shop. And nobody has seen anyone? Poirot inquired... 阅读全文>>

日期:2024-01-30 Six THE SCENE OF THE CRIME The street in which the tragedy had occurred was a turning off the main street. Mrs. Aschers shopwas situated about halfway down it on the right-hand side. As we turned into the street Poirot glanced at his watch and I rea... 阅读全文>>

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>>

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