日期：2025-09-16 III Murgatroyd! Yes, Hinch? Ive been doing a bit of thinking. Have you, Hinch? Yes, the great brain has been working. You know, Murgatroyd, thewhole setup the other evening was decidedly fishy. Fishy? Yes. Tuck your hair up, Murgatroyd, and take thi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 II Sergeant Fletcher had the house at Little Paddocks to himself. It was Mitzis day off. She always went by the eleven oclock bus intoMedenham Wells. By arrangement with Miss Blacklock, Sergeant Fletcherhad the run of the house. She and Dora Bunner... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Twelve MORNING ACTIVITIES IN CHIPPING CLEGHORN I Edmund Swettenham sat down rather precariously on a garden roller. Good morning, Phillipa, he said. Hallo. Are you very busy? Moderately. What are you doing? Cant you see? No. Im not a gardener. You s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Eleven MISS MARPLE COMES TO TEA I If Letitia Blacklock seemed slightly absentminded when Mrs. Harmoncame to tea and brought a guest who was staying with her, Miss Marple,the guest in question, was hardly likely to notice the fact since it was thefir... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 III And thats that, said Craddock when he was walking away with SergeantFletcher. Two young women whose stories flatly contradict each other. Which one am I to believe? Everyone seems to agree that this foreign girl tells whoppers, saidFletcher. Its... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 II Phillipa Haymes straightened her back and pushed back a tendril of hairfrom her damp forehead. She was cleaning a flower border. Yes, Inspector? She looked at him inquiringly. In return he gave her a rather closerscrutiny than he had done before.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 III Im sorry about it, I am really, said Myrna Harris. Its ever so nice ofyou not to be ratty about it. But you see Mums the sort of person whofusses like anything. And it did look as though Idwhats the phrase?been an accessory before the fact (the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 IV Its only a theory, said Rydesdale as they drove back to Medenham. Nothing to support it, nothing at all. Put it down as old maids vapouringsand let it go, eh? Id rather not do that, sir. Its all very improbable. A mysterious X appearing suddenly... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Nine CONCERNING A DOOR I Im sorry to bother you again, Miss Blacklock Oh, it doesnt matter. I suppose, as the inquest was adjourned for aweek, youre hoping to get more evidence? Detective-Inspector Craddock nodded. To begin with, Miss Blacklock, Rud... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 II Craddock went out to the kitchen. He asked Mitzi questions that he hadasked her before and received the same answers. Yes, she had locked the front door soon after four oclock. No, she didnot always do so, but that afternoon she had been nervous... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Ten PIP AND EMMA I Miss Blacklock listened to him this time with more attention. She was anintelligent woman, as he had known, and she grasped the implications ofwhat he had to tell her. Yes, she said quietly. That does alter things No one had any r... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 IV Inspector Craddock was forced to spend quite a long time with Coloneland Mrs. Easterbrook. He had to listen to a long disquisition on the psy-chological aspect of the case. The psychological approachthats the only thing nowadays, the Col-onel tol... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 II Miss Jane Marple was very nearly, if not quite, as Craddock had picturedher. She was far more benignant than he had imagined and a good dealolder. She seemed indeed very old. She had snow-white hair and a pinkcrinkled face and very soft innocent... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Eight ENTER MISS MARPLE I Craddock laid the typed transcript of the various interviews before theChief Constable. The latter had just finished reading the wire receivedfrom the Swiss Police. So he had a police record all right, said Rydesdale. Hmver... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 VI Inspector Craddock looked round the big shabby room with a sense ofpleasure. It reminded him a little of his own Cumberland home. Fadedchintz, big shabby chairs, flowers and books strewn about, and a spanielin a basket. Mrs. Harmon, too, with her... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 VThe Inspector ran Miss Hinchcliffe to earth by a pigsty. Nice creatures, pigs, said Miss Hinchcliffe, scratching a wrinkled pinkback. Coming on well, isnt he? Good bacon round about Christmas time. Well, what do you want to see me about? I told you... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 II As Craddock retraced his steps through the kitchen garden he came face toface with a large red-faced lady, carefully corseted. Good morning, she said belligerently. What do you want here? Mrs. Lucas? I am Detective-Inspector Craddock. Oh, thats w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Five MISS BLACKLOCK AND MISS BUNNER Little Paddocks was very much as Detective-Inspector Craddock had ima-gined it to be. He noted ducks and chickens and what had been until latelyan attractive herbaceous border and in which a few late Michaelmas da... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 III Myrna Harris was a pretty girl with a glorious head of red hair and a pertnose. She was alarmed and wary, and deeply conscious of the indignity of be-ing interviewed by the police. I dont know a thing about it, sir. Not a thing, she protested. I... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 II At the Royal Spa Hotel, Inspector Craddock was taken straight to the Man-agers office. The Manager, Mr. Rowlandson, a tall florid man with a hearty manner,greeted Inspector Craddock with expansive geniality. Glad to help you in any way we can, In... 阅读全文>>