日期：2025-02-14 Eight IA letter? Bessie Burch shook her head. No, I didnt get any letter from auntie. What should shewrite to me about? Poirot suggested: There might have been something she wanted to tell you. Auntie wasnt much of a one for writing. She was getting... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-02-14 Seven IThe cottage where Mrs. McGinty had lived was only a few steps from the bus stop. Two childrenwere playing on the doorstep. One was eating a rather wormy-looking apple and the other wasshouting and beating on the door with a tin tray. They app... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-02-14 Six IIn the offices of Messrs Breather Scuttle, Poirot was shown, after some demur, into the room ofMr. Scuttle himself. Mr. Scuttle was a brisk, bustling man, with a hearty manner. Good morning. Good morning. He rubbed his hands. Now, what can we d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-02-14 Five I dont know, Im sure, said Mrs. Burch. She had said that three times already. Her natural distrust of foreign-looking gentlemen withblack moustaches, wearing large fur-lined coats was not to be easily overcome. Very unpleasant, its been, she we... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-02-14 Four With great distaste, Hercule Poirot looked round the room in which he stood. It was a room ofgracious proportions but there its attraction ended. Poirot made an eloquent grimace as he drew asuspicious finger along the top of a book case. As he... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Three At last Poirot roused himself with a sigh. Eh bien, he said. We have exhausted the motive of money. Let us pass to other theories. Had Mrs. McGinty an enemy? Was she afraid of anyone? No evidence of it. What did her neighbours have to say? Not... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Two There was a moment or two of silence. You came to me Poirot did not finish the sentence. Superintendent Spence looked up. The colour in his face was deeper than it had been. It was a typical countrymans face, unexpressive, self-contained, with s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Mrs. McGintys Dead A Hercule Poirot Mystery One Hercule Poirot came out of the Vieille Grandmre restaurant into Soho. He turned up the collar of his overcoat through prudence, rather than necessity, since the night was not cold. But at my age, one t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Seventeen It was a Sunday morning when Rowley Cloade, answering a knock at the farm door, found Lynn waiting outside. He stepped back a pace. Lynn! Can I come in, Rowley? He stood back a little. She passed him and went into the kitchen. She had been... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Fifteen Lynn came out of the house and glanced up at the sky. The sun was getting low, there was no red in the sky but a rather unnatural glow of light. A still evening with a breathless feel about it. There would be, she thought, a storm later. Wel... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Sixteen Into an atmosphere quivering with danger Hercule Poirot brought his own atmosphere of deliberate anticlimax. The kettle, it is boiling? he inquired. Rowley said heavilystupidlyYes, its boiling. Then you will, perhaps, make some coffee? Or so... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Fourteen He wont admit it, said Spence. But I think he knows she did it. Sitting in his room at the police station he looked across the table at Poirot. Funny how it was his alibi we were so careful about checking. We never gave much thought to hers... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Thirteen It took them only about five minutes to reach Furrowbank. The drive wound up an incline through carefully massed banks of rhododendrons. No trouble or expense had been spared by Gordon Cloade to make Furrowbank a showplace. The parlourmaid... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Twelve When Poirot left the police station he was almost at once accosted by Aunt Kathie. She had several shopping bags with her and came up to him with a breathless eagerness of manner. So terrible about poor Major Porter, she said. I cant help fee... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Eleven Superintendent Spence, the following morning, used almost Frances words: So were back where we started, he said with a sigh. Weve got to find who this fellow Enoch Arden really was. I can tell you that, Superintendent, said Poirot. His name w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Nine Armed with the necessary credentials from Jeremy Cloade, Poirot had got the answers to his questions. They were very definite. The house was a total wreck. The site had been cleared only quite recently in preparation for rebuilding. There had b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Ten It was past eight oclock when Poirot got back to the Stag. He found a note from Frances Cloade asking him to come and see her. He went out at once. She was waiting for him in the drawing room. He had not seen that room before. The open windows g... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Eight It was getting late, but there was still one more call that Poirot wanted to make. He went along to Jeremy Cloades house. There he was shown into Jeremy Cloades study by a small, intelligent-looking maid. Left alone, Poirot gazed interestedly... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Seven Poirot entered the Stag in a thoughtful mood, and shivering slightly for there was a sharp east wind. The hall was deserted. He pushed open the door of the lounge on the right. It smelt of stale smoke and the fire was nearly out. Poirot tiptoe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Six Poirot left the police station frowning to himself. His steps grew slower as he walked. In the market square he paused, looking about him. There was Dr. Cloades house with its worn brass plate, and a little way along was the post office. On the... 阅读全文>>