日期：2024-12-31 VII Michael Stoddart stared at Poirot in amazement. He said: General Grant? General Grant? Precisely, mon cher. The whole mise en scne, you know, was what you would call very bogus. The Buddhas, the Benares brass, the Indian servant! And the gout, t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 V Mrs. Larkins room was full of people. Mrs. Larkin herself was mixing cocktails at a side table. She was a tall woman with pale auburn hair rolled into the back of her neck. Her eyes were greenish-grey with big, black pupils. She moved easily, with... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 III It has been said, with or without justification for the statement, that everyone has an aunt in Torquay. It has also been said that everyone has at least a second cousin in Mertonshire. Mertonshire is a reasonable distance from London, it has hu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 Eight THE HORSES OF DIOMEDES The telephone rang. Hallo, Poirot, is that you? Hercule Poirot recognized the voice as that of young Dr. Stoddart. He liked Michael Stoddart, liked the shy friendliness of his grin, was amused by his nave interest in cri... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 VI In the big bedroom with the heavy Elizabethan, oak furniture, Hercule Poirot sat and waited. There was nothing to do but wait. All his arrangements were made. It was towards early morning that the summons came. At the sound of footsteps outside,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 V Have you courage, Mademoiselle? Great courage? You will need it. Diana cried sharply: Then its true. Its true? He is mad? Hercule Poirot said: I am not an alienist, Mademoiselle. It is not I who can say, This man is mad. This man is sane. She came... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 III As they came into the hall, they met Admiral Chandler coming in. He stood for a moment, a dark figure silhouetted against the bright light outside. He said in a low, gruff voice: Oh there you both are. M. Poirot, I would like a word with you. Co... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 II It was Hugh Chandlers magnificent physique that impressed Hercule Poirot more than anything else. Tall, magnificently proportioned, with a terrific chest and shoulders, and a tawny head of hair. There was a tremendous air of strength and virility... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 Seven THE CRETAN BULL Hercule Poirot looked thoughtfully at his visitor. He saw a pale face with a determined looking chin, eyes that were more grey than blue, and hair that was of that real blue-black shade so seldom seenthe hyacinthine locks of an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 VIII Harold Waring was down by the lake. He had been walking feverishly for over an hour, trying by sheer physical energy to still the clamour of despair that had attacked him. He came at last to the spot where he had first noticed the two grim wome... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 VI Mrs. Rice was energy personified. First the manager was summoned. Harold remained in his room, keeping out of it. He and Mrs. Rice had agreed that the story told had better be that of a quarrel between husband and wife. Elsies youth and prettines... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 IV That evening, Harold went to his room a little after ten. The English maid had arrived and he had received a number of letters, some of which needed immediate answers. He got into his pyjamas and a dressing gown and sat down at the desk to deal w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 II That evening, Harold joined mother and daughter after dinner. Elsie Clayton was wearing a soft dull pink dress. Her eyelids, he noticed, were red. She had been crying. Mrs. Rice said briskly: Ive found out who your two harpies are, Mr. Waring. Po... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 Six THE STYMPHALEAN BIRDS Harold Waring noticed them first walking up the path from the lake. He was sitting outside the hotel on the terrace. The day was fine, the lake was blue, and the sun shone. Harold was smoking a pipe and feeling that the wor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 XI Edward Ferrier grasped Poirot warmly by the hand. He said: I thank you, M. Poirot, a thousand times. Well, that finishes the X-ray News. Dirty little rag. Theyre wiped out completely. Serves them right for cooking up such a scurrilous plot. Again... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 IX And then came the small bald announcement in all the papers. Mrs. Ferrier has had a slight nervous breakdown. She has gone to Scotland to recuperate. Conjectures, rumourspositive information that Mrs. Ferrier was not in Scotland, had never been t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 IV Everitt Dashwood, the cheery young man on the staff of The Branch, clapped Hercule Poirot affectionately on the back. He said: Theres dirt and dirt, my boy. My dirts clean dirtthats all. I was not suggesting that you were on a par with Percy Perr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 II On his way downstairs, Hercule Poirot was intercepted by a tall, fair-haired woman. She said: Please come into my sitting room, M. Poirot. He bowed and followed her. She shut the door, motioned him to a chair, and offered him a cigarette. She sat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 Five THE AUGEAN STABLES The situation is an extremely delicate one, M. Poirot. A faint smile flitted across Hercule Poirots lips. He almost replied: It always is! Instead, he composed his face and put on what might be described as a bedside manner o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 VI It was three days later that a little party of men appeared in front of the hotel in the early hours of the morning. It was Hercule Poirot who opened the front door to them with a flourish. Welcome, mon vieux. Monsieur Lementeuil, Commissaire of... 阅读全文>>