日期：2024-12-31 V Hercule Poirot went up in the lift to Sir Joseph Hoggins office. He sent in his card and was told that Sir Joseph was engaged at the moment but would see him presently. A haughty blonde sailed out of Sir Josephs room at last with her hands full of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 IV The drawing room of Mrs. Samuelson was larger, more lavishly furnished, and enjoyed an even more stifling amount of central heating than that of Lady Hoggin. Hercule Poirot picked his way giddily amongst gilded console tables and large groups of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 III It was the habit of Hercule Poirot to leave nothing untested. Though on the face of it it seemed unlikely that Miss Carnaby was anything but the foolish and rather muddle-headed woman that she appeared to be, Poirot nevertheless managed to inter... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 II In a large, hot, ornately furnished drawing room two women were sitting. As Sir Joseph and Hercule Poirot entered, a small Pekinese dog rushed forward, barking furiously, and circling dangerously round Poirots ankles. ShanShan, come here. Come he... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 One THE NEMEAN LION Anything of interest this morning, Miss Lemon? he asked as he entered the room the following morning. He trusted Miss Lemon. She was a woman without imagination, but she had an instinct. Anything that she mentioned as worth consi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 Foreword Hercule Poirots flat was essentially modern in its furnishings. It gleamed with chromium. Its easy chairs, though comfortably padded, were square and uncompromising in outline. On one of these chairs sat Hercule Poirot, neatlyin the middle... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 Thirty As she drove towards London, the two phrases echoed through Henriettas mind. What shall I do? Where shall I go? For the last few weeks she had been strung up, excited, never relaxing for a moment. She had had a task to performa task laid on h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 Twenty-nine Gerda rolled over to the side of the bed and sat up. Her head felt a little better now but she was still glad that she hadnt gone with the others on the picnic. It was peaceful and almost comforting to be alone in the house for a bit. El... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 Twenty-eight Midge, lying dry-eyed and awake in the darkness, turned restlessly on her pillows. She heard a door unlatch, a footstep in the corridor outside passing her door. It was Edwards door and Edwards step. She switched on the lamp by her bed... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 II That afternoon, Poirot received his third visitor. He had been visited by Henrietta Savernake and Veronica Cray. This time it was Lady Angkatell. She came floating up the path with her usual appearance of insubstantiality. He opened the door and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 Twenty-seven I The coroner cleared his throat and looked expectantly at the foreman of the jury. The latter looked down at the piece of paper he held in his hand. His Adams apple wagged up and down excitedly. He read out in a careful voice: We find... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 Twenty-six Grange came in to Resthaven to drink a cup of tea with Hercule Poirot. The tea was exactly what he had had apprehensions it might beextremely weak and China tea at that. These foreigners, thought Grange, dont know how to make tea. You can... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 Twenty-five But, darling, I am so delighted! Lady Angkatell stretched out a fragile hand to Edward and touched Midge softly with the other. You did quite right, Edward, to make her leave that horrid shop and bring her right down here. Shell stay her... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 Twenty-four Edward Angkatell stood hesitantly in the swirl of foot traffic in Shaftesbury Avenue. He was nerving himself to enter the establishment which bore the gold-lettered sign: Madame Alfrege. Some obscure instinct had prevented him from merel... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 Twenty-three The inquest was over. It had been the merest formality of an affair, and though warned of this beforehand, yet nearly everyone had a resentful sense of anticlimax. Adjourned for a fortnight at the request of the police. Gerda had driven... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 Twenty-two The latch of the gate clicked and Poirot looked out of the window in time to see the visitor who was coming up the path to the front door. He knew at once who she was. He wondered very much what brought Veronica Cray to see him. She broug... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 Twenty-one In the study Lady Angkatell flitted about touching things here and there with a vague forefinger. Sir Henry sat back in his chair watching her. He said at last: Why did you take the pistol, Lucy? Lady Angkatell came back and sank down gra... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 Twenty Sitting once more in Sir Henrys study, Inspector Grange stared at the impassive face of the man in front of him. So far, the honours lay with Gudgeon. I am very sorry, sir, he repeated. I suppose I ought to have mentioned the occurrence, but... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 III Hercule Poirot stared at the inspector in the utmost surprise. He repeated incredulously: The revolver that Gerda Christow was holding and which was subsequently dropped into the pool was not the revolver that fired the fatal shot? But that is e... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 II But of course, Inspector, said Veronica. Im only too anxious to help you. Thank you, Miss Cray. Veronica Cray was not, somehow, at all what the inspector had imagined. He had been prepared for glamour, for artificiality, even possibly for heroics... 阅读全文>>