日期：2024-01-29 Six THE ADVENTURE OF THE EGYPTIAN TOMB I have always considered that one of the most thrilling and dramatic of the many adventures I haveshared with Poirot was that of our investigation into the strange series of deaths which followedupon the discov... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-29 Five THE MILLION DOLLAR BOND ROBBERY What a number of bond robberies there have been lately! I observed one morning, laying asidethe newspaper. Poirot, let us forsake the science of detection, and take to crime instead! You are on the-how do you say... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-29 Four THE MYSTERY OF HUNTERS LODGE After all, murmured Poirot, it is possible that I shall not die this time. Coming from a convalescent influenza patient, I hailed the remark as showing a beneficialoptimism. I myself had been the first sufferer from... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-29 Three THE ADVENTURE OF THE CHEAP FLAT So far, in the cases which I have recorded, Poirots investigations have started from the centralfact, whether murder or robbery, and have proceeded from thence by a process of logicaldeduction to the final trium... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-29 Two THE TRAGEDY AT MARSDON MANOR I had been called away from town for a few days, and on my return found Poirot in the act ofstrapping up his small valise. A la bonne heure, Hastings, I feared you would not have returned in time to accompanyme. You... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-29 Poirot Investigates、 首相绑架案 One THE ADVENTURE OF THE WESTERN STAR I was standing at the window of Poirots rooms looking out idly on the street below. Thats queer, I ejaculated suddenly beneath my breath. What is, mon ami? asked Poirot placidly,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 The last goodbyes At that same hour in the early afternoon a coach going out of Paris drives up to the gates of the city. Who goes there? Show us your papers！The guard looks at the papers. Alexandre Manette, Doctor. Which is he? This is Dr Manette... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 THE FOOTSTEPS DIE OUT FOR EVER A long the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the days wine to La Guillotine. All the devouring and insatiate Monsters imagined since imagination could record itself, are fused... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 THE KNITTING DONE In that same juncture of time when the Fifty-Two awaited their fate, Madame Defarge held darkly ominous council with The Vengeance and Jacques Three of the Revolutionary Jury. Not in the wine-shop did Madame Defarge confer with the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 FIFTY-TWO In the black prison of the Conciergerie, the doomed of the day awaited their fate. They were in number as the weeks of the year. Fifty-two were to roll that afternoon on the life-tide of the city to the boundless everlasting sea. Before th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 DARKNESS Sydney Carton paused in the street, not quite decided where to go. At Tellsons banking-house at nine, he said, with a musing face. Shall I do well, in the meantime, to show myself? I think so. It is best that these people should know there... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 DUSK The wretched wife of the innocent man thus doomed to die. Fell under the sentence, as if she had been mortally stricken. But, she uttered no sound; and so strong was the voice within her, representing that it was she of all the world who must u... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 THE SUBSTANCE OF THE SHADOW I Alexandre Manette, unfortunate physician, native of Beauvais, and afterwards resident in Pariswrite this melancholy paper in my doleful cell in the Bastille, during the last month of the year 1767. I write it at stolen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 THE GAME MADE While Sydney Carton and the Sheep of the prisons were in the adjoining dark room, speaking so low that not a sound was heard, Mr. Lorry looked at Jerry in considerable doubt and mistrust. That honest tradesmans manner of receiving the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 A HAND AT CARDS Happily unconscious of the new calamity at home, Miss Pross threaded her way along the narrow streets and crossed the river by the bridge of the Pont-Neuf, reckoning in her mind the number of indispensable purchases she had to make.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 A KNOCK AT THE DOOR I have saved him. It was not another of the dreams in which he had often come back; he was really here. And yet his wife trembled, and a vague but heavy fear was upon her. All the air round was so thick and dark, the people were... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 TRIUMPH The dread Tribunal of five Judges, Public Prosecutor, and determined Jury, sat every day. Their lists went forth every evening, and were read out by the gaolers of the various prisons to their prisoners. The standard gaoler-joke was Come out... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 THE WOOD-SAWYER One year and three months. During all that time Lucie was never sure, from hour to hour, but that the Guillotine would strike off her husbands head next day. Every day, through the stony streets, the tumbrils now jolted heavily, fill... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 CALM IN STORM Doctor Manette did not return until the morning of the fourth day of his absence. So much of what had happened in that dreadful time as could be kept from the knowledge of Lucie was so well concealed from her, that not until long after... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-10-16 THE SHADOW One of the first considerations which arose in the business mind of Mr. Lorry when business hours came round, was this:that he had no right to imperil Tellsons by sheltering the wife of an emigrant prisoner under the Bank roof. His own po... 阅读全文>>