日期：2023-08-07 Not often in a life-time does a man stand on the edge of eternity, but when I spoke those words in that East End cellar I was perfectly certain that they were my last words on earth. I braced myself for the shock of those black, rushing waters benea... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 I was very disappointed with the results of Poirots bomb attack on the premises in Chinatown. To begin with, the leader of the gang had escaped. When Japps men rushed up in response to Poirots whistle they found four Chinamen unconscious in the hall... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 It was after the tragic death of Miss Flossie Monro that I began to be aware of a change in Poirot. Up to now, his invincible confidence in himself had stood the test. But it seemed as though, at last, the long strain was beginning to tell. His mann... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Even now I can hardly bear to write of those days in March. Poirotthe unique, the inimitable Hercule Poirotdead! There was a particularly diabolical touch in the disarranged match-box, which was certain to catch his eye, and which he would hasten to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 From our quiet retreat in the Ardennes we watched the progress of affairs in the great world. We were plentifully supplied with newspapers, and every day Poirot received a bulky envelope, evidently containing some kind of report. He never showed the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 I could not have been unconscious more than a minute. I came to myself being hustled along between two men. They had me under each arm, supporting my weight, and there was a gag in my mouth. It was pitch dark, but I gathered that we were not outside... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Nadina, the Russian dancer who had taken Paris by storm, swayed to the sound of the applause, bowed and bowed again. Her narrow black eyes narrowed themselves still more, the long line of her scarlet mouth curved faintly upwards. Enthusiastic French... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Everybody has been at me, right and left, to write this story from the great (represented by Lord Nasby) to the small (represented by our late maid of all work, Emily, whom I saw when I was last in England. Lor, miss, what a beyewtiful book you migh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Every one was very kind to me. Dazed as I was, I appreciated that. I felt no overwhelming grief. Papa had never loved me, I knew that well enough. If he had, I might have loved him in return. No, there had not been love between us, but we had belong... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 In the succeeding weeks I was a good deal bored. Mrs. Flemming and her friends seemed to me to be supremely uninteresting. They talked for hours of themselves and their children and of the difficulties of getting good milk for the children and of wh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Nobody came forward to identify the dead woman. The inquest elicited the following facts. Shortly after one oclock on January 8th, a well-dressed woman with a slight foreign accent had entered the offices of Messrs. Butler and Park, house-agents, in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 In the first heat of indignation I found my next step unexpectedly easy to tackle. I had had a half-formed plan in my head when I went into Scotland Yard. One to be carried out if my interview there was unsatisfactory (it had been profoundly unsatis... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 I went home with a feeling of exultation. My scheme had succeeded far better than I could possibly have hoped. Lord Nasby had been positively genial. It only now remained for me to Make good, as he expressed it. Once locked in my own room, I took ou... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Shaking off the feelings that oppressed me, I went quickly upstairs. I had no difficulty in finding the room of the tragedy. On the day the body was discovered it had rained heavily, and large muddy boots had trampled the uncarpeted floor in every d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 (Extracts from the diary of Sir Eustace Pedler, M.P.) It is an extraordinary thing that I never seem to get any peace. I am a man who likes a quiet life. I like my Club, my rubber of Bridge, a well-cooked meal, a sound wine. I like England in the su... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 (Annes Narrative Resumed) It is most undignified for a heroine to be sea-sick. In books the more it rolls and tosses, the better she likes it. When everybody else is ill, she alone staggers along the deck, braving the elements and positively rejoici... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 I was violently excited. I was sure that I had hit on the right trail at last. One thing was clear, I must not move out of the cabin. The asaf?tida had got to be borne. I examined my facts again. To-morrow was the 22nd, and at 1 a.m. or 1 p.m. somet... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 There were no further excitements that night. I had breakfast in bed and got up late the next morning. Mrs. Blair hailed me as I came on deck. Good-morning, Gipsy girl, sit down here by me. You look as though you hadnt slept well. Why do you call me... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 (Extract from the diary of Sir Eustace Pedler) There is something to be said for life on board ship. It is peaceful. My grey hairs fortunately exempt me from the indignities of bobbing for apples, running up and down the deck with potatoes and eggs,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 It has been a curious evening. The only costume that fitted me in the barbers emporium was that of a Teddy Bear. I dont mind playing bears with some nice young girls on a winters evening in Englandbut its hardly an ideal costume for the equator. How... 阅读全文>>