日期：2025-01-30 Eight I It was a week later that the 5:20 train drew into Warmsley Heath Station and a tall bronzed man with a knapsack got out. On the opposite platform a cluster of golfers were waiting for the up train. The tall bearded man with the knapsack gave... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 II Cant you give it back, Mums? Really, Lynn darling! I went straight to the bank with it. And then I paid Arthurs and Bodgham and Knebworth. Knebworth was getting quite abusive. Oh, my dear, the relief! I havent been able to sleep for nights and ni... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Seven I Rowley, can you let me have five hundred pounds? Rowley stared at Lynn. She stood there, out of breath from running, her face pale, her mouth set. He sat soothingly and rather as he would speak to a horse: There, there, ease up, old girl. Wh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Six What was the Marchmont woman doing here? demanded David as soon as he got in. Oh, David. She wanted money dreadfully badly. Id never thought And you gave it her, I suppose. He looked at her in half-humorous despair. Youre not to be trusted alone... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Five David, when are we going back to London? When are we going to America? Across the breakfast table, David Hunter gave Rosaleen a quick surprised glance. Theres no hurry, is there? Whats wrong with this place? He gave a swift appreciative glance... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Four Aunt Kathies parties were always much the same. They had a rather breathless amateurish quality about them characteristic of the hostess. Dr. Cloade had an air of holding irritability in check with difficulty. He was invariably courteous to his... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Three Money! said Lynn. Rowley Cloade nodded. He was a big square young man with a brick-red skin, thoughtful blue eyes and very fair hair. He had a slowness that seemed more purposeful than ingrained. He used deliberation as others use quickness of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Two Frances Cloade looked thoughtfully across the dinner table at her husband. Frances was forty-eight. She was one of those lean greyhound women who look well in tweeds. There was a rather arrogant ravaged beauty about her face which had no makeup... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 II Yes, if only. Far away, Lynn had been shocked and grieved by the news of her uncles death, but the true significance of it was only now beginning to come home to her. For as long as she could remember, her life, all their lives, had been dominate... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 BOOK I One I Warmsley Heath consists of a golf course, two hotels, some very expensive modern villas giving on to the golf course, a row of what were, before the war, luxury shops, and a railway station. Emerging from the railway station, a main roa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 III It was exactly five days later that he saw a small paragraph in an evening paperit referred to the death of a man called Enoch Ardenat Warmsley Vale, a small old-world village about three miles from the popular Warmsley Heath Golf Course. Hercul... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 II Hercule Poirot was sitting at his neat writing desk on a pleasant May morning when his manservant George approached him and murmured deferentially: There is a lady, sir, asking to see you. What kind of a lady? Poirot asked cautiously. He always e... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Prologue I In every club there is a club bore. The Coronation Club was no exception, and the fact that an air raid was in progress made no difference to normal procedure. Major Porter, late Indian Army, rustled his newspaper and cleared his throat.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-01-30 Agatha Christie Taken at the Flood A Hercule Poirot Mystery Epigraph There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full se... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 VI In the small hours of the morning the telephone rang. Poirot picked up the receiver. Japps voice said: You asked me to ring you. Yes, indeed. Eh bien? No dopewe got the emeralds. Where? In Professor Liskeards pocket. Professor Liskeard? Surprises... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 V Sitting at his usual small table near the entrance on Thursday night Poirot studied his surroundings. As usual Hell was going with a swing! The Countess was even more flamboyantly made up than usual if that was possible. She was being very Russian... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 III I wish to speak to you with the utmost seriousness, said Poirot. The hour was early, the Club as yet nearly empty. The Countess and Poirot sat at a small table near the doorway. But I do not feel serious, she protested. La petite Alice, she is a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 II On the following morning Poirot paid a visit to Scotland Yard to his old friend Chief Inspector Japp. Japps reception of his tentative inquiries was unexpected. You old fox! said Japp affectionately. How you get on to these things beats me! But I... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 Twelve THE CAPTURE OF CERBERUS Hercule Poirot, swaying to and fro in the tube train, thrown now against one body, now against another, thought to himself that there were too many people in the world! Certainly there were too many people in the Under... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 VII Atlas was turning over two new five pound notes. He said hopefully: Maybe Ill not remember in the morning the way I earned this. Im after worrying that Father OReilly will be after me. Forget everything, my friend. Tomorrow the world is yours. A... 阅读全文>>