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>>

日期：2024-12-31 V Hercule Poirot went to bed early. He was awakened some time after midnight. Someone was fumbling with the lock of the door. He sat up, putting on the light. At the same moment the lock yielded to manipulation and the door swung open. Three men sto... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 IV The day passed without incident. Fortunately the hotel was well provisioned. The manager explained that there need be no anxiety. Supplies were assured. Hercule Poirot endeavoured to get into conversation with Dr. Karl Lutz and was rebuffed. The... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 III Gustave the waiter brought Hercule Poirot his breakfast of coffee and rolls. He was apologetic over the coffee. Monsieur comprehends, does he not, that at this altitude it is impossible to have the coffee really hot? Lamentably, it boils too soo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 II To be received by a hotel manager correctly garbed in frock coat and patent leather shoes seemed somehow ludicrous in this out of the world, or rather above-the-world, spot. The manager was a big handsome man, with an important manner. He was ver... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 Four THE ERYMANTHIAN BOAR The accomplishment of the third Labor of Hercules having brought him to Switzerland, Hercule Poirot decided that being there, he might take advantage of the fact and visit certain places which were up to now unknown to him.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 VII Hercule Poirot stood in the Campo Santo at Pisa and looked down on a grave. So it was here that his quest had come to an endhere by this humble mound of earth. Underneath it lay the joyous creature who had stirred the heart and imagination of a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 V Marie Hellin looked swiftly at Poirot out of small intelligent eyes and as swiftly looked away again. She said in smooth, even tones: But I remember perfectly, Monsieur. I was engaged by Madame Samoushenka the last week in June. Her former maid ha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 III Ambrose Vandel, diverted from his enthusiastic account of the dcor he was designing for a forthcoming ballet, supplied information easily enough. Sanderfield? George Sanderfield? Nasty fellow. Rolling in money but they say hes a crook. Dark hors... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 II Hercule Poirot looked thoughtfully at the sheet of paper on which Ted Williamson had laboriously inscribed a name and address. Miss Valetta, 17 Upper Renfrew Lane, N15. He wondered if he would learn anything at that address. Somehow he fancied no... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-12-31 Three THE ARCADIAN DEER Hercule Poirot stamped his feet, seeking to warm them. He blew upon his fingers. Flakes of snow melted and dripped from the corners of his moustache. There was a knock at the door and a chambermaid appeared. She was a slow-br... 阅读全文>>