日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 1 THE MAN WITH THE WHITE HAIR It was close on midnight when a man crossed the Place de la Concorde. In spite of the handsome fur coat which garbed his meagre form, there was something essentially weak and paltry about him. A little man with... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 2 M. LE MARQUIS The man with the white hair continued on his course unhurried, and seemingly indifferent to his surroundings. He took a side turning to the right and another one to the left. Now and then he hummed a little air to himself. Su... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 3 HEART OF FIRE Rufus Van Aldin passed through the revolving doors of the Savoy, and walked to the reception desk. The desk clerk smiled a respectful greeting. Pleased to see you back again, Mr Van Aldin, he said. The American millionaire no... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 4 IN CURZON STREET The Hon Mrs Derek Kettering lived in Curzon Street. The butler who opened the door recognized Rufus Van Aldin at once and permitted himself a discreet smile of greeting. He led the way upstairs to the big double drawing-ro... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 5 A USEFUL GENTLEMAN Rufus Van Aldin had just finished the sparse breakfast of coffee and dry toast, which was all he ever allowed himself when Knighton entered the room. Mr Goby is below, sir, waiting to see you. The millionaire glanced at... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 6 MIRELLE Derek Kettering emerged from Van Aldins suite so precipitantly that he collided with a lady passing across the corridor. He apologised, and she accepted his apologies with a smiling reassurance and passed on, leaving him with a ple... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 7 LETTERS Mrs Samuel Harfield presents her compliments to Miss Katherine Grey and wishes to point out that under the circumstances Miss Grey may not be aware - Mrs Harfield, having written so far fluently, came to a dead stop, held up by wha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 8 LADY TAMPLIN WRITES A LETTER Well, said Lady Tamplin, well. She laid down the continental Daily Mail and stared out across the blue waters of the Mediterranean. A branch of golden mimosa, hanging just above her head, made an effective fram... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 9 AN OFFER REFUSED It was rarely that Derek Kettering allowed his temper to get the better of him. An easygoing insouciance was his chief characteristic and it had stood him in good stead in more than one tight corner. Even now, by the time... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 10 ON THE BLUE TRAIN Dad! Mrs Kettering started violently. Her nerves were not completely under control this morning. Very perfectly dressed in a long mink coat and a little hat of Chinese lacquer red, she had been walking along the crowded... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 11 MURDER Katherine wakened the next morning to brilliant sunshine. She went along to breakfast early, but met none of her acquaintances of the day before. When she returned to her compartment it had just been restored to its daytime appeara... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 12 AT THE VILLA MARGUERITE Then you were really in the thick of it all! said Lady Tamplin enviously. My dear, how thrilling! She opened her china blue eyes very wide and gave a little sigh. A real murder, said Mr Evans gloatingly. Of course... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 13 VAN ALDIN GETS A TELEGRAM On the afternoon of the 15th February a thick yellow fog had settled down on London. Rufus Van Aldin was in his suite at the Savoy and was making the most of the atmospheric conditions by working double time. Kni... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 14 ADA MASONS STORY I cannot repeat to you often enough, Monsieur, our horror, our consternation, and the deep sympathy we feel for you. Thus M. Carrege, the Juge dInstruction, addressed Van Aldin. M. Caux, the Commissary, made sympathetic n... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 15 THE COMTE DE LA ROCHE Van Aldin read the letter through in silence. His face turned a dull angry crimson. The men watching him saw the veins start out on his forehead, and his big hands clench themselves unconsciously. He handed back the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 16 POIROT DISCUSSES THE CASE Everybody looked respectfully at Poirot. Undoubtedly the little man had scored heavily. The Commissary laughed - on a rather hollow note. You teach us all our business, he cried. M. Poirot knows more than the pol... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 17 AN ARISTOCRATIC GENTLEMAN You have been to the Riviera before, Georges? said Poirot to his valet the following morning. George was an intensely English, rather wooden-faced individual. Yes, sir. I was here two years ago when I was in the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 18 DEREK LUNCHES Derek Kettering went straight to the Negresco, where he ordered a couple of cocktails and disposed of them rapidly; then he stared moodily out over the dazzling blue sea. He noted the passers-by mechanically - a damned dull... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 19 AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR The Comte de la Roche had just finished djeuner, consisting of an omelette fines herbes, an entrec?te Bearnaise, and a Savarin au Rhum. Wiping his fine black moustache delicately with his table napkin, the Comte rose... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 26 A WARNING And so it is, said Poirot, that we are the good friends and have no secrets from each other. Katherine turned her head to look at him. There was something in his voice, some undercurrent of seriousness, which she had not heard b... 阅读全文>>