日期：2024-08-05 Six On the following morning Simon Doyle joined Hercule Poirot as the latter was leaving the hotel towalk down to the town. Good morning, Monsieur Poirot. Good morning, Monsieur Doyle. You going to the town? Mind if I stroll along with you? But cert... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Five Hercule Poirot found Jacqueline de Bellefort sitting on the rocks directly overlooking the Nile. Hehad felt fairly certain that she had not retired for the night and that he would find her somewhereabout the grounds of the hotel. She was sittin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Four Monsieur Poirot. Poirot got hastily to his feet. He had remained sitting out on the terrace alone after everyone elsehad left. Lost in meditation he had been staring at the smooth shiny black rocks when the sound ofhis name recalled him to hims... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Three Dinner was over. The terrace outside the Cataract Hotel was softly lit. Most of the guests stayingat the hotel were sitting at little tables. Simon and Linnet Doyle came out, a tall, distinguished looking grey-haired man, with a keen,clean- sh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Two Thats Hercule Poirot, the detective, said Mrs. Allerton. She and her son were sitting in brightly painted scarlet basket chairs outside the Cataract Hotelin Assuan. They were watching the retreating figures of two peoplea short man dressed in aw... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 XII Mrs. Otterbourne, readjusting the turban of native material that she wore draped round her head,said fretfully: I really dont see why we shouldnt go on to Egypt. Im sick and tired of Jerusalem. As her daughter made no reply, she said, You might... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 XIn his office downtown Mr. Andrew Pennington was opening his personal mail. Suddenly his fistclenched itself and came down on his desk with a bang; his face crimsoned and two big veinsstood out on his forehead. He pressed a buzzer on his desk and a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 XI William Carmichael said to the thin, weedy youth who opened the door inquiringly: Send Mr. Jim to me, please. Jim Fanthorp entered the room and looked inquiringly at his uncle. The older man looked upwith a nod and a grunt. Humph, there you are.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 IX In an apartment overlooking Central Park in New York Mrs. Robson exclaimed: If that isnt justtoo lovely! You really are the luckiest girl, Cornelia. Cornelia Robson flushed responsively. She was a big clumsy looking girl with brown doglikeeyes. O... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 VIII Tim Allerton leant back in his wicker chair and yawned as he looked out over the sea. He shot aquick sidelong glance at his mother. Mrs. Allerton was a good-looking, white-haired woman of fifty. By imparting an expression ofpinched severity to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 VII Joanna Southwood said: And suppose hes a terrible tough? Linnet shook her head. Oh, he wont be. I can trust Jacquelines taste. Joanna murmured: Ah, but people dont run true to form in love affairs. Linnet shook her head impatiently. Then she cha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 VI M. Gaston Blondin, the proprietor of that modish little restaurant Chez Ma Tante, was not a manwho delighted to honour many of his clientle. The rich, the beautiful, the notorious, and the well-born might wait in vain to be singled out and paid s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 IV Lord Windlesham sat under the cedar tree. His eyes rested on the graceful proportions of WodeHall. There was nothing to mar its old-world beauty; the new buildings and additions were out ofsight round the corner. It was a fair and peaceful sight... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 VIt was four oclock when the dilapidated little two-seater stopped with a sound of crunchinggravel. A girl got out of ita small slender creature with a mop of dark hair. She ran up the stepsand tugged at the bell. A few minutes later she was being u... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 III The Hon. Joanna Southwood said: Darling, I think its going to be all perfectly marvellous! She was sitting in Linnet Ridgeways bedroom at Wode Hall. From the window the eye passed over the gardens to open country with blue shadows ofwoodlands. I... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 II Extract from the Social column of the Daily Blague. Among those supping at Chez Ma Tante I noticed beautiful Linnet Ridgeway. Shewas with the Hon. Joanna Southwood, Lord Windlesham and Mr. Toby Bryce. Miss Ridgeway, as everyone knows, is the daug... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 One I Linnet Ridgeway! Thats her! said Mr. Burnaby, the landlord of the Three Crowns. He nudged his companion. The two men stared with round bucolic eyes and slightly open mouths. A big scarlet Rolls-Royce had just stopped in front of the local post... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 82 Weeks later Silo 18 The three of them sat around the conference table, Juliette adjusting the gauze bandage on her hand tocover the raised lace of scar tissue peeking out. The overalls theyd given her were loose to minimizethe pain, but the under... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 81 Silo 18 Awareness, like sporadic jolts of pain from her burns, came and went. Juliette remembered a billowing fog, boots stomping all around her, lying on her side in the ovenof an airlock. She watched the way the world warped out of shape as her... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-04-19 80 Juliette made her way through the airlock doors and up the ramp, ignoring the dead around her, justfocusing on each step, and the hardest part was over. The rest was open space and the scatteredremains she wished she could pretend were boulders.... 阅读全文>>