日期：2025-03-18 Ten FANTASTIC STORY Mademoiselle Angle Blanche was thirty-five at a guess. No makeup, dark brown hair arrangedneatly but unbecomingly. A severe coat and skirt. It was Mademoiselle Blanches first term at Meadowbank, she explained. She was not sure th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-18 Eight MURDER IOn night duty in Hurst St. Cyprian Police Station, Sergeant Green yawned. The telephone rangand he picked up the receiver. A moment later his manner had changed completely. He beganscribbling rapidly on a pad. Yes? Meadowbank? Yesand t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-18 Nine CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS ILetter from Jennifer Sutcliffe to her mother: Dear Mummy, We had a murder last night. Miss Springer, the gym mistress. It happened inthe middle of the night and the police came and this morning theyre askingeverybody ques... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-18 Seven STRAWS IN THE WIND INot too bad, boy, said old Briggs grudgingly, not too bad. He was expressing approval of his new assistants performance in digging a strip of ground. Itwouldnt do, thought Briggs, to let the young fellow get above himself.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-18 Six EARLY DAYS IIn the Mistresses Common Room news was being exchanged. Foreign travel, plays seen, ArtExhibitions visited. Snapshots were handed round. The menace of coloured transparencies was inthe offing. All the enthusiasts wanted to show their... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-18 Five LETTERS FROM MEADOWBANK SCHOOL Letter from Julia Upjohn to her mother: Dear Mummy, Ive settled in now and am liking it very much. Theres a girl who is new thisterm too called Jennifer and she and I rather do things together. Were bothawfully ke... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-18 Four RETURN OF A TRAVELLER IReally! said Mrs. Sutcliffe, in an annoyed voice, as she looked out of her hotel window, I dontsee why it always has to rain when one comes back to England. It makes it all seem sodepressing. I think its lovely to be back... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-18 Three INTRODUCING MR. ROBINSON It was some six weeks later that a young man tapped discreetly on the door of a room inBloomsbury and was told to come in. It was a small room. Behind a desk sat a fat middle-aged man slumped in a chair. He waswearing... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-18 Two THE WOMAN ON THE BALCONY IAs Bob Rawlinson walked along the echoing marble corridors of the Palace, he had never felt sounhappy in his life. The knowledge that he was carrying three-quarters of a million pounds in histrousers pocket caused him a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-18 One REVOLUTION IN RAMAT About two months earlier than the first day of the summer term at Meadowbank, certain eventshad taken place which were to have unexpected repercussions in that celebrated girls school. In the Palace of Ramat, two young men sa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-18 Agatha Christie Cat Among the Pigeons A Hercule Poirot Mystery Prologue SUMMER TERM IIt was the opening day of the summer term at Meadowbank school. The late afternoon sun shonedown on the broad gravel sweep in front of the house. The front door was... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Twenty Hercule Poirot paused a moment at the big wrought iron gates. He looked ahead of him along the curving drive. The last of the golden-brown leaves fluttered down from the trees. The cyclamen were over. Poirot sighed. He turned aside and rapped... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Nineteen The chief constable and Inspector Bland looked up with keen curiosity as Hercule Poirot was ushered in. The chief constable was not in the best of tempers. Only Blands quiet persistence had caused him to cancel his dinner appointment for th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Eighteen The sun was setting when Poirot came to what was called officially Mill Cottage, and known locally as the Pink Cottage down by Lawders Creek. He knocked on the door and it was flung open with such suddenness that he started back. The angry-... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Seventeen After leaving Nasse, Poirot went to the village where, by inquiry, he found the cottage occupied by the Tuckers. His knock at the door went unanswered for some moments as it was drowned by the high-pitched tone of Mrs. Tuckers voice from i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Sixteen I Hercule Poirot sat in a square chair in front of the square fireplace in the square room of his London flat. In front of him were various objects that were not square: that were instead violently and almost impossibly curved. Each of them,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Fifteen It was a fortnight later that Inspector Bland had a long and unsatisfying interview with the Chief Constable of the County. Major Merrall had irritable tufted eyebrows and looked rather like an angry terrier. But his men all liked him and re... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Fourteen I Inspector Bland sat in Helmmouth Police Station. Superintendent Baldwin, a large comfortable- looking man, sat on the other side of the table. Between the two men, on the table, was a black sodden mass. Inspector Bland poked at it with a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Thirteen After Mrs. Masterton had left, Poirot went out and strolled through the woods. His nerves were not quite what they should be. He felt an irresistible desire to look behind every bush and to consider every thicket of rhododendron as a possib... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-03-03 Twelve Hercule Poirot came down to the breakfast table on the following morning to a depleted table. Mrs. Oliver, still suffering from the shock of yesterdays occurrence, was having her breakfast in bed. Michael Weyman had had a cup of coffee and go... 阅读全文>>