日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 11 It was, I think, on the following morning before lunch that a conversationtook place which left me vaguely disquieted. There were four of us Judith, myself, Boyd Carrington and Norton. Exactly how the subject started, I am not sure, but w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 II Up to this time, though I had been faintly worried about my daughter, mypreoccupation over X and the possibility of a crime occurring at any mo-ment had successfully driven more personal problems to the back of mymind. Now that the blow had falle... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 10 II opened the subject with Poirot the following morning. His face lighted upand he wagged his head appreciatively. Excellent, Hastings. I wondered if you would see the similarity. I did notwant to prompt you, you understand. Then I am rig... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 III I wandered downstairs and out into the garden. There was no one aboutand I strolled through a grove of trees and up to a grassy knoll which wassurmounted by a somewhat earwiggy summer- house in an advancedstage of decrepitude. Here I sat down, l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 9 It must have been about six oclock when Colonel Luttrell came along thepath. He had a rook rifle with him and was carrying a couple of deadwood-pigeons. He started when I hailed him and seemed surprised to see us. Hullo, what are you two d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 8 IThe days passed. It was an unsatisfactory time, with its uneasy feeling ofwaiting for something. Nothing, if I may put it in such a way, actually happened. Yet there wereincidents, scraps of odd conversations, side- lights upon the variou... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 II It was on the following day that I ventured to broach an idea which hadcome into my mind more than once. I did so a little dubiously, for onenever knows how Poirot may react! I said: Ive been thinking, Poirot, I know Im not much of a fellow. Youv... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 III I enjoyed my expedition enormously. Not only was the weather fine a really lovely summers day but I en-joyed the companionship of the man. Boyd Carrington had that personal magnetism, that wide experience oflife and of places that made him excel... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 II After some hesitations I decided that I ought to sound Judith on the subjectof Allerton. I felt that I must know what her reactions were. She was, Iknew, a level-headed girl, well able to take care of herself, and I did notthink that she would re... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 7 IMy narrative of the days spent at Styles must necessarily be somewhatrambling. In my recollection of it, it presents itself to me as a series of con-versations of suggestive words and phrases that etched themselves intomy consciousness. F... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 6 Poirot was supposed to keep early hours. I left him therefore to go to sleepand went downstairs, pausing to have a few words with the attendant Cur-tiss on the way. I found him a stolid individual, slow in the uptake, but trustworthy andco... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 5 I had only met Mrs Franklin once before. She was a woman about thirty of what I should describe as the madonna type. Big brown eyes, hair par-ted in the centre, and a long gentle face. She was very slender and her skinhad a transparent fra... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 4 I went down to dinner that night feeling that the whole of life had becomesuddenly unreal. Once or twice, while dressing, I had asked myself if possibly Poirot hadimagined the whole thing. After all, the dear old chap was an old man nowand... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 3 For a moment or two I stared at Poirot in dismay, then I reacted. No, it wont, I said. Youll prevent that. Poirot threw me an affectionate glance. My loyal friend. How much I appreciate your faith in me. Tout de mme,I am not sure if it is... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 2 Nothing is so sad, in my opinion, as the devastation wrought by age. My poor friend. I have described him many times. Now to convey to youthe difference. Crippled with arthritis, he propelled himself about in awheeled chair. His once plump... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 II And does it not intrigue you, my friend, to see the address from which I write? It recalls old memories, does it not? Yes, I am here, at Styles. Figure to your-self, it is now what they call a guest house. Run by one of your so British oldColonel... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 CURTAIN: POIROTS LAST CASE A Hercule Poirot Mystery Chapter 1 IWho is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old ex-perience, or feeling an old emotion? I have done this before Why do those words always move one so profoundly?... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 20 Court of Enquiry Once more Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff overlooking the rocks belowand the sea breaking against them. Here where he stood the bodies of ahusband and wife had been found. Here, three weeks before that a wo-man had walk... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 19 Maddy and Zlie Mademoiselle Rouselle? said Hercule Poirot. He bowed. Mademoiselle Rouselle extended her hand. About fifty, Poirot thought. Afairly imperious woman. Would have her way. Intelligent, intellectual, sat-isfied, he thought, wit... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-07-01 Chapter 14 Dr Willoughby Hercule Poirot got out of the taxi, paid the fare and a tip, verified the factthat the address he had come to was the address corresponding to thatwritten down in his little notebook, took carefully a letter from his pocketa... 阅读全文>>