日期：2024-08-05 Six There was no bathing the next morning. Pamela Lyall, white-faced, clad in a simple dark dress, clutched at Hercule Poirot in the halland drew him into the little writing room. Its horrible! she said. Horrible! You said so! You foresaw it! Murder... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Five The sequence of events on the night of October the twenty-ninth was perfectly clear. To begin with, there was a scene between the two menGold and Chantry. Chantrys voicerose louder and louder and his last words were overheard by four personsthe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Four Hercule Poirot sat with Pamela Lyall on the beach. She said with a certain amount of gusto, The triangles going strong! They sat one each sideof her last nightglowering at each other! Chantry had had too much to drink. He was positivelyinsultin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Three It was three days later that Hercule Poirot went to the Mount of the Prophet. It was a cool,agreeable drive through the golden green fir trees, winding higher and higher, far above the pettywrangling and squabbling of human beings. The car sto... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 TRIANGLE AT RHODES One Hercule Poirot sat on the white sand and looked out across the sparkling blue water. He wascarefully dressed in a dandified fashion in white flannels and a large panama hat protected hishead. He belonged to the old-fashioned g... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Two M. Hercule Poirot was disappointed with Rhodes. He had come to Rhodes for a rest and for aholiday. A holiday, especially, from crime. In late October, so he had been told, Rhodes would benearly empty. A peaceful, secluded spot. That, in itself,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 III Later, when the police had come and gone, Poirot found Ruth Lake with her husband in thegarden. She said challengingly: Did you really think that I had done it, M. Poirot? I knew, madame, that you could not have done itbecause of the michaelmas... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 II Poirot looked round him. A circle of interested faces stared back at him. Everyone was there, henoted, with one exception, and at that very moment the exception swept into the room. LadyChevenix-Gore came in with a soft, gliding step. She looked... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Twelve IFor once in her life Ruth Chevenix-Gorenow Ruth Lakecame down to breakfast in good time. Hercule Poirot was in the hall and drew her aside before she went into the dining room. I have a question to ask you, madame. Yes? You were in the garde... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Ten Of the two of them, Captain Lake looked far the more embarrassed. This is a great surprise, Miss?Chevenix-GoreMrs.?Lake, I should say, said Major Riddle. Did no one know of this marriage of yours? No, we kept it quite dark. John didnt like that... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Eleven It was just after dawn when Hercule Poirot awoke on the following morning. He had been given abedroom on the east side of the house. Getting out of bed, he drew aside the window blind and satisfied himself that the sun hadrisen, and that it w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Nine That evening Poirot had only given Susan Cardwell a fleeting glance. He examined her now moreattentively. An intelligent face, he thought, not strictly good-looking, but possessing an attractionthat a merely pretty girl might envy. Her hair was... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Eight The Colonel dropped into a chair, shook his head, sighed and said: Terrible business, this, Riddle. Lady Chevenix-Gore is being wonderfulwonderful. Grandwoman! Full of courage! Coming softly back to his chair, Poirot said: You have known her v... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Seven Hard work, that, said Major Riddle, as the lawyer left the room. Extracting information fromthese old-fashioned legal wallahs takes a bit of doing. The whole business seems to me to centreabout the girl. It would seem soyes. Ah, here comes Bur... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Six After the difficulties of getting a direct statement from Lady Chevenix-Gore, Major Riddle foundconsiderable relief in dealing with a shrewd lawyer like Forbes. Mr.?Forbes was extremely guarded and cautious in his statements, but his replies wer... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Five Sit down, Snell, said Major Riddle in a friendly tone. Ive a good many questions to ask you,and I expect this has been a shock to you. Oh, it has indeed, sir. Thank you, sir. Snell sat down with such a discreet air that it waspractically the sa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Four Well? said Major Riddle. It was twenty minutes later. The chief constables interrogative Well? was addressed to thepolice surgeon, a lank elderly man with grizzled hair. The latter shrugged his shoulders. Hes been dead over half an hourbut not... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Three For a moment or two the group in the doorway stood motionless, staring at the scene. Then Poirotstrode forward. At the same moment Hugo Trent said crisply: My God, the Old Mans shot himself! And there was a long, shuddering moan from Lady Chev... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Two Hercule Poirot sat in the corner of a first-class carriage speeding through the English countryside. Meditatively he took from his pocket a neatly folded telegram, which he opened and reread: Take four-thirty from St.?Pancras instruct guard have... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 II A duchess greeted M. Hercule Poirot in fulsome tones. So you could manage to come after all, M. Poirot! Why, thats splendid. The pleasure is mine, madame, murmured Poirot, bowing. He escaped from several important and splendid beingsa famous dipl... 阅读全文>>