日期：2024-08-05 DEAD MANS MIRROR One IThe flat was a modern one. The furnishings of the room were modern, too. The armchairs weresquarely built, the upright chairs were angular. A modern writing table was set squarely in front ofthe window, and at it sat a small, e... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Eight The guests left after lunch. Mrs.?Vanderlyn and Mrs.?Macatta went by train, the Carringtons hadtheir car. Poirot was standing in the hall as Mrs.?Vanderlyn bade her host a charmingfarewell. So terribly sorry for you having this bother and anxi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Seven Mrs.?Vanderlyn swept into the room looking very handsome. She was wearing an artfully-cutrusset sports suit that showed up the warm lights of her hair. She swept to a chair and smiled in adazzling fashion at the little man in front of her. For... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Six If theres been a burglary, why the devil doesnt old Mayfield send for the police? demandedReggie Carrington. He pushed his chair slightly back from the breakfast table. He was the last down. His host, Mrs.?Macatta and Sir George had finished the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Five Lord Mayfield was seated at his desk when Poirot entered the study. He swung round, laid downhis pen, and looked up inquiringly. Well, M. Poirot, had your interview with Carrington? Poirot smiled and sat down. Yes, Lord Mayfield. He cleared up... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Four Blinking a little, Hercule Poirot turned his head from one man to the other. Very delicately hesmothered a yawn. It was half past two in the morning. He had been roused from sleep and rushed down throughthe darkness in a big Rolls Royce. Now he... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Three At any rate give it a trial, Charles. It was half an hour later. The two men were in Lord Mayfields study, and Sir George hadbeen expending a considerable amount of persuasion to induce his friend to adopt a certain course. Lord Mayfield, at f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Two In the drawing room conversation had flagged more than once. Mrs.?Vanderlyn was usually at adisadvantage when left alone with members of her own sex. That charming sympathetic manner ofhers, so much appreciated by members of the male sex, did no... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 THE INCREDIBLE THEFT One As the butler handed round the souffl, Lord Mayfield leaned confidentially towards his neighbouron the right, Lady Julia Carrington. Known as a perfect host, Lord Mayfield took trouble to live upto his reputation. Although u... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 II Japp gave a longa very prolongedwhistle. Well, Im damned! he said. Poirot sat down and smiled at him amiably. It was quite a long time before the silence wasbroken. Then Japp said: Not murder disguised as suicide, but suicide made to look like mu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Ten IPoirot stepped back, his head a little on one side as he surveyed the arrangement of the room. Achair hereanother chair there. Yes, that was very nice. And now a ring at the bellthat wouldbe Japp. The Scotland Yard man came in alertly. Quite ri... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Nine Pretty the way he went all to pieces, said Japp with professional appreciation, later that day. He and Poirot were driving in a car along the Brompton Road. He knew the game was up, said Poirot absently. Weve got plenty on him, said Japp. Two o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Eight Major Eustace received the two men with the easy assurance of a man of the world. His flat was small, a mere pied terre, as he explained. He offered the two men a drink andwhen that was refused he took out his cigarette case. Both Japp and Poi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Seven IIt was the following day when Japp walked into Poirots flat, flung his hat on the table in deepdisgust and dropped into a chair. Well, he growled. Shes out of it! Who is out of it? Plenderleith. Was playing bridge up to midnight. Host, hostes... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 II At half past eleven, Charles Laverton-West was ushered into Chief Inspector Japps room. Japprose and shook hands. The M.P. was a man of medium height with a very definite personality. He was clean-shaven,with the mobile mouth of an actor, and the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Six On reentering the sitting room of No. 14, Japp wasted no time in beating about the bush. He camestraight to the point. Now look here, Miss?Plenderleith, dont you think its better to spill the beans here and now. Its going to come to that in the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Five Japp was just engaging his third chauffeurs wife in conversation when Poirot, walking noiselesslyas a cat, suddenly appeared at his elbow. Whew, you made me jump, said Japp. Got anything? Not what I was looking for. Japp turned back to Mrs.?Jam... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Four That young womans too cocky by half, Japp complained. The two men were once more in Mrs.?Allens bedroom. The body had been photographedand removed and the fingerprint man had done his work and departed. It would be unadvisable to treat her as a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Three For a few minutes there was silence. Jane Plenderleith shot a swift appraising glance at the little man, but after that she stared infront of her and did not speak. Yet a consciousness of his presence showed itself in a certainnervous tension.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Two At the foot of the narrow flight of stairs a door gave admission to a large-sized living roomactually the converted stable. In this room, the walls of which were finished in a roughened plastereffect and on which hung etchings and woodcuts, two... 阅读全文>>