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“That fixes it pretty well.”
Inspector1 Curry2 was sitting at the piano. Sergeant3 Lake was in a chair by
the window overlooking the lake.
Curry went on.
“If I’m half-turned on the piano stool, watching the study door, I can’t
see you.”
Sergeant Lake rose softly and edged quietly through the door to the lib-
rary.
“All this side of the room was dark. The only lights that were on were
the ones beside the study door. No, Lake, I didn’t see you go. Once in the
library, you could go out through the other door to the corridor — two
minutes to run along to the Oak Suite4, shoot Gulbrandsen and come back
through the library to your chair by the window.
“The women by the fire have their backs to you. Mrs. Serrocold was sit-
ting here—on the right of the fireplace, near the study door. Everyone
agrees she didn’t move and she’s the only one who’s in the line of direct
vision. Miss Marple was here. She was looking past Mrs. Serrocold to the
study. Mrs. Strete was on the left of the fireplace—close to the door out of
the Hall to the lobby, and it’s a very dark corner. She could have gone and
come back. Yes, it’s possible.”
Curry grinned suddenly.
“And I could go.” He slipped off the music stool and sidled along the wall
and out through the door. “The only person who might notice I wasn’t still
at the piano would be Gina Hudd. And you remember what Gina said,
‘Stephen was at the piano to begin with. I don’t know where he was later.’”
“So you think it’s Stephen?”
“I don’t know who it is,” said Curry. “It wasn’t Edgar Lawson or Lewis
Serrocold or Mrs. Serrocold or Miss Jane Marple. But for the rest—” He
sighed. “It’s probably the American. Those fused lights were a bit too con-
venient—a coincidence. And yet, you know, I rather like the chap. Still,
that isn’t evidence.”
He peered thoughtfully at some music on the side of the piano.
“Hindemith? Who’s he? Never heard of him. Shostakovitch! What names
these people have.” He got up and then looked down at the old-fashioned
music stool. He lifted the top of it.
“Here’s the old- fashioned stuff. Handel’s Largo5. Czerny’s Exercises.
Dates back to old Gulbrandsen, most of this. ‘I know a lovely Garden’—
Vicar’s wife used to sing that when I was a boy—”
He stopped—the yellow pages of the song in his hand. Beneath them, re-
posing on Chopin’s Preludes6, was a small automatic pistol.
“Stephen Restarick,” exclaimed Sergeant Lake joyfully7.
“Now don’t jump to conclusions,” Inspector Curry warned him. “Ten to
one that’s what we’re meant to think.”

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1 inspector q6kxH     
n.检查员，监察员，视察员
参考例句：
  • The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
  • The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。
2 curry xnozh     
n.咖哩粉，咖哩饭菜；v.用咖哩粉调味，用马栉梳，制革
参考例句：
  • Rice makes an excellent complement to a curry dish.有咖喱的菜配米饭最棒。
  • Add a teaspoonful of curry powder.加一茶匙咖喱粉。
3 sergeant REQzz     
n.警官，中士
参考例句：
  • His elder brother is a sergeant.他哥哥是个警官。
  • How many stripes are there on the sleeve of a sergeant?陆军中士的袖子上有多少条纹？
4 suite MsMwB     
n.一套(家具)；套房；随从人员
参考例句：
  • She has a suite of rooms in the hotel.她在那家旅馆有一套房间。
  • That is a nice suite of furniture.那套家具很不错。
5 largo H90zb     
n.广板乐章；adj.缓慢的，宽广的；adv.缓慢地，宽广地
参考例句：
  • The tempo marking in most cases is andante,adagio,or largo.大多数第一乐章的速度标记是行板、柔板或广板。
  • The second movement is a largo.第二乐章是广板乐章。
6 preludes 879ee9eb4a37ad0f8296fadadd5706cf     
n.开端( prelude的名词复数 )；序幕；序曲；短篇作品
参考例句：
  • In the moribund patient deepening coma are the usual preludes to death. 病人弥留之际，加深的昏睡通常是死的前兆。 来自辞典例句
  • She preludes her remarks with a jest. 她开始讲话时先说一个笑话。 来自互联网
7 joyfully joyfully     
adv. 喜悦地, 高兴地
参考例句：
  • She tripped along joyfully as if treading on air. 她高兴地走着，脚底下轻飘飘的。
  • During these first weeks she slaved joyfully. 在最初的几周里，她干得很高兴。

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