日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 8 LADY TAMPLIN WRITES A LETTER Well, said Lady Tamplin, well. She laid down the continental Daily Mail and stared out across the blue waters of the Mediterranean. A branch of golden mimosa, hanging just above her head, made an effective fram... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 9 AN OFFER REFUSED It was rarely that Derek Kettering allowed his temper to get the better of him. An easygoing insouciance was his chief characteristic and it had stood him in good stead in more than one tight corner. Even now, by the time... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 10 ON THE BLUE TRAIN Dad! Mrs Kettering started violently. Her nerves were not completely under control this morning. Very perfectly dressed in a long mink coat and a little hat of Chinese lacquer red, she had been walking along the crowded... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 11 MURDER Katherine wakened the next morning to brilliant sunshine. She went along to breakfast early, but met none of her acquaintances of the day before. When she returned to her compartment it had just been restored to its daytime appeara... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 12 AT THE VILLA MARGUERITE Then you were really in the thick of it all! said Lady Tamplin enviously. My dear, how thrilling! She opened her china blue eyes very wide and gave a little sigh. A real murder, said Mr Evans gloatingly. Of course... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 13 VAN ALDIN GETS A TELEGRAM On the afternoon of the 15th February a thick yellow fog had settled down on London. Rufus Van Aldin was in his suite at the Savoy and was making the most of the atmospheric conditions by working double time. Kni... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 14 ADA MASONS STORY I cannot repeat to you often enough, Monsieur, our horror, our consternation, and the deep sympathy we feel for you. Thus M. Carrege, the Juge dInstruction, addressed Van Aldin. M. Caux, the Commissary, made sympathetic n... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 15 THE COMTE DE LA ROCHE Van Aldin read the letter through in silence. His face turned a dull angry crimson. The men watching him saw the veins start out on his forehead, and his big hands clench themselves unconsciously. He handed back the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 16 POIROT DISCUSSES THE CASE Everybody looked respectfully at Poirot. Undoubtedly the little man had scored heavily. The Commissary laughed - on a rather hollow note. You teach us all our business, he cried. M. Poirot knows more than the pol... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 17 AN ARISTOCRATIC GENTLEMAN You have been to the Riviera before, Georges? said Poirot to his valet the following morning. George was an intensely English, rather wooden-faced individual. Yes, sir. I was here two years ago when I was in the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 18 DEREK LUNCHES Derek Kettering went straight to the Negresco, where he ordered a couple of cocktails and disposed of them rapidly; then he stared moodily out over the dazzling blue sea. He noted the passers-by mechanically - a damned dull... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 19 AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR The Comte de la Roche had just finished djeuner, consisting of an omelette fines herbes, an entrec?te Bearnaise, and a Savarin au Rhum. Wiping his fine black moustache delicately with his table napkin, the Comte rose... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 26 A WARNING And so it is, said Poirot, that we are the good friends and have no secrets from each other. Katherine turned her head to look at him. There was something in his voice, some undercurrent of seriousness, which she had not heard b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 20 KATHERINE MAKES A FRIEND On the following morning Katherine and Lenox were sitting on the terrace of the Villa Marguerite. Something in the nature of a friendship was springing up between them, despite the difference in age. But for Lenox... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 21 AT THE TENNIS Several days had elapsed. Katherine had been for a walk by herself one morning, and came back to find Lenox grinning at her expectantly. Your young man has been ringing you up, Katherine! Who do you call my young man? A new... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 22 M. PAPOPOULOS AT BREAKFAST M. Papopolous was at breakfast. Opposite him sat his daughter, Zia. There was a knock at the sitting-room door, and a chasseur entered with a card which he brought to Mr Papopolous. The latter scrutinized it, ra... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 23 A NEW THEORY It was exactly eleven oclock when Poirot presented himself at Van Aldins hotel. He found the millionaire alone. You are punctual, M. Poirot, he said, with a smile, as he rose to greet the detective. I am always punctual, said... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 24 POIROT GIVES ADVICE It took the millionaire some few minutes to take the thing in. He stared at Poirot as though dumbfounded. The little Belgian nodded at him gently. Yes, he said, it alters the position, does it not? Imitation! He leaned... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 25 DEFIANCE As Derek Kettering passed the car, Mirelle leant out. Dereek - I must speak to you for a moment - But, lifting his hat, Derek passed straight on without stopping. When he got back to his hotel, the concierge detached himself from... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Chapter 27 INTERVIEW WITH MIRELLE When Knighton left Katherine he went in search of Hercule Poirot, whom he found in the Rooms, jauntily placing the minimum stake on the even numbers. As Knighton joined him, the number thirty- three turned up, and P... 阅读全文>>