日期：2024-01-30 Nine MRS.?LEIDNERS STORY We had just finished lunch. Mrs.?Leidner went to her room to rest as usual. I settled her on her bedwith plenty of pillows and her book, and was leaving the room when she called me?back. Dont go, nurse, theres something I wa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Eight NIGHT ALARM Its a little difficult to know exactly what to note in the week that followed my arrival at TellYarimjah. Looking back as I do from my present standpoint of knowledge I can see a good many littlesigns and indications that I was qui... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Seven THE MAN AT THE WINDOW I think Id better make it clear right away that there isnt going to be any local colour in this story. I dont know anything about archaeology and I dont know that I very much want to. Messingabout with people and places t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Six FIRST EVENING After tea Mrs.?Leidner took me to show me my room. Perhaps here I had better give a short description of the arrangement of the rooms. This wasvery simple and can easily be understood by a reference to the plan. On either side of t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Five TELL YARIMJAH I dont mind admitting that my first impression on seeing Mrs. Leidner was one of downrightsurprise. One gets into the way of imagining a person when one hears them talked about. Id got itfirmly into my head that Mrs.?Leidner was a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Four I ARRIVE IN HASSANIEH Three days later I left Baghdad. I was sorry to leave Mrs.?Kelsey and the baby, who was a little love and was thrivingsplendidly, gaining her proper number of ounces every week. Major Kelsey took me to the stationand saw m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Three GOSSIP It was arranged that I should go to Tell Yarimjah the following week. Mrs.?Kelsey was settling into her house at Alwiyah, and I was glad to be able to take a fewthings off her shoulders. During that time I heard one or two allusions to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Two INTRODUCING AMY LEATHERAN I dont pretend to be an author or to know anything about writing. Im doing this simply becauseDr.?Reilly asked me to, and somehow when Dr.?Reilly asks you to do a thing you dont like torefuse. Oh, but, doctor, I said, I... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 One FRONTISPIECE In the hall of the Tigris Palace Hotel in Baghdad a hospital nurse was finishing a letter. Herfountain pen drove briskly over the paper. .?.?. Well, dear, I think thats really all my news. I must say its been nice to see abit of the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Foreword by Giles Reilly, MD The events chronicled in this narrative took place some four years ago. Circumstances haverendered it necessary, in my opinion, that a straightforward account of them should be given to thepublic. There have been the wil... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-29 Thirty-one CARDS ON THE TABLE It was Poirots moment, every face was turned to his in eager anticipation. You are very kind, he said, smiling. You know, I think, that I enjoy my little lecture. I am aprosy old fellow. This case, to my mind, has been... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-29 II There was at least three minutes silence. Then Roberts laughed a rather menacing laugh. Are you quite mad, M. Poirot? I certainly did not murder Mr. Shaitana, and I could notpossibly have murdered Mrs. Lorrimer. My dear Battlehe turned to the Sco... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-29 Thirty MURDER Do you mean to say, said Rhoda incredulously, that Anne meant to push me in? I know it feltlike it. And she knew I cant swim. Butbut was it deliberate? It was quite deliberate, said Poirot. They were driving through the outskirts of Lo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-29 Twenty-nine ACCIDENT Anne, said Rhoda. Mmm? No, really, Anne, dont answer with half your mind on a crossword puzzle. I want you toattend to me. I am attending. Anne sat bolt upright and put down the paper. Thats better. Look here, Anne. Rhoda hesita... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-29 Twenty-eight SUICIDE The summons came by telephone at the moment when Poirot was sitting down to his morningcoffee and rolls. He lifted the telephone receiver, and Battles voice spoke: That M. Poirot? Yes, it is. Quest ce quil y a? The mere inflecti... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-29 Twenty-seven THE EYEWITNESS Suddenly Poirot laughed. He could not help it. His head went back, and his high Gallic laugh filledthe room. Pardon, madame, he said, wiping his eyes. I could not help it. Here we argue and we reason! We ask questions! We... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-29 Twenty-six THE TRUTH There was a pausea very long pause. The room was growing dark. The firelight leaped and flickered. Mrs. Lorrimer and Hercule Poirot looked not at each other, but at the fire. It was as though timewas momentarily in abeyance. The... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-29 Twenty-five MRS. LORRIMER SPEAKS The day was not a bright one, and Mrs. Lorrimers room seemed rather dark and cheerless. Sheherself had a grey look, and seemed much older than she had done on the occasion of Poirots lastvisit. She greeted him with h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-29 Twenty-four ELIMINATION OF THREE MURDERERS? On arrival in London, Superintendent Battle came straight to Poirot. Anne and Rhoda had thenbeen gone an hour or more. Without more ado, the superintendent recounted the result of his researches in Devonsh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-29 Twenty-three THE EVIDENCE OF A PAIR OF SILK STOCKINGS As Superintendent Battles train rushed eastwards through England, Anne Meredith and RhodaDawes were in Hercule Poirots sitting room. Anne had been unwilling to accept the invitation that had reac... 阅读全文>>