日期：2024-08-05 Chapter 10 It was the morning of the start to Petra. Sarah came down to find a big masterful woman with a rocking-horse nose, whom she hadalready noticed in the hotel, outside the main entrance, objecting fiercely to the size of the car. A great dea... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Chapter 9 Dr Gerard walked into the office of Messrs Castle, the tourist agents, and found Sarah King at thecounter. She looked up. Oh, good morning. Im fixing up my tour to Petra. Ive just heard you are going after all. Yes, I find I can just manag... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Chapter 8 Can I speak to you a minute? Nadine Boynton turned in surprise, staring into the dark eager face of an entirely unknownyoung woman. Why, certainly. But as she spoke, almost unconsciously she threw a quick nervous glance over her shoulder.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Chapter 7 Sarah wondered very much whether Carol Boynton would keep her appointment that night. On the whole she rather doubted it. She was afraid that Carol would have a sharp reaction afterher semi-confidences of the morning. Nevertheless she made... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Chapter 6 Sarah King stood in the precincts of the Templethe Haramesh-Sherif. Her back was to the Domeof the Rock. The splashing of fountains sounded in her ears. Little groups of tourists passed bywithout disturbing the peace of the oriental atmosp... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Chapter 5 Into these dark imaginings a breath of the commonplace came with almost ludicrous effect. A man came into the lounge, caught sight of the Boyntons and came across to them. He was apleasant middle-aged American of a strictly conventional ty... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Chapter 4 There was a slow asthmatic wheezing coughthen the monumental knitting woman spoke. Ginevra, youre tired, youd better go to bed. The girl started, her fingers stopped their mechanical action. Im not tired, Mother. Gerard recognized apprecia... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Chapter 3 When Sarah had left the lounge, Dr Gerard sat where he was for some minutes. Then he strolled tothe table, picked up the latest number of Le Matin and strolled with it to a chair a few yards awayfrom the Boynton family. His curiosity was a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Chapter 2 Miss Sarah King, M.B., stood by the table in the writing-room of the Solomon Hotel in Jerusalem,idly turning over the papers and magazines. A frown contracted her brows and she lookedpreoccupied. The tall middle-aged Frenchman who entered... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Appointment With Death: A Hercule Poirot Mystery Part I Chapter 1 You do see, dont you, that shes got to be killed? The question floated out into the still night air, seemed to hang there a moment and then driftaway down into the darkness towards the... 阅读全文>>

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>>