日期：2024-08-05 Fourteen Race said: Someone pinched the pistol. It wasnt Jacqueline de Bellefort. Someone knew enoughto feel that his crime would be attributed to her. But that someone did not know that a hospitalnurse was going to give her morphia and sit up with... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Thirteen Hercule Poirot was just wiping the lather from his freshly shaved face when there was a quick tapon the door, and hard on top of it Colonel Race entered unceremoniously. He closed the doorbehind him. He said: Your instinct was quite correct... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Twelve ICornelia Robson stood inside the temple of Abu Simbel. It was the evening of the following daya hot still evening. The Karnak was anchored once more at Abu Simbel to permit a second visitto be made to the temple, this time by artificial ligh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 II Cornelia, having dealt with Miss Van Schuylers many needs and fantasies, took some needleworkwith her back to the saloon. She herself did not feel in the least sleepy. On the contrary she feltwide awake and slightly excited. The bridge four were... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Eleven Will you explain to me, Madame, the meaning of the word fey? Mrs. Allerton looked slightly surprised. She and Poirot were toiling slowly up to the rockoverlooking the Second Cataract. Most of the others had gone up on camels, but Poirot had f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Ten On the Monday morning various expressions of delight and appreciation were heard on the deckof the Karnak. The steamer was moored to the bank and a few hundred yards away, the morningsun just striking it, was a great temple carved out of the fac... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 II That evening, Poirot noticed that Mrs. Allerton was sitting talking to Miss Van Schuyler. As hepassed, Mrs. Allerton closed one eye and opened it again. She was saying, Of course at CalfriesCastlethe dear Duke Cornelia, released from her attendan... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Nine IThe steamer arrived early next morning at Ez-Zebua. Cornelia Robson, her face beaming, a large flapping hat on her head, was one of the first tohurry on shore. Cornelia was not good at snubbing people. She was of an amiable disposition anddisp... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Eight Mrs. Allerton, looking quiet and distinguished in her simple black lace evening gown, descendedtwo decks to the dining room. At the door of it her son caught her up. Sorry, darling. I thought I was going to be late. I wonder where we sit. The... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Seven Simon and Linnet Doyle set off on their expedition to Philae about eleven oclock the followingmorning. Jacqueline de Bellefort, sitting on the hotel balcony, watched them set off in thepicturesque sailing-boat. What she did not see was the dep... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Six On the following morning Simon Doyle joined Hercule Poirot as the latter was leaving the hotel towalk down to the town. Good morning, Monsieur Poirot. Good morning, Monsieur Doyle. You going to the town? Mind if I stroll along with you? But cert... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Five Hercule Poirot found Jacqueline de Bellefort sitting on the rocks directly overlooking the Nile. Hehad felt fairly certain that she had not retired for the night and that he would find her somewhereabout the grounds of the hotel. She was sittin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Four Monsieur Poirot. Poirot got hastily to his feet. He had remained sitting out on the terrace alone after everyone elsehad left. Lost in meditation he had been staring at the smooth shiny black rocks when the sound ofhis name recalled him to hims... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Three Dinner was over. The terrace outside the Cataract Hotel was softly lit. Most of the guests stayingat the hotel were sitting at little tables. Simon and Linnet Doyle came out, a tall, distinguished looking grey-haired man, with a keen,clean- sh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-05 Two Thats Hercule Poirot, the detective, said Mrs. Allerton. She and her son were sitting in brightly painted scarlet basket chairs outside the Cataract Hotelin Assuan. They were watching the retreating figures of two peoplea short man dressed in aw... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 XII Mrs. Otterbourne, readjusting the turban of native material that she wore draped round her head,said fretfully: I really dont see why we shouldnt go on to Egypt. Im sick and tired of Jerusalem. As her daughter made no reply, she said, You might... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 XIn his office downtown Mr. Andrew Pennington was opening his personal mail. Suddenly his fistclenched itself and came down on his desk with a bang; his face crimsoned and two big veinsstood out on his forehead. He pressed a buzzer on his desk and a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 XI William Carmichael said to the thin, weedy youth who opened the door inquiringly: Send Mr. Jim to me, please. Jim Fanthorp entered the room and looked inquiringly at his uncle. The older man looked upwith a nod and a grunt. Humph, there you are.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 IX In an apartment overlooking Central Park in New York Mrs. Robson exclaimed: If that isnt justtoo lovely! You really are the luckiest girl, Cornelia. Cornelia Robson flushed responsively. She was a big clumsy looking girl with brown doglikeeyes. O... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-08-02 VIII Tim Allerton leant back in his wicker chair and yawned as he looked out over the sea. He shot aquick sidelong glance at his mother. Mrs. Allerton was a good-looking, white-haired woman of fifty. By imparting an expression ofpinched severity to... 阅读全文>>