日期：2024-02-23 VIII Anthony Marston was in his bath. He luxuriated in the steaming water. His limbs had felt cramped after his long drive. Very few thoughts passed through his head. Anthony was a creature of sensationand of action. He thought to himself: Must go t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-02-23 VII Mr. Justice Wargrave thought to himself: Armstrong? Remember him in the witness-box. Very correct and cautious. All doctors are damned fools. Harley Street ones are the worst of the lot. And his mind dwelt malevolently on a recent interview he h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-02-23 VI Dr. Armstrong came to Soldier Island just as the sun was sinking into the sea. On the way across he had chatted to the boatmana local man. He was anxious to find out a little about these people who owned Soldier Island, but the man Narracott seem... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-02-23 V Vera had followed Mrs. Rogers upstairs. The woman had thrown open a door at the end of a passage and Vera had walked into a delightful bedroom with a big window that opened wide upon the sea and another looking east. She uttered a quick exclamatio... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-02-23 IV The boat churned its way round the rock. Now at last the house came into view. The south side of the island was quite different. It shelved gently down to the sea. The house was there facing southlow and square and modern looking with rounded win... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-02-23 III Fred Narracott sat by the engine thinking to himself that this was a queer lot. Not at all his idea of what Mr. Owens guests were likely to be. Hed expected something altogether more classy. Togged up women and gentlemen in yachting costume and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-02-23 II They came up over a steep hill and down a zigzag track to Sticklehavena mere cluster of cottages with a fishing boat or two drawn up on the beach. Illuminated by the setting sun, they had their first glimpse of Soldier Island jutting up out of th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-02-23 Two I O utside Oakbridge station a little group of people stood in momentary uncertainty. Behind them stood porters with suitcases. One of these called, Jim! The driver of one of the taxis stepped forward. Youm for Soldier Island, maybe? he asked in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-02-23 VIII Mr. Blore was in the slow train from Plymouth. There was only one other person in his carriage, an elderly seafaring gentleman with a bleary eye. At the present moment he had dropped off to sleep. Mr. Blore was writing carefully in a little not... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-02-23 VII Tony Marston, roaring down into Mere, thought to himself: The amount of cars crawling about the roads is frightful. Always something blocking your way. And they will drive in the middle of the road! Pretty hopeless driving in England, anyway. No... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-02-23 VI Dr. Armstrong was driving his Morris across Salisbury Plain. He was very tired Success had its penalties. There had been a time when he had sat in his consulting room in Harley Street, correctly apparelled, surrounded with the most up to date app... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-02-23 V General Macarthur looked out of the carriage window. The train was just coming into Exeter, where he had to change. Damnable, these slow branch line trains! This place, Soldier Island, was really no distance at all as the crow flies. He hadnt got... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-02-23 IV In a non-smoking carriage Miss Emily Brent sat very upright as was her custom. She was sixty- five and she did not approve of lounging. Her father, a Colonel of the old school, had been particular about deportment. The present generation was sham... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-02-23 III Philip Lombard, summing up the girl opposite in a mere flash of his quick moving eyes thought to himself: Quite attractivea bit schoolmistressy perhaps. A cool customer, he should imagineand one who could hold her ownin love or war. Hed rather l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-02-23 II Vera Claythorne, in a third-class carriage with five other travellers in it, leaned her head back and shut her eyes. How hot it was travelling by train today! It would be nice to get to the sea! Really a great piece of luck getting this job. When... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-02-23 One I I n the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in The Times. He laid the paper down and glanced out of the window. T... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 II I must mention a visit we had from Mr. Alexander Bonaparte Cust a few days later. Afterwringing Poirots hand and endeavouring very incoherently and unsuccessfully to thank him, Mr. Cust drew himself up and said: Do you know, a newspaper has actua... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Thirty-five FINALE II am sorry to relate that as the door closed behind Franklin Clarke I laughed hysterically. Poirot looked at me in mild surprise. Its because you told him his crime was not sporting, I gasped. It was quite true. It was abominable... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Thirty-four POIROT EXPLAINS We were sitting in a state of tense attention to listen to Poirots final explanation of the case. All along, he said, I have been worried over the why of this case. Hastings said to me theother day that the case was ended... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Thirty-three ALEXANDER BONAPARTE CUST I was not present at the interview that took place between Poirot and that strange manAlexanderBonaparte Cust. Owing to his association with the police and the peculiar circumstances of thecase, Poirot had no di... 阅读全文>>