日期：2024-01-30 Thirty-two AND CATCH A FOX During the next few days Poirot was very busy. He made mysterious absences, talked very little,frowned to himself, and consistently refused to satisfy my natural curiosity as to the brilliance Ihad, according to him, displ... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Thirty-one HERCULE POIROT ASKS QUESTIONS It was a clear November day. Dr. Thompson and Chief Inspector Japp had come round to acquaintPoirot with the result of the police court proceedings in the case of Rex v. Alexander BonaparteCust. Poirot himsel... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Thirty NOT FROM CAPTAIN HASTINGS PERSONAL NARRATIVEMr. Cust stood by a greengrocers shop. He stared across the road. Yes, that was it. Mrs. Ascher. Newsagent and Tobacconist In the empty window was a sign. To Let. Empty. Lifeless. Excuse me, sir. Th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-nine AT SCOTLAND YARD Conference again. The Assistant Commissioner, Inspector Crome, Poirot and myself. The AC was saying: A good tip that of yours, M. Poirot, about checking a large sale of stockings. Poirot spread out his hands. It was indi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 II Mr. Cust put the receiver back very gently on the hook. He turned to where Mrs. Marbury was standing in the doorway of the room, clearly devouredwith curiosity. Not often you have a telephone call, Mr. Cust? Noerno, Mrs. Marbury. It isnt. Not bad... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-eight NOT FROM CAPTAIN HASTINGS PERSONAL NARRATIVEIInspector Crome was in his office at Scotland Yard. The telephone on his desk gave a discreet buzz and he picked it up. Jacobs speaking, sir. Theres a young fellow come in with a story that I... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-seven THE DONCASTER MURDER Coming in hard on Poirots heels, I just caught the fag end of Inspector Cromes remark. Both he and the Chief Constable were looking worried and depressed. Colonel Anderson greeted us with a nod of the head. Glad you... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-six NOT FROM CAPTAIN HASTINGS PERSONAL NARRATIVEInspector Crome was listening to the excited utterances of Mr. Leadbetter. I assure you, inspector, my heart misses a beat when I think of it. He must actually have beensitting beside me all thr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-five NOT FROM CAPTAIN HASTINGS PERSONAL NARRATIVEMr. Cust came out of the Regal Cinema and looked up at the sky. A beautiful eveningA really beautiful evening. A quotation from Browning came into his head. Gods in His heaven. Alls right with... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-four NOT FROM CAPTAIN HASTINGS PERSONAL NARRATIVEBelow his breath Mr. Leadbetter uttered a grunt of impatience as his next-door neighbour got upand stumbled clumsily past him, dropping his hat over the seat in front, and leaning over toretrie... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-three SEPTEMBER 11TH. DONCASTER Doncaster! I shall, I think, remember that 11th of September all my life. Indeed, whenever I see a mention of the St. Leger my mind flies automatically not to horseracing but to murder. When I recall my own sen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 III Tom Hartigan said to Lily Marbury: Saw your old dugout this morning. Who? Mr. Cust? Cust it was. At Euston. Looking like a lost hen, as usual. I think the fellows half loony. Heneeds someone to look after him. First he dropped his paper and then... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 II Inspector Crome said to his subordinate: Get me out a list of all stocking manufacturing firms and circularize them. I want a list of alltheir agentsyou know, fellows who sell on commission and tout for orders. This the A B C case, sir? Yes. One... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-two NOT FROM CAPTAIN HASTINGS PERSONAL NARRATIVEIMr. Alexander Bonaparte Cust sat very still. His breakfast lay cold and untasted on his plate. Anewspaper was propped up against the teapot and it was this newspaper that Mr. Cust was readingwi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-one DESCRIPTION OF A MURDERER It was at this moment, I think, that what Poirot called the human element began to fade out of thepicture again. It was as though, the mind being unable to stand unadulterated horror, we had hadan interval of nor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty LADY CLARKE There was an air of deep and settled melancholy over Combeside when we saw it again for thesecond time. This may, perhaps, have been partly due to the weatherit was a moist Septemberday with a hint of autumn in the air, and partly... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Nineteen BY WAY OF SWEDEN Poirot returned to his seat and sat humming a little tune to himself. Unfortunate that she is so intelligent, he murmured. Who? Megan Barnard. Mademoiselle Megan. Words, she snaps out. At once she perceives thatwhat I am sa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Eighteen POIROT MAKES A SPEECH Franklin Clarke arrived at three oclock on the following afternoon and came straight to the pointwithout beating about the bush. M. Poirot, he said, Im not satisfied. No, Mr. Clarke? Ive no doubt that Crome is a very e... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Seventeen MARKING TIME With the murder of Sir Carmichael Clarke the A B C mystery leaped into the fullest prominence. The newspapers were full of nothing else. All sorts of clues were reported to have beendiscovered. Arrests were announced to be imm... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Sixteen NOT FROM CAPTAIN HASTINGS PERSONAL NARRATIVEMr. Alexander Bonaparte Cust came out with the rest of the audience from the TorquayPalladium, where he had been seeing and hearing that highly emotional film, Not a Sparrow. He blinked a little as... 阅读全文>>