日期：2024-01-30 Fifteen SIR CARMICHAEL CLARKE Churston, lying as it does between Brixham on the one side and Paignton and Torquay on theother, occupies a position about halfway round the curve of Torbay. Until about ten years ago itwas merely a golf links and below... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Fourteen THE THIRD LETTER I well remember the arrival of A B Cs third letter. I may say that all precautions had been taken so that when A B C resumed his campaign thereshould be no unnecessary delays. A young sergeant from Scotland Yard was attache... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Thirteen A CONFERENCE Conferences! Much of my memories of the A B C case seem to be of conferences. Conferences at Scotland Yard. At Poirots rooms. Official conferences. Unofficial conferences. This particular conference was to decide whether or not... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twelve DONALD FRASER I felt sorry at once for the young man. His white haggard face and bewildered eyes showed howgreat a shock he had had. He was a well-made, fine-looking young fellow, standing close on six foot, not good-looking,but with a pleasa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Eleven MEGAN BARNARD As I said, Megan Barnards words, and still more the crisp businesslike tone in which they wereuttered, made me jump. Poirot, however, merely bowed his head gravely. A la bonne heure, he said. You are intelligent, mademoiselle. M... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Ten THE BARNARDS Elizabeth Barnards parents lived in a minute bungalow, one of fifty or so recently run up by aspeculative builder on the confines of the town. The name of it was Llandudno. Mr. Barnard, astout, bewildered-looking man of fifty-five o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Nine THE BEXHILL-ON-SEA MURDER I still remember my awakening on the morning of the 25th of July. It must have been about seven-thirty. Poirot was standing by my bedside gently shaking me by the shoulder. One glance at his facebrought me from semicon... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Eight THE SECOND LETTER Well? I demanded eagerly. We were seated in a first-class carriage which we had to ourselves. The train, an express, hadjust drawn out of Andover. The crime, said Poirot, was committed by a man of medium height with red hair... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Seven MR. PARTRIDGE AND MR. RIDDELL Inspector Glen was looking rather gloomy. He had, I gathered, spent the afternoon trying to get acomplete list of persons who had been noticed entering the tobacco shop. And nobody has seen anyone? Poirot inquired... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Six THE SCENE OF THE CRIME The street in which the tragedy had occurred was a turning off the main street. Mrs. Aschers shopwas situated about halfway down it on the right-hand side. As we turned into the street Poirot glanced at his watch and I rea... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Five MARY DROWER I think that I can date my interest in the case from that first mention of the A B C railway guide. Up till then I had not been able to raise much enthusiasm. This sordid murder of an old woman ina back-street shop was so like the u... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Four MRS. ASCHER We were received at Andover by Inspector Glen, a tall fair-haired man with a pleasant smile. For the sake of conciseness I think I had better give a brief rsum of the bare facts of the case. The crime was discovered by Police Consta... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Three ANDOVER I had been impressed at the time by Poirots forebodings about the anonymous letter he hadreceived, but I must admit that the matter had passed from my mind when the 21st actually arrivedand the first reminder of it came with a visit pa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Two NOT FROM CAPTAIN HASTINGS PERSONAL NARRATIVEMr. Alexander Bonaparte Cust rose from his seat and peered near-sightedly round the shabbybedroom. His back was stiff from sitting in a cramped position and as he stretched himself to hisfull height an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 One THE LETTER It was in June of 1935 that I came home from my ranch in South America for a stay of about sixmonths. It had been a difficult time for us out there. Like everyone else, we had suffered fromworld depression. I had various affairs to se... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Foreword by Captain Arthur Hastings, O.B.E. In this narrative of mine I have departed from my usual practice of relating only those incidentsand scenes at which I myself was present. Certain chapters, therefore, are written in the thirdperson. I wis... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-nine LENVOI There isnt really any more to say about things. They got Father Lavigny and the other man just as they were going to board a steamer atBeyrouth. Sheila Reilly married young Emmott. I think that will be good for her. Hes no door-ma... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-eight JOURNEYS END Poirot looked round. Every eye was now fixed upon him. There had been a certain relaxationaslackening of tension. Now the tension suddenly returned. There was something coming .?.?. something .?.?. Poirots voice, quiet and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-seven BEGINNING OF A JOURNEY Bismillahi ar rahman ar rahim. That is the Arab phrase used before starting out on a journey. Ehbien, we too start on a journey. A journey into the past. A journey into the strange places of thehuman soul. I dont... 阅读全文>>

日期：2024-01-30 Twenty-six NEXT IT WILL BE ME! It was rather horrible. Dr.?Leidner looked as though he were going to faint and I felt a bit sickmyself. Dr.?Reilly examined it with professional gusto. No fingerprints, I presume? he threw out. No fingerprints. Dr.?Re... 阅读全文>>