日期：2025-09-16 II Miss Marple flushed with pleasure as Sir Henry bore down upon her. Oh, Sir Henry, this is indeed a great piece of luck meeting you here. Sir Henry was gallant. He said: To me it is a great pleasure. Miss Marple murmured, flushing: So kind of you.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 IV Superintendent Harpers manner was slow and pleasant and absolutelynoncommittal. These cases where the police of two counties had to collab-orate were always difficult. He liked Colonel Melchett and considered himan able Chief Constable, but he wa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Eight ISir Henry Clithering, as he passed through the lounge of the Majestic,hardly glanced at its occupants. His mind was preoccupied. Nevertheless,as is the way of life, something registered in his subconscious. It waited itstime patiently. Sir He... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 III Mr. Prestcott had supplied his additional dancer with board and lodging. Whatever the board, the lodging was the poorest the hotel possessed. Josephine Turner and Ruby Keene had occupied rooms at the extremeend of a mean and dingy little corrido... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 II OherI sayerc-could I speak to you a minute? It was George Bart-lett who thus waylaid the two men. Colonel Melchett, who was not attrac-ted to Mr. Bartlett and who was anxious to see how Slack had got on withthe investigation of the girls room and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Seven I When they were outside Jeffersons door, Superintendent Harper said: Well, for what its worth, weve got a motive, sir. Hm, said Melchett. Fifty thousand pounds, eh? Yes, sir. Murders been done for a good deal less than that. Yes, but Colonel... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 III In the big bedroom overlooking the sea, Conway Jefferson was sitting inhis wheeled chair by the window. No sooner were you in the room with him than you felt the power andmagnetism of the man. It was as though the injuries which had left him acr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 II As they left the bar, they were accosted by a small boy of about nine yearsold. He burst immediately into excited speech. I say, are you the detectives? Im Peter Carmody. It was my grand-father, Mr. Jefferson, who rang up the police about Ruby. A... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Six INeither the night porter nor the barman proved helpful. The night porterremembered ringing up to Miss Keenes room just after midnight and get-ting no reply. He had not noticed Mr. Bartlett leaving or entering the hotel. A lot of gentlemen and l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 III George Bartlett was a thin, lanky youth with a prominent Adams appleand an immense difficulty in saying what he meant. He was in such a stateof dither that it was hard to get a calm statement from him. I say, it is awful, isnt it? Sort of thing... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 II Mr. Prestcott went up with them to Conway Jeffersons suite. It was on thefirst floor, overlooking the sea. Melchett said carelessly: Does himself pretty well, eh? Rich man? Very well off indeed, I believe. Nothings ever stinted when he comeshere.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Five IColonel Melchett was facing a much annoyed hotel manager. With himwas Superintendent Harper of the Glenshire Police and the inevitable In-spector Slackthe latter rather disgruntled at the Chief Constables wilfulusurpation of the case. Superint... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 VAnd what, demanded Mrs. Bantry as she looked through the window atthe retreating car of the Chief Constable, did she mean by that? They are,really. Dont you think, Jane, that theres something Miss Marple fell upon the words eagerly. Oh, I doindeed... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 IV At Gossington, Mrs. Bantry and Miss Marple were sitting in the drawingroom. You know, said Mrs. Bantry, I cant help feeling glad theyve taken thebody away. Its not nice to have a body in ones house. Miss Marple nodded. I know, dear. I know just h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 III It was only a step from Mrs. Price Ridleys house to the vicarage. Mrs. Price Ridley was fortunate enough to find the vicar in his study. The vicar, a gentle, middle-aged man, was always the last to hear any-thing. Such a terrible thing, said Mrs... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Four I St. Mary Mead was having the most exciting morning it had known for along time. Miss Wetherby, a long-nosed, acidulated spinster, was the first to spreadthe intoxicating information. She dropped in upon her friend and neigh-bour Miss Hartnell... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 II Mrs. Price Ridley was among the last to hear the news. A rich and dictatorial widow, she lived in a large house next door to thevicarage. Her informant was her little maid Clara. A woman, you say, Clara? Found dead on Colonel Bantrys hearthrug? Y... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 II Activity was always to Inspector Slacks taste. To rush off in a car, to si-lence rudely those people who were anxious to tell him things, to cut shortconversations on the plea of urgent necessity. All this was the breath oflife to Slack. In an in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Three I In his office at Much Benham, Colonel Melchett received and scrutinizedthe reports of his subordinates: so it all seems clear enough, sir, Inspector Slack was concluding: Mrs. Bantry sat in the library after dinner and went to bed just befor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 II Basil Blakes cottage, which consisted of all modern conveniences enclosedin a hideous shell of half timbering and sham Tudor, was known to thepostal authorities, and to William Booker, builder, as Chatsworth; toBasil and his friends as The Period... 阅读全文>>