日期：2023-08-07 For a day or two after our visit from the fake Asylum attendant I was in some hopes that he might return, and I refused to leave the flat even for a moment. As far as I could see, he had no reason to suspect that we had penetrated his disguise. He m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 The inspector drew a key from his pocket and unlocked the door of Granite Bungalow. The day had been fine and dry, so our feet were not likely to leave any prints; nevertheless, we wiped them carefully on the mat before entering. A woman came up out... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Personally, I dont think that, even when a jury had acquitted Robert Grant, alias Biggs, of the murder of Jonathan Whalley, Inspector Meadows was entirely convinced of his innocence. The case which he had built up against Grantthe mans record, the j... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 That was all that could be elicited from Mrs. Halliday. We hurried back to London, and the following day saw us en route for the Continent. With rather a rueful smile, Poirot observed:- This Big Four, they make me to bestir myself, mon ami. I run up... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 On the night of his release, Halliday slept in the room next to ours at the hotel, and all night long I heard him moaning and protesting in his sleep. Undoubtedly his experience in the villa had broken his nerve, and in the morning we failed complet... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 After our adventure in the villa at Passy we returned post haste to London. Several letters were awaiting Poirot. He read one of them with a curious smile, and then handed it to me. Read this, mon ami. I turned first to the signature, Abe Ryland, an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 It was all very well for Poirot to say that we were acquiring information all the time and gaining an insight into our adversaries mindsI felt myself that I required some more tangible success than this. Since we had come into contact with the Big F... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 The Scotland Yard Inspector was, indeed, waiting on the platform, and greeted us warmly. Well, Moosior Poirot, this is good. Thought youd like to be let in on this. Tip-top mystery, isnt it? I read this aright as showing Japp to be completely puzzle... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Poirot and I often dined at a small restaurant in Soho. We were there one evening, when we observed a friend at an adjacent table. It was Inspector Japp, and as there was room at our table, he came and joined us. It was some time since either of us... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 It was mid-Januarya typical English winter day in London, damp and dirty. Poirot and I were sitting in two chairs well drawn up to the fire. I was aware of my friend looking at me with a quizzical smile, the meaning of which I could not fathom. A pe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Not often in a life-time does a man stand on the edge of eternity, but when I spoke those words in that East End cellar I was perfectly certain that they were my last words on earth. I braced myself for the shock of those black, rushing waters benea... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 I was very disappointed with the results of Poirots bomb attack on the premises in Chinatown. To begin with, the leader of the gang had escaped. When Japps men rushed up in response to Poirots whistle they found four Chinamen unconscious in the hall... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 It was after the tragic death of Miss Flossie Monro that I began to be aware of a change in Poirot. Up to now, his invincible confidence in himself had stood the test. But it seemed as though, at last, the long strain was beginning to tell. His mann... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Even now I can hardly bear to write of those days in March. Poirotthe unique, the inimitable Hercule Poirotdead! There was a particularly diabolical touch in the disarranged match-box, which was certain to catch his eye, and which he would hasten to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 From our quiet retreat in the Ardennes we watched the progress of affairs in the great world. We were plentifully supplied with newspapers, and every day Poirot received a bulky envelope, evidently containing some kind of report. He never showed the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 I could not have been unconscious more than a minute. I came to myself being hustled along between two men. They had me under each arm, supporting my weight, and there was a gag in my mouth. It was pitch dark, but I gathered that we were not outside... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Nadina, the Russian dancer who had taken Paris by storm, swayed to the sound of the applause, bowed and bowed again. Her narrow black eyes narrowed themselves still more, the long line of her scarlet mouth curved faintly upwards. Enthusiastic French... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Everybody has been at me, right and left, to write this story from the great (represented by Lord Nasby) to the small (represented by our late maid of all work, Emily, whom I saw when I was last in England. Lor, miss, what a beyewtiful book you migh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 Every one was very kind to me. Dazed as I was, I appreciated that. I felt no overwhelming grief. Papa had never loved me, I knew that well enough. If he had, I might have loved him in return. No, there had not been love between us, but we had belong... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-08-07 In the succeeding weeks I was a good deal bored. Mrs. Flemming and her friends seemed to me to be supremely uninteresting. They talked for hours of themselves and their children and of the difficulties of getting good milk for the children and of wh... 阅读全文>>