24-08-05 Sixteen Race pored thoughtfully over a plan of the promenade deck of the Karnak. Fanthorp, young Allerton, Mrs. Allerton. Then an empty cabinSimon Doyles. Now whoson the other side of Mrs. Doyles? The old American dame. If anyone heard anything she...

24-08-05 Fifteen Hercule Poirots observation had not been at fault. There were no pearls on the table by LinnetDoyles bed. Louise Bourget was bidden to make a search among Linnets belongings. According to her, allwas in order. Only the pearls had disappeared...

24-08-05 Fourteen Race said: Someone pinched the pistol. It wasnt Jacqueline de Bellefort. Someone knew enoughto feel that his crime would be attributed to her. But that someone did not know that a hospitalnurse was going to give her morphia and sit up with...

24-08-05 Thirteen Hercule Poirot was just wiping the lather from his freshly shaved face when there was a quick tapon the door, and hard on top of it Colonel Race entered unceremoniously. He closed the doorbehind him. He said: Your instinct was quite correct...

24-08-05 II Cornelia, having dealt with Miss Van Schuylers many needs and fantasies, took some needleworkwith her back to the saloon. She herself did not feel in the least sleepy. On the contrary she feltwide awake and slightly excited. The bridge four were...

24-08-05 Twelve ICornelia Robson stood inside the temple of Abu Simbel. It was the evening of the following daya hot still evening. The Karnak was anchored once more at Abu Simbel to permit a second visitto be made to the temple, this time by artificial ligh...

24-08-05 Eleven Will you explain to me, Madame, the meaning of the word fey? Mrs. Allerton looked slightly surprised. She and Poirot were toiling slowly up to the rockoverlooking the Second Cataract. Most of the others had gone up on camels, but Poirot had f...

24-08-05 Ten On the Monday morning various expressions of delight and appreciation were heard on the deckof the Karnak. The steamer was moored to the bank and a few hundred yards away, the morningsun just striking it, was a great temple carved out of the fac...

24-08-05 II That evening, Poirot noticed that Mrs. Allerton was sitting talking to Miss Van Schuyler. As hepassed, Mrs. Allerton closed one eye and opened it again. She was saying, Of course at CalfriesCastlethe dear Duke Cornelia, released from her attendan...

24-08-05 Nine IThe steamer arrived early next morning at Ez-Zebua. Cornelia Robson, her face beaming, a large flapping hat on her head, was one of the first tohurry on shore. Cornelia was not good at snubbing people. She was of an amiable disposition anddisp...