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>>

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>>