TheThirteenProblems - (EPUB全文下载)
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CONTENTS
The Tuesday Night Club
The Idol House of Astarte
Ingots of Gold
The Bloodstained Pavement
Motive v. Opportunity
The Thumbmark of St. Peter
The Blue Geranium
The Companion
The Four Suspects
A Christmas Tragedy
The Herb of Death
The Affair at the Bungalow
Death by Drowning
The Tuesday Night Club
'Unsolved mysteries.'
Raymond West blew out a cloud of smoke and repeated the words with a kind of deliberate self-conscious pleasure.
'Unsolved mysteries.'
He looked round him with satisfaction. The room was an old one with broad black beams across the ceiling and it was furnished with good old furniture that belonged to it. Hence Raymond West's approving glance. By profession he was a writer and he liked the atmosphere to be flawless. His Aunt Jane's house always pleased him as the right setting for her personality. He looked across the hearth to where she sat erect in the big grandfather chair. Miss Marple wore a black brocade dress, very much pinched in round the waist. Mechlin lace was arranged in a cascade down the front of the bodice. She had on black lace mittens, and a black lace cap surmounted the piled-up masses of her snowy hair. She was knitting - something white and soft and fleecy. Her faded blue eyes, benignant and kindly, surveyed her nephew and her nephew's guests with gentle pleasure. They rested first on Raymond himself, self-consciously debonair, then on Joyce Lemprière, the artist, with her close-cropped black head and queer hazel-green eyes, then on that well-groomed man of the world, Sir Henry Clithering. There were two other people in the room, Dr Pender, the elderly clergyman of the parish, and Mr Petherick, the solicitor, a dried-up little man with eyeglasses which he looked over and not through. Miss Marple gave a brief moment of attention to all these people and returned to her knitting with a gentle smile upon her lips.
Mr Petherick gave the dry little cough with which he usually prefaced his remarks.
'What is that you say, Raymond? Unsolved mysteries? Ha - and what about them?'
'Nothing about them,' said Joyce Lemprière. 'Raymond just likes the sound of himself saying them.'
Raymond West threw her a glance of reproach at which she threw back her head and laughed.
'He is a humbug, isn't he, Miss Marple?' she demanded. 'You know that, I am sure.'
Miss Marple smiled gently at her but made no reply.
'Life itself is an unsolved mystery,' said the clergyman gravely.
Raymond sat up in his chair and flung away ............
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