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Название книги: Hercule Poirot
Автор(ы): Agatha Christie
Жанр: Детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Hercule-Poirot-199020.html
My dear James
You have always been one of the most faithful and kindly of my readers and I was seriously pertubed when I received from you a word of criticism.
You complained that my murders were getting too refined-anaemic, in fact. You yearned for a ‘good violent murder with lots of blood’. A murder where there was no doubt about its being murder!
So this is your special story-written for you. I hope it may please.
Your affectionate sister-in-law
Agatha
Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
Macbeth
Part 1. December 22nd
I
Stephen pulled up the collar of his coat as he walked briskly along the platform. Overhead a dim fog clouded the station. Large engines hissed superbly, throwing off clouds of steam into the cold raw air. Everything was dirty and smoke-grimed.
Stephen thought with revulsion:
‘What a foul country-what a foul city!’
His first excited reaction to London, its shops, its restaurants, its well-dressed, attractive women, had faded. He saw it now as a glitter
Название книги: Hercule Poirot
Автор(ы): Agatha Christie
Жанр: Детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Hercule-Poirot-199020.html
My dear James
You have always been one of the most faithful and kindly of my readers and I was seriously pertubed when I received from you a word of criticism.
You complained that my murders were getting too refined-anaemic, in fact. You yearned for a ‘good violent murder with lots of blood’. A murder where there was no doubt about its being murder!
So this is your special story-written for you. I hope it may please.
Your affectionate sister-in-law
Agatha
Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
Macbeth
Part 1. December 22nd
I
Stephen pulled up the collar of his coat as he walked briskly along the platform. Overhead a dim fog clouded the station. Large engines hissed superbly, throwing off clouds of steam into the cold raw air. Everything was dirty and smoke-grimed.
Stephen thought with revulsion:
‘What a foul country-what a foul city!’
His first excited reaction to London, its shops, its restaurants, its well-dressed, attractive women, had faded. He saw it now as a glitter
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