24At once an excited discussion sprang up. An ABC was produced. It was decided that an early train would be better than going by car.At last,” s...
25Before catching their train Hercule Poirot and Mr. Satterthwaite had had a brief interview with Miss Lyndon, the late Sir Bartholomew Strange’...
26Poirot did not have quite the uninterrupted twenty-four hours for which he had stipulated.At twenty minutes past eleven on the following morning Egg...
27Hercule Poirot sat in a big armchair. The wall lights had been turned out. Only a rose-shaded lamp shed its glow on the figure in the armchair. Ther...
BOOK THE FIRSTRECALLED TO LIFECHAPTER 1The PeriodIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of fool...
CHAPTER IIThe MailIt was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in November, before the first of the persons with whom this history has busin...
CHAPTER 3The Night ShadowsWonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every oth...
CHAPTER 4The PreparationWHEN the mail got successfully to Dover, in the course of the forenoon, the head drawer at the Royal George Hotel opened the c...
CHAPTER 5The Wine-shopA LARGE cask of wine had been dropped and broken, street. The accident had happened in getting it out of a cart; the cask had tu...
CHAPTER 6The Shoemaker`GOOD DAY!' said Monsieur Defarge, looking down at he white head that bent low over the shoemaking.It was raised for a momen...