The Murder on the Links: A Hercule Poirot NovelMonsieur Renauld dies on a golf course just days after sending a plea for help to detective Poirot. Since Renauld possessed a plundered fortune, a scorned wife, a mistress, and an estranged son, there is no lack of suspects. It's up to Poirot to put the police onto the culprit before more murders occur. |
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Page 17 - I swore to myself that she was one of the most beautiful girls I had ever seen. As we swung up the rough road, I turned my head to look after her. "By Jove, Pbirot," I exclaimed, "did you see that young goddess.
Page 7 - Method" were his gods. He had a certain disdain for tangible evidence, such as footprints and cigarette ash, and would maintain that, taken by themselves, they would never enable a detective to solve a problem.
Page 36 - ... tendency is equally in evidence in her attitude towards the body. After Poirot has viewed the corpse of M. Renauld, the chapter concludes with a parody of religious observance that clearly indicates the distance between Christie's contemporary rituals and pre-war rites of death: Poirot lingered for a moment, looking back towards the body. I thought for a moment that he was going to apostrophize it, to declare aloud his determination never to rest till he had discovered the murderer. But when...
Page 95 - I decided that the only thing to do was to make a clean breast of it. "M. le juge,
Page 78 - Man is an unoriginal animal, unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life , equally unoriginal outside the law. If a man commits a crime, any other crime he commits will resemble it closely. The English murderer who disposed of his wives in succession by drowning them in their baths was a case in point. Had he varied his methods he might have escaped detection to this...
Page 220 - Could it be so? Was this nonsense, or could it, perhaps, be true? Mrs. Packington gazed at him hopefully. "Shall we diagnose your case?" said Mr. Parker Pyne, smiling. He leaned back in his chair and brought the tips of his fingers together. "The trouble concerns your husband. You have had, on the whole, a happy married life. Your husband has, I think, prospered. I think there is a young lady concerned in the case — perhaps a young lady in your husband's office.
Page 100 - ... things like listening at keyholes, reading other people's letters, and above all, boasting. He belongs to the breed of detective who keep their deductions to themselves until the last chapter, sometimes hinting at them in a tantalising way. As Captain Hastings, his aide in the earlier books, complains, 'You make all these confounded mysteries and it's useless asking you to explain. You always like keeping something up your sleeve.
Page 161 - I thought you were just saying it for the sake of saying something," I confessed. "Ah, quelle idee! Later you observed me measuring the overcoat of M. Jack Renauld. Eh bien, M. Jack Renauld wears his overcoat very short. Put those two facts together with a third, namely that M.
Page 70 - ... several boxes of Kotex for all the girls. The others in the room shifted uneasily in their chairs. Then she said she had also bought her daughters some clothes and some shoes. She had the cash register receipt for the purchase. Choosing my words carefully, I asked why she had needed to buy the new shoes. She looked at me for a moment with an expression that I couldn't read. Then she stated, quite emphatically, that they were Sunday shoes that she had bought with the money. The girls already had...