by John Curran
Crooked House
Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case
‘The Dead Harlequin’
Dead Man’s Folly
‘Dead Man’s Mirror’
Death Comes as the End
Death in the Clouds
Death on the Nile
Death on the Nile (play)
‘Death on the Nile’
‘Detective Writers in England’
Destination Unknown
‘The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim’
‘The Double Clue’
‘Double Sin’
‘The Dream’
Dumb Witness
Elephants Can Remember
Endless Night
‘The Erymanthian Boar’ 309, 347, 348, 350, 355-57, 360, 366, 452
Evil under the Sun 29, 39, 54, 64, 68, 81, 159, 160, 182, 254, 266, 268, 310, 312, 322-29, 352
Fiddlers Three (play) 91, 131, 256, 286, 287, 295-99
Five Little Pigs 22, 24, 38, 39, 45, 50, 54, 89, 105, 106, 117, 118, 125-38, 182, 186, 191, 217, 223, 228, 245, 258, 260, 278, 385
The Floating Admiral 61, 64, 102
‘The Flock of Geryon’ 64, 349, 350, 352, 365, 427
‘Four and Twenty Blackbirds’ 105, 107, 108, 124-5
Four-Fifty from Paddington 78, 97, 117, 153, 158, 161, 180, 195, 211-16, 279, 287, 303, 309, 391, 392, 409
‘The Four Suspects’ 173
‘The Girdle of Hyppolita’ 347, 348, 349, 350, 363-4, 425
Go Back for Murder (play) 278
‘Greenshaw’s Folly’ 78, 90, 185, 199, 212, 290
‘The Greenshore Folly’ 80, 185, 188
Hallowe’en Party 47, 258, 310, 313, 339-45, 366, 409
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas 22, 38, 90, 149, 249, 258, 272, 274, 277, 310, 317-22, 360, 373
Hickory Dickory Dock 105, 106, 118, 129, 130-31, 152-8, 201, 210, 308-9
The Hollow 23, 29, 39, 50, 81, 98, 159, 258, 373, 385-91
The Hollow (play) 278, 387
‘The Horses of Diomedes’ 349, 350, 361-3, 427
The Hound of Death 288
‘The House at Shiraz’ 176, 197, 258, 259, 262-5
‘How Does Your Garden Grow’ 105, 108-10, 340, 345, 354, 453, 484
‘The Importance of a Leg of Mutton’ 360
‘The Incident of the Dog’s Ball’ 25, 80, 109, 218, 453-60, 461-84
’The Incredible Theft’ 80
‘Ingots of Gold’ 307
‘Jane in Search of a Job’ 298
‘Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan’ 303, 306
‘The King of Clubs’ 182
The Labours of Hercules 26, 47, 91, 96, 280, 340, 346-68, 370, 425-8, 433-52
‘The Lamp’ 92
‘The Lernean Hydra’ 347, 348, 349, 350, 353-64, 425
The Listerdale Mystery 244, 287, 291, 297
‘The Listerdale Mystery’ 371
Lord Edgware Dies 29, 39, 67, 104, 153, 313, 393
‘The Love Detectives’ 81
The Man in the Brown Suit 44, 67, 81, 195, 259, 260-63, 277, 373, 380, 407, 412
‘The Man who was No. 16’ 182
‘Manx Gold’ 51, 162, 163-5, 311
‘The Market Basing Mystery’ 80, 312, 315-17
The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side 153, 162, 168, 223, 268, 340, 373, 374, 402-11, 414
‘Miss Marple Tells a Story’ 303, 306
‘Motive Vs Opportunity’ 96, 164, 173, 370
The Mousetrap (play) 25, 47, 69, 105, 106, 140, 141, 286, 290
The Moving Finger 159, 173, 179, 180, 256, 258, 290, 307, 356, 371, 380-85, 402
‘Mr Eastwood’s Adventure’ 257
Mrs McGinty’s Dead 54, 66, 91, 94, 97, 103, 159, 179, 182, 192, 199, 217, 237-43, 245, 249, 303, 312, 340, 341, 354, 371
The Murder at the Vicarage 29, 39, 67, 81, 159, 174, 198, 207, 256, 331, 362, 380, 396
Murder in Mesopotamia 66, 73, 100, 124, 159, 208, 259, 260, 269-73, 303, 356, 380, 409
‘Murder in the Mews’ 22, 80, 312, 315-17, 331
A Murder is Announced 22, 23, 25, 58, 66, 100, 153, 161, 162-63, 168, 174-80, 182, 201, 237, 256, 258, 264, 290, 312, 313, 352
Murder is Easy 45, 179, 281, 372, 381, 383
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 39, 44, 46-7, 81, 99, 219, 373, 380, 396, 412
The Murder on the Links 44, 109, 208, 259, 453
Murder on the Orient Express 25, 38, 39, 45, 46, 81, 99, 159, 195, 208, 219, 259, 312, 336, 346, 354, 393
The Mysterious Affair at Styles 27, 29, 31-6, 38-40, 44, 55, 67, 81, 196, 219, 373, 407, 414
The Mysterious Mr Quin 22, 310
‘The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge’ 346, 354
‘The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest’ 80, 289, 453
The Mystery of the Blue Train 44, 67, 80, 159, 195, 204, 208, 219, 259, 346, 354
‘The Mystery of the Plymouth Express’ 80
‘The Mystery of the Spanish Chest’ 22, 80, 97, 289
N or M? 50, 54, 258, 369, 371
‘The Nemean Lion’ 96, 104, 347, 350, 351-2, 365, 367, 426
Nemesis 69, 180, 192, 340
One, Two, Buckle my Shoe 45, 50, 58, 66, 72, 82, 88-9, 90, 91, 104, 106, 116-23, 126, 162, 168, 175, 204, 254, 307, 358, 392, 430
Ordeal by Innocence 22, 29, 39, 57, 81, 88, 105, 107, 109, 118, 158, 186, 217, 243-9, 258, 391, 410
The Pale Horse 44, 88, 98, 110, 219, 260, 373, 380, 398-403
Parker Pyne Investigates 174, 263
Partners in Crime 45, 64, 102, 182, 304, 371, 421
Passenger to Frankfurt 54, 55, 88, 259, 341, 430
The Patient (play) 287, 288, 289, 292-5
Peril at End House 38, 49, 67, 98, 162, 168, 171, 182, 310, 311-15, 316
Personal Call (play) 21, 50, 287
A Pocket Full of Rye 50, 81, 98, 105, 106, 107, 143, 147-51, 161, 167
Poirot Investigates 32, 354, 370, 454
Poirot’s Early Cases 454
Postern of Fate 22, 36, 53, 160, 373
‘A Pot of Tea’ 308
‘Problem at Pollensa Bay’ 265, 266
‘Problem at Sea’ 52, 72, 167, 195, 205-6, 316
‘The Rajah’s Emerald’ 287, 288, 291
The Rats (play) 97, 179, 181, 287, 288, 289-10, 296
‘The Red House’ 172
The Regatta Mystery 174
‘The Regatta Mystery’ 364
The Rose and the Yew Tree 258
Rule of Three (play) 286, 287-95
‘S.O.S.’ 288
Sad Cypress 52, 56, 68, 104, 159, 167, 249, 250, 275, 310, 313, 316, 319, 322, 373, 374-80, 387, 456
‘Sanctuary’ 258
The Scoop 61, 64
‘The Second Gong’ 80, 454, 456
The Secret Adversary 45, 164, 195
The Secret of Chimneys 44, 80, 81, 287, 359
The Seven Dials Mystery 44
‘The Shadow on the Glass’ 78, 79
‘The Sign in the Sky’ 370
‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’ 81, 103, 105, 106, 107-8, 217, 244, 248
The Sittaford Mystery 67, 277, 312, 362, 369, 372
Sleeping Murder 23, 25, 130, 180, 217, 249-56, 258, 356, 389, 392, 398
Snow Upon the Desert 25, 209
Sparkling Cyanide 49, 80, 82, 118, 204, 217, 222-9, 258, 346, 354, 371
Spider’s Web (play) 91, 96, 104, 162, 173, 181-4, 258, 296, 372
‘Strange Jest’ 96, 104, 118, 162, 172-3, 182, 372
‘The Stymphalean Birds’ 348, 349, 350, 358-9
‘The Submarine Plans’ 80
Taken at the Flood 50, 54, 68, 131, 159, 238, 249, 258, 313, 340, 341, 346, 354, 362, 371, 373, 387, 391-8
‘Tape-Measure Murder’ 173, 372
Tea for Three (play) 288
Ten Little Niggers 24, 29, 45, 81, 105, 106, 110-16, 182, 286, 307, 362, 371, 401, 412
They Came to Baghdad 36, 45, 175, 259
They Do It with Mirrors 22, 52, 81, 97, 148-9, 180, 191, 247, 304, 318, 392, 456
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Third Girl 49, 60, 87, 90, 109, 161, 193, 362
The Thirteen Problems 85, 96, 148, 173, 174, 207, 264, 307, 323, 354, 360, 370
Three Act Tragedy 72, 81, 159, 160, 168, 197, 204, 224, 258, 313, 318, 346, 354, 371, 457
Three Blind Mice (play) 49, 106, 139-42, 179, see also The Mousetrap
‘The Thumb Mark of St Peter’ 360
Towards Zero 21, 22, 54, 79, 83, 159, 160, 214, 310, 329-35, 382
‘Triangle at Rhodes’ 124, 197, 208, 259, 266-9, 316, 322
‘The Tuesday Night Club’ 81, 105, 148
‘The Unbreakable Alibi’ 64
‘The Under Dog’ 372
The Unexpected Guest (play) 50, 54, 96, 181, 212, 288, 296
Verdict 181, 296
Vision 32
‘While the Light Lasts’ 163
Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? 162, 164, 171, 272, 277, 370
Witness for the Prosecution (play) 29, 39, 49, 50, 264, 370
‘Witness for the Prosecution’ 264, 370
‘Yellow Iris’ 80, 223
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Acknowledgements
This book has benefited greatly from the encouragement and assistance of many people whose names do not appear on the title page.
First and foremost, my thanks go to Mathew Prichard and his wife Lucy. The very existence of this book is due to Mathew’s generosity. He unhesitatingly agreed to my writing about the Notebooks when I first approached him. And he not only granted me complete and unfettered access to all of his grandmother’s papers but he and Lucy also extended me limitless hospitality on the many occasions when I studied them.
David Brawn, HarperCollins, for his faith in the project and Steve Gove for his eagle-eyed editing.
My brother Brendan read an early draft and his positive words gave much encouragement; and with his wife, Virginia, he provided me with a home-from-home (but with superior technical backup!).
My friend and fellow Christie devotee, Tony Medawar, made many helpful suggestions as well as sharing his research with me.
Felicity Windmill, HarperCollins Archivist; Dr Christine Faunch and her staff in Exeter University Library; Tamsen Harward and Jemma Jones at Agatha Christie Ltd.
David Headley of Goldsboro Books for his invaluable help and advice.
My many colleagues and friends in Dublin City Council for their support, especially Michael Sands, Press Officer and Jane Alger, Divisional Librarian, Readers’ Services.
And, for various reasons, my thanks also to Eurion Brown, Pete Coleman, Julius Green, John Perry, John Ryan, John Timon, Andy Trott and Nigel Wollen.
Примечания
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1. The Hollow
2. Five Little Pigs
3. Five Little Pigs
4. Sparkling Cyanide
5. Cat among the Pigeons
6. Ordeal by Innocence
7. ‘Sanctuary’
8. Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
9. Sleeping Murder
10. A Murder is Announced
11. Fiddlers Three
12. The Hollow
13. Dead Man’s Folly
14. Hallowe ‘en Party
15. Ordeal by Innocence
16. N or M?
17. The Moving Finger
18. Spider’s Web
19. Taken at the Flood
20. Ordeal by Innocence
21. Ordeal by Innocence
22. The Rose and the Yew Tree
23. The Moving Finger
24. ‘The House at Shiraz’
25. Three Act Tragedy
26. A Caribbean Mystery
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Unlike the collected version, which is set unequivocally in London, the previously unpublished version has, like many other Labours, an international flavour. From the first sentence we are ‘abroad’ and, for the third time in the Labours, in Switzerland (perhaps significantly a neutral country). Poirot has already visited the country during ‘The Arcadian Deer’ and ‘The Erymanthian Boar’.
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A most unlikely and almost unique thought for Poirot!
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4
This is a reference to the first meeting of Vera Rossakoff and Poirot in ‘The Double Clue’, published in December 1923, when he unmasked her as a jewel thief. They subsequently met four years later in The Big Four.
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5
This is a reference to The Big Four when Poirot arranges the return to the Countess of the small son she had thought long dead.
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6
The passage about the Countess’s son is almost word-for-word the same as in the collected version of the story.
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7
It seems odd that Poirot would look forward to drinking vodka.
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8
Although he sounds like a character from the world of operetta, it is difficult not to think of Mussolini.
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9
Despite the unavoidable allegory throughout the story, this is the only unequivocal reference to the Nazis.
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10
The dog handler is called Mr Higgs, and described as ‘odorifer-ous’ in both versions of the story.
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11
Such is the political flavour, the eponymous Hound is almost forgotten and he plays a much smaller role than his counterpart in the collected story.
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12
In the course of this story we see a different Poirot, one who longs for the company of a woman, drinks vodka and now climbs over a wall, although this is a feat he has already performed in the course of the eleventh Labour, ‘The Apples of the Hesperides’. Indeed, the tracking down and eventual discovery of August Hertzlein is reminiscent of a similar procedure involving the Cellini chalice in that story.
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The exact wording of the title appears, more than once, in Chapter 9 of Dumb Witness and also in Miss Arundell’s letter in Chapter 5.
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This letter is very similar to that sent by Miss Amelia Barrowby, another el
derly lady living in a small village who is subsequently poisoned, in ‘How Does Your Garden Grow?’
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15
If the letter was written on 12 April and received by Poirot in early August, this should read ‘nearly four months ago’.
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16
This should read ‘April’.
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17
Oddly, this very specific occupation, suspicious in the context of a poisoning mystery, is never mentioned again.
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18
This picture (it changes to a jar with similar wording in Chapter 8 of the novel) can be seen in Greenway House and may have been part of Christie’s inspiration. She was a dog-lover and lifelong dog-owner.
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19
This scientific explanation appears verbatim in Chapter 23 of Dumb Witness.
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20
This somewhat questionable procedure, with Poirot taking the law into his own hands, is also adopted in the novel.
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