—here, my dear Colin, is The Leavenworth Case.’ He handed the book to me. ‘That’s going back quite a long time,’ I said. ‘I believe my father mentioned that he read it as a boy. I believe I once read it myself. It must seem rather old-fashioned now.’ ‘It is admirable,’ said Poirot. ‘One savours its period atmosphere, its studied and deliberate melodrama.
