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November 7 - November 16, 2025
“If there’s an inquest, I—I shan’t have to answer questions and all that, shall I?”
Elsie Dale was a big fair girl, with a pleasant but slightly stupid face.
Lol wth
“What about Parker?”
Why they want to keep going back to Parker?!
“I’ve a feeling there’s something wrong about that man,”
“What!”
How can this seriously surprise him??
the truth leads me every time to Ralph Paton. Motive, opportunity, means.
With the utterance of the name the smile vanished from her face, and all the cordiality froze out of her manner. She looked uncomfortable and ill at ease.
“I was surprised you hadn’t told him.”
I don’t believe Ralph did it, and so the truth can’t hurt him,
“Only about the patients you had that morning.”
Maybe he suspects James too...
“Miss Russell!”
“I don’t know what you mean,” I said, quite untruthfully. “Why shouldn’t Miss Russell consult me about her bad knee?”
Very suss - its giving possibly unreliable narrator
Had Poirot really come to gain information about Miss Russell,
Bruh, he came to get info about you, James...
she had led the conversation to poisons and poisoning. But there was nothing in that.
???
It is well at any price to have peace in the home.
it’s bad whichever way you look at it. If he’s innocent, why doesn’t he come forward? We’ve got evidence against him, but it’s just possible that the evidence could be explained away. Then why doesn’t he give an explanation?”
With such a cordon it seemed impossible that Ralph should be able to evade detection.
Maybe he was also killed?...
I believe that when we find the explanation of that telephone call we shall find the explanation of the murder.”
I am much aged, my powers may not be what they were.” Here he clearly expected a contradiction.
Lol
And I shall know—in spite of you all.”
Every one of you in this room is concealing something from me.”
Each one of you has something to hide.
“Ah! but it is that you are a little stupid tonight, my friend.
Lol
Three motives—it is almost too much. I am inclined to believe that, after all, Ralph Paton is innocent.”
I can’t think why Flora insisted on bringing him into the case. She never said a word to me about it. Just went off and did it on her own.
She sounding sus
“What does he think? That’s what I want to know. Does he actually imagine I’m hiding something? He—he—positively accused me yesterday.”
V sus
And though, of course, I expected that Roger would provide for me, I didn’t know.
“I can exist comfortably without knowing exactly what my neighbours are doing and thinking.”
“I shouldn’t be at all surprised if Geoffrey Raymond and Flora weren’t married.”
Flora Ackroyd does not care a penny piece for Ralph Paton, and never has.
if Captain Paton climbed into his uncle’s room and found him there murdered, he may have sent it.
It was of Miss Russell that I had been reminded that night outside the gates of Fernly Park.
A relative?...
“You are very dull today, James. No animation about you. It’s that liver of yours.”
Lol
“This new engagement. Flora and Hector Blunt.
this husband of yours is innocent—
?
Ursula’s eldest sister was married to Captain Folliott. It was she whom I had seen that Sunday, and the cause of her embarrassment was clear enough now.
Oh!
And then came her meeting with Ralph Paton, and the love affair which culminated in a secret marriage.
Oh!
Ursula Bourne became Ursula Paton.
Major Blunt was walking up and down the terrace,
Sus
I accused the other five persons present of concealing something from me. Four of them gave up their secret. Dr Sheppard did not give up his.
“Dr Sheppard consented to do what he could to help him. He was successful in hiding Captain Paton from the police.”
Still think it night be James
What was the advantage of having the crime discovered that night in preference to the following morning? The only idea I could get hold of was that the murderer, knowing the crime was to be discovered at a certain time, could make sure of being present when the door was broken in—or at any rate immediately afterwards.
Still could be James
So, if something was taken from the table—why should not that something be the dictaphone?
It was the dictaphone speaking—not the man.”
person who had the opportunity to take these shoes of Ralph Paton’s from the Three Boars that day.”
Its defo James!!
The murderer must have been a person who had the opportunity to purloin that dagger from the silver table.
James...
In fact—Dr Sheppard!”
I knew it!!!!
