The A B C Murders / Убийство по алфавиту. Книга для чтения на английском языке

The A B C Murders / Убийство по алфавиту. Книга для чтения на английском языке

Agatha Christie

Чтение в оригинале (Каро)Detective story

Мастер классического детектива предлагает читателям новую загадку – убийства по железнодорожному справочнику, которые берется распутывать Эркюль Пуаро.

Следить за развитием событий читателю помогут подробные комментарии и словарь, данный в конце книги.

Agatha Christie / Агата Кристи

The A B C Murders / Убийство по алфавиту. Книга для чтения на английском языке

To James Watts

В В В В One of my most sympathetic readers

В В В В 

The A B C Murders В© 1936

Agatha Christie Limited.

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AGATHA CHRISTIEВ© POIROT and the Agatha Christie Signature are registered trade marks of Agatha Christie Limited in the UK and elsewhere.

В© РљРђР Рћ, 2019

Foreword by Captain Arthur Hastings, О. В. E.[1 - O.B.E. = Officer of the Order of the British Empire – офицер ордена Британской империи (рыцарский орден, созданный Георгом V в 1917 г.; самый младший в британской наградной системе)]

In this narrative of mine I have departed from my usual practice of relating only those incidents and scenes at which I myself was present[2 - I myself was present – я лично присутствовал]. Certain chapters, therefore, were written in the third person.

Wish to assure my readers that I can vouch for the occurrences related in these chapters. If I have taken a certain poetic licence in describing the thoughts and feelings of various persons, it is because I believe I have set them down with a reasonable amount of accuracy. I may add that they have been “vetted” by my friend Hercule Poirot himself.

In conclusion, I will say that if I have described at too great length some of the secondary personal relationships which arose as a consequence of this strange series of crimes, it is because the human and personal element can never be ignored.