Showing posts with label Christie Agatha. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christie Agatha. Show all posts

Monday, 27 July 2026

Crooked House

Even if he hasn’t made a mistake, it won’t matter—so long as the right person killed him.
Sophia

Tuesday, 23 June 2026

Three Blind Mice and Other Stories

Three Blind Mice
Three Blind Mice
See how they run
See how they run
They all ran after the farmer’s wife
She cut off their tails with a carving knife
Did you ever see such a sight in your life
Epigraph

Saturday, 30 May 2026

Appointment with Death

Poirot: I am interested in everything!
Colonel Carbury: Yes. That’s the only way to react to life.

Friday, 29 May 2026

Hercule Poirot’s Christmas

No, that’s quite all right. I shan’t be dying just yet.
Simeon Lee, the victim, a few hours before being killed

Tuesday, 26 May 2026

Murder Is Easy

England!
England after many years!
How was he going to like it?

L’Inghilterra!
Dopo tanti anni, l’Inghilterra!
Che impressione gli avrebbe fatto?


[incipit]

Wednesday, 10 December 2025

And Then There Were None

One little soldier boy left all alone;
He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

Solo, il soldatino, in un bosco se ne andò: a un pino s’impiccò, e nessuno ne restò.

(Pagina 28)

Sunday, 28 September 2025

The Regatta Mystery

Mr Isaac Pointz removed a cigar from his lips and said approvingly:
“Pretty little place.”
[incipit di “The Regatta Mystery”]

Saturday, 26 July 2025

A Murder is Announced (Un delitto avrà luogo)

A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m. Friends please accept this, the only intimation.

Un delitto avrà luogo venerdì 29 ottobre alle 18,30 a Little Paddocks. Si pregano gli amici di voler prendere nota di questo avvertimento che non sarà più ripetuto.

(Pagina 5)

Thursday, 16 January 2025

Sparkling Cyanide

Iris Marle was thinking about her sister, Rosemary.
For nearly a year she had deliberately tried to put the thought of Rosemary away from her. She hadn’t wanted to remember.

Iris Marle stava pensando a sua sorella, Rosemary.
Per quasi un anno aveva deliberatamente cercato di allontanare il pensiero di Rosemary da sé. Non aveva voluto ricordare.


[incipit]

Sunday, 15 December 2024

Death Comes as the End (C’era una volta)

She might be safer unknowing, but no human creature could be content to have it that way. She wanted to know.

Poteva darsi che non sapendolo lei fosse più al sicuro, ma nessun essere umano è contento di trovare sicurezza nell’ignoranza. Lei voleva sapere.

(Pagina 231)

Friday, 1 March 2024

The Moving Finger (Il terrore viene per posta)

God doesn’t really need to punish us […]. We’re so very busy punishing ourselves.

Dio non ha bisogno di punirci […]. Siamo occupatissimi a punirci da noi stessi.

Jerry Burton

Wednesday, 14 February 2024

Five Little Pigs

Hercule Poirot looked with interest and appreciation at the young woman who was being ushered into the room.
Hercule Poirot guardò con interesse e approvazione la giovane donna che veniva introdotta nella stanza.
[incipit]

Sunday, 4 February 2024

La parola alla difesa

Elinor Katherine Carlisle! Siete imputata, secondo l’atto d’accusa, di assassinio nella persona di Mary Gerrard; delitto che fu compiuto il 27 dello scorso mese di luglio. Vi dichiarate colpevole o innocente?
[incipit]

Tuesday, 16 January 2024

The Body in the Library

Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid spinsterish face, and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it as all in the day’s work. Her name’s Miss Marple. She comes from the village of St Mary Mead, which is a mile and a half from Gossington, she’s a friend of the Bantrys—and where crime is concerned she’s the goods.

Al piano di sotto al bar, accanto al terzo pilastro da sinistra, siede una vecchia signora con un dolce, placido viso da zitella, e una mente che ha scandagliato le profondità dell’iniquità umana e che ha molta pratica. Il suo nome è Miss Marple. Viene dal villaggio di St Mary Mead, che è a un miglio e mezzo da Gossington, è un’amica dei Bantry... e quando c’è di mezzo il crimine lei è una molto abile.

Sir Henry

Saturday, 6 January 2024

N or M?

Tommy Beresford removed his overcoat in the hall of the flat. He hung it up with some care, taking time over it. His hat went carefully on the next peg.

Sunday, 31 December 2023

Thursday, 28 December 2023

Poirot non sbaglia

«Sicché» disse «lei è Hercules Poirot. Ho sentito parlare di lei...»
«Sono abbastanza noto» rispose Poirot, con la sua abituale modestia.


Wednesday, 27 December 2023

Evil Under the Sun (Corpi al sole)

It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But you forget, Miss Brewster, there is evil everywhere under the sun.

È un luogo di pace. Il sole splende. Il mare è blu. Ma lei dimentica, signorina Brewster, che c’è male ovunque sotto il sole.

Poirot


Wednesday, 30 March 2022

Tea

I always say a cup of tea makes all the difference.

Io dico sempre che una tazza di tè fa tutta la differenza.

Miss Pierce

Appointment with Death (La domatrice) / Agatha Christie

Source: Appointment with Death « il tempo di leggere

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