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hmm

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foreign

and according to scotland young the

crime took place at 24 call the street

fighters

the murdered woman was a mrs maureen

lyon

in connection with the murder the police

are anxious to interview a man seen in

the vicinity

wearing a dark overcoat light scarf and

a soft belt hat

motorists are worn against as found

their

expected to continue and throughout the

country there will be a certain freezing

particularly at points on the north and

northeast coast of scotland

it really does look nice

how stupid it tries gosh

doing all the work

hello sweetheart

your nose is cooked i've just come in

why where have you been surely you've

not been out in this weather i had to go

down to the village for some stuff i'd

forgotten did you get the chicken it

wasn't the right kind then i went down

to another dump but that was a very good

eye practically a little dave wasted me

my god i have frozen carved skin like

the snow is coming down thick what do

you bet

first impressions are so important is

everything ready

nobody survived yeah

thank goodness i think everything's in

order mrs barlow was hooked early afraid

of the weather i suppose what a nuisance

these days that means

are you sorry now we didn't sell this

place when you're unconnected to you

instead of having this mad idea of

running it as a guest house no i'm not

loved

and talking of a guest house

just look at that

pretty good

whoa

it's a disaster don't you see you've

left out the s

monk well nana instead of monk swell

so i did

but it doesn't much matter does it monk

well it's just as good an name you're in

disgrace

going stoke like the central beach

across that icy god

should i make it up in the night now no

you don't do that until 10 or 11 o'clock

at night

hurry up someone might be arriving any

minute now

got all the rooms worked out yes

mrs boyle from poster room major

blue room miss casewell eastwood mr

regular room i wonder what all these

people will be like

i want me to you've got friends involved

you know i don't think so well rather

mugs in this game they bring luggage and

they don't pay we hang on to their lives

it's quite simple i can't help and we

thinking we ought to have taken up a

correspondence course in hotelity we're

sure to get handed

what if their luggage is just risk

wrapped up in newspaper and where should

we be then they all wrote some very good

addresses that's what servants have

forged references to some of these

people may be criminals hiding from the

police i don't care what they are as

long as they pay us seven beauties every

week

you're such a wonderful woman of

business

and according to scotland the others the

crime took place at 24 hold the street

fight

the murdered woman was a mrs maureen

lion

in connection with the murder the police

are anxious to interview a man seen in

the vicinity

wearing a dark overcoat

light scarf

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how do you do mr ben you know you're not

all as i pictured you i've been thinking

of you as a retired general's widow

indian army i thought you'd be

terrifically grim and mencivish and that

this whole place would simply be crammed

with panora's brock's instead oh

it's heavenly

quite heavily lucky proportions oh

that's a fake

oh but this table's genuine

i am simply going to like it here or do

you have any wax flowers or or birds of

paradise i'm afraid

a purple plummy mahogany sideboard with

great solid carb fruits on it yes we

have

in the dining room in here oh i simply

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absolutely perfect real rock

respectability oh but why do away with

the center mahogany table the little

tables just to spoil the effect oh we

thought our guests would prefer them if

this is my husband oh

how do you do

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of course mrs you're absolutely right

about the little tables i was being

carried away by my feeling for burying

it

no if you had a center table you'd have

to have the right family around it a

stern handsome father with a beard

a prolific faded mother

eleven children of assaulted ages a grim

governess and uh somebody called a poor

harriet the poor relation who is a

gentle dog's body and is very very

grateful for being given a good home

i'll take your suitcase upstairs for you

did you say yes

don't think your husband is going to

like me

how long have you been married are you

very much in love we've been married

just a year

how do you like to come up and see your

room

ticked off

but i do so like knowing all about

people i mean i think people are madly

interested don't you well i suppose some

are and some are not no

no i don't agree

no i think everyone is interesting

because you never really know what

anyone is like or or what they're really

thinking

for instance you don't know what i'm

thinking about now do you not in the

least you see

no the only people who really know what

other people are like are the artists

and even they don't know why you know

but if they're uh portrait painters it

it comes out on the

canvas

are you a painter

no no

no i'm an architect

my parents you know baptized to me

christopher in the hopes that i would

become an architect christopher wren as

good as halfway home

of course everybody laughs and makes

jokes about saint paul so however

who knows

i may yet have the last lava

chris wren's prefab nests may yet go

down in history

i'm going to like it here i find your

wife most sympathetic indeed and really

very beautiful oh don't be absurd yeah

isn't that just like an english woman

compliments always embarrass them

european women take compliments as a

matter of course but english women have

all the feminine spirit crushed out of

them by their husbands

yes

there's something dreadfully borish

about english husbands

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is

there was great difficulty in getting

that nothing ordered to meet us it seems

so sorry

we didn't know trade will be coming by

you see otherwise of course we've had

someone um

standing by

all trades should have been met

casual and off-hand i must say

i'm so sorry my

mrs roster yes i'm very young

young

should be running an establishment of

this kind

haven't had much experience

there has to be a beginning for

everything hasn't there i see

quite inexperienced

an old house too

i hope you haven't got dry rot certainly

not

a lot of people don't know they've got

dry rots

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the house is in perfect condition

it could do with

i'm

why i should say we'll have five or six

feet of snow my morning i haven't seen

anything like it since i was on leave in

1914. i'll take these off which room

should you save blue room in the rose

room

he might be so much so easy

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major

your start just us indeed

i understood that this was a guest house

in full running order we're only just

starting i should have said that the

proper staff of servants was essential

before opening this kind of

establishment

i consider your advertisement most

misleading

may i ask if i am the only guest with

major red card that is no there are

several here and there's weather too

a blizzard no less

all very unfortunate but we couldn't

very well see the weather

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i adore nursery rhymes don't you always

so tragic in the car and that's why

children like them

this is a very beautiful house don't you

think so i have come to the time of life

when the amenities of an establishment

are more important than its appearance

if i had not believed this was a running

cancer and i should never compare i

understood it was falling

with every whole concept there is no

obligation for you to remain here if

you're not satisfied mrs boyle no indeed

i wouldn't think of doing so if there

has been any misapprehension perhaps it

would be better if you went

elsewhere i could bring up the taxi to

return the roads are not yet blocked we

had so many applications for rooms you

see that it should be quite easy for us

to fill your place at any rate we are

raising our terms next month i'm

certainly not going to leave before i've

tried what this place is like

you need to think that you can turn me

out now

perhaps you will take me up to my

bedroom mrs rolster said mrs boyle

darling

i think that's a perfectly horrible

woman i don't like her at all i'd like

to see you turn her out into the snow

serve her right

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though you're going to be snowed up here

where the forecast says heavy falls

expected motorists ward etc hopefully

you've got plenty of provisions in oh

yes my wife is an excellent manager at

any rate we can always eat our heads

any news in the paper apart from the

weather unusual political crisis

[ __ ] yes and a rather juicy murderer

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the police are anxious to interview a

man seen in the vicinity of kohler

street at the time

medium height wearing darkish overcoat

lightish scarf and soft felt hat the

police messages to this event have been

broadcast throughout the day useful

description fit pretty well

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it's an awful night would you like to

come up to your room the water's hot to

be like a bar your right hand

he stopped

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ashes

ashes we all fall down

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and tina peas and mashed the potatoes oh

they're the shin figs and custard do you

think that'll be all right

yes you think so not very original

perhaps oh i do let me help i adore a

cookie

though for one modern omelette

yes we've got plenty of eggs we keep

lots of vowels they don't lay as well as

they should but we put down a lot of

eggs and if you've got a bottle of cheap

just of any type wine you could add it

to the

minced beef and cereals did you say

give it a continental flavor

show me where the kitchen is and what

you've got and i dare say i shall have

an inspiration come on

says leave it all to him and don't come

back for half an hour if our guests want

to do all the cooking themselves which

will save us a lot of trouble why on

earth you give him the best room i told

you you like the four posters

i've

probably one of those young men who go

about filthy hotel keepers i don't

believe it

i like

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all right don't you probably drinks do

you think so

no

i don't i was just being rather

depressed

but at any rate we know the worst now

it will arrive

probably the culver street murder

oh a thousand patents i am

where am i this is most well-mannered

guesthouse oh but what stupendous good

fortune

alas has

run into a snow

blinding snow everywhere do not know

where i am

perhaps i think to myself if i will

freeze to death

but then i take a little back

i stagger through the snow

i see before me big island against a

habitation i am sad

twice i fall into the snow as i come up

your drive

last i arrive and immediately disperse

to join

you can only have a room yes

yes it's a rather small one i'm afraid

naturally naturally you have other

guests we've only just opened this place

as a guest house today so we're rather

new it is oh charming

charming what about your knowledge that

is not no consequence i have locked the

car securely will be badly getting it no

no

i can assure you on such a night as this

there will be no thieves abroad and as

for me all my ones are very simple i

have all that i need here in this little

bag

yes

all that i need

you'd better get thoroughly warm

i'll go see about your room i'll wait a

cold room because the faces north but

all the others are occupied

you have several guests then

yes there's mrs boyle and major metcalfe

and miss casewell and a young man called

christopher

and now you

yes

the unexpected guest they guessed that

you did not define the guests that

arrived from nowhere out of the storm

some dramatic close enough who am i

where do i come from you do not know me

i am the man of mystery

but now i tell you this i complete the

picture from now on there will be no

revivals and other patches either by

tomorrow perhaps even already we are cut

off from civilization

it could not suit me better

house perfect

perfect

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i consider it most dishonest not to have

told me that they only just starve

well everything has to have a beginning

you know

excellent breakfast this morning a good

coffee scrambled eggs homemade marmalade

and all day nicely served too

and little woman does it all herself

amateurs there ought to be a proper

start

excellent march too

couldn't be

well yes but learning how the skies call

me

red wine in it

mrs austin said she'd make a privilege

these radiators are not really hot

i shall speak about it

beds too

that ladies nightmares hope yours wants

too it was quite adequate

i don't see why the best bedroom should

have been given to that very peculiar

young man

first come first served

from the advertisement i got quite a

different impression of what this place

would be like

oh comfortable

much larger place all together

with bridge

and

another amenities

regular old terry's delight

i made your pardon

i

mean i quite see what you mean

no indeed i shall stay here

no

no i don't suppose you will

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exercise

that must have exercise

sorry oh that's all right

an incredible young woman

doesn't she know anything about

housework

carrying a vacuum through the front

rooms

aren't very back stairs oh yes very nice

back stairs very convenient

if there was a fire then why not use

them

ah anyway all of that reports have been

done this morning before luncheon i

gather our hostess had to cook the lunch

not very easy to get nowadays is it oh

no indeed the lower classes he had no

idea of their responsibilities

lower classes

you've got the [ __ ] between their teeth

haven't they

i gather you are a socialist yeah say

that

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i suppose conditions are much easier of

all well i don't have to cook as i

gather most people have to do in this

country

this country has gone sadly downhill

not what it used to be

i sold my house last year everything was

just too difficult hotels and guest

houses are easier they certainly do

solve some of one's problems

are you over in england for long it

depends i've got some business to turn

to when it is finished i shall go back

to prague

italy

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would you mind turning that down the

little like always buying blame your

other distracting when one is trying to

relent do you

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music there's a writing table in there

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um

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everywhere i go that woman seems to hunt

me down

and then she plays at me positively

clears

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drove her out i'm black i'm very fat i

don't like her one bit

let's try and think of things we can do

to annoy her shall we

i do wish he'd go away from here in this

yes

yes that's true

snow's rather lovely isn't it

so peaceful and

pure it makes one forget things it

doesn't make me forget

how fierce you sound

i was thinking what sort of thinking

ice on a bedroom jug

chill grains raw and bleeding

one thin ragged blanket

and a child

shivering with cold and fear

why did

it sounds

too too green

what is it a novel

you didn't know i was a writer did you

oh are you sorry it's disappointing sure

actually i'm not

hmm

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this is monk's my manner guest house

what

no i'm afraid mr roston can't come to

the telephone just now this is mrs

ralston speaking

the berkshire police

yes yes superintendent hogman i'm afraid

that's impossible he'd never get here

we're snowed up completely snowed up

the roads are impassable

nothing can get through

yes very well

what

hello

do you notice

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that's what i told them that they seemed

quite confident you would nonsense even

a jeep couldn't get through in this

anyway what's it all about that's what i

asked but he wouldn't say

you said i was to impress upon my

husband to listen very carefully to

whatever

sergeant trotter i think it was had to

say and to follow his instructions

implicitly isn't that extraordinary it's

on earth have you done

do you think it's those nylons from

trolls i didn't really quiet

i had a rather near-shaved car the other

day it was entirely the other that was

full he must have done something

must be something to do with running

this place we probably ignored some tin

port regulation from some ministry

rather you practically can't avoid it

nowadays

we've never started this place we're

going to be snowed up for days and

everyone is crossing we shall go through

all our reserve of tinch

darling everything's going all right at

the moment i feel that the cool couples

and brought in the wood and stoked the

auger and done their heads next up up do

the boiler and chop up some gingerly

yeah molly

it must be something pretty urgent to

send a police sergeant checking out all

this must be really serious

do you know that the central heating in

the library is practically stone cold

sorry to spoil it with it short of code

i am paying seven videos

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if you don't mind by saying so

that is a very extraordinary young man

you've got staying here

his

manners his

ties

does he ever brush his hair he's an

extremely brilliant young architects and

vagabond

christopher wren is an architect so my

dear young woman of course christopher

wren was an architect he'd been support

young people she presented no one is

educated but yourself i went to this

realm his name is christopher his

parents called him that because they

hoped he'd be an architect yet he is or

the only one so it turned out all right

sounds a fishy story to me

i should make some increase about two

five of you

what do you know okay

just as much as i know about you mrs

boyle which is that you're both paying

us seven guineas a week that's really

all i need to know isn't it and all that

concerns me it doesn't matter to me

whether i like my guests or whether

i don't

you are very young and inexperienced you

should welcome the advice of someone

more knowledgeable than

what about this yourself

what about him look you weren't

expecting him were you to turn away a

bonafide traveler is against the vlog

mrs royal you should know that

why should you say that

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whatever he calls himself he seems to me

to be a [ __ ]

like this

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nobody ever hears me if i do not want

them to i find that very interesting

indeed

now there was a younger lady i must be

getting on with my letters

i'll see if it's any warmer in the

drawing room

my traveling masters looks upset what is

it

everything's rather difficult this

morning because of the snow yes snow

makes things difficult does he not

but it makes things easy

yes very

i don't know what you mean no

there's quite a lot you do not know i

think for one thing that you do not know

very much about running a guest house i

dare say we don't but we need to make a

go of this

may i give you a little word of warning

mrs bradstrom

you and your husband

shouldn't be so trusting you know

have you any references of these guests

of yours is that usual i always thought

people just came it is advisable to know

a little about the people that sleep

under your roof

take for example myself

i turned out saying that my car

attending a snow drift but you know

nothing at all

i could create

a problem a fugitive from justice a

madman even

a murderer

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are frozen

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that's all right no one can get through

with this like the tricks must be five

feet deep the roads are all banked up no

one will get here today

excuse me this is part of a cheating man

put these down

are you mr roston

yes

thank you sir detective sergeant

berkshire police

can i get these skis off and stow them

somewhere

i'll meet you thank you sir

i suppose that's what we pay our police

forces for nowadays to go about enjoying

themselves as we just walked

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why did you send it for the police mrs

but i didn't so was that man where did

he come from

we went by the drawers room window on

skis all over snow and looking terribly

hearty you may believe it or not but

that man is a

policeman policeman

uh this is detective sergeant trotter

good afternoon

you can't be assad

you're too young

i'm not quite as young as i look madam

attractive don't you think so i always

think that people are very attractive

no brains one can see that

hello

hello

mrs ross and the throne is dead it's

quite terrible but it was all right

about half an hour ago the lions rushed

me down all the way to the snow i

suppose so we're quite alone now

quite often

that's rather funny isn't it well i

don't see anything to laugh about no

indeed you know it's a it's a private

joke of my own

just movies

now you get to business mr robston

mrs ross just says hello if so you can

go to the library it's not necessary so

at all save time if everybody's present

oh do hurry up and tell us what have we

done

done oh oh it's nothing of that kind

this is ralston it's something quite

different

it's more a matter of police protection

if you understand me

now it relates to the death of a uh

of a

this is maureen lyon of 24 calder street

london west pool who was murdered

yesterday the thinking instinct

you may have heard or read about the

case yes

on the wires the woman who was strangled

that's right madam

the first thing i want to know is that

you were acquainted with this mrs line

never heard

she had a police record and her

fingerprints were on file so we were

able to identify without difficulty her

her real name was a

maureen stanning

her husband was a farmer john stanley

who resided at a uh a long ridge farm

not very far from here an orange farm

isn't that with those children yes

the longbridge father case three

children

uh that's right

miss

um the the corrigans

two boys and a girl brought before the

call as in need of care and protection

a home was found for them mr and mrs

stanley and longridge farmer

one of the children subsequently died as

a result of criminal neglect and

persistent ill treatment case made a bit

of a sensation at the time it was

horrible

uh the standings were sentenced to terms

of imprisonment stanning died in prison

um

mrs stanley served a sentence and was

duly released now yesterday as i say she

was found straight at 24 coldness who

did it

i'm coming to that madam um

a notebook was picked up near the scene

of the crime in that notebook has

written two addresses one was 24 culver

street and the other

was months well manor war

yes sir

that's why superintendent pogba now

receiving this information from scotland

thought it imperative for me to come out

here and to find out if you do have any

connection between this house or anyone

in this house and the long-run trial

okay it's nothing absolutely nothing it

must be acquainted well superintendent

hogan doesn't think it is a coincidence

so either cover himself or could have

been in any way possible

now under the weather conditions and uh

as i can skied

he sent me

with instructions to get full

particulars of everyone in the house to

report back to him by phone

and to take what measures i thought fit

to enjoy the safety of the household

safety

what kind of danger does he think we

were in

surely he doesn't think someone's going

to be killed here

i don't want to frighten any of the

ladies but

frankly

yes

that is the idea but why

that's what i'm here to find out but the

whole thing's crazy yes it says because

it's crazy that it's dangerous

nonsense i must say it seems a bit

far-fetched i think it's wonderful

is there something you haven't told us

um yes mrs ralston

below the two addresses was written

three blind mice

and on the dead woman's body was a paper

with birth

this is the first written on it

and below the word drawing of three

little mice in a bar of music the music

was to the tune of the nursery rhyme

three blind vines uh you know how it

goes um

three blind minds three blind mice

see how they run

they all ran after the farmer's mind

that was horrible

there were three children one died

yes yes the youngest a boy of eleven

what happened to the other

um

the girl was adopted by somebody we

haven't been able to trace a present

whereabouts

the elder boy would now be uh fully

grown deserved from the army to stop in

herd of sins

according to the army psychologist was

definitely schizophrenia

yes and that he's a homicidal maniac

and that he will turn up here and try to

kill someone but

that's what i've got to find out from

you

as the superintendent sees it there must

be some connection

now now you state so that you yourself

never had any connection with the

language

no

and then the same goes for you

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no i'm no connection

now what about servants

we haven't got any service

this is ridiculous

we are nearly staying in a kind of hotel

early right yesterday we've got nothing

to do with this

uh you planned your trips here in

advance though you [ __ ] your rooms

here ahead well yes of course

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is that anyone who's been following you

around might know very well that you

were coming here

now um there's just one thing i want to

know i want to know it quick

which one of you is that has some

connection with that business and long

rich farm

oh you're not being very sensible

one of you is in danger deadly danger

i've got to know which one that is

all right um

i'll ask you one by one

you first since you see you have arrived

more or less by accident

i know nothing but nothing of what you

talk about i'm a stranger in this

country

i know nothing of these local avails of

bygone years

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should i have anything to do with this

stressful business

miss

casewell leslie please well i never

heard of long bridge farm i know nothing

about it

you

take sir major i read about the papers

at the time i was stationed in embroil

no

personal knowledge

and you

christopher wray i was a mere child at

the time i don't even remember hearing

anything about it

and that's all you have to say

any of you

well if one of you gets murdered you

like yourself to blame

he's very attractive isn't he i do so

admire the police so stern and

hard-boiled

you know what to throw this whole

business three blind bikes how does that

one go

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why don't you like it

but it's a signature tube the signature

of the murderer just fancy what a big

kick you must be getting out of all this

melodramatic rubbish

i don't believe a word of it i'll just

wait mrs boyle till i creep up behind

you when you feel my hands around your

heart

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there's a poor joke anyway in fact it's

not a joke at all look what it is that's

just what it is

some mad men's joke that's just what

makes it so delicious leaving them

if you could just

see your faces

that is a singularly ill-mannered and

neurotic young man

press childs

taking our policemen on a conducted tour

of the house

your friend of the architect has been

behaving in a most abnormal manner uh

young fellows seemed happy nowadays and

there's a he'll grow out of it

no

i don't have any patience with people

who say they've got nerves well i know

oh no

well that's just as wealthy

what do you mean well i think you were a

magistrate on the bench at the time

in fact

you were responsible for sending those

three children to the old ridge farm

really

i could honor them

responsible but we had reports from

welfare workers

uh seemed very nice and was most

dangerous to have the children

everything seemed satisfactory

fresh meat

and a healthy other dog's life kicks

blows starvation and a thoroughly

vicious cap and powers i don't know they

were very sickly spoken yes i was right

it was you

one tries to do a holy

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i enjoyed myself greatly

where did he come from last night

looks a bit of a spill to me makes his

face up too rouge and powder disgusting

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four in the afternoon i've got two

normal lines

that's best

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what a horrible little tune that is

don't you like it

reminds you of your childhood perhaps

an unhappy childhood i was very happy as

a child

you were lucky

no

i'm sorry

but all that's a long time ago one gets

over things

i suppose sir or another one

they say what happens to you when your

child matters more than anything else

people say

they say who says

psychologists

the damned lot of nonsense i have no use

for psychologists and psychiatrists i've

never really had much to do with them a

good thing for you you have it it's all

a lot of booing the whole thing

likes what you make of it go straight

ahead don't look back

one can't always help looking back

nonsense it's a question of willpower

perhaps i know i expect you're right

but sometimes things happen to make you

remember don't give in turn your back is

that really the right way

i wonder

perhaps that's all wrong perhaps we're

not to believe

to face them it depends on what you're

talking about

sometimes i hardly know what i'm talking

about

nothing from the past is going to affect

me

except in the way i want it to

well right everything looks all right

upstairs

what's in here

oh drawing room

uh sorry madam who's gonna get the lay

of the land

what's all this

this

that completes my tour um nothing

suspicious

i uh i think i'll make my report now the

superintendent culture

but it was all right earlier

superintendent hogan got through all

right yes i suppose since then the lines

are down with the snow

i wonder

it may have been cut

cut

but you haven't got it

mr ralston just how much do you know

about these people who are staying in

your guesthouse i

we um

we don't really know anything about

ah

mrs boyle welcome aboard my hotel uh

major bangkok wrote for an address in

where was it

uh hamster the casewell woman wrote from

a private address in kensington

mr paul mcgee as we've told you shot

about the blue last night

still i suppose they hold our flashlight

books that's what was mean no i shall go

into all of that of course but

there isn't much reliance to be placed

on that sort of evidence but even if

this maniac is trying to get here and

kill us all or one of us we're fighting

now because of the snow and no one can

get into the mouth unless he's here

already here already oh why not mr

ralston these people arrived here

yesterday evening some hours after the

murder and misses standing

plenty of time to get here yes but

except for mr barbachini they've all got

before well why not these crimes were

planned

crimes

there's only been one crime

in colby street

why are you so sure there'll be another

year then it will happen here no i hope

to prevent that

but it will be attempted

yes

i can't believe it it's so fantastic

it isn't fantastic it's just facts

you've got a description of what this

man looks like in london uh a medium

height indeterminate build darkish

overcoat a soft felt hat face hidden by

a scarf

spoke in a whisper

there are three darkish overcoats

hanging up in the hall now

one of them is yours mr allstate

there are three lightish felt hats i

still can't believe it

you see

it's this telephone wire that worries me

if it's been cut i must

go get on with the vegetables

is there an extension

thank you paul did you say something

yes mr ross didn't i said is there an

extension yes

go and try it up there for me will ya

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oh

oh

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to understand

what i may turn the mechanics off

you have to study the precise effect for

peace on the human mind

imagine for instance

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oh

tell me you

i can't seem to find a program with

listening to

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what are you doing

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why is this all done

what a noise

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now mrs ralston trying to think think i

can't think my head's numbed mrs boyle

had only just been killed when you got

hurt you came from the kitchen

are you sure you didn't see or hear

anybody as you came along the hallway no

i don't think so just the radio blaring

out in here i couldn't think who turned

it on so loud i wouldn't hear anything

else with that would i that was clearly

the murderer's idea or

murderess how could i hear anything else

you might have done

if the brother had that before that way

he might have heard you coming from the

kitchen he might have slipped up the

back stairs or into the dining room i

think i'm not sure i had a dog creak and

shot just as i was coming out of the

kitchen which door i don't know

think mrs ralston try and think

upstairs downstairs close at hand right

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up to now nobody has taken this thing

seriously mrs boyle didn't

she held out on me with information

you all held out on me

and now unless we get to the bottom of

this and then quickly mine there may be

another death but no no one

because there were three little blind

minds a dead region where there has to

be some connection

another connection i need for the long

ridge farm business yes yes there would

have to be that but why am i dead here

because there were three little blind

monks

there were there was two

there were two addresses in the notebook

we found

now at 24 culver street there was only

one possible victim but here at

monksville manor

there is a wider field

surely it would be a most unlikely

coincidence that there should be two

people brought here by charles both of

them with a share in the longbridge farm

case

given certain circumstances it wouldn't

be so much of a coincidence but think

about miss casewell

now

i want to get down quite clearly where

everyone was when mrs boyle was killed

they already had mrs ralston's statement

um

you were in the kitchen preparing

vegetables you came out of the kitchen

along the hall in here

the radio was blaring with the light

switched up and the hull was dark you

you switched the light on saw misses

boil

and screamed yes i screamed and screamed

and at last

people came yes yes as you say people

came

a lot of people from different

directions all arriving more or less at

once

now uh when i got out of that window to

trace the telephone wire you

mr rolston went upstairs to the room

that you and mrs ralston occupied to try

the extension telephone

where were you with mrs ralston's screen

i was still on my head

the extension telephone was dead too i

opened the window to see if i could see

any sign the wires being cut i couldn't

i closed the window i heard boys

screaming i came right up

those simple actions took you around a

long time didn't they

mr olson

don't think so well i should say you

definitely took your time over them

i was thinking about something

very well

mr red are your account of where you

were i'd be in the kitchen see if there

was anything i could do to help mrs

frost and i had trouble cooking after

that i went upstairs to my bedroom

one

what's quite an actual thing isn't it to

want to go to one's bedroom i mean one

doesn't want to be alone sometimes you

went to your bedroom because you wanted

to be alone and i wanted to brush my

hair and tighten me up

you wanted to

brush your hair anyway that's where i

was

and you heard mrs rollston scream yes

and you came down yes curiously

you and mr robston didn't meet on the

stairs

i went down the back stairs they're

closer to my bedroom

did you go through your room by the back

says did you come through here

i went up and by the back stairs too

i see

mr patti cheney i have told you i was

playing the piano in the drawing room

through the inspector

oh i'm not an inspector

just a sergeant um

could anyone hear you playing the piano

i don't think so i was playing very very

softly with

one finger

you came three blind months is that sun

yes

it is a very catchy little tune it is a

i should i say a haunting little tune

don't you agree i think it's hard and

yet it runs in people's heads

was whistling and do

whistling where

i'm not quite sure perhaps seeing the

hall perhaps in the stairs perhaps

upstairs in one of the bedrooms

who was whistling three blind mice

are you making this up mr pottery

no not inspect

forgive me

sergeant

i will never do a thing like

that but go on you were playing the

piano with one finger

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upstairs mr wren upstairs mr paddy

cheney in the drawing room

miss casewell i was writing letters in

the library could you hear what was

going on in here no i didn't hear

anything until mrs walston screamed and

what did you do then came in here

at once

you said you were writing letters when

you heard mrs robinson screaming yes and

that you got up from the writing table

hurriedly and came in here yes

there doesn't seem to be any unfinished

letter on the writing desk in the

library

dearest jesse

perhaps not

you know if i would hear someone scream

in blue murder when i was writing a

letter i don't believe i'd take the time

to pick up my unfinished letter

fold it and put it in my pocket before

going to see what was the matter you

wouldn't

how interesting

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now that mr metcalf what about you

you said you were in the cells

why

looking around

but just looking around

i looked in that couple of the stairs

near the kitchen a lot of junk and

sports circles and i noticed another

door inside

well i opened the door and i saw a

flight of steps i was curious so i went

down

a nice silence you've got by the way i'm

glad you're life oh

crypt of an old monastery i should say

and probably why it's called maxwell

we're not engaged in antiquarian

research here major metcalf will

investigate the murder

now mrs robson has told us that she

heard the door shut the fake creek that

particular door shuts with a creek

it could be you know that after kid and

mrs boyle the murderer heard mrs rosten

coming from the kitchen and slipped into

that cover pulling the door too after

him a lot of things could be there would

be fingerprints on the inside of the

cupboard well mine are they're all right

but then of course those criminals are

careful to wear glass

okay as usual

but all criminals slip up

sooner or later

i will understand this really through

look here aren't you wasting the time

there's one person mr

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now we've got to establish opportunity

you know as well as motive

let me tell you this

you all have opportunity

there are two staircases you go up by

one and come down by the other

anyone could go down to the cellars by

the door near the kitchen and come up by

a flight of steps that leads through a

trapdoor to the foot of the stairs over

there

the vital fact was that every one of you

was alone at the time this murder was

committed look here sergeant you speak

as though we are all under suspicion

that's absurd in a murder case everyone

is under suspicion but do you know

pretty well who killed that woman at

cornwall street

do you think he was the eldest of those

three children of the farm

a mentally abnormal

young man

damn it there's one person who thinks of

this

that's not true

you you

are all against me

everyone's always been against me you're

going to frighten me for these murders

it's persecution that's what it is

it's all right chris nobody

but tell him it's all right we don't

frame people tell him you're not going

to arrest him i'm not arrested anyone

do not have evidence have you got any

evidence

yeah i think you're crazy molly

and you too

there's

certainly mrs ralston

for the recipe go into the dining room

please

you

yes mr roster

what is it that you wanted to say to me

sergeant you think that this crazy

killer must be the eldest of those two

boys at the farm but you do not know

that do you

we don't actually know a thing

all we've got so far is that the woman

who joined with her husband is starving

and ill treat those children has been

killed

and that the woman magistrate who is

responsible for placing them there has

been killed

the telethon wire that links me with

police headquarters has been cut you

didn't even know that it may have just

been the snow no this is the light was

deliberately cut

it was cut just outside by the front

door

i found the place

i see

sit down mrs ralston it's all the same

don't you know i'm going by probability

it all points one way mental instability

childish mentality desertion from the

army and the psychiatrist's report oh i

know and therefore it all seems to point

to christopher but i do not believe that

it is christopher there must be other

possibilities

such as

well

haven't those children any relations at

all

the mother wasn't drunk she died soon

after the children were taken away from

her what about their father

he

was an army sergeant serving abroad if

he's alive he's probably discharged from

the army by now

don't know where he is now

we've no information

to trace it may take some time but

i can assure you mrs ralston that the

police take every eventuality into

account but you don't know where he may

be at this minute and if the father is

mentally unstable the sun may have been

unstable

too well it's a possibility

when i said the police had run out major

metcalf was frightfully upset he really

wasn't saw his face

middle-aged a soldier he seems quite

nice

i know he seems quite

old and

as he looks foreign definitely got

makeup on his face miss casey will

notice it too

he might be oh i know it seems quite

melodramatic but he might be disguised

he's very anxious aren't you that it

shouldn't be young mr rem i'm so

helpless somehow

and so unhappy

mrs robertson let me tell you something

i have had all possibilities in mind

ever since the beginning

of the boy georgie

the father and

and someone else

but there was a sister

you remember

your sister it could have been a woman

who killed maureen lyon

the scar pulled up and the man's fell

back pulled well down yes

guess it might have been a woman in this

case

she looks a bit old for the part

yes this is boston there is a very wide

field

there's yourself

for instance me you're about the right

age no

no whatever you're going to tell me now

i've got no means of checking it at this

moment

remember then there's your husband

child how ridiculous

he and christopher are much of an age

actual age very hard to tell

how much do you know about your husband

mrs rollston how much do i know about

giles and don't be silly oh you've been

married how long

just you here

and you met where at a dance in london

we went to a party

do you mean he's people he hasn't gotten

you people they're all

dead

they're all dead

yes but

you make it sound all wrong his father

was a better son his mother died when he

was a baby you're only telling me when

he told you yes but you don't know it of

your own no it's outrageous you'd be

surprised mrs ross

if you knew how many cases rather like

yours we get

especially since the war homes broken up

and families dead

fellow says he's been in the airport or

just completed his army training

parents killed no relations

how long had you known giles ross when

he married him just three weeks

and you don't know anything about him

that's not true i know everything about

him i know exactly what sort of person

he is he's

he's drivers

and it's absolutely absurd of you to

suggest that he's some horrible crazy

homicidal makeup right he wasn't even in

london yesterday

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only an hour by car a little longer by

train i tell you guys what's in london

just a minute mrs ross

this is your husband's coats

evening news yesterday's

sold on the streets about 3 30 yesterday

afternoon

don't you

don't you

somehow

there isn't any place for me to hide in

the house

from him why oh darling they're all so

frightfully against me they're going to

say i did these murders particularly

your husband never mind him listen

christopher you can't go on running away

from

things life

why do you say that

it's true isn't it

oh yes

it's quite true

you've got to grow up sometime chris i

wish i hadn't

no

and you're not really training to be an

architect no

why didn't you call myself christopher

wren

it amused me

then they all used to laugh at me in

school and call me little christopher

robin robin ran association of ideas

it was hell being at school

your real name

we need to go into that

i ran away whilst i was doing my army

service it was all so

beastly

yes

i'm just like the unknown murderer

i told you i was the one the

specification fitted

you see my mother

everything would be all right if she

hadn't died

she would have looked after me

and took care of me

you can't go on being looked after all

the way if things happen to you and

you've got to bear them you've got to go

on just as usual

one can't do that

yes

one can

you be

you have

yes

what was it

something very bad

awful

it was horrible

horrible

i tried to put it out of my mind i tried

to never think about it

so

you're running away too

running away from things instead of

facing them yes

perhaps in a way

i am

considering that i never saw you until

yesterday we seem to know each other

rather well

rather odd isn't it i don't know

i suppose there's a sort of

sympathy between

us anyway

you think i ought to stick it out well

frankly what else can you do

i could

pinch the sergeant's skis i can ski

quite well that would be very stupid it

would be almost like admitting your

beauty sergeant tronzo thinks i'm guilty

no he doesn't

at least

i don't know what he thinks

i hate him i hate him i hate him

he puts things into your head things

that aren't true things that can't

possibly be true

well what is all this i don't believe it

i won't believe it what won't you

believe that come on with it

you see that

yes what is it

yesterday's evening paper a london paper

and it was in giles's pocket but times

didn't go to nothing yesterday

well if he was here all day he wasn't he

went off in the car to look for chicken

wire but he couldn't find him

well that's all right

probably he did go to london after all

then why shouldn't he tell me he did oh

why pretend he'd been racing around the

countryside or perhaps with the news of

this murder but he didn't know about the

murder

oh lord ronnie

you don't think

the sergeant doesn't think i don't know

what sort of things and he can make you

think things about people

you ask yourself questions and you begin

to doubt

you feel that someone you love and know

well might

stranger

and that's what happens in a nightmare

go somewhere in the visual friends

when suddenly you look up at their faces

and they're not your friends any longer

they are different

people

just pretending

perhaps you can't trust anybody

perhaps everybody is a stranger

i seem to be interrupting something

no we were just talking

i must go into the kitchen there's pie

potatoes i must

do the spinach i'll come and give you a

hand

take our text onto very healthy things

at present you keep out from the kitchen

and keep away from my wife

give away to my wife

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she's not going to be the next victim

so that's what you really think of me

i've already said so anytime

there's a killer loose in this house it

seems to me you fit the bib i'm not the

only one to fit the bit i don't see who

else does how blind you are or do you

just pretend to be black i tell you i'm

worried about my wife's safety so am i

i'm not going to leave you here alone

with earth

please go christopher no i'm not going

please go chris please i need it

i shan't be far

you must be crazy perfectly prepared to

shut yourself up in the kitchen with a

homicidal maniac

you won't have to look at him to see his

body

i tell you guys he isn't dangerous i

don't know if he were dangerous

and anyway i can look after myself

that's mrs boyle's sake

look here what is there between you and

that wretched boy what do you mean by

between us i'm sorry for him that's all

perhaps before

perhaps you suggested to him to come

here and you both pretend to meet the

first time all cooked up between you

what

have you gone out of your mind how dare

you suggest such things

you should come and stay out of the way

place like this no other than that miss

casewell and mr mackhoff and mrs boyle i

read once in a paper that these

homicidal cases were able to attract me

seems as though it were true

where'd you first know how long has this

been going on people absolutely

ridiculous i never set eyes on

christopher wren until he arrived

yesterday you say grabs your way up to

london to meet him on the slide

perfectly well i haven't been up to

london for weeks

you haven't been up to london for weeks

is that sir

what on earth do you mean it's quite

true is it

and what's this

what are the gloves you were wearing

yesterday you dropped it i picked it up

this afternoon when i was talking to

sergeant thralter you see what's inside

a london bus

so it seems you didn't just go to the

village yesterday you went to london as

well all right but i was safely away

racing around the countryside

whilst you were racing around the

countryside oh no you went to them

all right

i went to london

so did you

what

so did you

you brought back an evening where'd you

put it

are you sure you didn't you mean

go away

what's the matter

did you go to london yesterday

christopher ray

don't be a fool of course i didn't why

did you girls

i

shouldn't tell you that perhaps now i've

forgotten why i went

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what what's

different all of a sudden

so i don't know you anymore

perhaps you never did

we've been married how long india but

you don't really know anything about me

what i'd done or or thought or felt or

suffered before you knew me you're crazy

all right then i'm crazy

why not perhaps it's fun to be crazy

what the hell are you on now

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have you there's no business of yours

thanks apology

no

no please at all but i just came in to

say that sergeant cannot find his skis

and i think he's very annoying

he wanted to ask if you have by any

chance move them mr ralston of course no

mr ross

have you removed my skins from the

cupboard back there where we put them

certainly not

somebody's taken there what made you

happen to look for them the snow is

still lying

i need help here

reinforcements i was going to ski over

the police station at market hampton to

report on the situation ah now you can't

idea dear

someone has certainly made sure that you

shouldn't

yes what

someone may be trying to get away what

did you mean you should present your

snap

ah so i young argued like this who

doesn't keep very very interesting is

this true mrs ross

oh thank goodness you haven't gone after

us did you take my skates mr red

sergeant

no why should i mrs ralston seems to

think mr remy

i thought he may have taken them to

get a little exercise exercise now

listen you people

this is a very serious matter

somebody has removed my only chance of

communication with the outside world

i want everybody in here at once i think

me

went upstairs

i left the major matchup in the dining

room

he's not there now i'll try and fight

hello

watching me i made a question of my skis

he's the last one have a high number of

you too removed a pair of skeets from

the cupboard near the kitchen door

why should that be no i didn't touch

them nevertheless they are gone

which way did you go back to your room

by the back stairs

then you passed by the covered door

i have no idea where your skis are

and you you were actually in that

cupboard today yes yes

at the time mrs boyle was killed and the

time mrs boyle was killed i had gone

down to the cells did you see the skis

in the cupboard when you pass through i

have no idea didn't you see them there i

can't remember you must remember if

those feet were there yeah there's no

one shouting at the young fellow i

wasn't thinking of any skis i was

interested in the sellers architecture

of this place is very interesting now i

saw the other door and i went down so i

can't say that the skins were there or

what

you realized that you yourself had an

excellent opportunity of taking them

first yes i grant you that

if i wanted to that rules

the question is where are they now

where we ought to be able to find them

as we all just said two

but it's not a case about the thimble

quacking great things skis

is supposing we're all set too not quite

so fast

major met paul

that maybe you know what we are meant to

do

hey

i don't get you

i'm in a position now i've got to put

myself in the place of a crazy cunning

brain

i've got to ask myself what he wants us

to do and what he himself is planning to

do next

i've got to try to keep just one step

ahead of him because if i don't there's

going to be another death you still

don't believe that

yes

this case though i do

the three of blind marks two mice

cancelled out the third mouse still to

be dealt with

there are six of you here listening to

me

one of you's the killer

one of you is the killer i don't know

which ship but i shall

and another of you

is the killer's perspective victim

that's the person i'm speaking to now

mrs boyle held out on me

well mrs boyle is dead you whoever you

are

are holding out on me well

don't

because you're in danger

nobody who's killed twice he's going to

hesitate to kill a third time and as it

is i don't know which of you it is who

needs perfection

come on now anyone here who has anything

however slight to reproach themselves

for that polygon business i better

all right

all right you won't

i'll get the killer i have no doubt of

that but it may be too late for one of

you

and i'll tell you another thing the

killer is enjoying this

well yes he's enjoying himself a good

deal

all right you can go

a fresh master i will come with you to

the kitchen and we will see what we can

concoct together a charming occupation

helping my wife

under the circumstances he does not

fancy you being alone with me it is my

sadistic tendencies he appears not by

dishonorable ones

alas what an inconvenience

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ding

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sneak

sneak

alicious just for the time for the dog

i cruelly the things children

some of them never grow up stop

frightening my wife thoughts it's silly

of me but you see i found her her face

was all

purple i can't forget it yes

it's difficult to forget things isn't it

you aren't really not getting kind

i must go

the food

dinner prepare the spinach and the

potatoes are all going to pieces please

what did you say to the lady to upset

her sir

there's nice fun and there's fun that's

uh

not so nice no i don't wonder what you

mean by that

sergeant i've been doing a little

wondering about you sir indeed i've been

wondering about that car realms and how

it happened to overturn in a snow grip

so uh

conveniently

inconveniently you mean don't choose

agents oh that rather depends on the way

you're looking at it

just rarely about before by the way when

you had this little accident oh

i was on my way to see a friend

in this neighborhood

not very far from here and what was the

name in address of this friend

now really sergeant does that matter now

i mean it has nothing to do with this

current predicament has it we always

like the fullest information

now what did you say this friend's name

was

i didn't say

no

you didn't and it seems that you're not

going to say now that's uh very

interesting

but there might be

disgrace

these generous husbands

rather old to be running around the lake

your time alive

you may not be as old as you try to look

there's a lot of people trying to look

younger than they are if somebody goes

about trying to look older well

it does make one ask oneself why

having asked questions of so many people

you ask questions of yourself as well

isn't that overdoing things

i might get an answer from myself

don't get many from you

well well

try again that is if you have any more

questions to ask

one or two

where are you coming from last night

that is simple from london what a dress

in london and we stay at the mix of them

very nice too i'm sure what's your

permanent address

i dislike permanency

business or profession i like to play

the markets

a stock broker

no

no i you misunderstand me

enjoying this little game

be sure of yourself too but

you shouldn't be too sure

you're mixed up in a murder case don't

you forget murder isn't just fun and

games not even this murderer

dear me you're very serious

i'll be the policeman to have no sense

of humor

is the inquisition over

for the moment

for the moment yes i thank you so much

i will go and look for the skis in the

drawing room just in case someone has

hidden them in a grand piano

just a minute

please

are you speaking to me

yes

perhaps you come and sit down

well what do you want

uh you may have heard some of the

questions i was asking mr palabicini

like little information from you

what do you want to know

for me please

let's see margaret catherine casewell

catherine i spell it with the cake

question

address

villain

no other english address

how long have you been in england this

case one a week

and you've been staying since your

arrival at the library hotel nice bridge

what brings you to monks well now

how long did you all do you propose to

remain here till i have finished what i

came here to do

and uh what was that

and what was that

what was it that you came in to do

i bet your pardon i was

thinking of something else

would you mind telling me your age not

in the least

it's in my passport

i'm 24.

24.

i'm thinking that i look older

it is quite true

is there anyone in this country who can

vouch for you my fake will be associated

to my financial position

i can also refer you to a solicitor a

very discreet man

i'm not in a position to offer you a

social reference i've lived most of my

life abroad

in may

and other places were you born abroad

you know this case for life can't quite

make you out does it matter i don't know

what are you doing here it seems to

worry it does worry me you say you went

abroad when you were 13 12 13 they're

about

your name casewell then it's my name now

what was your name then come on tell me

what are you trying to prove i want to

know what your name was when you left a

long time ago i forgot there are things

what doesn't forget

unhappiness despair

what is your real name i told you next

week and catherine

catherine

what the hell are you doing here

and i always thought weren't allowed to

give people the third degree

i've really been interrogating miss

casewell you seem to have upset me

it's nothing it's just

it's all this murder it's so horrible

that he

came over me suddenly

i'll just

i'll just go up to my room

it's impossible

oh i can't believe

what can't you believe

six impossible things before breakfast

like the red queen

oh yes

yes it's rather like that

good lord

you look as though you've seen a ghost

i've seen something that i ought to have

seen before

blind as a bat i've been

but now now you may be able to get

somewhere

the police have a clue yes mr brennan

asked the police have a clue

i want everyone assembled in here again

do you know where they are

molly and giles are in the kitchen i've

been with major metcalf looking for your

skis that we looked in the most

entertaining places but all to know

available i don't know where clara mcgee

is okay if you get the others

mr parker

party training

yes sergeant what can i do for you

little policeman cannot find his skis

and does he know where to find him i

leave them alone and then come home

dragging a man that are behind them yeah

here's all this sit down major this is

there are things more important than

meals mrs ralston mrs boyle for instance

won't want another meal that's a very

chapter swearing things sergeant i'm

sorry but i want cooperation and i

intend to get me

mr ralston will you go up and ask this

case while i come down again she just

went up in her room

tell her it will only be for a few

minutes

no

mrs ross but i may say i have a very

shrewd suspicion of who took them and

why they were taken

i won't say anymore at the present

moment no please don't

i always thought explanation should be

kept to the very end that exciting last

chapter you know

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maybe maybe what is happening sit down

ms caseman mrs ralston

now you all pay attention please

you may remember that after the murder

of mrs boyle i took statements from you

all

these statements related to your

positions at the time the murder was

committed but these statements were as

follows

mrs ralston in the kitchen mr palabicini

playing the piano in the drawing room mr

ralston in his bedroom mr wren

this case from the library major metcalf

in the south correct

those were the statements you made

i had no means to check these statements

at the time they may be true

they may not

to put it quite clearly five of those

statements are true but one

is false

which one

five of you were speaking the truth but

one of you is lying

i have a plan that may have helped me

discover the life and if i discover that

one of you lied to me

that i will know who the murderer is not

necessarily someone may have lied for

some other reason

i rather doubt that what's the idea

you've just said you don't need to check

in these statements no about supposing

everyone was to go through these actions

a second time

reconstruction of the grind

not a reconstruction of the crimes the

parmigini a reconstruction of the

movements of apparently innocent persons

and what do you expect to learn from

that

you will forgive me if i don't make that

clear just at the moment you want a

repeat performance yes mr ross

what do you mean it's a trap it's a trap

i know it is i only want people to do

exactly what they did before but i don't

see

but i can't see what

what do we hope to discover just by

making people do the same things they

did before i think it's just nonsense do

you

mr redmond

well you can count me out i'm far too

busy in the kitchen not can't count

anyone out

one might almost believe that you're all

guilty by the looks of you why are you

all so unwilling of course would you say

gay sergeant we will all cooperate hey

milan very well

rain

miss casewell yes orangey oh yes i

consent

hey god

yes

or no exactly before

the same actions will be performed yes

then i will go back to the drawing room

and point out with one finger the

signature tune of the murderer

got not quite so fast mr palumi

mrs robertson do you play the piano

and you know the tune of three blind

mice

then you could pick it out with one

finger just as mr parker genie did

good

go into the drawing room sit at the

piano and be ready to play when i give

you the secret

but uh sergeant i always thought that we

needed to repeat that

the same actions will be performed

but not necessarily by the same people

uh thank you this is ross

i don't see the point there is a point

it is a means of checking up on the

original statements and there may be one

statement in

particular if you will all pay attention

i will assign each of you your new

stations and

mr red will you go into the kitchen just

keep an eye on mrs olsen's dinner for

her you're very fond of cooking i

believe

uh pirate chief will you go up to mr

lane

by the back stairs is the most

convenient way

major met couple you go up to mr

ralston's room and examine the telephone

there

mrs casewell would you mind going down

to the cellars mr wren will show you the

way

unfortunately i need someone to

reproduce my own actions

i'm sorry to ask you mr roster would you

go out by that window and trace the

telephone wire around to near the front

door

rather a chilly job but i suppose you're

the toughest person here

are you going to do

i

i'm enacting the part of mrs boyle

getting a bit of a risk aren't you

you'll all stay in your places and

remain there until you hear me call you

by the logangs

your objection to my wearing could

i should advise

uh take my torch so it's behind the

curves

uh

mrs ralston

count 20 and then begin to play

so

uh

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mrs ralston

mrs ralston

yes what is it

you're looking very pleased with

yourself have you got what you wanted

yes

yes i've got exactly what i wanted

you know who the murderer is

yes yes

i know which one of them

you ought to know mrs ralphson

hi yes

you've been extraordinarily foolish you

know

you've run a very good chance of being

killed by holding out on me as a result

you've been in serious danger more than

once i don't know what you mean

come now

mrs ralston

we policemen aren't quite so dumb as you

think

all along i've realized that you had a

first-hand knowledge of the long ridge

farm there

you knew mrs boyle was the magistrate

concerned in fact

you knew all about it

why didn't you speak up and censor

i don't understand

i want you to forget

forget

your maiden name was wearing yes miss

where are you top school

at the school where those children went

yes it's true isn't it that jimmy the

child who died

managed to get a letter

posted to you a letter that begged for

help

help

from his kind young teacher

you never answered that letter i

couldn't i never got it you just didn't

bother that's not true

i was ill i went down with the million

that very day the letter was doing

something with others it was weeks

afterwards and i found it with a lot of

other letters and by then

waiting for me to do something hoping

gradually losing hope it's haunted me

ever since

if only i hadn't been ill if only i'd

known

yes

it's monstrous

i thought you didn't carry revolvers

the police don't

i'm not a policeman

mrs roston

you thought i was a policeman because i

rang up from a cold box and said i was

speaking from police headquarters and

that sergeant trump was on his way

i cut the telephone wires before i came

to the front door you know who i am

mrs ralston

i'm georgie

jimmy's brother

georgie

you better not scream mrs dawson because

if you do i shall fire this revolver

i'd like to talk with you a minute

yes

i said i'd like to talk with you a

minute

jimmy

done

that nasty cruel woman had killed him

they put her in prison

prison wasn't bad enough for her

i said i'd kill her one day i did too in

the fall

it was great fun

i hope jimmy knows

i'll kill them all when i've grown up

that's what i said to myself because

grow ups can do anything they like

i'm going to kill you in a minute you

better not you'll never get safely away

me away

someone's in my speed

i can't find them but

it doesn't matter

i don't really mind if i get away or not

i'm tired

it's all been such fun now watching you

all pretending to be a policeman

will make a lot of noise

it will

rather

much better to do it the usual way

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and take you by the neck

the last little mouse in the trap

you know me

don't you

don't you remember the fog

the animals

yes kathy you remember me now don't you

candy it is you

what are you doing here i came to

england to find you

i didn't recognize you until you twirled

your hair the way you always used to

yes you always did it

would you come with me

you're coming with me

where are we going it's right georgie

i'm taking you somewhere where they'll

look after you and see that you won't do

any more

oh

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it wasn't my fault but he thought i

could have saved that child you should

have told me i

it's all under control

you'll be unconscious soon with the

sedative the sisters looking after them

and poor fellows man as a hatter of

course i've suspected them all along

you did didn't you believe he was a

policeman i knew he wasn't policeman

are you saying this is ralston

i

am a policeman

as soon as we got hold of that

notebook monster mantle written in it we

should always fight around somewhere on

the spot

where it was punctuated that card agreed

to let me take his clothes i i couldn't

understand the trotter turned down and

casewell is the sister

i should recognize that just before this

last business didn't know what to do

about it but fortunately came to me just

in time

well it's uh it's beginning to fall help

will be here

oh soon

oh mrs roston

i'll remove those skis i hid them on top

of the full coaster

and i thought it was part of a cheating

guy will examine that car with these

rather carefully i should be surprised

if there were a thousand also swiss

watchers in the spare wheel yes that's

his line of business nasty bit of goods

what were you doing in london yesterday

darling i was buying you an anniversary

present we've been married just a year

today that's what i went to london for

and i didn't want you to know

the cigars

i do hope they're all right

darling how sweet

they're splendid will you smoke them

i'll smooth

you do like it don't you but the girl in

the shop said was the last thing in hats

mrs ralston

mrs ralston there's a terrible smell of

burning coming from the kitchen

so

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you