mógłby mi ktoś to sprawdzić? bardzo ciekawe opowiadanie ;) z góry dzięki ;p
Blunt’s Brilliant Detectives- Tuppence and Tommy (in his disguise of a Roman Catholic priest) are drinking cocktails at the Grand Adlington Hotel after they have failed to solve their latest case which involved a stolen pearl necklace. Thrashing the matter out, they meet their old friend, Marvyn Estcourt (known as Bulger) and Miss Gilda Glen, an actress, also the most beautiful and at the same time the stupidest woman in England. Asking Bulger about the way to the station, they are told to go along Morgan’s Avenue. As the conversation finishes, Gilda, and then Escourt leave. As they do so, Tommy receives a note from Gilda Glen wanting him to meet her at the White House, Morgan’s Avenue, at 6.10.
The discussion about the letter between Tommy and Tuppence is interrupted by a young man who walks into the room. His name is James Reilly and he is really mad at Miss Glen, who used to care for him, but now she loves Lord Lecounbury.
On the way to the station, Tommy and Tuppence meet a policeman who suddenly looms out from a thick mist. And then, Reilly passes them hurrying along. The policeman doesn’t seem to know him, but asked about young woman, says she walked into the white house just a few minutes before they’ve met. Whist they’re about to enter the gate, James’s cry sounds from the inside. Immediately afterwards he runs out the mansion, leaving a red imprint of his hand on the nearest gatepost.
The two hurry into the house and meet Mrs Honeycott - Gilda’s’ sister. She explains that twenty years ago Gilda married a man and now she wants to divorce him, so she could marry Leconbury. But her husband refuses to do so. Then Mrs Honeycott confirms that she saw Reilly going upstairs and then hurrying down. Afraid of what might have happened, everybody runs to Gilda’s room, where they find her body laying on the sofa. Asked about the time when Gilda came home, Mrs Honeycott says it was exactly 6.08 when she heard her entering (she was re-setting her clock at that time), which confirms with the time the policeman saw her doing so. And with the exception of Reilly there was nobody else seen entering the house and nobody except Mrs Honeycutt and her maid- servant was staying in it.
Next day detectives find Reilly in custody, declaring, that he found Gilda lying in her room already dead. Obviously it couldn’t have been true, because Reilly was the only suspected person. And suddenly Tommy realizes that the murderer came with Gilda when Mrs Honeycott was talking with Ellen. When she began re-setting her clock, she heard somebody entering the house (thought it was her sister). That was the murderer going out and then Ellen going upstairs. ‘She just missed seeing the killer.’ Then Reilly come. Finally it occurs that it was Gilda’s husband, a policeman who has killed her.