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The Man Who Knew Too Much

Коллекция текстов · detective

  1. I. The Face in the Target (1)
    Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of w…
  2. I. The Face in the Target (2)
    There was a silence, and then March started with irrational nervousness as the door of the inn was flung open and another man walked rapidl…
  3. II. The Vanishing Prince (1)
    This tale begins among a tangle of tales round a name that is at once recent and legendary. The name is that of Michael O’Neill, popularly…
  4. II. The Vanishing Prince (2)
    “By all accounts,” replied Horne Fisher, “he can do more with a candlestick than most men with a pistol. But he is pretty sure to have the…
  5. III. The Soul of the Schoolboy (1)
    A large map of London would be needed to display the wild and zigzag course of one day’s journey undertaken by an uncle and his nephew; or,…
  6. III. The Soul of the Schoolboy (2)
    “Nobody sees anything except in the dark,” said the magician. Heavy clouds of sunset were closing round the wooden hut, enormous clouds, of…
  7. IV. The Bottomless Well (1)
    In an oasis, or green island, in the red and yellow seas of sand that stretch beyond Europe toward the sunrise, there can be found a rather…
  8. IV. The Bottomless Well (2)
    Without more words the great criminal investigator went into the lighted library, shutting the door behind him, and Fisher, without replyin…
  9. V. The Fad of the Fisherman (1)
    A thing can sometimes be too extraordinary to be remembered. If it is clean out of the course of things, and has apparently no causes and n…
  10. V. The Fad of the Fisherman (2)
    “The beginning of Lord Merivale’s Birmingham speech,” replied March, handing him the paper. “It’s only a paragraph, but it seems to me rath…
  11. VI. The Hole in the Wall (1)
    Two men, the one an architect and the other an archaeologist, met on the steps of the great house at Prior’s Park; and their host, Lord Bul…
  12. VI. The Hole in the Wall (2)
    He knew also that it had been a shout for help. It seemed to him that he had heard the very word; but the word, short as it was, had been s…
  13. VI. The Hole in the Wall (3)
    That night, at the close of a stormy twilight and under a strong west wind that followed the breaking of the frost, Leonard Crane was wendi…
  14. VII. The Temple of Silence (1)
    Harold March and the few who cultivated the friendship of Horne Fisher, especially if they saw something of him in his own social setting,…
  15. VII. The Temple of Silence (2)
    At this point the light of battle sprang into Mr. Gryce’s eyes and he became voluble, not to say violent. He, at any rate, had no doubt tha…
  16. VII. The Temple of Silence (3)
    Nerving himself to a more normal mood, he paused under one of the dark dragon trees that branched out above him, and, taking out his torch,…
  17. VIII. The Vengeance of the Statue (1)
    It was on the sunny veranda of a seaside hotel, overlooking a pattern of flower beds and a strip of blue sea, that Horne Fisher and Harold…
  18. VIII. The Vengeance of the Statue (2)
    He turned his back again and sat down with a thud; his square shoulders were shaking. Harold March darted out of the doorway into the back…
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