3. Miss Marple

I think Miss Marple is a bit like Jane Austen! Also

Born in a religious family, he also lives in the countryside, and his social circle is that of a neighbor's family, and he is also unmarried for life, and he has the pleasure of observing people, and he also has a sharp eye. Even the words they spoke were a bit similar. In Pride and Prejudice, Darcy says, "In the country, your surroundings are very closed and rarely change. Elizabeth replied, "But there are so many changes in people that you can always see something new in them." Miss Marple put it this way: "Living in the country all year round makes one see all kinds of humanity. ("Evil in a Quiet Town") they are not bored, and they are quite satisfied with the world they can see. As Jane Austen's junior, she lived longer—in the eyes of young people, Miss Marple, who was already a hundred years old, and had time to see the times that changed even more, and to make a deeper insight—"People dress differently and sound differently, but humanity is still the same as they used to be." Also, although the wording has changed a bit, the topic has not changed. It was in this closed environment that tradition could be maintained, so Miss Marple came out of the Victorian era almost directly. She was taught to use a back pad since she was a girl, so she sat straight until she was old. She and her sister had been given a well-behaved German governess, and then she went to a girls' boarding school in Florence for early education. Her mother and grandmother admonished her: "Be sensible in your dealings, and a true lady should be able to be unmistakable." She was once an impetuous little girl, and once, she almost went astray, how to say, in a word, a young man who was "very unsuitable" to her, and it was her mother who resolutely prevented this absurdity. Miss Marple was very grateful to her mother, and although there were not many opportunities for marriage, as was the case in the Victorian era, how a girl could marry herself was the main topic of Jane Austen's writing. Then it's better not to get married, it was also quite common in the Victorian era, and there seemed to be nothing bad about the old virgins of that era. In fact, Miss Marple is living well. She had snow-white hair, pink cheeks, clear blue eyes, one or two shaggy woollen scarves wrapped around her neck, and carried a flowered mesh basket with woolen work, and sat down, and the snow-white work spread out on her lap. She had a special love for cotton fabrics, linen, glass gauze, embroidered and thread-hooked bed sheets, tea towels. Therefore, it gives people the impression that she is in a world of beautiful colors and soft textures. She was warm and comfortable, and then she began to observe people, which was a unique pastime for her. In "The Mystery of the Apartment", she said: "Like me, living alone in a remote corner of the world, a person has to have a bit of a fetish!" This habit is very useful in solving homicide cases. What a human drama is in a murder case! Miss Marple admitted, "No one is not interested in murder." In The Mystery of the Apartment, the Rev. Claremont says in a sarcastic tone: "There is no detective in England like an old woman who has a lot of leisure." "But this must not be assumed that Miss Marple is fond of murder, on the contrary, she is disgusted. She was intolerant of cruelty, and when she saw a child ravaging a kitten, she was so angry that she frightened the child, and was sure that he would never forget it. In "The Case of Ryee", when she saw the news of the "Triple Murder Case in Yew Hut" from the morning newspaper, she immediately set off to the scene of the incident. She cared so much about the murder not only because one of the victims had been her little maid, but also because the murderer was so lewd that he had put a clothespin on the girl's nose — Miss Marple blushed and said to the police, "You know that insulting human dignity is very vicious—especially since he has already killed people." ”

Miss Marple lived in a village called St. Mary Mead, which in Jane Austen's time would have been a remote village. But in Miss Marple's later years, the railroad spread out like a spider's web, connecting countless inexplicable hamlets, and life became open. In "Witness to the Murder," Mrs. McGillicardy goes to visit Miss Marple on a train from London at 4:50 p.m., and three minutes later Mrs. McGillicardy falls asleep and takes a nap for thirty-five minutes, and then sees a man choking a woman by the throat in the parallel carriage, and she reports to the ticket inspector, who tells her that the train arrives in Brackhampton in seven minutes, and that he will report upward. This accumulation, combined with the time at the intersection of things, is about an hour. Next, there are nine miles of country roads, usually taxi-hailing. In the earliest days, the taxi business of St. Mary's Mead was undertaken by a gentleman of Ingch, who had only one car, which was sufficient. After the death of the elder Yingqi, his son Xiao Yingqi inherited the family business, and at this time he already had two old cars and a parking room. After the death of Little Ingkey, the business changed hands again, and the name was changed, "Pip", and then "James" and "Arthur". But people, mainly referring to the old residents, are still called "Yingqi". By the time "Ingy" had passed this section of the village road, St. Mary's Mead had arrived. In The Case of Rye Strange, Miss Marple takes an early train from St. Mary's Mead to the Yew Cottage in Belden Heath, a suburb of London, and then changes trains on the way to London. It seems that St. Mary's Mead also got on the train, although it can't go directly to London, but once in transit, it will arrive. Therefore, St. Mary's Mead and London are not close, but they are by no means far away. This kind of distance is actually quite good, quiet, and can be found at any time, and it is quite suitable for those who are strapped for money - for example, in "The Mystery of Bertram's Inn", Miss Marple meets Mrs. Selina in the lobby of the hotel, and rents a small house in St. Mary Mead for a while in the days when her husband has just died. In addition, people who have been traumatized will also like its inseparable relationship with the world, hiding and waiting for an opportunity, that is in "Belated Revenge", the movie star Marina Grieg, who also lives in St. Mary Mead, and her husband Jason Ladd has an objective idea - "Marina probably won't hate it for at least two to two and a half years, he thought." Interestingly, this place is particularly popular with the film industry, and in "The Mystery of the Female Corpse in the Library", Basil Black, the fifteenth-ranked artist at Lemville Film Studios, the headquarters of the New Age Film Production Centre in the United Kingdom, also bought a house here, and of course was involved in a murder case – as a sign that real estate developers entered St Mary's Mead and a new residential area was built.

Around St. Mary's Mead, there are also large and small towns such as Zipin Krihorn. It was a village slightly larger than St. Mary's Mead, and it had its own newspaper, the "Tsipin Krihorn Izvestia", in which the "Murder Notice" was published and spread. The scenery here is beautiful, and a little tourism has developed. Historically, there had been many farms, but then they were depressed, so that "the small wooden houses that were once occupied by agricultural workers have been renovated and are now inhabited by old virgins and retired couples". It looks very quiet, a little bit of a leisure, and it doesn't seem to have a more active modern life like St. Mary's Mead, but it still has murders happening - "Murder Notice". There was also a mysterious passer-by who died on the altar of its church (The Refuge), whose church was more glorious than St. Mary's Mead, with its blue and red stained glass, donated by a wealthy Victorian man, indicating that it was once a wealthy village. This is Zipping Krihorn, and then Lymsdok, a town with a long history. In the 11th century, during the Norman Conquest, the Remsdoc Abbey became a major force in the region for hundreds of years, in the 16th century, Henry VIII broke with the Pope, closed all the monasteries, confiscated the estates, and thus - "a castle became the center of the town", indicating that the place of religion was replaced by the military and government, and in the 18th century, due to geographical deviations, it was abandoned by modern development and became a laggard, but maintained the tranquility of an agrarian society. There is a weekly fair, twice a year at the horse races, the horses are unknown, there is a street in the town, a doctor, a law firm, and of course, a church, a new school, two taverns. This is where "Crime in a Quiet Town" takes place, which can probably be called the hinterland of England!

St. Mary's Mead is not as historic as Limsdoc and not as large as Chipping Krihorn, but it is a truly small place with a limited population and a lack of self-sufficiency in marriage. In The Case of Rye, the little maid who was killed, Gladys, used to work at Miss Marple's house, but then moved away because she wanted to find a boyfriend, and St. Mary Mead, in Miss Marple's words, was "very competitive". Catherine in "The Secret on the Blue Express", who served Mrs. Hafield faithfully for ten years and received a large inheritance, when she left, a lady asked her how old she was, and the answer was "thirty-three", and the old lady said, "It's not a problem, but it's always a little ......" meaning that it was still marriage, in short, getting out of St. Mary's Mead was more or less seen as a real life. Young people, such as Miss Marple's nephew, Raymond West, put it in the words: "I think St. Mary Mead is a backwater." Miss Marple gently argued, "Life is more or less the same everywhere anyway, you know, born, raised, in contact with other people, in competition, and then in marriage and having children...... When she came to the scene of the "Ryech case" and talked to the people there about St. Mary Mead, she said, "The village is quite beautiful." There are good people who live in it, and there are people who are very nasty. In that place, like in other villages, strange things happen. "This village reminds me of Hedleyburg in Mark Twain's novel The Man Who Ruined Hedleyburg. Most of the inhabitants of the Mississippi River Valley in the United States were Puritans from England or Scotland, and there were some villages that were copied from villages and towns in the heart of England. Hedleyburg also had a devout religious life, with a priest like St. Mary Mead, a banker with a network of financial organizations, a local newspaper with local news, and its own upper social group, the so-called "Nineteen Major Citizens". The same is true of St. Mary Mead, though there is no explicit reference to it, in fact, the priests, the knights, the doctors, the retired officers, form the most vocal class in the village, and control the day-to-day affairs of the village. So, they also have their own politics. They are all equally quiet, simple, content, and well-behaved. One day, however, Hedleyburg was confronted by a man with bad intentions who tempted the villagers with a large bag of gold coins, causing Hedleyburg to lose its dignity. In St. Mary's Mead, England, the weakness of human nature is more subtle, not as explicit as in the New World, and it does not encounter such a moral trap, so there is no such explosion of humanity. But its human nature is enough for Miss Marple to refer to. Miss Marple solves the case by association, that is, "she was able to connect the small things that happened in the countryside with the bigger problems that made the latter solve." This "countryman" is St. Mary Mead. For example, in "Murder Notice", the "murderer" is played by Rudy Shelz, a Swiss receptionist at the Royal Pleasure Hotel, who reminds Miss Marple of Fred Taylor, a fish-shop buddy who likes to take advantage of small things, and when you point it out to him, he apologizes very sincerely. For example, in "Witness to the Murder", the female corpse in the murder is hidden, and one of the heirs to Rutherford Manor, Mr. Harold resembles Mr. Ede, the bank manager, "a very conservative man - but a little too much money-loving, and the kind of person who will do everything possible to avoid scandals from getting publicized", and the other heir, Alfred, resembles Jenkins of the garage - "he doesn't steal tools - but he secretly takes broken or inferior jacks and exchanges them for good ones". For example, in "The Manor Mystery", the final solution depends on the identification of the character of Edgar Lawson, who faithfully provides the murderer with an alibi for crucial minutes, Miss Marple cuts through the fog and finally—"I remember who he looks like now"! She remembers a father and son who are dentists, and the father is old and decrepit, and people go to see his son's teeth, and the old man becomes depressed, and the son pretends to be drunk in order to give the patient to his father, but "he uses too much whiskey—he spills wine on his clothes." In "Mystery of the Caribbean," for example, Miss Marple is momentarily confused on a remote resort beach, "and she has never been able to find what she used to find with ease, the resemblance of these people to the people she used to know," but soon, uncovering the surface of the exotic and brightly coloured clothes, she recognizes her old acquaintances—"Gregory, for example? Maybe a bit like Sir George Trollope, who was always telling jokes at international conferences. Or perhaps more like Mr. Modek, who sells meat......," she quickly matched the people in front of her with the villagers of St. Mary's Mead, and the confusion became clear. Looking at it this way, the small village of St. Mary Mead is actually an all-encompassing world.

People like Miss Marple, who live in the countryside, are in fact authentic Englishmen. They are stationed in the interior and maintain and continue their pure bloodline, and their family has a long history that has been documented for generations. In "Deathweed," Miss Marple's house is described as follows: "This house is some year old, and the beams of the roof have turned black. The room is furnished with furniture belonging to that era, and it is well made". What about Miss Marple?" she sat straight on the chair left by her grandfather by the fireplace. In her house, she kept some of the old family belongings left by her ancestors, "Prince Charles's wine glass", "Worcester-era tea set" and so on, and when she needed to leave for a while, she needed to store these antiques in the bank for safekeeping. As mentioned earlier, Miss Marple was disciplined by her grandmother, who gave her harsh guidance on her life. One of her uncles, named Thomas, was a priest in Erie. When Miss Marple was fourteen years old, her uncle and aunt took her on a trip to London, and it was her first visit to London, where she stayed at the "Bertram Hotel", where the serious crime took place. AT THAT TIME, THERE WAS A RELATIVE, AUNT HELEN, WHO WAS MOST ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT VISITING THE MILITARY CONSUMER COOPERATIVE, WHICH, I SUSPECT, WAS THE SHOPPING MALL OF THOSE DAYS, A PRIVILEGE ENJOYED BY THE MILITARY AND THEIR DEPENDENTS, IN RETURN FOR THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO THE COUNTRY, AND IN TIMES OF WAR WHEN MATERIAL SCARCITY WAS GUARANTEED. Aunt Helen is here to buy a big deal, Christmas

The supplies for the festival, and even more distant Easter, were bought, and then they went to the fifth floor for lunch and then took a four-wheeler ride to see the show. From this, it can be seen that some of Miss Marple's elders served in the military. In Britain, which has a large number of colonies, military service is a noble profession. Therefore, it can be concluded that Miss Marple came from a good family. Miss Marple certainly has siblings, as mentioned earlier that she and her sister were educated with a German governess, and that she has nephews and nieces. Her nephew's name was Raymond West, and he was a writer, a modernist writer. When he blames reality, young people are always unsighted, and it is he who criticizes St. Mary Mead's "stagnant pool," Miss Marple says mildly: "Your book is wonderful, but do you really think that everyone is as depressed as the characters you portray in your book?" The modernist characteristic noted by the priest of St. Mary Mead was that "there are no capital letters in the poems" and, incidentally, he also referred to "depressed people who live a dull and boring life". Like all young people, Raymond was dismissive of his elders, including Aunt Jane, and felt that their lives were worthless. Miss Marple was not in a hurry to refute this, but she was always able to give him a powerful counterattack at the right time. In "Death Grass", in the living room of "Aunt Jane", a "Tuesday Night Club" is held, and everyone takes turns to tell a case, and Aunt Jane's answer is always true. When Raymond recounts his mystery—that his friend, Newman, who specializes in salvaging shipwrecks, is kidnapped one night, and at the same time, the gold bars from the shipwreck are taken away—Aunt Jane says, "Well, dear Raymond, I really think you should choose your friends carefully." You are too gullible and too gullible to be deceived. I think writers are like that, they have too much imagination. If you're my age and have lived so much, hearing this kind of story about a Spanish shipwreck, someone you just met a few weeks ago will immediately become alarmed. Miss Marple admired youth, but she was not inferior to her old age, and she was satisfied with the experience she had gained over her years, so she did not flinch in front of young people. She knew that they didn't know as much as they thought they would, that they couldn't see themselves, and that she could. In "Nemesis", she finally completes Mr. Ravel's deathbed will to restore the reputation of his unsuccessful young son, of course, he has too many weaknesses, she hands him a picture of the dead girl he loved, and his expression is swept away and softened. The old man was silent, as in the novel - "The Old Lady and the Lad", and the moment was quite moving, and an almost heart-to-heart sympathy rose from it, and Miss Marple said objectively: "I know that he cannot save himself, unless...... Of course, the most important thing is to hope that he will meet a really kind girl. "Aunt Jane" wasn't a prophet, but nothing escaped her eyes, including Raymond's proposal to Joyce. "Aunt Jane" tells the secret metaphorically—"by the jasmine bush, where the milkman proposes to Anne," and so that Miss Marple has another niece-in-law, the painter Joyce. Joyce has the sensitivity of an artist, she lives between the real and the imaginary, and the murders she witnesses are tinged with such an indistinguishable color from reality. Also told on the Tuesday Night Club, called Blood on the Road, is about a small seaside town in Cornwall, where the terrain is steep and the streets wind along the slopes. In the quiet of the afternoon, she sat under the verandah in front of the inn and sketched, and suddenly she found that "I had drawn blood on the white pavement in front of the Pohaveis heraldic shop in the sun!" met their friend Gwenda, and the case they were involved in was "The Mysterious Villa". In this way, Miss Marple is also a bit like Poirot, and when she is present, there will be crimes, which is like a special function that can make hidden crimes visible.

Among the nephews, Miss Marple had a niece named Mabel, who was not as proud as Raymond and was brought out in a murder case called St. Peter's Thumbprint. It would be foolish and disgraceful to dwell on such a thing, but Miss Marple took pity on her so much that she did not care about the embarrassment she had caused her, and cleared her of suspicion. In a large family, members of a wide variety of intelligences should be allowed. Miss Marple also has a nephew named David West, who is well versed in train schedules. I think this is a very typical boy, and in "Murder in ABC", Poirot mentions people like "railroad fans" when he analyzes the case, pointing out that "boys like railroads more than girls". So, this David West must be a little "railroad fan". In "Witnesses to the Murder", in order to verify the train that Mrs. McGillicardy was traveling on with her, Miss Marple wrote to Davy for advice, and David worked hard to provide her aunt with the information she needed, so that Miss Marple could carry out the investigation. From this point of view, Miss Marple's family life is very warm.

In the village of St. Mary Mead, next to Miss Marple is the priest's apartment. Through the long floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room, I walked through the garden, and as soon as I went out, I turned into the garden of the pastor's house. Mr. Claremont, the Reverend, was a diligent clergyman, and in the English countryside like St. Mary's Mead, religious affairs could include all the daily chores. What is there in the eyes of the devout villagers that does not need God's direction? Just give an example of the Pastor Claremont's timetable for a given day. It was a Thursday in The Mystery of the Apartment, and early in the morning, two ladies in the parish were arguing over the decoration of the church, and the priest was called to mediate, then two choir boys were disciplined, and they were singing and drinking at the same time, and then the organist had another dispute that needed to be settled, and then four poor parishioners rebelled against the snobbish Miss Hartner, and the magistrate, Colonel Prothro, who had just punished three poachers, and the priest was obliged to remind him of his "mercy" At last after lunch, he went to visit the parishioners, and when he returned home to prepare his Sunday sermon, and another distressed man who had fallen in love asked for help for his soul, and at half past five the telephone rang, and a Mr. Abbott two miles away was dying, and asked the priest to go and confess on his deathbed, and when he returned home at nearly seven o'clock, the day came.** Colonel Prosrow died at the writing desk in the pastor's study! The pastor's wife, Griselda, twenty years younger than the pastor, was a naïve girl. Raymond called her "the perfect Grez", a French genre painter and portrait painter who excelled in portraits of women. She caused the priest to change his lifelong creed of not marrying within twenty-four hours of seeing her, and in the rest of his life his faith was threatened from time to time, and she always regarded religious matters as a joke and showed little respect to the parishioners. But this is not out of malice, but by a happy nature. Since marrying her, the pastor's life has not been stable, it seems, on the contrary, it has become chaotic. She can't cook, she can't take care of the house, it's all secondary, and the worst thing is that the pastor's mood becomes unstable, which is caused by one thing, that is, jealousy. Not only did he eat the vinegar of the young painter Lawrence Ridding, but even his nephew Dennis laughed with her, which gave him "a sense of loneliness". However, in fact, he is unconsciously "rejuvenating". Miss Marple quickly grasped the point, and said, "You are so naughty, Mr. Claremont. How inappropriate it is to use the word "naughty" on a pastor!

St. Mary's Mead's oldest mansion, the Gosington House, was the property of the Bantry family. The "Tuesday Night Club" was once held at Bantry House, and the guests were all very prominent, including Dr. Henry Christelin, former Commissioner of the London Police, Dr. Lloyd, a veteran psychiatrist, and Miss Jenny Helier, a movie star, who was reluctant when Dr. Henry recommended Miss Marple, and she invited Dr. Henry only for the sake of Dr. Henry's face. In the end, however, Miss Marple convinced her. I don't know if it's because the "Tuesday Night Club" was held in the Gosington house, where the guests of honor took turns telling crime stories, or because the Gosington house was so old, it was a bit like the "murder house" that Chinese folk call it, and there were two murders in the house! First, in "The Mystery of the Female Corpse in the Library", a strange female corpse appeared in Colonel Bantry's study -- it seemed that the door of St. Mary's Mead Village was open, and anyone could enter anyone's room and drop a corpse by the way. At this time, Mrs. Bantry was almost superstitious about Miss Marple, and when it happened, Colonel Bantry called the police station, and Mrs. Bantry called Miss Marple. In Mrs. Benttree's lifetime, a second case, "Belated Revenge," occurred. By that time, Colonel Bantry had died, and Mrs. Bantry had sold the house, leaving only a small room in which she had been a porter. In fact, she traveled for many years, to the homes of her sons and daughters scattered all over the world, to live here and there, and to enjoy the joy of family. At this point, Mrs. Bantry was no longer the reserved Colonel's wife, and she was serenely teased by her grandson. The house of Golsington, where she and her husband lived happily married, changed hands several times, one time as a hotel, one moment into four apartments, and then the ** health department bought it, but did not think of what to do with it, and then it came to the famous film actress Marina Greg - they built it so much that they almost overturned it. Mrs. Bantry did not feel uncomfortable, she was only more proud of her former house of Golsington, and she showed the qualities of an old family that had a long history, and she was shocked. In a renovated mansion that embodies the glamorous lifestyle of a cinematic star, a fundraising ceremony is held for St. John's Mobile Hospital, where the upper echelons of St. Mary's Mead Village gather, and an enthusiastic cinephile, Mrs. Badcock, suddenly dies.

St. Mary Mead has become a place of meadows and cows, a new type of residential area, like a child's toy: light materials, bright facades, TV receivers on the roofs, unfamiliar faces in and out of the alleyways. Most of the girls are bold and shameless, and the boys are "fierce and vicious". St. Mary Meade's maids, most of whom had come from orphanages and had never read but could work, were now young, independent wives of new housing estates, highly educated, but who often broke dishes. Miss Marple is also old, and old enough to be subject to many jurisdictions...... She sometimes feels confused, as if nothing is real. However, the Bertram Hotel in London is completely unchanged, it is simply - "go back in time, you are once again in Edwardian England". The fireplace, the brass hopper by the fireplace, the coals inside, the style of furniture, the silver tray with the coat of arms, the porcelain, the traditional English afternoon tea, the butter muffins, the waiters, the maids—"the smiling faces of the red, with the simplicity of the countrymen", are all from the previous era. The most astonishing thing was that the guests of the inn, who were real old antiques: members of old families, old nobles, retired soldiers, missionaries—Miss Marple was so upset that she even naively pinched her left arm to see if she was dreaming of a vanishing world. Later it turns out that this virtual world hides crime. That's Miss Marple's judgment of the situation, and she knows what life is.

4. Mr. and Mrs. Beresford, Dr. Arthur Calgary, Mark Eastbrook, and others

Tommy and Tapence first appeared in Hidden Killer when they were a young couple, "no doubt less than forty-five years old." They originally met in the Great War, one was a soldier and the other was a handyman in a field hospital, just like the heroes and heroines in Hemingway's "Farewell, Arms", Henry and Caronling. Although they are Caronling's British compatriots, they are ideologically closer to the American Henry, the quintessential lost generation of Hemingway. They are frivolous and have a kind of fashionable cynicism, but because they are not malicious and have not been stained with the shadow of life, they are all happy and interesting people. Tommy once convinces the head nurse that the doctor prescribed him beer as a tonic, but forgot to write it down on the doctor's order. Tapence goes on a movie date with a patient who is Tommy. They were luckier than Hemingway's couple, both survived the war, and did not lose Caronling and appreciate the cruelty of life like Frederick Henry. The war didn't hurt them much, and gave each of them a legendary career. After a period of miscellaneous work in the hospital, Tapence became a driver, drove a freight truck, and drove a car for a general—the small and delicate Tapence drove a rugged off-road vehicle, like a rider on a horse, and attracted so much admiration! Tommy was wounded twice, but both were fine, and although he was not promoted, he was sent to many places: France, Mesopotamia, Egypt. They were doing well, and even quite developed, but the truce made them unemployed. Is it the nature of optimism, or the decadent common disease of the "lost generation", and then there is about the way of life that has been cultivated in the war, and they quickly spent their retirement money empty-handed. It was at this time of poverty that the two met at the entrance of the London Underground.

Tommy is an orphan who refuses to be adopted by his rich uncle for the sake of the dignity of his deceased mother. Tapence, who is even more like Frederick Henry, the representative of the "Lost Generation" than Tommy, has an American accent, which is understandable, since her best friend in the field hospital happens to be an American girl. Her words and actions were contrary to the traditions of her pastor's family, and she insisted on not compromising and went home to be a good girl. As a result, both of them became homeless and ran around on their own. The little bits and pieces of skills learned in wartime are not useful at all in peacetime, and the war has made them flashy, inattentive to daily life, and always fantasizing about legends. The nature of life is uneventful, and the generals that Tapence served were no more than opening a bicycle shop to make ends meet. Their fantasies have been greatly lowered in the face of reality, and have been reduced to the suspicion of depravity - hooking up with rich people and marrying them. Unfortunately, the social background of the two is not very good, and the people around them are as poor as them, and they can't meet people with status at all. When the two met, they naturally talked about the urgent task of making a living. After discussion, it was decided to publish a job search notice in the "Times" - "Two young adventurers are waiting to be hired." Willing to do anything, go anywhere. The remuneration should be generous. Before the notice could reach the newspaper, the employer came, and a large gentleman called out to Tapence to give her a chance, because he liked her cleverness and the American accent in her speech. Tapence had to take one person, Tommy. At this time, you can see her benevolence, righteousness, morality, and contract spirit. The lure of big men with high salaries and the threat of unemployment could not shake Tapence - "either two of them will work together, or neither of them will do it". As they were at a standpoint, Tapence changed her strategy again, calling out a name like a bridge card: "Jane Finn," which she had overheard from the small talk of passers-by, and she had no idea what it meant, but instead called out a grand slam! The big man was shocked, thinking that Tapence must know some secrets, and that all the conditions should be met. So what is the secret of the name "Jane Finn"? Tommy and Tapence are once again in the newspaper—"asking for any information about Jane Finn," and sure enough, there is a response, signed "Your faithful A. Carter"—and they get into the heart of national security secrets, and Mr. Carter leads them to the right path in life, which is both fed, just, and adventurous.

Mr. Carter was an aristocrat with a prestigious title, his real name was Lord Easthampton, and Carter was his pseudonym. This is a tall man, with a thin face like an eagle, and "tired of movements"—I suppose this means that he has a languid demeanor, an aristocratic demeanor, and it also means, how to say? An old spy, no longer enthusiastic about this profession, but only a responsible attitude of the profession. A bit like Tolstoy's portrayal of Kutuzov, the commander-in-chief of the Russian army in War and Peace, who has a bored attitude all over his body, listlessly walks past the thousands of soldiers under review, and smiles mockingly when officers swear allegiance to him. He was also always tired, clumsy in getting on and off his horse, often unable to open his eyes, unable to wake up, and always had a negative opinion on the war. In the end, however, Napoleon fled, and Russia won. The difference is that Kutuzov is fat, but Mr. Carter is thin, is he taken off from the image of a gentleman on an English copper plate illustration? Whenever something goes wrong in the diplomatic channel and unofficial means are needed to solve the problem, this is the time when such characters show their skills. They don't follow the rules because they don't know what the rules are, they are bold because they don't know where the danger comes from, they don't even follow the morals because they rebel against all conventions, and they are not on the espionage service anyway and are not responsible for international intelligence treaties. They were "informants" who were contacted by Mr. Carter and changed identities as needed, and at one point, they opened an international detective agency. Mr. Carter has used them to the fullest, and the cases they have given them are very difficult, so important that they involve national security, European security, and even world peace, but there are very few clues. The name "Jane Finn" is used in "Hidden Murder", the number "16" in "The Criminal Gang", and the children's song "Mother goose, mother goose, male goose" in "The Guest of Sanssusi". They are still the same old methods, even deception and deception, slowly opening up the situation, and finally chasing down the criminals, finding secret documents, and destroying the other organization. Specially recommended by Mr. Carter, they were honored by the state, and at the same time, they also received an additional prize, which was to tie the knot. Then parents, they had twin children, Derek and Deborah. Time passed in the midst of exciting careers and parenting, and in the blink of an eye, they became an old couple. The spy agencies no longer use them, and they have to stay at home, reminiscing about the past and recovering from their boredom, but the memories make their hearts itch. So, like a pair of old hounds, they sniffed around, and they really unearthed several mysterious crimes for them. Once, they went to visit Tommy's aunt, who lived in the Sunshine Ridge nursing home, and the old aunt willfully refused to meet Tapence, leaving Tommy alone in the room, and Tapence had to sit alone in the living room. It was at this embarrassing moment that things came. An old lady, Mrs. Lancaster, confidentially hinted that there was a dead child behind the fireplace—like the espionage cases they had been involved in when they were younger, and so few clues that even Mrs. Lancaster herself had vanished, leaving only a small painting of a mansion. So, Tapence drove to find the house in the painting. Women have always been more fantastical than men, and in them, Tapence is more restless than Tommy. As a result, dreams come true, and crimes are dug out little by little.

Their pair, when they were young, could be called a "fashionable couple", not a beautiful man and a beautiful woman, but they have personalities. Tommy was defeated early, and a bunch of red hair was carefully combed back of his head. Tapence looks a bit like an elf, with her gray eyes wide apart, like the little spirit mouse in European folklore. In middle age, at least the two of them seemed to be more stable, and even Tarpence knitted wool like Miss Marple. In old age, Mr. Tommy Beresford's red hair turned sandy yellow, and Mrs. Tarpence Beresford's black hair was mixed with gray, but they were like the old children dressed as old people in Christmas carols, the kind of old children who never grow up.

In Agatha Christie's novel, Poirot is the only professional detective, Miss Marple is a consultant, the couple is an amateur, and there are at least a dozen characters who are involved in the murder by accident and have to solve it. These stragglers were in the normal flow of life, but they were suddenly pushed into the incident, unprepared. They have no common sense, and are hardly even interested—although Miss Marple says, "No one is not interested in murder," but that is a much more complicated situation for people who have nothing to do with it, and who are compelled to get things done by some fateful reason. The situation is often related to their itching, so they have to go through emotional twists and turns. These are actually simple people, and almost overnight, life has changed. Of this group, the first of all I would like to talk about is Dr. Arthur Calgary.

The story of "Murder by Order" opens under the shroud of melancholy. Dr. Arthur Calgary waited a long time before arriving at the ferry at dusk, looking out at the water and thinking, "How desolate is this place." Then the ferry came, and it was like a verdict, and he had to move forward. Dr. Arthur Calgary, a geophysicist and Antarctic explorer, is worried, and there is an ominous hint of the surroundings. He asked the boat boss about a house called "Cozy Point", and the boat boss replied: Yes, but we all call it "Viper Point". This terrible name is also a bad omen. He finally walked to the house of "Cozy Point" and brought a piece of news, which he thought should be good news for the people in "Cozy Point". Disturbingly, however, even Arthur Calgary himself is not entirely sure of this. He had come to clear the name of their youngest son, Giaco. Two years ago, Jaco was charged with killing his own mother, and the charges were convicted and sentenced to life in prison, and after serving half a year in prison, he died of typhoid fever in prison, and Dr. Arthur Calgary can prove Giac's innocence. At the time of the crime, which was determined by the police, Jaco was in his car, so it could be used as an alibi. Unfortunately, not long after breaking up with Jaco, he was in a car accident and lost his memory, and after recovering from his injuries, he went to Australia to rendezvous with an expedition to Antarctica, and did not return to the UK until a month ago. Dr. Arthur Calgary felt guilty of a crime against the young man and his family, and he came here with atonement and asked for their forgiveness. But why is everything so gloomy? Far more than it should be? When he acquitted Giacco and actively recommended, through the Home Secretary, he asked the Queen to grant a pardon and restore his reputation. The inhabitants of the "Cozy Point" did not show the slightest agitation they deserved, they were surprisingly cold, they did not thank them, on the contrary, they condemned - yes, they were condemning him, but not for not showing up then, but for condemning him, and now he is. When Jaco's sister Hearst dropped him off, she said sadly, "Why did you come?" Oh, why did you come?, and he replied "Justice." "Justice?" Hearst then went on to say a subtle word, "not to the guilty, but to the innocent." Regarding "justice," Giac's defense lawyer also said something about the same: "In a way, it's right." But, you know, there's more to think about than justice, for example. This simple man, confused by all the people involved in this incident, suddenly plunged from his orderly scientific world into the ambiguity of the world. He felt that he had made another mistake, but he didn't know what was wrong, and he thought he had to take responsibility for what he had done, but he didn't know where to start. It was up to the lawyer to tell him that the reason was very simple: "If Jack Argyle (Jaco) didn't commit this crime, then who did it?" Dr. Arthur Calgary, this good man, always backfires - people like them are involved in events, except for the fate mentioned above, it is related to character, in the case of the doctor, it is the character of "justice". In this way, the old accounts were recalculated, and the family, which had just recovered from injury, was once again upset, and a deeper tragedy was revealed. And his sincerity is so impossible to ignore, he repays the family with love, and marries Hirst, and this sad story finally has a warm ending.

Mark Easterbrook, a scholar of Mongolian history, is a man immersed in a bygone world, but in any case, the humanities are less old-fashioned. Therefore, although he was criticized by his sister for "only living in his own world", he has some curiosity about the outside world. Mark Eastbrook and Dr. Arthur Calgary are supposed to be the same age, and there are some old-fashioned people, just like the Doctor would be tricked into thinking that he was "funny and likable", and Mark Eastbrook could hardly understand modern young people, whom he called the "Beat Generation". In his opinion, the "Beat Generation" is characterized by being cumbersome and sloppy. He watched in amazement as two women, the "Beat Generation," uprooted the hair of the other, were so brave that they would never cry out in pain! Miss Marple doesn't say that "the obvious object of suspicion is always right"? Dr. Arthur Calgary is more serious because of his different field of expertise, while Mark Easterbrook, who studied Mongolian history and lived in the East for a long time, I think he will be influenced by the mystic element of shamanism, and he will be prone to the hint of nothingness. The first time the word "white horse" came to his ears was from the topic of witches, and they discussed whether the witches scattered in the English countryside should be the image of an ordinary old woman or "have a special mystical smell"; when he heard the word again, it was connected with "hotel", and the witchcraft of the white horse disappeared, replaced by a busy London streetscape, neon signs flashing, drinks in glasses, and strangely dressed young people; The third time the word appeared, it provoked a frightened reaction in a flower shop girl, who was clearly "stunned" and who sensed an air of evil, and strangely enough, when he finally walked into the "White Horse Hotel", a brick and timber house off the country road, the former hotel, which had now been bought and converted into a residence, he was a little disappointed, because—"there was no bad omen, no such atmosphere"; However, an old sign on the fireplace, a crude oil painting, a white horse standing in front of a dark background, suddenly there was an unusual air again...... The witches in the countryside of England are actually ordinary old women for a while, and they exude a mysterious smell for the next time.

Miss Emily Trifussis in "The Stafort Mystery" enters the case to save her fiancé Jim Pearson. Just as the psychic predicted the time of the murder, at 5:25 p.m., Colonel Trivilian died. It was at this time that Jim Pearson came to the town from London, stayed for the night, and then left in a hurry. Crucially, he was the nephew of Colonel Trivelian and one of the beneficiaries of the will. He quickly admitted to the police that he had gone into the colonel's room, "nothing special." I just want to talk to the old man and see him, that's all." Of course, this was not enough, and he needed to go to the police station to explain in detail, and he was terrified, and called out in despair: "Can anyone help me?" The person who helped was Emily Trifuss, who expressed her absolute trust in him, because: "You don't have the guts!" She comforted him and said, "Go with the inspector, I'll do the rest." She quickly came to the scene of the incident and got into the groove. She found a good partner, Mr. Enderby, a journalist for the Daily Telegraph, who quickly fell into the hands of Emily Trifuss, and willingly let her send him. In the eyes of the townspeople, and in Mr. Enderby's own mind, they were already a match made in heaven, waiting to go to church or the notary. However, the answer was that she was still Jim's fiancée, and she would always love Jim. The landlady lamented this, thinking that she had been wrongly married, "Can that young gentleman be compared to this one?" and she affirmed that he could not: "He is the kind of man who is born with a great future—but if the other one is not taken care of by me, something may have happened." "The mischievous charm suddenly becomes a virgin.

Agatha Christie's attitude towards the police is basically dismissive, and they have a lot of foreign appearances in her writings, but when she did let them take charge of a few cases independently, they did a good job, even if it was an honorary award. In all fairness, the police superintendent, who is actually a great one, is hidden under Poirot's figure, making it difficult for us to see his face. In "Cards in Cards", it is a positive portrait of him, but it is quite mean - "Tall, thick, and stereotyped, *** the police inspector gives people the illusion that his whole person is carved out of wood, and the material used for the carving has just been removed from the battleship." It is said that the Superintendent of Police is the most characteristic staff member of Scotland Yard. Due to his lack of expression, he looks a bit sluggish and stupid. "I thought it was more or less out of opinion about Scotland Yard and not entirely personal. The police commissioner's appearance is wooden, most likely because he is in control and is not used to showing feelings. In fact, he is also - not all police officers only know cigarette ashes, match stalks, and footprints like Poirot's sarcasm, *** The police superintendent also respects human nature, he understands the human factor in crime, so he cuts from human nature to the core of the matter. It's just that he has bad luck, and all the wonderful cases have gone to Poirot, but he has also landed on one or two cases, such as "Towards a Decisive Moment". Before the case happened, the police superintendent first encountered a little housework, which can also be seen that the police superintendent has a family life and a long relationship with children, and is not as people usually think that the people in Scotland Yard are all crime-solving machines. The affair was about his youngest daughter, Sylvia. The school where Sylvia lives has long been plagued by petty thefts, and now, suddenly, Sylvia has come out and confessed that she did everything. So, the principal, like all girls' schools, a respectable old lady, summoned the parents and the *** police superintendent to the school. The police superintendent asked the principal how to solve the case, and the principal said that it was based on psychology - Sylvia looked uneasy, and after a quiz with a letter combination, the child was recruited. The superintendent said, "Understood." Immediately taking his daughter out of school, he sternly told the principal in the name of the police that Sylvia was not a thief, and he already knew who the thief was, the girl with blond hair and blue eyes and a red face with dark spots on her chin, because she had a "smug look" and, *** the superintendent asserted: "Don't expect her to confess to you - of course not." "This family affair is actually a rehearsal of what happened later.

Mrs. Tricilian died in her bed, slashed to death by an iron-tipped golf club. It was clearly Audrey Strange, who killed Mrs. Tricilian, and faked the scene to make it look like the work of her husband, Neville Strange. Audrey Strange confessed happily and looked relieved. Of course, this is not the case, but once again the other way around—Neville Strange killed Mrs. Tricilian, and faked the scene of being framed by Audrey, which is a double negative crime. This time, it was finally the turn of the police superintendent to state the case, he said: "What shook me was those eyes, when I saw and heard her...... You know, because you know another girl, she does exactly the same thing as Audrey. The girl was his youngest daughter, Sylvia, an "unusual liar" who would rather admit what she had done wrong in exchange for a moment of peace than to bother her. The superintendent described this situation with the legend of the Holy Lady of Elizabeth: the saint always gave bread to the poor, but her husband was not happy, and once, she happened to collide head-on with her husband, and the husband asked what was in the basket, she panicked, replied "roses", and when she opened it, it was all roses! In fact, under the expressionless mask carved from wood, it is also human nature. The Superintendent of Police has his own charm as a professional police officer!