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杀人不难(Murder Is Easy) MURDER IS EASY (1939) Agatha Christie 一 旅伴 Chapter 1 英格兰！ England! England after many years! How was 这么多年之后，终于又回到英格 he going to like it? Luke Fitzwilliam asked 兰了！ himself that question as he walked down the 他会喜欢这儿吗？ gangplank to the dock. It was present at the 路克·菲仕威廉由踏板跨上码头 back of his mind all through the wait in the 的那一刻，这么自问着。在海关 customs shed. It came suddenly to the fore 等候入境的时候，这个问题躲在 when he was finally seated in the boat train. 他脑子后面，可是当他终于坐上 列车时，又忽然跑了出来。 Here he was, honorably retired on a pension, 他现在已经光荣地领了退休金 with some small private means of his own, a 退休，又有一点自己的积蓄，可 gentleman of leisure, come home to England. 以说是个既有钱又有闲的绅士， What was he going to do with himself? With 风风光光地回到英格兰老家。他 an effort, Luke Fitzwilliam averted his eyes 以后打算做什么呢？ from the landscape outside the railway- 路克·菲仕威廉把眼光从列车窗 carriage window and settled down to a 外的风景转回手上刚买的几份 perusal of the papers he had just bought. 纸上。 The Times, the Daily Clarion and Punch. 他先打开《每日号角报》，上面 He started with the Daily Clarion. The 全都是艾普孙镇的消息。 Clarion was given over entirely to Epsom. 他参加了赌马，想看看《号角报》He had drawn a horse in the club sweep and 的体育记者对那匹马的意见如 he looked now to see what the Clarions 。关于他买的那匹马，报上只 racing correspondent thought of its chances. 有一句话：“至于其他马——裘 He found it dismissed contemptuously in a 裘比二世、马克·迈尔、山东妮 sentence: 和杰利南男孩，都很难赢得一席 Of the others, Jujube the II, Marks Mile, 之地。此外……” Santony and Jerry Boy are hardly likely to qualify for a place. A likely outsider is - 路克对此外还