Reading progress update: I've read 196 out of 308 pages.
‘You think—you think it was Derek?’ he queried, ‘but—everything points the other way. Why, the Count has actually been caught red-handed with the jewels on him.’
‘No.’
‘But you told me—’
‘What did I tell you?’
‘That story about the jewels. You showed them to me.’
‘No.’
Van Aldin stared at him.
‘You mean to say you didn’t show them to me?’
‘No.’
‘Yesterday—at the tennis?’
‘No.’
‘Are you crazy, M. Poirot, or am I?’
And with this, I am calling it a night for tonight. I will finish this book in the morning.
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