Third Girl by Third girl

Author:Third girl
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-06-26T05:53:51.937000+00:00

"Ah," said Poirot. "Yes, I see... And what was the nature of her illness?

Digestive, possibly? A form of enteritis?" "You're quick, M. Poirot. You're very quick. Yes, it was digestive. This complaint of my wife's was puzzling, because she had always had excellent health. Finally they sent her to hospital for 'observation', as they call it. A check up." "And the result?" "I don't think they were completely satisfied... She appeared to regain her health completely and was sent home in due course. But the trouble recurred. We went carefully over the meals she had, the cooking. She seemed to be suffering from a form of intestinal poisoning for which there appeared to be no cause. A further step was taken, tests were made of the dishes she ate. By taking samples of everything, it was definitely proved that a certain substance had been administered in various dishes. In each case it was a dish of which only my wife had partaken." "In plain language somebody was giving her arsenic. Is that right?" "Quite right. In small doses which would in the end have a cumulative effect." "You suspected your daughter?" "No.59 "I think you did. Who else could have done it? You suspected your daughter." Restarick gave a deep sigh.

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