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Pro inspiraci můžete shlédnout tuto scénu ve filmové podobě: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnnNkIPwwAk
Agatha Christie - The Body In The Library (1942)
There was the sound of a car crunching on the gravel
outside. Constable Palk said with urgency, "That'll be the
inspector."
True to his ingrained belief that the gentry didn't
let you down, Mrs. Bantry immediately moved to the door. Miss Marple followed
her. Mrs. Bantry said, "That'll be all right, Palk." Constable Palk
was immensely relieved.
Hastily downing the last fragments of toast and
marmalade with a drink of coffee. Colonel Bantry hurried out into the hall and
was relieved to see Colonel Melchett, the chief constable of the county,
descending from a car, with Inspector Slack in attendance. Melchett was a
friend of the colonel's; Slack he had never very much taken to an energetic man
who belied his name and who accompanied his bustling manner with a good deal of
disregard for the feelings of anyone he did not consider important "Mornin.“
"It's, it's" Colonel Bantry struggled to
express himself "it's incredible, fantastic!"
"No idea who the woman is?"
"Not in the slightest. Never set eyes on her in
my life."
"Butler know anything?" asked Inspector
Slack.
"Lorrimer is just as taken aback as I am."
"Ah," said Inspector Slack. "I
wonder."
Colonel Bantry said, "There's breakfast in the
dining room, Melchett, if you'd like anything."
"No, no, better get on with the job. Haydock
ought to be here any minute now..... Ah, here he is." Another car drew up and big,
broad-shouldered Doctor Haydock, who was also the police surgeon, got out. A
second police car had disgorged two plain-clothes men, one with a camera.
"All set, eh?" said the chief constable.
"Right. We'll go along. In the library. Slack tells me."
Colonel Bantry groaned. "It's incredible! You
know, when my wife insisted this morning that the housemaid had come in and
said there was a body in the library, I just wouldn't believe her."
"No, no, I can quite understand that. Hope your
missus isn't too badly upset by it all."
"She's been wonderful, really wonderful. She's
got old Miss Marple up here with her from the village, you know."
"Miss Marple?" The chief constable
stiffened. "Why did she send for her?"
"Oh, a woman wants another woman, don't you
think so?"
Colonel Melchett said with a slight chuckle, "If you ask me, your wife's going to try her hand at a little amateur detecting.
Miss Marple's quite the local sleuth. Put it over us properly once, didn't she,
Slack?"
Inspector Slack said, "That was
different."
"Different from what?"
"That was a local case, that was, sir. The old
lady knows everything that goes on in the village, that's true enough. But
she'll be out of her depth here."
Melchett said dryly, "You don't know very much
about it yourself yet, Slack."
"Ah, you wait, sir. It won't take me long to
get down to it."
In the dining room Mrs. Bantry and Miss Marple, in
their turn, were partaking of breakfast. After waiting on her guest, Mrs.
Bantry said urgently, "Well, Jane?" Miss Marple looked up at her
slightly bewildered. Mrs. Bantry said hopefully, "Doesn't it remind you of
anything?"
For Miss Marple had attained fame by her ability to
link up trivial village happenings with graver problems in such a way as to
throw light upon the latter.
"No," said Miss Marple thoughtfully.
"I can't say that it does not at the moment. I was reminded a little of
Mrs. Chetty's youngest Edie, you know but I think that was just because this
poor girl bit her nails and her front teeth stuck out a little. Nothing more
than that. And of course," went on Miss Marple, pursuing the parallel
further, "Edie was fond of what I call cheap finery too."
