Bouguereau William

Bouguereau William
"In Betty Barnard you found just the type of girl you were looking for. You took her out once or twice，explaining to her that you were amarried man，and that outings must therefore take place in a somewhathole-and-corner manner. "Then，your preliminary plans completed，you set to work!You sent theAndover list to Cust，directing him to go there on a certain date，and yousent off the first A B C letter to me. "On the appointed day you went to Andover-and killed Mrs Ascher-withoutanything occurring to damage your plans. "Murder No.1was successfully accomplished.
Bouguereau William
"For the second murder，you took the precaution of committing it，inreality，the day before.I am fairly certain that Betty Barnard was killedwell before midnight on the 24th July. "We now come to murder No 3-the important-in fact，the real murder fromyour point of view. "And here a full meed of praise is due to Hastings，who made a simpleand obvious remark to which no attention was paid. "He suggested that the third letter went astray intentionally! "And he was right!...... "In that one simple fact lies the answer to the question that haspuzzled me so all along.Why were the letters addressed in the first place toHercule Poirot，a private detective，and not to the police?
Bouguereau William