{"id":1156,"date":"2008-02-08T13:33:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T12:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jochenenglish.de\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2010-01-01T15:20:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T14:20:12","slug":"murder-a-la-christie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/?p=1156","title":{"rendered":"Murder \u00e0 la Christie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 ist eine pfif\u00adfi\u00adge Kurz\u00adge\u00adschich\u00adte mei\u00adner LK-Sch\u00fc\u00adle\u00adrin <strong>Tan\u00adja Neu\u00admay\u00ader<\/strong>. Der Clou der Geschich\u00adte ist, dass alle <strong>fett<\/strong> for\u00adma\u00adtier\u00adten W\u00f6r\u00adter <a href=\"http:\/\/fly.cc.fer.hr\/~shlede\/my\/popis.html\">Titel von Aga\u00adtha Chris\u00adtie B\u00fcchern<\/a> sind.&nbsp;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Die Geschich\u00adte wird dadurch zu einem aus\u00adge\u00adzeich\u00adne\u00adten Bei\u00adspiel f\u00fcr \u201eInter\u00adtex\u00adtua\u00adli\u00adt\u00e4t\u201c, die nach Mei\u00adnung eini\u00adger Theo\u00adre\u00adti\u00adker \u201edas eigent\u00adli\u00adche Wesen der Lite\u00adra\u00adtur ist, dass alle Tex\u00adte aus dem Gewe\u00adbe ande\u00adrer Tex\u00adte gefloch\u00adten sind, ob ihre Autoren es nun wis\u00adsen oder nicht.\u201c (zitiert nach David Lodge <em>Die Kunst des Erz\u00e4h\u00adlens<\/em>, Dia\u00adna-Ver\u00adlag, S. 14). In Tan\u00adjas Fall ist klar, dass sie WUSSTE was sie tat und so kann man z.B. ana\u00adly\u00adsie\u00adren, wel\u00adche Wir\u00adkung die\u00adse Titel\u00adzi\u00adta\u00adte auf den Leser&nbsp;haben.<\/p>\n<p><big>Mur\u00adder \u00e0 la <strong>Chris\u00adtie<\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n<p>It was about 3&nbsp;o\u2019 clock in the mor\u00adning when a sin\u00adgle well dres\u00adsed man was lea\u00adving <strong>Bertram\u2019s Hotel<\/strong> in Lon\u00addon. Alre\u00ada\u00addy yes\u00adter\u00adday he knew it would be an <strong>end\u00adless night<\/strong> but he didn\u2019t expect hims\u00adelf to be that exhaus\u00adted. <strong>The man in the brown suit<\/strong> crossed the squa\u00adre and felt ali\u00adtt\u00adle scared becau\u00adse of the dark hou\u00adses sur\u00adroun\u00adding him. In each win\u00addow he could only see <strong>curta\u00adins<\/strong> and the smo\u00adke out of the chim\u00adneys for\u00admed stran\u00adge figu\u00adres. The <strong>secret of chim\u00adneys<\/strong> fasci\u00adna\u00adted him alt\u00adhough the\u00adre was no more time for him to gaze at the mys\u00adte\u00adrious things around him. He had a train to catch. Accor\u00adding to his ticket his train would lea\u00adve <strong>4.50 from Pad\u00adding\u00adton<\/strong>. He ran fur\u00adther along the street when sud\u00adden\u00adly some birds start\u00adled and flew away. The man took a clo\u00adser look in the direc\u00adtion from whe\u00adre the birds came and noti\u00adced a <strong>cat among the pige\u00adons<\/strong>. No good omen, he thought. He felt that the\u00adre was <strong>death in the&nbsp;air.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the same time three poli\u00adce men met at Pad\u00adding\u00adton sta\u00adti\u00adon whe\u00adre a cruel action had taken place just litt\u00adle time befo\u00adre. The three men stood in front of a <strong>blue train<\/strong> with a gol\u00adden pat\u00adtern. This look gave the train the nick\u00adna\u00adme: <strong>Ori\u00adent Express<\/strong>. But one of the wagons was now stained with blood. A man lay on the flo\u00ador of the train. Dead. \u201cWell actual\u00adly this is not my field.\u201d one of the poli\u00adce men said. \u201cYeah, neither it\u2019s mine. Nor\u00admal\u00adly I don\u2019t have to sol\u00adve mur\u00adders. <strong>Why didn\u2019t they ask Evans?<\/strong> He would know what to do!\u201d said ano\u00adther. \u201cWho should have asked me?\u201d <strong>The man in the brown suit<\/strong>, Inspec\u00adtor Evans, loo\u00adked at the others scep\u00adti\u00adcal. \u201cOh, Mr. Evans! What a hap\u00adpy acci\u00addent that you meet us here befo\u00adre your depar\u00adtu\u00adre! We need your help! The\u00adre was a <strong>mur\u00adder on the Ori\u00adent Express<\/strong>!\u201d the first poli\u00adce\u00adman repor\u00adted exci\u00adted\u00adly. \u201cWhat do you know about the vic\u00adtim?\u201d \u201cHis name is <strong>Roger Ack\u00adroyd<\/strong>.\u201d \u201cIs his <strong>desti\u00adna\u00adti\u00adon unknown<\/strong>?\u201d \u201cNo, we found a ticket in his pocket. He was on his way to the air\u00adport. He is a <strong>pas\u00adsen\u00adger to Frank\u00adfurt<\/strong>!\u201d Sud\u00adden\u00adly Evans noti\u00adced a dog stan\u00adding not far away. \u201cWho\u00adse dog is this?\u201d \u201cPro\u00adba\u00adb\u00adly it\u2019s Ackroyd\u2019s. It was in the train, bar\u00adking, when we arri\u00adved and we can assu\u00adme that it is the only one who has seen the mur\u00adde\u00adrer.\u201d \u201cOh fan\u00adta\u00adstic. So we have only one <strong>dumb wit\u00adness<\/strong>? Won\u00adderful chan\u00adces for you. What can you say about the cour\u00adse of events?\u201d The first poli\u00adce man loo\u00adked embar\u00adras\u00adsed. \u201cWell, actual\u00adly I hoped you could tell us. He has a lar\u00adge wound on his skull pan. But it\u2019s not very pro\u00adba\u00adble that this cau\u00adsed the death.\u201d \u201cHmh, yeah, let me take a short look at&nbsp;him!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evans went into the rail\u00adway car\u00adria\u00adge and took a brief look around. The\u00adre lay <strong>cards on the table<\/strong>, an ope\u00adned case with a sti\u00adcker of <strong>five litt\u00adle pigs<\/strong> on it stood near one seat and at one side the\u00adre hang a <strong>mir\u00adror cra\u00adcked from side to side<\/strong>. The corp\u00adse in the midd\u00adle of the car\u00adria\u00adge didn\u2019t give the impres\u00adsi\u00adon that Ack\u00adroyd had defen\u00added hims\u00adelf in a fight. Evans tur\u00adned the dead body so that he could see his front. The lips were slight\u00adly bluish, his mouth smel\u00adled like almond. The inspec\u00adtor che\u00adcked imme\u00addia\u00adte\u00adly the car\u00adpet near the vic\u00adtim and noti\u00adced a spar\u00adk\u00adling pow\u00adder: <strong>Spar\u00adk\u00adling cya\u00adni\u00adde<\/strong>, he thought. Again out\u00adside the train Evans tal\u00adked to his col\u00adle\u00adagues: \u201cLis\u00adten, I have litt\u00adle time so I tell you what I think about this case and will lea\u00adve then. I can ima\u00adgi\u00adne that becau\u00adse of the time only few peo\u00adp\u00adle were in the train. And even if the\u00adre were any in this car\u00adria\u00adge they pro\u00adba\u00adb\u00adly got off at the sta\u00adti\u00adons befo\u00adre becau\u00adse of the fire\u00adworks. <strong>And then the\u00adre were none<\/strong> but the mur\u00adde\u00adrer and Ack\u00adroyd. First the mur\u00adde\u00adrer kno\u00adcked his vic\u00adtim down from behind. Now it was <strong>easy to kill<\/strong> him. Second\u00adly he gave the defen\u00adce\u00adl\u00adess man cya\u00adni\u00adde to put him com\u00adple\u00adte\u00adly out of action. And last but not least he ope\u00adned the victim\u2019s case and pro\u00adba\u00adb\u00adly sto\u00adle some\u00adthing valuable. Per\u00adhaps money, I don\u2019t know. <strong>A three act tra\u00adge\u00addy<\/strong>, as it were. I\u2019m afraid the\u00adre are many <strong>evils under the sun<\/strong>.\u201d The others loo\u00adked asto\u00adnis\u00adhed and than\u00adked Evans for his help. \u201cNow, col\u00adle\u00adagues, <strong>the clocks<\/strong> don\u2019t lie! I have to go to catch my train. The count\u00addown runs <strong>towards zero<\/strong>. Good&nbsp;luck!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evans ran through the sta\u00adti\u00adon till he final\u00adly arri\u00adved at his rail. The train would lea\u00adve in few seconds so he got in fast wit\u00adhout noti\u00adcing that the\u00adre was someone hiding in the lava\u00adto\u00adry. He moved to his seat and loo\u00adked out of the win\u00addow. At once the door to the lava\u00adto\u00adry ope\u00adned and a man with an iron in his hands came out. Stran\u00adge what things peo\u00adp\u00adle car\u00adry around with them, Evans thought and smi\u00adled. But it got even more sus\u00adpi\u00adcious. The man with the iron moved towards a wall and left it with a hol\u00adlow. Sud\u00adden\u00adly Evans began to think about the mur\u00adder and the smi\u00adle dis\u00adap\u00adpeared from his face: Wait a second \u2026 wasn\u2019t Ackroyd\u2019s wound tri\u00adan\u00adgu\u00adlar? And what did the man do with an iron in the lava\u00adto\u00adry? Of cour\u00adse: He washed away the blood! But it was too late for this rea\u00adliza\u00adti\u00adon. The train began to move and the mur\u00adde\u00adrer could escape. Litt\u00adle time later one of the clea\u00adners would find the iron in <strong>the hol\u00adlow<\/strong>, would be sur\u00adpri\u00adsed at the bizar\u00adre find he made and it would never occur to him that the\u00adre was more to it than meets the&nbsp;eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 ist eine pfif\u00adfi\u00adge Kurz\u00adge\u00adschich\u00adte mei\u00adner LK-Sch\u00fc\u00ad\u00adle\u00adrin Tan\u00adja Neu\u00admay\u00ader. Der Clou der Geschich\u00adte ist, dass alle fett for\u00adma\u00adtier\u00adten W\u00f6r\u00adter Titel von Aga\u00adtha Chris\u00adtie B\u00fcchern sind.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,66],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alg","tag-literature","tag-short-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4866,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions\/4866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jochenlueders.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}