““What are you going to do?’ ‘I am going to visit these five people-and from each one I am going to get his or her own story.’ Superintendent Hale sighed with a deep melancholy. He said: ‘Man, you’re nuts! None of their stories are going to agree! Don’t you grasp that elementary fact? No two people remember a thing in the same order anyway. And after all this time! Why, you’ll hear five accounts of five separate murders!’ ‘That,’ said Poirot, ‘is what I am counting upon. It will be very instructive.””
