Status Updates From Ubiystva po alfavitu

Chapter 7 summary:
Interview Mr. Partridge, a regular. Visited ~2/week; last visit at 5:30pm, victim seemed normal. Doesn’t know about victim’s personal life; came forward to police of his own accord; owns an ABC currently in his possession. Mr. Bert Riddell is belligerent, didn’t go to police of his own free will, claims not to have seen body behind counter. Didn’t touch the ABC on the counter.

A little chapter 6 summary, for our Japanese reader:
Hastings and Poirot visit the shop/attached living quarters. They visit the green grocer. Three/four dark-haired men and one light-haired clean shaven man was seen coming/going; murder occurred at a high traffic time. They visit the next door neighbor, Mrs. Fowler, she believes Mr. Ascher is responsible, but never heard anything (5 pounds).

“You yourself are English and yet you do not seem to appreciate the quality of the English reaction to a direct question. It is invariably one of suspicion and the natural result is reticence. If I had asked those people for information they would have shut up like oysters.”

Poirot playing matchmaker once again while solving murders