In the annotated text, by clicking on the hyperlinks you will see a pop-up window giving information on vocabulary and also grammar and anything else that might make the text easier to follow.
I have attempted to annotate just about every word. Bear in mind however that in general, once a word has occurred and been annotated, subsequent occurrences of the word will appear with no annotation. This means that if you do come accross an unfamiliar word then somewhere in the preceding text the word has already appeared with an annotation attached. To save time and to make things easier for anyone using these pages, I've also included a glossary in which it is possible to look up words from the text and find out on which page they first appeared. In that way it will not be too difficult to find out the meaning of words that have been forgotten. Some exceptions to this are if I considered a construction particularly tricky in which case I thought it helpful to point out more examples.
As you work through the text you will get a meassure of how much Esperanto you have learnt by seeing fewer and fewer words italicised. The glossary will also include the total number of annotations. That will also give you an indication of how much you have learnt.
I will continually be adding annotations so if you find these pages useful check back often to find out how Monsieur Poirot has been getting on.
Poirot, being Belgian, is quite good at speaking Esperanto, but he does like to throw in the odd French word here and there. In the original, the English readers would have had not trouble distinguishing the French from the English... for a beginner Esperantist with no knowledge of French, this may not be quite so easy. Any French in the original will thus be italicised.
Any comments or suggestions... criticisms even, are all welcome.