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| Portada de la novela en Español |
En la novela Los cuatro
grandes (The Big Four, 1927), Agatha Christie menciona
explícitamente el lema de los Boy Scouts,
Hércules Poirot hace referencia a ellos cuando
dice: «Si uno está preparado de antemano, todo es sencillo... el lema del
Boy Scout, ¿no es así? Y uno muy bueno. Yo estaba preparado»
"Dispose
of them, did you say?" I asked feebly. "Single-handed."
"Oh, there is nothing very
clever about that. If one is prepared in advance all is simple—the motto of the
Boy Scout, is it not? And a very fine one. Me, I was prepared. Not so long ago,
I rendered a service to a very famous chemist, who did a lot of work in
connection with poison gas during the war. He devised for me a little
bomb—simple and easy to carry about—one has but to throw it and poof, the
smoke—and then the unconsciousness. Immediately I blow a little whistle and
straightway some of Japp's clever fellows who were watching the house here long
before the boy arrived, and who managed to follow us all the way to Limehouse,
came flying up and took charge of the situation."