It also included paintings of the 17th and 16th centuries, old Chinese and ancient Greek ceramics and jade figures from the Far East.

Another time he found three carved jade figures of full-bodied women that had slipped from some rider's sack of loot.

For the sake of the little jade figures?

He went into his own room--no, first he went back again to the scene of the crime--was that to get the little jade figures?

I wonder what he went back for--the little jade figures as an afterthought?

"That little jade figure, over there on the ivory shelf," she said, pointing.

The beautiful jade figure was then seen concealed within.

Last May, Sotheby's sold a Mayan jade figure from around A.D. 200 for a record $322,000.

Whalley had been hit on the head and then his throat had been cut and some jade figures he had had been stolen.

Poirot talks to Grant and asks him whether he entered the room twice to take the jade figures.