Poirot investigates a murder that hits close to home after the new occupant of a flat two floors below his is found shot.Poirot investigates a murder that hits close to home after the new occupant of a flat two floors below his is found shot.Poirot investigates a murder that hits close to home after the new occupant of a flat two floors below his is found shot.
James Aidan
- Major Sadler
- (as James Aiden)
Gillian Bailey
- Mrs. Sadler
- (as Gillian Bush Bailey)
- Director
- Writers
- Michael Baker
- Agatha Christie(uncredited)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe idea for the play Poirot and Hastings watch was later used by Christie in her novel "Murder in Three Acts."
- GoofsAt the beginning of the episode, the police state that the murder was committed with a "small-caliber automatic pistol". Yet later, when the execution of the murder-plot is shown in retrospective, a revolver is used.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Miss Lemon: I've got your Friar's Balsam for you.
Hercule Poirot: My what?
Miss Lemon: Your inhalant, for your cold.
Hercule Poirot: Poirot does not have colds, Miss Lemon. It is well known that Poirot scorns all but the gravest afflictions.
Miss Lemon: But yesterday you were...
Hercule Poirot: Miss Lemon, yesterday was yesterday. My tisane, if you please.
Featured review
Hitting close to home
Hercule Poirot doesn't feel too good this morning: a) he has a cold, and b) no new cases have come his way in the past few weeks. He even picks the wrong murderer in a theatrical murder mystery that his friend Captain Hastings takes him to (though he insists that the writer of the play cheated the audience). But all that is about to change when a real murder happens - in an apartment just 2 floors below his own, no less!
Featuring fluid camera-work that immediately establishes the setting (3rd floor: the murder victim, 4th floor: the people who find the body, 5th floor: Poirot), a typically clever script (when Poirot, back in form and obviously pleased with himself, says "And now, I know everything!", few viewers will be prepared for his revelations), fine acting, and even some suspense at the end AFTER the culprit has been revealed, this early entry into the Poirot series is a good solid whodunit. (***)
Featuring fluid camera-work that immediately establishes the setting (3rd floor: the murder victim, 4th floor: the people who find the body, 5th floor: Poirot), a typically clever script (when Poirot, back in form and obviously pleased with himself, says "And now, I know everything!", few viewers will be prepared for his revelations), fine acting, and even some suspense at the end AFTER the culprit has been revealed, this early entry into the Poirot series is a good solid whodunit. (***)
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- Dec 5, 2007
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- Florin Court, Charterhouse Square, London, England, UK(Whitehaven Mansions)
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- Runtime50 minutes
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