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
Better than average
Once again the episode is distinguished by the "padding": the various extra touches added by the writers to fill out the structure of the original story. And a clever story it is: Poirot finds that the charming young lady who lives directly below him has lost the key to her apartment. Her boyfriend and his buddy decide to break in via the small elevator used to deliver coal to the kitchen. But they accidentally enter the wrong kitchen and discover a dead body. Can Poirot and Hastings figure out who killed the woman who lived in the third floor flat? The short answer, not surprisingly, is yes, and in very quick order too. But beyond that are the clever little touches: the fact that Poirot, having caught a cold, is being more petulant than usual, the wager he makes with Hastings over the solution to a murder mystery play, and Hastings' distress over the very unfortunate result when the murderer tries to make his escape. Best line of the evening: "He'll need a whole new front end." Ce pauvre Hastings!
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- Sep 4, 2015
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- Filming locations
- Florin Court, Charterhouse Square, London, England, UK(Whitehaven Mansions)
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- Runtime50 minutes
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