The London setting, the atmosphere of the 1930s, costumes and decor? Banking? Dentistry? The musical score?Ĥ.

The popularity of Agatha Christieâ€™s mysteries? The television series with David Suchet?ģ. The title? The nursery rhyme? The motif of the girls playing it on the footpath?Ģ. As always, there are quite a number of complications, a prologue in India becoming important, the central character, a financier, involved with American relations, a dead wife, an assistant who turns out to be the solution to the mystery.ġ. The main suspect, played by Christopher Eccleston who in 12 years time was to be Doctor Who, arrested, a surly man, but loved by the assistant to the dentist. Not only does the dentist die but this woman also disappears â€“ and the body of another dead woman is discovered. However, there were a number of other appointments and some manipulation of the timeframe of the alleged suicide.Ĭhief Inspector Japp works with Poirot on the case, especially in an encounter with a former actress now involved in charity work but returning from India. The setting is visits to the dentist â€“ who, it seems, kills himself soon after Poirotâ€™s appointment.

This is one of the earlier television versions of Poirotâ€™s solving of murder mysteries, with Agatha Christieâ€™s ingenuity and David Suchet embodying Poirot.

Peter Malone's Film Reviews and Resourcesĭavid Suchet, Philip Jackson, Joanna Phillips- Lane, Peter Blythe, Carolyn Colquhoun, Christopher Eccleston, Karen Gledhill, Laurence Harrington, Rosalind Knight, Sarah Stewart, Helen Horton.

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