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Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
Season 5
Episode Number: 43
Season Episode: 5
Originally aired: Sunday February 14, 1993
Writer:
Agatha Christie, Clive Exton
Director: Brian Farnham
Show Stars: Hugh Fraser (Captain Arthur Hastings), Philip Jackson (Chief Inspector
James Japp), Pauline Moran (Miss Felicity Lemon), David Suchet
(Hercule Poirot)
Guest Stars: Vittorio Amandola (First Secretary), Michael Tudor Barnes (Neighbour),
Ben Bazell (Sergeant Beddoes), Arthur Cox (Dr Hawker), Sidney
Kean (Count Foscanti), Janet Lees Price (Miss Rider), Anna Mazzotti
(Margherita Fabbri), David Neal (Bruno Vizzini), Leonard Preston
(Graves), David Verrey (Chef), David Willoughby (Lad), Sara Elizabeth
Kean (First bridesmaid), Vincenzo Ricotta (Mario Asciano)
Summary: Hastings’s friend Dr Hawker receives worrying news about a patient,
Count Foscanti, and the body is found of a man who has been beaten
to death. Meanwhile, Hastings buys a new Italian roadster from Bruno
Vizzini’s showroom, and the car and Miss Lemon’s new admirer turn
out to have connections with each other and with the murdered man.
Poirot finds his investigation leads him into the gangland world of London’s
Little Italy. The story culminates in a deadly car chase.
Poirot and Hastings are in their rooms enjoying the
company of a near neighbour, Dr Hawker, when the
medical man’s housekeeper, Miss Rider, arrives with a
message that a client, Count Foscatini, has rung him
up crying out for help. Poirot and Hastings join the doctor
as he rushes round to Foscatini’s flat in Regent’s
Court.The lift attendant there is unaware of any problems,
saying that Graves, the Count’s man, left half an
hour earlier with no indication of anything wrong. The
flat is locked but the manager of the building opens it
for them. Inside, they find a table set for three people
with the meals finished. The Count is alone and dead —
his head crushed in by a small marble statue. Poirot is
interested in what remains on the table. He then questions
the kitchen staff at the top of the building who outline
the meal served and what dirty plates were passed
up to them. Poirot seems especially interested in the fact
that little of the side dish and none of the dessert were
eaten, while the main course was consumed entirely.
He also points out that after crying out for help on the
phone, the man seemed to replace the receiver. The police
arrive at the flat together with the return of the valet,
Graves. He tells them how Foscatini was first visited by
the two dinner guests on the previous day. They were both Italian; a man in his forties by the
name of Count Ascanio and a man of about twenty-four years of age. Graves listened into their
first conversation and heard threats uttered. The Count invited the two men to dinner the next
evening and unexpectedly gave Graves the night off after dinner and the port had been served.
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