Agatha Christie's Poirot Episode Guide - inaf iasf bologna

Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
the most popular of men, there are any number of suspects, including his own daughter and
nephew. It is revealed that Hugo is engaged to Susan (another guest at the house) and Ruth has
already married Lake (Chevenix-Gore’s assistant) in secret.
In the end, Poirot assembles everyone in the study. He tells them that Chevenix intended to
disinherit Ruth if she did not marry Hugo Trent. However, it was too late, as she was already
married to Lake. Poirot says that Ruth killed Chevenix, but Ms. Lingard confesses in the murder.
She is the real mother of Ruth and she killed Chevenix in order to prevent him from disinheriting
her.
The bullet which killed Chevenix hit the gong (as the door to the study was open), which
made Susan think that she heard the first gong (the dinner was served after the valet would
strike the gong 2 times), and it was Ms. Lingard who smashed the mirror and made the whole
affair look like suicide. She blew a paper bag in order to fake a shot. Poirot said he suspected
Ruth, because he suspected Ms. Lingard would rescue her daughter and confess, and he had no
evidence against Ms. Lingard. After everyone leaves and Ms. Lingard stays alone in the room, she
asks Poirot not to tell Ruth that she is her real mother. Poirot agrees and doesn’t tell anything to
Ruth who wonders why Ms. Lingard committed murder.
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