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Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
which turns out to be arsenic. The bottle is also nearly empty... something that the gardener
finds surprising.
Theresa Arundell is a strong suspect because Miss Lawson can recall seeing someone through
her bedroom mirror at the top of the stairs on the night of Emily’s accident. The person was
wearing a brooch with the initials, ”TA”.
After implying for a long time that he is bullying her, Bella leaves her husband, Jacob, accusing
him of Emily Arundell’s murder and saying he was trying to have her wrongly committed to a
mental institution in order to keep her quiet. She goes to stay with Miss Lawson, but Poirot tells
her to go to a certain hotel, and read some papers he has prepared for her. The next day, she
is found dead. She has taken an overdose of a sleeping-draught. The murderer has apparently
struck again.
Poirot discovers that Emily Arundell died of phosphorus poisoning, administered in her liver
pills. The reason why haze appeared from her mouth was that her breath was phosphorescent.
The reason her doctor did not know was because he could not smell the odour. The nature of the
murder suggests a doctor. Dr. Donaldson, Theresa’s fiancé, has a good motive for the crime, as
does Jacob Tanios, also a doctor.
At a meeting with all the suspects, Poirot reveals that Theresa took the arsenic. However, she
could not bear to take someone else’s life, so she threw the arsenic away. The real murderer was
Bella. She committed the murder for money to educate her children and escape from her mundane
life. Secretly, she had grown to hate her domineering husband, and had already attempted
to kill him as well. She killed herself because the papers Poirot had given her contained a description
of how she had murdered her aunt. The brooch that Miss Lawson had seen through
the mirror was Bella’s with the initials ”AT” for Arabella Tanios; they appeared as ”TA” because
Miss Lawson was looking through the mirror. On her deathbed, Emily had asked Miss Lawson
for the new will, presumably to destroy it, but Miss Lawson, thinking the will was only for a few
thousand pounds, lied and said that her lawyer had it. On discovering that the inheritance was
much greater than she had imagined, she was racked with remorse.
Respecting the original will, Miss Lawson voluntarily shares the estate with Emily’s other
relations, including Bella’s children. The dog Bob becomes Hastings’ new pet.
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