Agatha Christie's Poirot Episode Guide - inaf iasf bologna

Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
On the same morning as Lord Edgware’s murder,
comedienne/actress Carlotta Adams, who is known for
her uncanny impersonations, is found dead due to an
overdose of Veronal. A mysterious gold case with the
sleeping powder in it is found among her possessions.
The case bears an inscription reading: ”From D, Paris,
November, 10th Sweet Dreams”. Poirot tries to decode
this and arranges the evidence together.
A few days later, Jane makes an appearance at another
dinner party where the guests talk about Paris of
Troy. However, the Jane Wilkinson at this dinner party
thinks that the guests, again including actor Donald
Ross, are referring to the city in France. Ross can’t understand
this because, at the party on the night of the
murder, Jane was speaking knowledgeably about the
mythological Paris. Ross goes to ring up Poirot about
his discovery, but before he can say what he discovered,
he is stabbed.
In the conclusion to the book, Jane Wilkinson really
is the murderer, having paid Carlotta Adams to impersonate
her at the party on the night she killed Lord
Edgware. Jane’s motive for killing Lord Edgware was because
the Duke of Merton was an Anglo-Catholic and
didn’t want to marry a divorced woman. In the last chapter, she writes a letter to Poirot before
her execution and tells him how she committed the crime.
With her made up alibi in place, Jane simply takes a taxi to the Edgware house and murders
her husband. Later, she and Carlotta meet up in a hotel where they toast Carlotta’s successful
”performance” and ostensibly so Jane can pay Carlotta. However, Jane slips Veronal into Carlotta’s
drink, effectively killing her. Jane also discovers a letter Carlotta has written to her sister
and is panicked by how Carlotta talks openly in the letter about their arrangement. However,
Jane believes she sees a way she can use the letter to her advantage. At the top left hand corner
of the second page is the word ”she” (referring to Jane paying Carlotta to take her place at the
party). Jane tears off the ’s’ leaving the word ’he’. (Though Poirot initially wonders about the torn
corner during his investigation, using his ”little grey cells” he eventually figures it out.) Jane then
puts the remaining Veronal phials inside the gold case to make it look as if Carlotta was a Veronal
addict. Jane ordered the gold case the week prior, which Poirot discovers when he questions the
engravers. He further realises that ”November” was engraved on the case specifically to throw
him off. Unbeknownst to Jane, Carlotta had been knowledgeable about Greek Mythology, so she
talked a lot about the subject with Donald Ross. At the second dinner party, Jane realizes she’s
made a mistake about Paris and has to kill Donald Ross to prevent him from telling Poirot about
his discovery that the Jane at the party (on the night of the murder) was not really Jane, but
Carlotta Adams.
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