Agatha Christie's Poirot Episode Guide - inaf iasf bologna

Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
Tredwell but the butler has an alibi for the time that he was supposedly meeting the tramp as he
was in the house with Mr. Waverly at the time.
Poirot travels to Waverly Court and is told of the existence of a Priest hole. In it, he finds the
footprint of a small dog in one corner but no one knows of any such creature small enough in the
house. After questioning the child’s sacked nurse, Tredwell and Miss Collins, Poirot concludes
his investigation and confronts Mr. Waverly. He ’kidnapped’ his own son to get money from his
rich but very careful wife. The poisoning of the wife to incapacitate her, the note on the pillow
and the re-setting of the clock point to an inside job and only Mr. Waverly could sack all of the
servants to reduce the level of protection around the child. Tredwell was in on the matter being
a devoted servant of his master and he did indeed employ the tramp. The footprint of the ’dog’ in
the priest’s hole was that from a toy kept there to amuse the boy until he could be spirited away
afterwards. A shamefaced Mr. Waverly confesses to Poirot and reveals that the child is presently
with his old nurse.
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