Agatha Christie's Poirot Episode Guide - inaf iasf bologna

Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
Poirot then calls for a meeting and explains how each member of the family has, in turn,
discovered Mrs. Boynton to be dead and, suspecting another family member, failed to report the
fact. In reality, none of the family would have needed to murder the victim with a hypodermic,
since an overdose could much more effectively have been administered in her medicine. This
places the suspicion on one of the outsiders.
The murderess is revealed to be Lady Westholme who, previous to her marriage, had been
incarcerated in the prison in which the victim was once a wardress. It was to Lady Westholme,
and not to Sarah, that Mrs. Boynton had addressed that peculiar threat; the temptation to
acquire a new subject to torture had been too great for her to resist. Disguised as an Arab
servant she had committed the murder and then relied upon the suggestibility of Miss Pierce to
lay two pieces of misdirection that had concealed her role in the murder.
Lady Westholme, eavesdropping in an adjoining room, overhears that her criminal history is
about to be revealed to the world and commits suicide. The family, free at last, take up happier
lives: Sarah marries Raymond; Carol marries Jefferson; and Ginevra takes up a successful career
as a stage actress - she also marries Dr. Gerard.
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