Agatha Christie's Poirot Episode Guide - inaf iasf bologna

Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
them all of the reason for the previous visit. There is surprise on the part of some members of
the party but Mrs Farley was told by her husband of the dreams and she confirms that he kept a
revolver in his desk drawer. Her husband seems to have killed himself in precisely the way and at
the time the dream foretold. Two visitors were outside his room waiting to see him. Farley spoke
to them briefly to tell them he wouldn’t be long and then went inside his room. After a considerable
period of time, Cornworthy went in and found the dead body. No one could enter the room
in the interim. There is a window with no climbable ledge and opposite the window is a blank
wall. Poirot feels that the wall is important. He examines the room and finds a pair of extendable
tongs which take his interest. He asks various questions of the people gathered there, one of
which is to ascertain if Farley had bad eyesight without his glasses and he is told he had. Poirot
has the solution: on his previous visit, he did not see Farley but a disguised Cornworthy. It was
the secretary who sent the letter to Poirot and he gave the butler instructions to let him in and
take him to his own office, not Farley’s room. Wearing thick glasses, he was unable to see that
Poirot had returned the wrong letter. The act put on by Cornworthy explains why Poirot wasn’t
as impressed by the man as he expected him to be. Cornworthy lured Farley to the window of his
room by a distraction and then shot him by leaning out of his own window, overseen by no one
because of the blank wall. He left the man dead for a short while and then went to ’find’ the body,
planting the revolver there. His co-conspirator was his lover, Mrs Farley, who was the only other
person who claimed that the dreams were real and that revolver was kept in the desk drawer.
She gives the game away by attempting to attack Poirot but is held back by Stillingfleet.
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