Agatha Christie's Poirot Episode Guide - inaf iasf bologna
Agatha Christie's Poirot Episode Guide - inaf iasf bologna
Agatha Christie's Poirot Episode Guide - inaf iasf bologna
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<strong>Agatha</strong> Christie’s <strong>Poirot</strong> <strong>Episode</strong> <strong>Guide</strong><br />
The Cornish Mystery<br />
Season 2<br />
<strong>Episode</strong> Number: 15<br />
Season <strong>Episode</strong>: 5<br />
Originally aired: Sunday January 28, 1990<br />
Writer:<br />
<strong>Agatha</strong> Christie, Clive Exton<br />
Director: Edward Bennett<br />
Show Stars: Hugh Fraser (Captain Arthur Hastings), Philip Jackson (Chief Inspector<br />
James Japp), Pauline Moran (Miss Felicity Lemon), David Suchet<br />
(Hercule <strong>Poirot</strong>)<br />
Guest Stars: Derek Benfield (Dr Adams), John Bowler (Jacob Radnor), Richard<br />
Braine (Newsom), Graham Callan (Solicitor), Edwina Day (Landlady),<br />
Laura Girling (Edwina Marks), Hugh Munro (Judge), John Rowe (Prosecutor),<br />
Chloe Salaman (Freda Stanton), Hugh Sullivan (Vicar), Tilly<br />
Vosburgh (Jessie Dawlish), Amanda Walker (Alice Pengelley), Jonathan<br />
Whaley (Policeman), Jerome Willis (Edward Pengelley)<br />
Summary: <strong>Poirot</strong> travels to Cornwall, summoned by a Mrs Pengelley, who suspects<br />
her dentist husband is poisoning her because he’s fallen in love<br />
with his young assistant. Unhappily, on his arrival <strong>Poirot</strong> finds his<br />
client stone dead, so he sets out to catch her killer.<br />
<strong>Poirot</strong> receives a visit from a Mrs. Pengelley, a<br />
middle-aged woman who is afraid that she is being poisoned<br />
by her husband, a dentist. She has been ill after<br />
eating but her doctor states that she is suffering from<br />
acute gastritis. She and her husband live in Polgarwith,<br />
a small market town in Cornwall. She has no proof of<br />
the allegation, only that she only suffers when her husband<br />
is at home, not when he is away at the weekends<br />
and a bottle of weedkiller, supposedly unused, is halfempty.<br />
There could be no financial motive to suggest<br />
why Mr. Pengelley should try to murder his wife but she<br />
suspects an affair with his young receptionist. Another<br />
resident in the house was her niece, Freda Stanton, but<br />
that lady rowed with Mrs. Pengelley the week before and<br />
left the house after living there for eight years. Mrs. Pengelley<br />
is vague as to the cause of the row but states that<br />
she has been told by a Mr. Radnor to leave Freda to come<br />
to her senses. Radnor is described as ”just a friend” and<br />
a ”very pleasant young fellow”.<br />
<strong>Poirot</strong> and Hastings travel to Cornwall the next day<br />
and are shocked to find that Mrs. Pengelley died half<br />
an hour before. The maid who answers the door makes<br />
it clear that she too suspects the husband. <strong>Poirot</strong> interviews<br />
Mrs. Pengelley’s doctor who at first denies that<br />
anything could be wrong but is then astounded to hear<br />
that the dead woman came to London to consult the detective.<br />
Their last visit before leaving Cornwall is to Mrs. Pengelley’s niece. They meet Freda Staunton<br />
and Jacob Radnor and discover that they are engaged and that the cause of the row between<br />
Freda and her aunt was Mrs. Pengelley’s own infatuation with Radnor, a far younger man. The<br />
situation became so bad that Freda had no option but to move out.<br />
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