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Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim
Season 2
Episode Number: 16
Season Episode: 6
Originally aired: Sunday February 4, 1990
Writer:
David Renwick, Agatha Christie
Director: Andrew Grieve
Show Stars: Hugh Fraser (Captain Arthur Hastings), Philip Jackson (Chief Inspector
James Japp), Pauline Moran (Miss Felicity Lemon), David Suchet
(Hercule Poirot)
Guest Stars: Richard Beale (Merritt), Kenneth Colley (Matthew Davenheim & Billy
Kellett), Peter Doran (Policeman), Stewart Harwood (Man Delivering
Parrot), Mel Martin (Charlotte Davenheim), Bob Mason (Sergeant),
Tony Mathews (Gerald Lowen), Fiona McArthur (Maid), Jonty Miller
(Mechanic), Malcolm Mudie (Chief Engineer), Patrick Page (Illusionist)
Summary: Matthew Davenheim, a rich banker, disappears on a walk from his
country house to the village post office, and Inspector Japp of Scotland
Yard is put onto the case. Poirot, who has developed an interest
in conjuring tricks, bets Japp five pounds that he can solve the mystery
without leaving his apartment. Meanwhile, Poirot has acquired a
parrott - which he finds has its uses.
Poirot and Hastings are entertaining Japp after they
had all attended a magic show when the conversation
turns to the recent disappearance of a banker, Mr. Davenheim,
from his large country house, ... ’The Cedars’.
Boasting, Poirot makes a five pound bet with Japp that
he could solve the case within a week without moving
from his chair. The facts of the case are that Davenheim
arrived home from the city at midday on Saturday. He
seemed normal and went out to post some letters late
in the afternoon saying that he was expecting a business
visitor, a Mr. Lowen, who should be shown into
the study to wait his return. Mr. Davenheim never did
return and no trace of him can be found once he left
the grounds. The police were called on Sunday morning
and on the Monday it was discovered that the concealed
safe in Davenheim’s study had been broken into and the
contents taken out — cash, a large amount of bearer
bonds and a substantial collection of jewellery. Despite
being in the study, Lowen has not been arrested, merely
under observation. He was there to discuss some business
in South Africa with Mr. Davenheim who himself
was in Johannesburg the previous autumn. Poirot is interested
in the fact that the house has a boating lake,
which Japp tells him is being searched tomorrow, and that Mr. Davenheim wears his hair rather
long with a moustache and bushy beard.
The next day Japp returns with the news that Davenheim’s clothes have been found in the
lake and that they have arrested Lowen. A common thief called Billy Kellett, known to the police
after having served three months the previous year for pick-pocketing, saw Lowen throw Davenheim’s
ring into a roadside ditch on the Saturday. He picked it up and pawned it in London,
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