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Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
Double Sin
Season 2
Episode Number: 17
Season Episode: 7
Originally aired: Sunday February 11, 1990
Writer:
Agatha Christie, Clive Exton
Director: Richard Spence
Show Stars: Hugh Fraser (Captain Arthur Hastings), Philip Jackson (Chief Inspector
James Japp), Pauline Moran (Miss Felicity Lemon), David Suchet
(Hercule Poirot)
Guest Stars: Ned Williams (First Urchin), Miranda Forbes (Landlady), Paul Gabriel
(Speedy Tours Representative), Amanda Garwood (Lady Amanda Manderley),
Harry Goodier (Billy Arkwright), Elspet Gray (Elizabeth Penn),
David Hargreaves (Sergeant Vinney), Gerard Horan (P.C. Flagg), Adam
Kotz (Norton Kane), George Little (Dicker), Caroline Milmoe (Mary Durant),
Jeffrey Perry (hotel receptionist), Michael J. Shannon (Baker
Wood), Anne Small (pianist), Jack Williams (VIII) (second urchin)
Summary: Poirot tells an astonished Hastings that he has made up his mind to retire
and suggests they take a holiday in the Lake District, in the north
of England. On the way there, Hastings befriends a young woman who
has lost a valuable collection of miniatures. The case involves a famous
writer and a beautiful woman in a sports car, and to the relief of
Hastings Poirot’s thoughts of retirement soon seem far away.
Poirot, as a result of spreading fame, has been overworked
and Hastings suggests he rests by accompanying
him on a week’s holiday to the south Devon coastal
resort of Ebermouth. On their fourth day there, Poirot
receives a note from the theatrical agent Joseph Aarons
who asks him to travel to Charlock Bay on the north
Devon coast as he needs to consult him on a matter.
The two are planning to go by train but Hastings sees
a notice for a motor bus tour from the one resort to the
other which will save time on changing trains. Poirot
reluctantly agrees, afraid of the uncertain English climate
and the drafts of air which will invade the bus.
They book their tickets at the office of the company concerned
where Hastings is taken with another customer,
an auburn-haired girl, whereas Poirot is intrigued by a
young man who is attempting to grow a feeble moustache.
The next day on the bus the two find themselves sat
with the young girl who introduces herself as Mary Durrant.
Her aunt is in Ebermouth and runs an antiques
shop where she has managed to make something of a
success for herself. Mary has started to work with her
aunt as opposed to becoming a governess or a companion
and she is travelling to Charlock Bay to take a valuable
set of miniatures to an American collector there by
the name of J. Baker Wood for perusal and purchase.
The bus stops for lunch at Monkhampton and Miss Durrant joins Poirot and Hastings at a
table in a café. Part way through their conversation, she rushes outside and returns saying that
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