Agatha Christie's Poirot Episode Guide - inaf iasf bologna

Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
is then found under Katrina’s mattress which seems to clinch the matter. Poirot though is not
convinced and arranges matters in a methodical order in his own mind. It is then he remembers
the garden. He sends out Miss Lemon to make particular enquiries and then interviews Katrina
who confirms that she ate separately to the family, as she always did, but had the same food as
them.
Having met Miss Lemon and ascertained the results
of her enquiries, he calls at Rosebank and sees Mary Delafontaine.
At the front door, he points the unfinished
row of shells — the only unsymmetrical item there —
and points out they are oyster shells. Miss Lemon has
found the fishmonger who sold the oysters to the Delafontaines.
They gave Miss Barrowby the poison in the
oysters, thus disguising the taste and then planted the
shells in the garden as they didn’t want Katrina or the
maid to know that an extra item had been included in
the family meal. Mrs Delafontaine confesses that she
and her husband have been taking money from her aunt
for many years and couldn’t let the money go to Katrina.
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