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Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
night and read of the murder in the next day’s paper. Mrs. Carrington had been chloroformed
and then stabbed and the jewels are missing. Mrs. Carrington’s will leaves everything to her
estranged husband who was away from town at the time of the tragedy.
Mason is called and confirms the facts of her part of the story. She is also able to say that
the build of the man in the carriage was possibly that of Mr. Carrington and she confirms what
Mrs Carrington was wearing at the time. Mason is dismissed and Poirot pushes Mr. Halliday to
tell him what he is holding back. Halliday produces a note found in his daughter’s pocket from
the Count de la Rochefour. It appears that the romance of the two has been restarted and Poirot
guessed as much since Mr. Halliday was not pushing for the investigation to concentrate on his
son-in-law, despite his evident dislike of him.
Over the next day or so, enquiries are made by Japp into the whereabouts of Rupert Carrington
and the Count de la Rochefour at the time of the murder but nothing substantial comes
to light. When Japp next visits, Poirot immediately guesses that the knife used to kill Mrs Carrington
has been found by the side of the line after between Weston (the first stop after Bristol
on the Plymouth line) and Taunton (the next stop after that) and that a paper boy who sold
items to Mrs Carrington has been interviewed. Despite being astounded at this deduction, Japp
confirms that this is exactly what has happened. Japp is able to tell Poirot something he doesn’t
know — that one of the jewels has been pawned by a known thief called ’Red Narky’ who usually
works with a woman called Gracie Kidd but he seems to be alone this time. Poirot and Hastings
immediately go to Halliday’s house and the Belgian asks to be taken to a room on the top floor.
Rummaging through a trunk Poirot finds clothes like the ones worn by Mrs Carrington when
she was murdered. An angry Halliday joins them followed in quick succession by Mason, whom
Poirot introduces as Gracie Kidd. She and ’Red Narky’ probably murdered Mrs Carrington before
Bristol. The story about the man in the carriage at the Bristol interchange was a blind as was
the knife thrown off the train before Taunton and the newspaper boy. In the latter instance,
Gracie dressed in similar clothing to the now-dead woman and bought two items off the boy,
drawing attention to herself by mentioning the colour of her clothes being the same colour as a
woman’s dress on the cover of a magazine she was buying and by leaving a large tip. By making
the murder appear to have taken place later than it was, Kidd was provided with an alibi.
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