Agatha Christie's Poirot Episode Guide - inaf iasf bologna

Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
Hastings then visit the Countess and Poirot calmly tells the lady that his taxi is waiting and that
he would be obliged if she would give him the jewels. She, equally calmly, does so. They part on
good terms, the Countess admitting that Poirot is one of the few people she fears. He in turn is
very impressed by the Russian.
He tells Hastings that it was the double clue of the glove and the case which made him
suspicious. If both were planted to incriminate Parker, it would have been too false: therefore only
one of the clues was genuine and the other a deception. As the cigarette case was not Parker’s,
that must have been the genuine clue. The case belonged to the Countess whose initials — VR
— are BP in the Cyrillic alphabet, hence Poirot’s perusal of the book on Russian grammar.
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