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Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge
Season 3
Episode Number: 32
Season Episode: 10
Originally aired: Sunday March 10, 1991
Writer:
Agatha Christie, T. R. Bowen
Director: Renny Rye
Show Stars: Hugh Fraser (Captain Arthur Hastings), Philip Jackson (Chief Inspector
James Japp), Pauline Moran (Miss Felicity Lemon), David Suchet
(Hercule Poirot)
Guest Stars: Victoria Alcock (Ellie), Denise Alexander (the real Mrs Middleton),
Roy Boyd (Jack Stoddard), Bernard Horsfall (Harrington Pace), Diana
Kent (Zoe Havering / Mrs Middleton), Jim Norton (I) (Roger
Havering), Christopher Scoular (Sergeant Forgan), Shaughan Seymour
(Archie Havering), Clare Travers-Deacon (Joan), Raymond Trickitt
(P.C. Cooke), Arthur Whybrow (Anstruther)
Summary: When Poirot joins Hastings for a grouse shoot, one of their party is
murdered. Poirot has to investigate the killing while in bed with a severe
cold.
Poirot is ill in bed with influenza when he and Hastings
receive a visit from a Mr Roger Havering, the second
son of a Baronet who has been married to an actress
for some years. Mr Havering stayed at his club in London
the previous evening and the following morning receives
a telegram from his wife telling him his Uncle,
Harrington Pace, was murdered the previous evening
and to come at once with a detective. As Poirot is indisposed,
Hastings sets off with Havering for the scene
of the crime — Derbyshire. Mr Pace, an American by
birth and the brother of Mr Havering’s mother, owns an
isolated hunting lodge on the Derbyshire moors. When
Hastings and Havering arrive there they meet Inspector
Japp as Scotland Yard has been called in on the case. As
Havering goes off to answer questions, Hastings speaks
with the housekeeper, Mrs Middleton, who tells him she
showed a black-bearded man into the house the previous
evening who wanted to see Mr Pace. She and Mrs
Havering were outside the room that the two men were
talking in when they heard a shot. The door to the room
was locked but they found the window outside open and
gaining entry found Mr Pace dead, shot by one of two
pistols on display in the room and the used pistol now
missing, together with the black-bearded man. Mrs Middleton sends Mrs Havering to see Hastings
and she confirms the housekeeper’s story. Japp also confirms Havering’s alibi for his train
times to London and his attendance at the club but soon the missing pistol is found dumped in
Ealing. Hastings wires to Poirot with the facts but Poirot is only interested in the clothes worn
by and descriptions of Mrs Middleton and Mrs Havering. Poirot wires back instructions to arrest
Mrs Middleton at once but she disappears before this instruction can be carried out. Upon investigation,
no trace can be made of her actual existence, either from the agency she was employed
from or the methods by which she reached Derbyshire. Once Hastings is back in London, Poirot
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