Agatha Christie's Poirot Episode Guide - inaf iasf bologna

Agatha Christie’s Poirot Episode Guide
identified as Mrs. Chapman: a woman who in reality did not exist; the motive for killing Morley
was simply to prevent him from detecting this change. At the end of Mabelle’s appointment,
Gerda left, while Blunt dressed as a dentist in order to administer the overdose to Amberiotis, a
new patient who had never met Morley. Poirot’s involvement had forced Blunt to compound the
lies with talk of assassins and spies as the detective had relentlessly tracked the truth.
At the novel’s bleak conclusion, Poirot is forced to admit
that Blunt does indeed stand in public life ’for all the
things that to my mind are important. For sanity and
balance and stability and honest dealing’. Nevertheless,
he adds: ’I am not concerned with the fate of nations,
Monsieur. I am concerned with the lives of private individuals
who have the right not to have their lives taken
from them.’ He turns Blunt over to the police. Later, he
confronts Blunt’s niece and her fiancé Howard Raikes,
telling them that they now have the ”new heaven and
the new earth” that they desire, asking them only to ”let
there be freedom and let there be pity”. In the last chapter,
Mr. Barnes tells Poirot that he took such a vivid
interest in the case as he was Mr. Albert Chapman, the
wife of whom Gerda (apparently Mrs. Albert Chapman)
pretended to be.
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