![]() ![]() But even if he can identify the killer, will he be able to provide sufficient evidence to convict them? Poirot hopes that by studying these cold cases he may learn enough about each suspect to determine which of them committed this particular murder in this particular way. So instead of investigating the murder in the present, our sleuths have to first identify and then investigate murders from the past which hitherto have gone unsuspected. In her foreword, Christie explains that she has deliberately written a different type of detective story – not one where the least likely person did it but instead where all suspects are equally likely to have done it. No one else has entered the room so one murderer has struck again to preserve their secret. Almost inevitably the evening ends with the discovery that their host has been stabbed to death. Poirot assumes that the other four guests, Dr Roberts, Mrs Lorrimer, Miss Meredith, and Major Despard, are part of Shaitana’s collection.Īfter dinner, the good guys play bridge in one room, while the bad guys play in another, watched by Shaitana. Three other representatives of the forces of law and order attend the dinner party: Superintendent Battle of the Metropolitan Police, Colonel Race of the Secret Service, and Mrs Oliver, writer of crime fiction. ![]() ![]() He invites Poirot to dinner to meet some of his specimens. ![]()
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