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David Suchet | Hercule Poirot | |
Martin Shaw | Sir Charles Cartwright | |
Kimberley Nixon | Egg | |
Art Malik | Sir Bartholomew Strange | |
Suzanne Bertish | Miss Milray | |
Anastasia Hille | Cynthia Dacres | |
Ronan Vibert | Captain Dacres | |
Kate Ashfield | Miss Wills | |
Jane Asher | Lady Mary | |
Anna Carteret | Mrs. Babbington | |
Nigel Pegram | Reverend Babbington | |
Tom Wisdom | Oliver Manders | |
Michael Hobbs | Coroner | |
Jodie McNee | Annie | |
James Hurran | French Boy | |
Anna Carteret | Mrs Babbington |
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Producer |
Rebecca Eaton
Michele Buck |
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Writer |
Nick Dear
Agatha Christie |
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Cinematography |
Peter Greenhalgh
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Poirot attends a party at the great actor Sir Charles Cartwright's Cornish mansion. A local reverend dies while drinking a cocktail, but no poison is found in his glass. Poirot and Cartwright decide to investigate when another victim is claimed in the same manner. |
1 hr 29 mins 1/1/2010 1. Three Act Tragedy | |
The inoffensive Reverend Babbington chokes to death at a cocktail party he is attending with his wife at the home of famous actor Sir Charles Cartwright. Some time later Sir Bartholomew Strange, an eminent doctor and friend of Cartwright, also dies of poisoning at a dinner party he is giving miles away. There appears to be no link between the two deaths but Poirot, assisted by Cartwright, offers to help Superintendent Crossfield in the investigation and discovers that a mysterious butler with a birthmark on his wrist was hired for the night and appeared to share a joke with the dead doctor. This man has now vanished and would seem to the killer. A third death, that of a sanatorium patient who has written to Poirot, would appear to link to the doctor's murder and there is certainly a secret which somebody will go to any lengths to conceal - but who would gain from the death of a harmless old vicar?
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